Almond wood
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Almond wood
City of Oberharz am Brocken
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 37 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 28" E
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| Postal code : | 38875 |
| Area code : | 039455 |
  Location of almond wood in Oberharz am Brocken
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Almond wood (in Low German : Mangelholt ) is a hamlet in the Elend district in the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz Mountains .
location
Almond wood lies between Königshütte and Elend at the confluence of the Wormke and the Kalten Bode . The federal road 27 leads through almond wood . Today, almond wood includes the Hotel Grüne Tanne Almond wood and the Basthaus located 200 meters to the east.
The neighboring almond wood dam is named after the hamlet, as is the former almond wood reservoir .
history
The first documentary mention as Fehlholt comes from the year 1482. Lackholtz (1732) was the later spelling . The name is supposed to be derived from mantle , as a name for spruce , and should be a reference to a larger spruce population in this area at a time when otherwise mixed forest prevailed.
The existence of a sawmill for almond wood is documented for 1575. From around 1600 to 1865, the Mandelholzer Hütte ironworks existed in the village with interruptions . Their location was in today's parking lot of the Hotel Zurgrün Tanne. A brick kiln was also operated for a period of 50 years. These commercial settlements and the agriculture also carried out led to an average population of 43 people between 1678 and 1856. On May 7, 1857, the area of Almond Wood was assigned to the community of Elend, previously it belonged to one of the communities that today form the town of Königshütte . Almond wood belonged to the Elbingerode office in the Kingdom of Hanover .
In 1872 the old steel works were demolished. What remained was a half-timbered former dwelling for the workers as well as stables and sheds. The elongated house had three entrances on the front and back. A bay window in the attic was striking . In 1890 the population had risen to 48 despite the demolition. The workers 'house was also referred to as the almond wood workers' colony and still belonged to the royal steelworks treasury. It was often threatened by floods from the nearby Kalten Bode. In particular, it was feared that the continuously changing course of the Kalten Bode could directly affect the building in the future. Measures were probably taken in the 1910s to change the course of the river locally in order to counter the dangers posed by the Kalte Bode.
However, in the course of the construction of the Almondwood Dam, the Mandelholz workers' colony was demolished in 1956/57.
Hotel Zur Grünen Tanne almond wood
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The Hotel Zurgrün Tanne, which is essentially made up of almond wood today, dates back to 1896. Minna Günther, who lived in the workers' colony with her husband Klaus, began offering food and drinks on the street. The business developed through the increasing Harz tourism. Initially, a simple restaurant in the form of a bungalow was created, which was named after brother August Günther. In 1903 the restaurant building Zurgrün Tanne followed, which also included a few guest rooms and became a well-known excursion destination. The founder's son, Karl Günther junior, and his wife Margarete took over the business in 1934 and initiated a major renovation in 1936, which resulted in today's building ensemble. The number of guest beds rose to 36.
After the Second World War , the inner-German border ran a little west of Almondwood. The GDR designated a five-kilometer-wide strip along the border as a restricted area , which was only partially accessible. The restricted area finally began 100 meters behind Mandelholz, so that the restaurant remained freely accessible to GDR citizens. The Günther family who owned it were still forcibly resettled and lived in the Halle (Saale) area for two years , but were then allowed to return. They ran the business until 1975 and then decided to hand over the business to the state trade organization of the GDR HO . Her daughter Ingeborg Wewer had meanwhile moved west to the Federal Republic. However, the HO had problems with the operation, so that the plant was taken over as a training and recreation home by the Magdeburg Road Construction Department . However, the restaurant remained open to the public. Hotel rooms could also be rented freely, as the operation only required two. Every year 1000 holidaymakers spend their holidays in Almond Wood.
The head of the house was Erika Drüsedau. The former owner Karl Günther still helped out in the house at times. He died in 1986. After the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Liesgret Wewer, the daughter of Ingeborg Wewer, granddaughter of Karl Günther, took over the house on September 1, 1990, which was then returned to the family.
The hotel was modernized together with husband Edgar Sauer-Wewer. It now has 50 beds, a sauna and wellness area and a winter garden. The restaurant is still a well-known place for excursions.
Bast house
A forest village de Baste is mentioned as early as 1253, possibly in connection with the removal of tree bark, the bast. In 1471, a pond near the Bast is mentioned in a Lehsnsbrief . In the period between 1506 and 1580 there were repeated mentions of a sawmill to or above the bast . The population was around 20 people until 1856, divided into four families. In addition to forestry and mining, the people lived from the Basthütte ironworks, which had existed for a time since 1612 . It was located below today's Basthaus on the left bank of the Bode. Today this area is flooded by the backwater of the Mandeholz dam when the water levels are high. The hut existed with interruptions, at least as a building, until the 19th century. After the hut was demolished in 1868, only the former workers' house remained. Today it is used as the guest house of the Hotel Zurgrün Tanne. A hunter's hut was also built around 1977. In 1980 a stable was also converted into a residential building.
literature
- Karlheinz Brumme, Elend - Chronicle of a small resin village under the Brocken , 2nd expanded edition 2010, page 172 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harzer-Hexen-Stieg - Brocken bypass harzinfo.de
- ^ Statistical handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover . P. 160; Text archive - Internet Archive
Localities and districts: City of Benneckenstein (Harz) | City of Elbingerode (Harz) | Misery | City of Hasselfelde (with Rotacker ) | Königshütte (Harz) | Rübeland cave site (with Neuwerk and Susenburg ) | Concern | Stairs | Fir tree | Trautenstein
Other locations: Büchenberg and Eggeröder Brunnen (to the city of Elbingerode) | Almond wood and Wietfeld (on misery) | Lüdershof and Neue Hütte (to Königshütte) | Kaltes Tal and Kreuztal (to Rübeland caves)