Goose pond (Schachtebich)

View over goose pond (to the left behind the picture edge is Schachtebich and in the background the Rohrberg with the municipality of the same name)

Gänseteich is part of the municipality of Schachtebich in the western district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia .

location

The settlement borders directly on the northern outskirts of Schachtebich on Landesstraße 2005 in the direction of Freienhagen . Gänseteich is located on the red sandstone plateau of the middle Eichsfeld at an altitude of about 295 m. The headwaters of the Rustebach , a right-hand tributary of the Leine, are in the immediate vicinity .

History of the settlement

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1548 as a recreational pond . Several historical maps from the end of the 16th century refer to territorial disputes over the place Gänseteich and the associated Lentershagen between the Electorate of Mainz and the Duke of Braunschweig . In a contract in 1815, the Kingdom of Hanover ceded the places Gänseteich with Lentershagen and Rüdigershagen to Prussia .

In 1934 the village was incorporated into Schachtebich together with Lentershagen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erhard Müller: The place names of the district of Heiligenstadt. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1989, p. 18
2. ^ Karl Josef Hüther: The Eichsfeld in the picture of old and new maps. Mecke Verlag Duderstadt 1997, pp. 13-20
3. ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, page 152

Web links

Commons : Goose Pond  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '16 "  N , 10 ° 2' 58.3"  E