Gunzerode

Gunzerode municipality Werther Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 12 ″ N , 10 ° 40 ′ 12 ″ E
Height :	201 m
Residents :	270
Incorporation :	January 1, 1997
Postal code :	99735
Area code :	036335
Location of Günzerode in Thuringia
	Evangelical St. Andreas Church in Günzerode

Günzerode is a district of the Werther municipality in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia in Germany.

geography

Günzerode is located in Helmetal, not far from the southern border of the Südharz Nature Park , in the northern Thuringian hill country . In this natural landscape there is a chain of karst phenomena north of the village . The "Steinsee" and the "Große Seeloch" characterize this landscape in particular.

At the edge of the place flows the helmets .

history

The large lake hole is regarded as a prehistoric place of worship. The earliest documented mention of Günzeroda took place in August 1188. The domain in the village was an estate with 344 hectares, which the leaseholder W. Rühmkorf had leased from the tax authorities from 1923 onwards. After the Second World War , the company was expropriated without compensation and divided between displaced persons and farmers with little land. Part of the manor building was demolished and the former manor house was reduced to the ground floor. The half-timbered Protestant St. Andrew's Church lost its tower during the GDR era. The bells were attached to a wooden frame next to the church.

In September 1944, was a concentration camp Günzerode as a satellite camp of the concentration camp complex Mittelbau-Dora established that the, which also belongs to this camp complex concentration camp Ellrich citizens garden was assumed as secondary storage. Around 950 male prisoners of SS Construction Brigade IV had to do track, earthwork and clearing work there for the construction of the Helmetalbahn , which never went into operation. The concentration camp guards drove the surviving prisoners on a death march across the Harz Mountains in April 1945 . Shortly before the arrival of the Allied troops , they released the prisoners on April 14, 1945 near Güntersberge .

With the dissolution of the Helmetal administrative community, the once independent municipality of Günzerode became part of the newly formed municipality of Werther on January 1, 1997.

Web links

Commons : Günzerode - collection of images, videos and audio files

Günzerode on the Werther website

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries: pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , 125, 222.
^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian cities and villages - A manual . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 106 .
^ Jürgen Gruhle: Land Reform Black Book. 2011, accessed on May 20, 2011 (overview by federal states and locations on expropriation measures after the end of World War II as part of the land reform).

[Köhler2007-1] Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries: pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , 125, 222.

[Kahl2010-2] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian cities and villages - A manual . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 106 .

[Schwarzbuch-3] Jürgen Gruhle: Land Reform Black Book. 2011, accessed on May 20, 2011 (overview by federal states and locations on expropriation measures after the end of World War II as part of the land reform).