Buchholz (Nordhausen)

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Buchholz
City of Nordhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 320 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.62 km²
Residents : 214  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 6th July 2018
Postal code : 99734
Area code : 03631
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Church in Buchholz

Buchholz (also Buchholz / Harz or Buchholz bei Nordhausen ) is a district of the city of Nordhausen in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

location

Buchholz is located on Landesstraße 1037 coming from Stolberg and leading to Nordhausen . North is Herrmannsacker and south is the mountain Alter Stolberg in the foothills of the Harz Mountains .

history

Buchholz was first mentioned in a document in 1312. The local farmers were subject to forced collectivization in the 1950s and formed the Buchholz eG agricultural cooperative after the fall of the Wall

On July 6, 2018, Buchholz was incorporated into the city of Nordhausen. The district mayor has been Thomas Gerlach since September 5, 2018.

Last municipal council

The last municipal council in Buchholz consisted of six council members:

  • Voluntary fire brigade - 2 seats (30.2%)
  • Village Club - 2 seats (34.2%)
  • Hunting Association - 2 seats (35.7%)

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

The last mayor was Monika Wüstemann.

Culture and sights

The hall church of St. Martin is one of the sights of Buchholz .

Natural monuments

In the immediate vicinity of the village is the Great Buchholz sinkhole , a funnel formed as a result of the underground leaching of salt or gypsum by a sudden collapse on the surface of the earth. There is also a broken diabase in Buchholz . In German usage, diabase is the term used to describe geological old, mostly Variscan, anchimetamorphic, green effusion rocks originally of tholeiite-basaltic composition.

Historical monuments

Since 1984 a stele on the village green has been commemorating the victims of the death march of 400 prisoners of the Rottleberode concentration camp external command , which was driven through the village by SS members in April 1945 .

Web links

Commons : Buchholz (Thuringia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 44
  2. ↑ http://www.nnz-online.de/news/news_lang.php?ArtNr=241377
  3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3- 88864-343-0