Hage (desert)
Hage (also called Hagen ) is a desert in the district of Göttingen . It is located around 1.7 km north of Herzberg am Harz in Hägerfeld .
Hage was first mentioned in 1221 and destroyed in the Thirty Years War . Today the desert lies on the karst hiking trail , on which a sign indicates the former settlement. Today nothing is visible of the desert. The Steynowe desert was possibly about 1.2 km northwest of Hage . The Hermelingerode desert is also believed to be in the vicinity of Hage .
The place name means an area enclosed by a hedge, see Hag .
literature
- Erhard Kühlhorn: The medieval desolations in southern Lower Saxony Volume 2, F – N, Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-89534-132-0 , pp. 95–98.
- Uwe Ohainski and Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Osterode , Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , page 69
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Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 50.5 ″ E