Altensalzkoth

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Altensalzkoth is a district of the village of Eversen in the district of Celle in the Lüneburg Heath, which belongs to the Lower Saxony city ​​of Bergen . It is located 13 km north of Celle on the L240 and today has 65 inhabitants. Immediately north of Altensalzkoth, the Sunderbach and the Kohlenbach flow together, creating the Bruchbach .

Altensalzkoth, northern entrance to the village

history

Brine pipeline from Sülze to Altensalzkoth

The history of Altensalzkoth is closely linked to the saltworks in Sülze . After the bogs near Sülze were exhausted, the boiling points were initially relocated to Bornriethmoor from 1673 to 1678 . In 1719 first considerations were made to relocate the boiling points again, as the Bornriethmoor was now exhausted. For this purpose, the existing pipeline to the moor was laid from Lindhorst along the Örtze , past Eversen to the south of Sülze, “Scheuer Bruch” in the newly emerging village of Altensalzkoth. The surveyors entrusted with the organization of the move referred to this new boiling point on their maps as Alte Salz Kath , from which the current village name developed in later years. In 1723 the new wooden pipeline was ready. From 1725, the brine was in the salt skating boiled from Altensalzkoth. Due to increasing difficulties in transporting the Sülzer brine due to the long distances, the relocation of the boiling plants to Sülze began in 1793. A large part of the employees in the saltworks then left Altensalzkoth. For those who remained behind, a long struggle began for the allocation of land in order to be able to secure their livelihood with agriculture. Only years later, when the settlement sites were equipped with three acres of meadow and six acres of arable land, did this fight end. If the land allotments that were made were at least fundamentally secured, the residents were still dependent on a sideline. At that time the cooper's trade gained importance . Numerous household items were made from the wood of local trees and sold on the Celler and Hermannsburg markets.

After the end of the Second World War , the former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann lived under the name Otto Heninger in Altensalzkoth. Fled from a US prisoner of war , he registered on March 30, 1946 at the Eversen parish office and took a job as a lumberjack in Altensalzkoth. When the company employing him went bankrupt a short time later, he rented an empty yard and in the following years lived mainly from casual work. In 1950 Eichmann fled to Argentina , where a few years later he was tracked down by the Mossad and taken to Israel . Eichmann was sentenced to death for his co-responsibility for the Holocaust . The author and dramaturge Peter Schanz wrote under the title “Altensalzkoth. A research in our neighborhood “a play about dealing with Adolf Eichmann's years in the Lüneburg Heath, which premiered in 2013 at the Schlosstheater Celle .

Altensalzkoth was an independent municipality until it was incorporated into Eversen in 1929. On January 1, 1973 Eversen was incorporated into the city of Bergen.

traffic

Altensalzkoth is located on Landesstraße 240 running from Celle to Hermannsburg. Buses on the Celle - Faßberg line operated by CeBus GmbH & Co. KG stop several times a day in Altensalzkoth and connect the town with the surrounding villages. The Altensalzkoth station is on the Celle – Soltau railway line . Passenger traffic on this route was discontinued in 1975, since then only freight traffic has taken place.

people

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 224 .
  2. ^ Line network of the district of Celle ( Memento from June 9th, 2009 on WebCite ) Line network of the CeBus Celle

literature

Coordinates: 52 ° 45 '  N , 10 ° 5'  E