Hilkenschwende

Hilkenschwende is a desert in the area of ​​the city of Harzgerode in the Harz district .

history

In Hilkenschwende there had been an outbuilding that belonged to the Rammelburg office in the county of Mansfeld and was owned by the wealthy Counts of Mansfeld. Due to debt, Count David von Mansfeld was forced to pledge the Rammelburg office that belonged to him to the Hilkenschwende Vorwerk. In 1602 it was taken over by Caspar von Berlepsch, who lived in Buhla and Großbodungen and took possession of it after paying 100,000 Reichstalers. After the agreed period of 15 years, Count David von Mansfeld was unable to redeem the pledge, so that the Rammelburg office with Hilkenschwende remained in the possession of the von Berlepsch family from then on . In 1624 the Vorwerk was made over to Adrian Arndt StammerBallenstedt left, who used it as a cattle yard, among other things.

In the Thirty Years' War , the Vorwerk was repeatedly Hilke Schwende victims of looting the resin protecting continue exaggeration that all the horses and all the livestock and imposed on the owner of high prices for returning the Teiere. Since he was unable to pay the enormously high fees, he did not get most of his horses and all of his cattle back, which he complained to his sovereign, the Count of Mansfeld. The latter, however, was powerless against the raids of the Harz shooters.

Most recently, Hilkenschwende was in the corridor of the Dankerode community . On August 1, 2009, the community of Dankerode merged with the towns of Güntersberge and Harzgerode and the communities of Königerode , Schielo , Siptenfelde and Straßberg to form the new town of Harzgerode.

The legendary Untermühle was located in the forest in the direction of Neuhaus and Passbruch.

literature

• Hermann Schotte: Rammelburger Chronik. History of the old Mansfeld office of Rammelburg and the spots, villages and estates belonging to it Wippra, Abberode, Biesenrode , Braunschwende, Forst Braunschwende, Friesdorf, Haida, Hermerode, Hilkenschwende, Königerode, Popperode, Rammelburg, Ritzgerode, Steinbrücken , Halle 1906, new edition 2005 .
• Frank Boblenz : Report by Colonel David Peckherr from 14./24. July 1627 about the action against the Harzschützen and the incineration of Benneckenstein , in: Benneckensteiner Heimatheft 45 (2003), pp. 79–86.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The actions of the Harzschützen at that time are glorified today by the performance of a play.
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
3. ↑ Gustav Heyse: Hermitage of the Harz Mountains