Nienstedt (desert)

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Nienstedt is a desert near Gerbstedt in Saxony-Anhalt . It was a very large village, according to the chronicler Cyriacus Spangenberg it was "quite a town" .

location

Nienstedt was in Kreuzgrund, a cut into the landscape west of Heiligenthal . The lifeline was probably the very water-rich, but dried up Sohlbach in 1826, which flowed into the Schlenze after Heiligenthal .

history

In the centuries that followed, the monasteries drove the nobility out of the land in the village, and Nienstedt was inhabited until the 15th century, when it became desolate. Today nothing can be seen of the place.

literature

  • Erich Neuss : walks through the county of Mansfeld; Volume 3, In the Heart of the County . fly head publishing house, Halle (Saale), 2001

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 21 ″  E