Klettenberg (Hohenstein)

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Klettenberg
Community Hohenstein
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 22 "  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 38"  E
Height : 240 m above sea level NN
Residents : 414  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Incorporation : October 18, 1996
Postal code : 99755
Area code : 036336
Klettenberg (Thuringia)
Klettenberg

Location of Klettenberg in Thuringia
St. Nicolai Church in Klettenberg
St. Nicolai Church in Klettenberg
Manor house in Klettenberg (now municipal administration)
Castle ruins in Klettenberg

Klettenberg (formerly Clettenberg ) is a district of Hohenstein in the district of Nordhausen am Harz in Thuringia .

geography

The federal road 243 leads south past the district of Klettenberg and the state road 2067 brushes the corridor east . The areas around Nordhausen and Göttingen are connected with the federal highway . The Mühlgraben flows through the village . The hills to the east behind Klettenberg were a suitable protection for nature and people in the Vorharz.

history

The first documentary mention of Klettenberg took place in 1187.

In 1078 the construction of the Klettenberg Castle began . This lay east on a spur-like limestone rock . It probably had the task of controlling and protecting the open area on the southern Harz. It also secured the Walkenried monastery and the north-south road. This is how the County of Klettenberg came into being , which was captured in 1256 after constant feuds with the Count of Hohnstein . The rock is now overgrown with scrub. There are still remains of the wall at the foot of the hill.

In Klettenberg (1923) there was a domain (338 ha) and a manor (179 ha).

Like all of Thuringia, the place was occupied by the US Army in April 1945 and passed on to the Red Army in early July . Klettenberg became part of the SBZ and, from 1949, the GDR . Until 1989 it was in the restricted area of ​​the zone border and was the location of a garrison of the border troops of the NVA .

The once independent municipality of Klettenberg belonged to the Grenzland administrative community from 1991 to 1996 . With the dissolution of this on October 17, 1996, the member communities were merged to form the community of Hohenstein.

Attractions

  • Church of St. Nicolai : The church was built as a castle chapel in 1647 and consecrated in 1706. The large, towerless building has a wooden barrel vault and a carved altar wall. On the east gable, outside the church, is the subterranean count's burial vault. Also because of its location in the restricted zone of the inner-German border, the church was abandoned in 1975 and designated as a ruin. After the Peaceful Revolution, the Monument Protection Office made the church one of its priorities and introduced the first security measures in 1990. In 1993 a support association was founded. The church was completely renovated and in 2005 it was again usable all year round through the installation of a community room.
  • Manor house
  • Ruins of Klettenberg Castle

Klettenberg is located on the southern Harz karst hiking trail

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klettenberg on the website of the Hohenstein community
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 148
  3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , S160
  4. ^ Thomas Bienert: Medieval Castles in Thuringia Wartberg-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 185
  5. ↑ Explanation board on the church door (2013)

Web links

Commons : Klettenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Topographia Superioris Saxoniae: Klettenberg  - Sources and full texts