Berßel

Berßel City of Osterwieck
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	133 m
Area :	11.85 km²
Residents :	720  (Dec 10, 2011)
Population density :	61 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	38835
Area code :	039421
Aerial view of Berßel

Berßel is a district of the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The place is located in the northern Harz foreland on the Ilse , southeast of Osterwieck. The connecting roads Osterwieck- Zilly , Deersheim - Wasserleben run through the village . Furthermore, a road leads to Schauen .

climate

The annual precipitation is 584 mm and is therefore comparatively low, as it falls in the lower quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 18% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 2.4 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies greatly. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 74% of the measuring stations.

history

Berßel belonged to the Diocese of Halberstadt until 1648 and then came to the Principality of Halberstadt. In the village there was a manor that belonged to the von Rössing family from 1398 to 1832 and was the seat of a patrimonial court until 1848 to which the village was subordinate. In 1815 Berßel came to the administrative district of Magdeburg in the Prussian province of Saxony .

On September 30, 1928, the manor district of Berßel was united with the rural community of Berßel.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Berßel, Aue-Fallstein , Bühne , Lüttgenrode , Rhoden , Schauen and Wülperode merged with the city of Osterwieck to form the new city of Osterwieck.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split of green and silver with a shield base in mixed up colors; in front a silver tower with a black contoured pointed roof and two stake-wise, square black window openings; behind an upright, red tongued bear. "

The colors of the parish are green - silver (white).

Attractions

Rittergut Berßel

• Manor, owned by the von Gustedt family until 1945

Personalities

• Ernst von Gustedt (1845–1924), General Landscape Director of the Prussian Province of Saxony, died here
• Julius Meyer (1876–1960), chemist and university professor, was born here

literature

• Ewald Seyffarth, Gerhard Reiche and Hubert Wendt: Family book for the village of Berßel for the period from the year 1592 onwards. Copy of the manuscript . Osterwieck 1994. 2 volumes with 2370 families, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 236.

Web links

Commons : Berßel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Berßel on the website of the unified municipality of the city of Osterwieck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 201 .
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
3. ↑ Main statute of the municipality § 2 paragraph 1