Hessendamm
The Hessendamm is the westernmost of three historical traffic routes over the Great Break and connects Hesse with Mattierzoll . It crosses the artificial rivers Großer Graben and Schiffgraben . The Hessendamm is part of the federal highway 79 and runs across the state border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony .
history
In 1343, the Dukes acquired to Braunschweig by the counts of Regenstein the other side of the fen Large breaking situated castle Hesse with the village Hesse. Surrounded by Halberstadt territory, this new acquisition was de facto an exclave . So in the same year they started to fill up the Hessendamm. The Hessendamm soon developed into a welcome abbreviation of the Braunschweig - Halberstadt - Leipzig trunk road running via Hornburg and thus became part of the medieval Leipziger Heerstrasse (hence the street name Leipziger Strasse of the section shortly before Hesse). The intensive use soon resulted in the establishment of customs stations in Mattierzoll and in the middle of the Hessendamm. After the Second World War , the Inner German border cut through the Hessendamm. On November 12, 1989 at 7:58 a.m., the border opened in the GDR and the B 79 became passable again. Today only a preserved border watchtower and the information point remind of the former border.
District of Hessendamm
Hessendamm is also the place name of a small settlement that originally belonged to Veltheim am Fallstein in the middle of the traffic route of the same name. The customs house of the Diocese of Halberstadt and later the Prussian customs office (called Preuschn Tolln ) was built here. In Hessendamm the establishment and operation of an inn continued, in 1898 the establishment of a stop for the Heudeber – Mattierzoll railway and, from 1920, the operation of a grain, fodder and fertilizer trade. Hessendamm was on the GDR side in the immediate border area of the inner German border and could only be reached with a special permit between 1961 and the opening of the border.
Personalities
- Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch (born October 16, 1723 in Hessendamm, † August 6, 1803 in Salzdahlum ), German landscape painter and draftsman
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BUND - Das Große Bruch and the Heeseberg - bastions of nature in the agricultural steppe ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf 1.2 MB)
- ↑ Paul Jonas Meier , Karl Steinacker : The architectural and art monuments of the Wolfenbüttel district , Zwissler, 1906
- ↑ Hessendamm on the website of the city of Osterwieck ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler - New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors ..., Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig 1835
