Matting inch
Mattierzoll is a district of the municipality of Winnigstedt in the Wolfenbüttel district ( Lower Saxony ) . Mattierzoll is located on the B 79 halfway between Halberstadt and Wolfenbüttel, directly on the Lower Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt border . The place name is derived from Mattier , a payment unit for crossing the Hessendamm to Hessen am Fallstein .
Border area
Mattierzoll had been in the border area of different territories for centuries, in particular between the Duchy of Braunschweig and the Diocese of Halberstadt and later Brandenburg-Prussia . In 1941 there was a significant adjustment of the borders for the purpose of reorganizing coherent and closed administrative districts, in which the neighboring town of Hesse was transferred from Braunschweig to Prussia .
The border was porous at all times and only became more and more insurmountable after the Second World War . Here the Soviet and British occupation zones bordered each other, which led to the strongly secured inner-German border . The former Reichsstraße 79, now in the west B 79 and in the area of the GDR trunk road 79, was interrupted between Mattierzoll and the town of Hesse. On the western side it existed as a narrow, cobblestone street up to the border fortifications. An information point was set up next to her about the border installations and the death strip.
On November 12, 1989 at 7:58 a.m., the border opened in the GDR and the B 79 became passable again. Today only a preserved border watchtower and the information point remind of the former border.
Railway history
With the construction of the main line Jerxheim – Börßum of the Ducal Braunschweigische Staatsbahn , Mattierzoll got a train station in 1868. The completion of the private railway to Heudeber in 1898 and the Braunschweig-Schöninger Railway in 1902 made the town a small railway junction. With the division of Germany , the route to Oschersleben in the Soviet occupation zone east of Jerxheim was interrupted, as was the connection to Heudeber (today Saxony-Anhalt ). Rail traffic continued near the then inner-German border until 1975 and was limited to the routes to Jerxheim / Helmstedt and Börßum . In the meantime, all tracks of the former Jerxheim – Börßum railway line and those of the Heudeber – Mattierzoll railway line have been dismantled in Mattierzoll . The station building is a listed building .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ' N , 10 ° 46' E