Göddeckerode

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Göddeckerode is a village in the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district . It belonged to the Wülperode district and is the westernmost town in Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

Göddeckerode is located in the northern Harz foreland on the Eckergraben, northwest of Osterwieck and south of the Lower Saxon town of Hornburg . 195 inhabitants live in Göddeckerode (as of September 30, 2014).

history

Place name

The original form of the place name is traced back to Gotingeroth or Gotthincheroth . The place is etymologically identical to the Göttingerode settlement in the neighboring district of Goslar . The name suggests that the Godos was cleared here; the diminutive -iko often developed secondary as a nickname: The personal name Göddeken originated from Godiko, a nickname for Godo, the short form of Godemar. Possibly the origin lies in Gotthart (strong in God) or Gottwald (ruling in God). As in the neighboring Lüttgenrode (but not in Isingerode ), the ending -ingerode is smoothed and occurs more frequently in the space between Ecker and Ilse : It refers to the old Saxon clearing on the edge of the Harz in the High Middle Ages.

In the dialect of Low German , the place is occasionally called Göddeckeroe .

Local history

In the Harz foreland, the origins of the villages, whose place names are formed with the basic word -rode, can be narrowed down to the period from around the second quarter of the 9th century to the middle of the 11th century.

Göddeckerode is mentioned for the first time in 1311. The nobles von Querenvorde were entrusted with a tithe to Gotkenrode from Halberstadt in 1311 . The village is probably older, as an old baptismal font from the 12th century shows.

Göddeckerode belonged to the Halberstadt diocese until 1648 , which then became a principality . The place was under the Wülperode office and came in 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte near Waterloo , to the administrative district of Magdeburg of the Prussian province of Saxony . After the Second World War , on July 1, 1950, Göddeckerode and Suderode were incorporated into Wülperode, which was renamed Dreirode on the same day . On September 1, 1990, Dreirode was renamed Wülperode again. From 1961, Göddeckerode was directly in the restricted area on the inner-German border and could only be reached with a special permit (pass). Since January 1, 2010, Wülperode has been part of the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district with Göddeckerode and Suderode .

Attractions

  • Church (new building 1713–1720)
  • War memorial
  • Half-timbered houses from the 16th century
  • Peace oak dedicated to the conclusion of peace in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and the establishment of the German Empire on January 18, 1871.

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Christian Justus Chrysander (born December 9, 1718 - December 10, 1788 in Kiel), Lutheran theologian, mathematician and orientalist.
  • Gottlob Leberecht Otto Borchert (born February 28, 1859 in Magdeburg, † April 21, 1944 in Blankenburg), pastor in Göddeckerode from 1883 to 1901. Otto Borchert wrote a total of 15 books and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
  • Friedrich Schrader (born August 15, 1837 in Göddeckerode, † November 8, 1896 in Goslar), military doctor. He was a frequent travel companion of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (later Emperor Friedrich) and his family, for whose medical treatment he stayed in Berlin from 1870–1871.

literature

  • Gerhard Reiche: The families of the village of Göddeckerode 1652 to 1983, depicted on the basis of the church records of the Evangelical Congregation in Göddeckerode . Osterwieck 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harz-Zeitschrift 57th year 2005 Wolfgang Meibeyer
  2. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 328 .
  3. ↑ J.-A. Altenburg, Mona Dorn, Sibylle Heise: Göddeckerode and his church . Ostfalia-Verlag, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′  N , 10 ° 35 ′  E