Mackenrode (Hohenstein)
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Mackenrode
Community Hohenstein
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 7 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 35 ″ E
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| Height : | 233 m | |
| Residents : | 546 (2009) | |
| Incorporation : | October 18, 1996 | |
| Postal code : | 99755 | |
| Area code : | 036336 | |
Location of Mackenrode in Thuringia |
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 St. Petri Church in Mackenrode
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Mackenrode is the westernmost part of the municipality of Hohenstein in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .
Geographical location
Mackenrode is located in the karst area of the southern Harz foreland. The Mackenröder forest named after the village - including the nature reserve Sülzensee - Mackenröder forest - extends west of the village. The Ichte flows on the edge of the row village . The Hasenwinkel property is around 1 km southwest of Mackenrode . The federal road 243 runs through the village between Herzberg am Harz and Nordhausen .
history
The district was first mentioned in a document from Emperor Otto II dated July 30, 977.
In 1790 the first church was demolished and a new one was built. The peasant war and the plague have seriously damaged the village. On August 17, 1876, a major fire raged, which destroyed 35 farms. The world wars left their mark. In the First World War were 47 and in the Second World War, 62 men of the town.
On July 21, 1944, was in Mackenrode concentration camp established that the concentration camp complex from October 1944 Mittelbau was assumed and a subcamp of which also belongs to this camp complex concentration camp Wieda was. Around 300 concentration camp inmates of SS Construction Brigade III had to do track construction, earthwork and clearing work for the construction of the Helmetalbahn . After an evacuation transport by train and death marches on foot, most of the surviving prisoners in Gardelegen were murdered in the massacre in the Isenschnibber field barn on April 13, 1945. A memorial stone on the former camp site reminds of the history of the Mackenrode concentration camp.
After the war ended in 1945, the border area came with forced evacuations .
Mackenrode is now the business center of the Hohenstein community, which was formed on October 18, 1996. There is an industrial park and another is planned. A residential area is also planned. A used car trade and a gas station exist alongside other companies and businesses.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MGH DD OII / O III, No. 162
- ↑ Mackenrode. In: Karst hiking trail. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .