Gemkenthal

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Gemkenthal
Mountain and university
town Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 47 "  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 23"  E
Height : 420 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 38707
Area code : 05328
Gemkenthal (Lower Saxony)
Gemkenthal

Location of Gemkenthal in Lower Saxony

Gemkenthal, entrance from the north
Gemkenthal, entrance from the north

Gemkenthal belongs to the mining town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the district of Goslar , Lower Saxony. It is located on the B 498 directly at the Okertalsperre . The center of Altenau is about four kilometers south, while the Goslar district of Oker is ten kilometers north.

Gemkenthal consists of an inn. In addition, a sailing club operates a club house and a boat dock at the Oker dam.

location

Today the actual Gemkenthal is flooded by the reservoir of the Okertalsperre. It was about 500 meters northeast of today's restaurant. It branches out into the small ( map ) and the large Gemkenthal ( map ), the valley streams of which flow into the Okertalsperre today. Before the Oker dam was built, the two brooks flowed together and the unified Gemkenthalbach drained into the Oker in the area of ​​the current dam ( map ) .

history

In 1311 there was an ironworks near what was then Gemkenthal, at the confluence with the Hune, which belonged to Berthold Henselen. In a map from 1865, at the point where the Gemkenthalbach flows into the Oker, a forester's house and two to three other buildings (probably forest workers' houses) upstream of the Oker can be seen.

Hermine Ida Auguste Hartleben was born on June 2, 1846 in Gemkenthal. She was a teacher and biographer of the hieroglyphic decipherer Jean-François Champollion . Furthermore, the painter Gerhard Löbenberg was born there on September 14, 1891 as the son of the Gemkenthal forester Luis Löbenberg.

In the first half of the 20th century there was still a restaurant with ancillary buildings in the valley floodplain on the Oker. With the construction of the Okertalsperre, this restaurant was relocated in the mid-1950s and received a new building at its current location. Although one is at least 500 meters away from the actual Gemkenthal, this settlement was also given the name Gemkenthal .

Gemkenthal belonged to the mining town of Altenau .

In September 2009, a place-name sign for Gemkenthal was set up after it was discovered in documents from the Goslar district that such a place-name sign already existed until 2003, bearing the name Gemkenthal.

Individual evidence

  1. Franz Rosenhainer: The history of the lower Harz metallurgy: from its beginnings to the establishment of the Kummunionsverwaltung in 1635 . S. 59 .
  2. ^ E. Borchers: General Gang Charte of the northwestern Harz Mountains on behalf of the Royal Hanover Mining and Forestry Office, Clausthal, 1865
  3. Newspaper article: The Gemkenthal has a name again ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )