Kunigunde (Liebenburg)

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Kunigunde
Municipality Liebenburg
(district Dörnten )
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 165 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 38704
Area code : 05346
Kunigunde (Lower Saxony)
Kunigunde

Location of Kunigunde in Lower Saxony

Kunigunde is a settlement that belongs to the Dörnten district in the municipality of Liebenburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony .

geography

The following places surround Kunigunde:

The innermost flows through Kunigunde .

history

Coat of arms of the von Brabeck family on the former grinding mill

Kunigunde was founded in 1682 by the governor of the prince-bishopric of Hildesheim and later prince-bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck in the Innerstetal. It was an iron works in which ores from the Salzgitter ridge were processed. As early as 1695, however, it was shut down again due to difficulties in smelting iron ores, which were of poor quality. Since the founding of the hut and long after it was closed, the place was simply called the ironworks . In addition, up to 1705 and occasionally until 1825 the designation “zur Übelgunde”, “zur Obelgunda”, “auf der Obelgünne” is found. It wasn't until 1755 that the name Kunigunde was first mentioned in an inventory of the powder mill at that time and has been used more and more for the place since then. It has not yet been possible to determine where the name comes from. In some references you can find the reference that the place was named after a wife of a member of the von Brabeck family. This contradicts the fact that no woman with the name Kunigunde was recorded in the genealogy of the von Brabeck family .

In addition to the iron and steel works, many other businesses were established after a short time that were dependent on the hydropower of the innermost. This included a powder mill , a sawmill , a grain mill , a paper mill, and a copper hammer .

The powder mill was built before 1700 and is the only one of the companies mentioned that still exists today. Up until the 20th century, explosives for the Upper Harz mining industry were manufactured here; today, black powder and fuses are manufactured here.

restaurant

Former guest house in Kunigunde

With the construction of the ironworks around 1715, a restaurant was also built on the old Heerstraße, which led through the settlement. The current Kunigunde Inn was built in 1826 when a road from Hildesheim to Goslar, today's Bundesstraße 6, was built. The old pitcher was too far from this new road. The Kunigunde restaurant has not been in operation since 2012.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

Kunigunde is located directly on federal highway 6 , which connects Jerstedt and Goslar in the south with Salzgitter-Bad in the north. From this the state road 515 branches off, which leads to the southwest in the direction of Bredelem and Langelsheim . In addition, Ostharingen can be reached via a district road.

literature

  • Franz Zobel : The district of Goslar . Ed .: District Committee of the District of Goslar. Art and publishing office, Kiel 1932, p. 80-81 .

Web links

Commons : Kunigunde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office for History, Culture and Homeland Preservation of the City of Salzgitter, editors: Heinrich Korthöber, Jörg Leuschner, Reinhard Försterling, Sigrid Lux ​​(eds.): Mining in Salzgitter - The history of mining and the life of miners from the beginning to the present ( =  Contributions to the history of the city . Volume 13 ). Appelhans, Salzgitter 1997, ISBN 3-930292-05-X , chap. 20 , p. 18 .
  2. Kron, pp. 4–5.
  3. ^ Franz Zobel: The home book of the district of Goslar . Verlag der Goslarschen Zeitung Karl Krause, 1928, p. 290-291 .
  4. Kron, p. 5.