Mullerswiek

Müllerswiek , also called Windeswig, is a desert north of Hermerode in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany .

history

The clearing settlement of the 10th or 11th century was one of the few in the region with the ending -wiek . The author names Neuss as the second such settlement only Königswiek in the Fleischbachtal (today part of Freist ). The parish and church village, which had belonged to Arnstein from time immemorial , went under again after 1400.

On July 2, 1046 the place was in a document of Emperor Heinrich III. mentioned as Wihingiswich , together with Ritzgerode and Meisdorf . In 1234, a church in Windeswig was mentioned in a document . At that time, Count Albrecht von Arnstein and Archbishop Burchard of Magdeburg exchanged the church in Müllerswiek together with 5½ Hufen land and eleven acres of forest for the Gangloff Chapel of Our Lady and S. on the Kupferberg ( Hettstedt ).

In a document from 1324 it is mentioned that Count Burchard IV. Von Falkenstein from the Archbishopric Halberstadt held the fief of u. a. received the spiritual tithe at Wendeswic . In 1400, a Wendeswiek gave a solidus procuracy fee . Around 1533/1534 a poacher's silence was mentioned in the Rammelburger inheritance book.

After the fall of the settlement, the u. a. consisting of seven hooves farmland corridor rata to Hermerode , Friesdorf , Braunschwende and Abberode . In the 17th century it was heavily forested, but was finally largely cut down again around 1850.

literature

• Erich Neuss : Wüstungskunde of the Mansfeld districts (Seekreis and Gebirgskreis) , first issue, pp. 237–238. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1971, DNB 720075025

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 12 "  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 51.6"  E