Breitenstein (South Harz)
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Breitenstein
South Harz municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 49 ″ E
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| Height : | 487 (455-515) m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 6.74 km² |
| Residents : | 505 (Dec. 31, 2008) |
| Population density : | 75 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 06536 |
| Area code : | 034654 |
  Location of Breitenstein in the southern Harz region
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Breitenstein im Harz is a district of the municipality of Südharz in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
Breitenstein is located in the Lower Harz in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park around 5 km (as the crow flies ) north of Stolberg . The Harzschützenstraße , which for centuries formed the border between Thuringia and Saxony and runs as state road 263 north-northwest to Friedrichshöhe and then on to the nearby federal road 242 in the Selke valley, runs through it. The Selke tributary Katzsohlbach flows through the village.
To the north of the village is the Osterkopf ( 505.9 m above sea level ), to the south-west of the village is the Kleine Brocken ( 533.1 m above sea level ) and to the west the landscape rises to the Große Harzhöhe ( 599.3 m above sea level) ) and to the Schalliete ( 595.1 m above sea level ).
history
Breitenstein was first mentioned in a document on April 6, 1264 in the Walkenried monastery record book .
Breitenstein belonged to the rule of the Counts of Stolberg and was added to the newly formed Bärenrode Office by Count Botho in 1531 . In 1576 Christoph von Hoym acquired the office as a pledge, but in 1585 pledged it to Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt . In 1608 the population of the Anhalt village of Breitestein consisted of 56 families with a house, yard and garden, divided into 14 coaches and farm workers and 42 kotsassen, as well as pastors and schoolmasters. The farmers paid taxes in cash and in kind to the Vorwerk Bärenrode and performed unmeasured manual and tension services there. As a miller, a Kotsass paid 16 groschen of water interest. When Anhalt was divided into partial principalities in 1603/06, the Bärenrode office fell to Anhalt Bernburg . From 1635 it belonged to the Principality of Anhalt-Harzgerode . After the end of the Harzgerode prince line, part of the Bärenrode office and with it Breitestein fell back to the county of Stolberg . Breitenstein now became a village in the Ebersberg district of Stolberg-Roßla .
A country road through the forest led to the former administrative center of Herrmannsacker , but it has been closed to public traffic for many years. In 1819, 613 people lived in 114 houses in Breitenstein.
On January 1, 2010 the communities of Breitenstein, Bennungen , Breitungen , Dietersdorf , Drebsdorf , Hainrode , Hayn (Harz) , Kleinleinungen , Questenberg , Roßla , Rottleberode , Schwenda and Uftrungen merged to form the new community of Südharz. At the same time, the Roßla-Südharz administrative community , to which Breitenstein belonged, was dissolved.
Culture and sights
- Memorial at the edge of the forest from 1950 for five prisoners of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp including a Polish prisoner whose name was shot by a forester
- Church of St. Margareten from 1714–22 (1995–98 reconstruction)
Club life
Many people from Breitenstein are involved in local associations such as the Breitenstein Carnival Association, the Fishing Association, the Rabbit Breeding Association or the Voluntary Fire Brigade.
traffic
There are bus connections to the surrounding towns.
Personalities
- Wilhelm Kraft (1884–1945), Social Democrat and Mayor of Haßlinghausen
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth (1792–1857), doctor, botanist and mycologist.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, p. 334, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0
- ^ Sal and office book of the princely house of Anhalt and the Harzgerode office in 1608 . State Archives Saxony-Anhalt , Dessau Dept., Rep. I, No. 43.
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Börner : The offices of Harzgerode and Güntersberge between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War , Harzgeroder Heft 10, Quedlinburg 2017, pp. 87-89