Helfta
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Helfta
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| Height : | 119 m above sea level NHN |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1960 |
| Postal code : | 06295 |
| Area code : | 03475 |
  Location of Helfta in the Lutherstadt Eisleben
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Helfta is a district of Lutherstadt Eisleben in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . The historical site has existed since the 9th century and is also significant due to the Helfta Monastery, which was revitalized in 1999, and its educational center.
geography
Helfta is located in the southeast of Lutherstadt Eisleben, on the road to Halle (Saale) , south of the “3E industrial area”. The Hornburger Sattel is to the south and the Süße See lake to the east .
history
In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery that was created between 881 and 899, Helfta is mentioned for the first time in a document as the tithing place Helpide in Friesenfeld . The Helfta monastery is particularly well known . Helfta Castle is also mentioned as Helphideburc . Helpidi is referred to as a villa in the county of Sigifrids in Hassegau in 969 .
From the middle of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century, the Helfta Monastery was located in the village , where important mystics and theologians of their time lived and whose area is now part of the Romanesque Road . This monastery was closed after the Reformation. In 1641 the village came into the possession of the von Pfuel family through Adam von Pfuel .
In the French period (1807-1813) the place was namesake and for the canton of Helfta in the Halle district of the Saale department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . In the years 1824 to 1826 the Prussian Staatschaussee from Halle to Nordhausen, where Helfta was located, was opened, and from which Fernstraße 80 - later Reichsstraße 80, then again Fernstraße 80 and Bundesstraße 80 , in Helfta today Landesstraße 151 - became. To date, two milestones have been preserved on Halleschen Strasse ( quarter milestone , full mile obelisk ) that are under monument protection.
On April 13, 1945, units of the 1st US Army set up a prisoner-of-war camp on the north and east side of the heap of the Hermannsschacht near Helfta. German soldiers and civilians were interned in the open air on an area of around 80,000 m². At the same time there were around 22,000 - 50,000, but a total of 90,000 prisoners, of whom 2,000 to 3,000 died, mainly of the inhuman conditions. The camp was disbanded on May 23, 1945, and the prisoners were taken to other cities. The remains of the deceased have not been found to this day. On May 20, 1995, a prisoner of war memorial was erected and inaugurated in Helfta in memory of these people.
traffic
The federal highway 80 and the federal highway 180 lead past the village on the Eisleben bypass. The place had a stop on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden .
Personalities
- Mechthild von Magdeburg (around 1207–1282), medieval mystic in the Helfta monastery
- Gertrud von Hackeborn (1232–1292), Cistercian and medieval mystic in the Helfta monastery
- Mechthild von Hackeborn (1241–1299), Cistercian and medieval mystic in the Helfta monastery
- Gertrud von Helfta (1256–1301 / 02), Cistercian and medieval mystic in the Helfta monastery
- Willi Schober (* 1913, died after 1965), soccer player and coach
- Kurt Böttger (1923–1993), GDR diplomat
- Detlef Herrmann (1944–2013), sculptor
Others
One of the oldest Cornelian cherries in Germany is located near the war memorials in Hauptstrasse . It is over 9 m high with a trunk circumference of 1.80 m and is estimated to be 250 years old. The specimen , which is protected as a natural monument, originally stood behind the rectory of St. George's Church, but was demolished around 1970 due to the risk of collapse.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Reg. Thur. No. 287
- ↑ Maren Ankermann: Gertrud the Grosse von Helfta: a study on the tension between religious experience and literary design in mystical works . Kümmerle Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-87452-886-3 .
- ↑ Robby Zeitfuchs, Volker Schirmer: Zeitzeugen. The Harz Mountains in April 1945. Editor: Volker Schirmer, Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand, 2000, ISBN 3-89811-654-9 .
- ↑ The prisoner-of-war camp in Helfta near Eisleben and the end of the Second World War in Eisleben , blog post on www.harz-saale.de, December 8, 2012, accessed on August 17, 2015.
