Bovingerode
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 48 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 36 ″ E
Bovingerode (also: Bovenrode ) is a desert in what is now the city of Bad Harzburg on the northern edge of the Harz . It is located south of today's state road L 501 and is located about 500 meters east of today's urban residential area on Woldsberg in the Schimmerwald.
history
The Hasselburg, built on the Woldsberg, which was not far from the settlement, was probably built by the Lords of Veckenstedt and turned out to be strategically well located. When her position as Reichsvögte ended in 1017, the village of Bovingerode fell into her power along with other forests in the surrounding area. Bovingerode was first mentioned in 1018 together with the Hasselburg ruins .
In 1249, Bovingerode was acquired by the County of Wernigerode . For the Wernigeröder Count Bovingerode of crucial territorial meaning was: They could far with this location their power in the west to the vicinity of the at that time Wohld Berger Count belonging Castle Hill to advance and expand its sphere of influence. In addition, the construction of a farm yard in 1254 opened up great economic potential. The settlement fell desolate in 1323.
Bovingerode is only mentioned as a field name in 1578 in “Datt Molendal bi dem Bovenrode” and in 1703 simply as “Das Bovenrode”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Stenal: The Harz History 5: The time of the Thirty Years War. 2015. page 72.
- ↑ Jan Habermann: The expansion of rule of the Counts of Wernigerode on the northern Harz (1249-1369) . Chemnitz University of Technology 2006, p. 11 f . ( qucosa.de [PDF; 1000 kB ; accessed on October 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Bernd Stenal: The Harz - History 2 HC: Volume 2 - Early and High Middle Ages. 2015. page 118.
- ^ Journal of the Harz Association for History and Archeology. Volume 70, 1937. p. 45.