Flowerode

Flowerode City of Mansfeld Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 18 " N , 11 ° 25 ′ 38" E
Height :	260 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Möllendorf
Postal code :	06343
Area code :	034782

Blumerode, church and church square

Blumerode, northern part with a view to the south

Blumerode is a district of the town of Mansfeld in the eastern southern Harz . Until December 31, 2004 Blumerode belonged to the municipality of Möllendorf .

geography

Blumerode is located in the state of Saxony-Anhalt about 50 km west of Halle (Saale) . The place belongs to the district Mansfeld, more precisely to the village Möllendorf and is located in a western side valley of the Wippertal right on the border of the Harz in the Lower Harz .

climate

Climate diagram

The climate data can be taken from the village of Vatterode-Gräfenstuhl, 5 km away. The average air temperature in Vatterode-Gräfenstuhl is 8.2 ° C, the annual precipitation is 510 millimeters.

history

Blumerode was first mentioned in 1420 as the village of Blumenrode. It arose from clearing , a relatively late clearing for the surrounding area, as people spoke of the Blumerode forest as early as 1239. The place became desolate in the Thirty Years' War , so it was abandoned. According to the parish archive of Annarode, the parish registers begin again in 1662 with entries on Blumerode.

Blumerode was incorporated into Möllendorf on July 1, 1950 and came with this to Mansfeld on January 1, 2005.

The first aqueduct in the area

Blumerode already had running water in the 19th century. The favorable location between two springs made it easy to supply. The water pipe was fed by a so-called water ram. This pump technology comes from the mining industry , which dominated the Mansfeld region for centuries. The technology worked so that one part of nine parts of water was pressed into the pipes, then a valve closed the supply, the water flowed from the spring and the tenth part was again pressed into the pipeline system.

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Panoramabild Blumerode and panoramic view to the north

The Neu-Asseburg

The Neu-Asseburg is a small hunting lodge that was built by the Counts of Asseburg , a noble family from the vicinity of Braunschweig. The hope for mineral resources such as gold and copper prompted the count to buy a large piece of land in Mansfeld. The castle was built and it was found that investments were being made too far north of the regional copper veins. The property was sold again.

After a series of constantly changing owners, the property fell into the possession of the Prussian king, who bequeathed the castle to his illegitimate children. This Mr. Prillewitz, the illegitimate son of the king, the property brought no luck either, his children died at a young age. Three large graves with large inscribed grave slabs can still be seen on the Schlossberg today.

After the Hitler attack , one of the conspirators, the Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , hid here with Carl Wentzel, the owner of the Neu-Asseburg at the time . Then Goerdeler fled to Kassel, where he was betrayed by a cleaning lady out of fear. He was able to escape from Kassel, but was picked up by the Gestapo on the way to the east . Wentzel first fled to the north of Saxony-Anhalt. Both were sentenced to death and executed in Plötzensee .

During this time, Neu-Asseburg still housed the Reich Labor Service , the Hitler Youth and a nurses' school, which was expanded into a retirement home. After the reunification, the property was sold to Johanniter and is currently for sale again.

Chaos of war

At the end of the Second World War there was movement in the village, remnants of the Wehrmacht were drawn into the Harz region to develop it into the "Harz Fortress". Some of the soldiers deserted and came through Blumerode. They took shelter in the houses, bought civilian clothes and hid in the woods to look for their relatives later. The remaining bundles of clothes were picked up by the village youth. After the war they were stripped of strands and badges, recolored and also worn during the crisis years after the war.

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Panoramic picture of Blumeröder Strasse and Blumerode, looking east

Blumerode fire

Around 1820, the eastern part of Blumerode burned down completely. When sulphurising a cellar, a fire broke out that quickly spread to neighboring houses. The fire resulted in a renewal of the village, which is also the reason why there are hardly any historical buildings in Blumerode.

The church expansion

Blumerode, old chapel

Blumerode only had a wooden and clay church until 1900, when a resident sent a petition to the Prussian Kaiser Wilhelm II . He asked for money to build a stone church. To the surprise, the place received 100 guilders from the emperor's private box. The rest was financed from private funds and donations from the area.

The church was not managed in the GDR and was therefore in a very dilapidated condition after the fall of the Wall. In 1993 the initiative to renovate the church was taken and thanks to numerous donations and church money, the roof structure of the nave and the tower could be renewed. The pulpit and benches were reinstalled in the church from their storage location.

Worth mentioning

Wurzbergsbruch

Sandstone was quarried in the vicinity of Blumerode . Among other things, the Würzbergsbruch was the only royal Prussian mill quarry, i. H. the operators at that time were the only ones who had the license to break millstones for all of Prussia. The local farmers earned an extra income by bringing the millstones with their teams to the Saale or Elbe , from where the stones were shipped to all regions of Prussia.

Kessling

Blumerode, looking east

In Blumerode, the main sources of income were agriculture and forestry. But there was also a rare raw material: the Kessling. A Kessling is, so to speak, the stone for everything. Round-cut fieldstones from the Ice Age have the property of storing heat particularly well. They were put on the stove in the evening and then wrapped in towels and placed in bed as a hot water bottle or the bath water was heated with the help of Kesslingen, there was running water relatively early. Thanks to their round shape, Kesslinge can also be used to close glass jars.

Square cones

Place cones or often place Bahn bowling was the national sport in Mansfeld . It is not played anywhere else in Germany. Originally this sport should come from Italy. There the cones are placed in the middle of a circle with a diameter of approx. 10 m and an attempt is made to clear the area from the edge of the circle with a ball that has been thrown onto the cone. In the Mansfelder Land, the space was reduced to a quarter circle, the difficulty is to knock over the cones 5 m away with a heavy ball, which are also 50 cm apart. Blumerode also had such a bowling alley, but it was demolished and not yet rebuilt.