Klostermühle (Alexisbad)

View from the Friedenstal to Klostermühle

Bridge over the Selke, 2017

Klostermühle is a residential area in the district of Alexisbad, part of the town of Harzgerode, in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt .

location

Klostermühle is located in the Harz Mountains north of Alexisbad. The federal highway 242 runs between Alexisbad and Mägdesprung immediately south of the Klostermühle . The Selke flows north on the right bank of which Klostermühle is located. Selke parallel to the track extending Selketalbahn , consisted of the 1888 to 1892 and a breakpoint. The Friedenstalbach flows into the Selke immediately north of the village .

history

In 983, the Benedictine Hagananrothe (Hagenrode) was named among the possessions of the Nienburg monastery . 1179 took Pope Alexander III . Hagenrode Monastery as a branch monastery of Nienburg under his protection and confirmed his ownership, which also included mills. Below this was a mill located directly in the monastery area, later referred to as the monastery mill, and a second, also as a watermill on the Selke, just a few hundred meters further up. After a short period of prosperity, the facilities of the small monastery fell into disrepair, which was accelerated by looting during the peasant war. From the year 1575 it is handed down that the Harzgeroder council had the pommel fetched from the church tower for 12 silver groschen. A village that had arisen in the vicinity of the monastery also fell in desolation . However, the monastery mill was continued on site well into the 19th century. Remains of the monastery ruins remained until the middle of the 19th century. The Ulriken weir , which no longer exists, was part of the mill . The Adolphfelsen with a breakthrough has been preserved as the remainder of the dam . In 1870, stones from the demolished ruin were used for the foundation walls of the newly built Hotel zum Klostermühle . Around 1925, part of a capital was found as the remainder of a column during an excavation. It was decorated with a lion's head framed by leaves. From 1912, the Hotel zur Klostermühle supplied electricity; in the GDR era it was operated as a holiday home for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Unused since the early 1990s, it is in a state of disrepair.

The listed Selke Bridge at the Klostermühle existed near the village . However, it was replaced by a new building in 2016.

literature

• Friedrich Gottschalck , pocket book for travelers in the Harz , G. Th. Keil, Magdeburg 1806; Reprint, 3rd edition 2015, Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode, ISBN 978-3-936185-69-0 , page 264.
• Friedhelm Linemann, Andreas Friebe, Harzgeode and the Selketal , Letterado Verlag Quedlinburg 2006, ISBN 3-938579-22-6 , page 131 ff.
• Karl-Heinz Börner : 200 years of Alexisbad. Mägdesprunger Hefte Nr. 4, 2010. ISBN 3-937648-19-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sigrid Elstermann, Thomas Nürnberg, Insights into the history of the health resort Alexisbad , 2008, page 34

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '  N , 11 ° 7'  E