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Small floors City and rural community of Bleicherode
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	251 m
Area :	5.25 km²
Residents :	353  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 2019
Postal code :	99752
Area code :	036338

Church in Kleinbodungen

Kleinbodungen is a district of the city and rural community of Bleicherode in the Thuringian district of Nordhausen .

geography

Kleinbodungen is located on the western border of the Nordhausen district, about six kilometers from the town of Bleicherode , in the Bode valley . West of the former municipality is the terrain gradually rises to Ohmgebirge at, in the south of the heights of the tower above bleicherode hills of the valley and the north which forms Hardt with the 360 m high Bauernberg a natural barrier. To the west and south of the community there are still remnants of what used to be a large, coherent mixed forest.

The Bode in place

Kleinbodungen bordered the following communities (clockwise, starting from the north): Lipprechterode , Kraja and Großbodungen in the Eichsfeld district .

history

The village of Kleinbodungen within the County of Hohenstein , which belongs to the Lohra rulership , was first mentioned in a document in 1370 . The place name developed from initially Wenigen Badungen over Bodungen minor (1506) to Kleinen Bodungen (1593).

For 1573 45 families are recorded in Kleinbodungen, about the time after that until well after the Thirty Years War there are no further records. To the north of the village, in the so-called Mordstal , there are said to have been many dead in skirmishes between Swedish riders and imperial troops. After the chaos of war and epidemics that devastated entire regions, news about the village did not appear until 1742. Records by the local pastor show that there were again 54 houses including school buildings that year.

The Kleinbodunger church was built between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. The old manor, which determined village life for centuries, existed until 1945. The gynecologist Alwin Mackenrodt (1859–1925) was born there. After the war, it served as a residential building, kindergarten, school and community administration.

At the beginning of the 19th century, linen weaving was added to the main source of income, agriculture, which produced only little income. A noticeable change in the village occurred with the sinking of the first two potash shafts (old house shafts) between 1909 and 1913. They were located immediately south of the village on the opposite side of the Bode , so a bridge had to be built (today at the southern exit towards Kraja ). In 1932 potash mining was stopped due to the global economic crisis. From 1936 the disused shafts were used as an auxiliary ammunition facility for the army . Potash mining was resumed after the Second World War, and in 1953 the Kleinbodungens and Bleicherodes pits were connected.

Due to the pressure of great international competition and the gradual depletion of the hard salt deposits, underground potash mining was stopped in the early 1990s.

History witnesses

Two three-storey former warehouses of the potash plant are a reminder of the 620 prisoners of the Kleinbodungen subcamp of the Mittelbau concentration camp who were housed there, who had to do forced labor in a rocket repair facility for the A4 surface-to-surface missile (better known as V2) . The halls are now used as a grain store.

On January 1, 2019, the communities of Kleinbodungen, Friedrichsthal , Etzelsrode , Kraja , Hainrode , Nohra , Wipperdorf and Wolkramshausen as well as the city of Bleicherode merged to form the new city and rural community of Bleicherode. Bleicherode was already a fulfilling municipality for the municipality of Kleinbodungen.

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kleinbodungen last consisted of six council members who were elected in the local elections on June 7, 2009 in a majority vote.

Culture

• Reit- und Fahrverein Kleinbodungen: Kleinbodungen is known nationwide for its equestrian sport. The Reit- und Fahrverein Kleinbodungen eV was founded in 1990 from a sports community founded in 1950 and has around 30 members.

Economy and Infrastructure

The closure of the potash works and the restructuring of agriculture meant that most of the residents lost their livelihoods, which resulted in increased emigration.

Today in Kleinbodungen there are trade and catering establishments as well as craft and service industries.

Transport links

Kleinbodungen is connected to the surrounding communities by state roads. The A 38 (Kassel-Leipzig), which runs parallel to the federal highway 80 , is about 10 kilometers from Kleinbodungen ( Bleicherode junction ). The next train station in the nearby town of Bleicherode is on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . Regional express trains and regional trains operated by Deutsche Bahn AG stop here . Kleinbodungen was on the former Bleicherode – Herzberg railway line . Passenger traffic, which was maintained on the remaining Bleicherode - Kleinbodungen - Bischofferode (Eichsfeld) line from 1972 , ended when the line was closed in 2001.

Web links

Commons : Kleinbodungen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kleinbodungen on the Bleicheröder website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary for Alwin Mackenrodt
2. ↑ According to Jens-Christian Wagner , Dorr was SS-Oberscharführer, see: Jens Christian Wagner: Kleinbodungen satellite camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 316f.
3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisten und Studienkreis deutscher Resistance 1933-1945 (Ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 190 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0