Friedrichshöhe (Güntersberge)

Friedrichshöhe Harzgerode city Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	500 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	41  (Dec 31, 2016)
Incorporated into:	Güntersberge
Postal code :	06493
Area code :	039488
Friedrichshöhe (2017)

View from the east

northern entrance to the town

Friedrichshöhe is a part of the town of Güntersberge of the town of Harzgerode in the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt . The small place has about 40 inhabitants.

location

Friedrichshöhe is surrounded by forests and agricultural areas on the edge of the Lower Harz Mountains on a plateau southwest of Güntersberge. The place was the highest and at the same time westernmost place in Anhalt , the elevations in the area reach a height of up to 597 meters. The state road L 236 runs through the village from north to south, and from the federal road 242 that passes north to the south via Bärenrode to Stolberg (Harz) . The Selke and Selke Valley Railway, which also has a train station, run north of the village . The Selketalstieg leads through the village .

history

Around 1750 a Anhalt secondary customs office was set up on the old Braunschweig-Leipzig post road south of the Selke. In addition, Prince Friedrich Albrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg had a pre-works with distillery and brewery built on a clearing in 1781 and thus founded the Friedrichshöhe settlement, also known as the colony. In 1785 an inn was built, in 1793 the Hasenwinkelmühle and in 1795 a soap factory, a forge and a wagon, furniture and paint factory were built. In addition, the necessary residential buildings were built. The promising development of the site was not supported by Prince Alexius Friedrich Christian, who came to government in 1796 , so the industrial approach quickly ended again.

From 1815 on, the triangle between the Kingdom of Prussia and the duchies of Anhalt and Braunschweig was located about three kilometers south of the town . In the area of the former border triangle consisting Three Mr. Beech . At the time of the existence of the County of Hohnstein, it was a quadrangle .

In the period around 1800 the place had ten fireplaces, in 1830 there were 89 people living in eight houses, in 1871 the population was 57, now spread over twelve houses. In the Vorwerk, which was merged with Güntersberger in the middle of the 19th century, a chopping machine as well as a grist and grinder were operated with the help of oxen. Starting from Friedrichshöhe, a Fürstenweg ran via Güntersberge to Ballenstedt , which could only be used with an extra permit.

Friedrichshöhe belonged to the judicial district of the Harzgerode District Court and since its dissolution to the Quedlinburg District Court .

Friedrichshöhe was a district of the town of Güntersberge and came with it as part of a municipal reform to the town of Harzgerode .

Attractions

In the local area of ​​Friedrichshöhe, the house Friedrichshöhe 1 , which originally belonged to the domain, is listed as an architectural monument in the local monument register . In addition, there is a historical boundary stone and a transformer station built in 1925 under monument protection in the local area .

Sage and neck rhyme

There is a legend about the former quadrangle that the Counts of Anhalt, Regenstein, Stolberg and Hohnstein should have met there once. Everyone would have driven an iron stake into the earth in their area. A large plate was placed over these four posts and the iron post marking the boundary point and then fed together, but each in his own country. Another version only mentions three participants.

As a historical neck rhyme with reference to Friedrichshöhe, uff dr Hä jifts vele Flä (High German: On the Höh 'there are many Flöh' ) is handed down in northern Thuringia .

literature

• Kurt Müller: History of the Ballenstedt District, Ballenstedt 2006, p. 74 f. ISBN 3-937648-09-7

Web links

• Friedrichshöhe at www.harzgerode.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ key data. In: Güntersberge.info. Veronika Zabel, accessed April 12, 2018 . 
2. ^ Kurt Müller: History of the Ballenstedt District , Ballenstedt 2006, p. 74 f.
3. ^ Friedrich Gottschalck , pocket book for travelers in the Harz , G. Th. Keil, Magdeburg 1806; Reprint, 3rd edition 2015, Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode, ISBN 978-3-936185-69-0 , page 171 f.
4. ↑ Ilse Korf, Die Dreiherrenbuche near Friedrichshöhe in Sagen vom Selketal , publisher: Staatliches Museum Burg Falkenstein, no year, page 1
5. ^ Ulrich Wenner, Middle Elbian Dictionary , Volume 1, AG, Akademie Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004462-0 , column 1049