Mägdesprung (Harzgerode)

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Maiden jump
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 10 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 295  (275-295)  m above sea level NN
Postal code : 06493
Area code : 039484
Mägdesprung in the Selketal
Mägdesprung in the Selketal

Mägdesprung im Harz is a district of the town of Harzgerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

location

Mägdesprung is located in the Lower Harz in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park . It is located around 3 km north-northwest of the core town of Harzgerode at around 275 to 295  m above sea level. NN in the Selketal and is traversed by the Selke . South of Mägdesprung the Krebsbach flows into the Selke, into which the Bremer Graben flows in the village . The federal road 185 leads through Mägdesprung , from which the state road  235 to Harzgerode and the district road  2363 to Selkemühle branch off. The south-southwest neighboring town is Alexisbad .

Districts

Today there are small settlements, especially at the sites of former hammer mills, which are districts of Mägdesprung:

history

General

The site was originally named after the Schalckenburg site above the Selke slope on the right . And so it was said in 1608 that under the Schalkenburg there would be a two-speed grinding mill, which was given to a Harzgeröder citizen by the princely rulers with a piece of land and a patch of meadow. The name Mägdesprung only gradually caught on, because the hut built in 1646 on the initiative of Friedrich von Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) was consistently called Eisenhütte unterm Mägdesprung in the 18th century . It was not very successful at first, but was expanded considerably from 1769 onwards. Until the second half of the 19th century, the work was quite successful in the field of art casting . The blast furnace was then shut down in 1876.

The rapid growth of the plant since the middle of the 18th century resulted in the construction of numerous houses to accommodate the employees and their families, so that Mägdesprung received the infrastructure of a small village with 217 inhabitants in 1855. A school has been mentioned since 1785, a church was consecrated in 1830, and the local cemetery was given a place on III. Friedrichshammer. On August 7, 1887, the Gernrode – Mägdesprung line was opened by the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Railway Company (GHE) (today: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB) ). The factory's model house fell victim to the acts of war at the end of the Second World War on April 18, 1945 .

From 1972 the ironworks became VEB Gas- und Heizgerätewerk Mägdesprung , which mainly produced gas and heating devices. During the GDR era, this company built and maintained the company holiday camp “Sea of ​​Peace” for the children of its employees, which was abandoned to decay after 1990.

With the economic changes brought about by German reunification (1990), only a modest production of gas stoves could be maintained in the following years, but this had to be discontinued after a few years. At the beginning of the 1990s, the heirs of the previous owner received the factory facilities, including the residential buildings, back. Since then, the property has been parceled out and sold or auctioned. Most of the old smelter site now looks like an industrial wasteland.

At the end of 2016, the Harzgerode district of Mägdesprung only had 54 inhabitants.

Place name

The place name appears for the first time in 1576 in the border register of the Sangerhausen office as a Meidesprung , which meant a spring below the Schalkenburg, which was taken as an Ernabrunnen in 1828 . The place name led to the creation of a leap legend . The legend of the "Mägdesprung" over the Selketal was u. a. recorded by the brothers Grimm and Ludwig Bechstein .

Worth seeing

Mägdesprung ironworks museum "Carlswerk"

Buildings

In addition to its location in the Selketal and the connection to a network of hiking trails, the Selketalstieg also leads along here, the Carlswerk Hüttenmuseum is well worth seeing. Today's ironworks museum was built in brick in 1865 as a machine factory for the production of special machines for metal processing.

The renovated pilgrims' chapel in the cemetery on III. Friedrichshammer, the deer sculptures, the Kutscherstube restaurant (burned down on July 2, 2018), the Fürst-Friedrich-Albrecht monument (obelisk) in the town center and the Mägdetrappe and the Köthener hut with a view of the Selketal and the Viktorshöhe are other sights.

Transport links

Mägdesprung station on the Selketalbahn

The district is located on the federal highway 185 and has a bus connection to the network of the Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe as well as the Mägdesprung train station on the Selketalbahn route between Gernrode and Alexisbad .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Mägdesprung (Harz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Der Mägdesprung (Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt Viewer
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Börner: The offices of Harzgerode and Güntersberge between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War . In: Harzgeroder Hefte 10, 2017, p. 79. ISBN 978-3-942975-19-3
  3. ^ Matthias Reichmann: The Harz ironworks under the Mägdesprung. A contribution to artificial casting in the northern Harz . 2002. ISBN 3-8258-6194-5
  4. ^ Verein Studium Hallense eV (Ed.): History of Anhalt in Data , 2014, p. 296. ISBN 978-3-95462-229-0