Nordhusen

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The Nordhusen desert is located on the site of the city of Haldensleben west of Hundisburg in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt . The desert is registered under the registration number 428310048 in the local monument register as a soil monument.

history

The place Nordhusen is said to have been founded around 531 by Saxon and Franconian marriages. Documentary mentions of Nordhusen do not begin until 1218. Nordhusen belonged to the Diocese of Halberstadt , the nearby Hunoldesburg to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg . The border was the Beber River .

In 1213 (in some sources 1214) Emperor Otto IV besieged the Hunoldesburg, to which the residents of Nordhusen had fled. The emperor broke off the siege after losing 60 of his knights. When leaving, he probably had the abandoned village of Nordhusen destroyed and only spared the church.

After that, the residents of Nordhusens very likely settled under the protection of the Hunoldesburg and founded Hundisburg.

In a document from 1218, Bishop Friedrich von Halberstadt (1208–1236) authorized Archbishop Albrecht of Magdeburg (1170–1232) to consecrate the Hundisburg chapel in his place .

1262 Halberstadt bishop left Volrad of Kranichfeld (1255-1296 / 97) the local cathedral chapter the patronage of the church in Nordhusen. At this point in time, Nordhusen should have been meaningless.

Nordhusen church ruins

Income from Nordhusen was mentioned in 1307 and 1325. In 1400 the Nordhusener church paid six old schillings to Halberstadt. At that time, this corresponded to the sum that a farm had to raise annually in terms of taxes. Probably only the arable land around the desert was used by the Hundisburger. In 1401 the castle man of the Hunoldesburg, Busse von Alvensleben , had the Nordhusen mill rebuilt. The mill was in operation until a fire in 1848. Today only remains of the mill wall can be found near the church ruins.

From the place Nordhusen only the church ruin Nordhusen has been preserved.

Say of the key maiden

When Emperor Otto IV besieged Hundisburg, a young woman was left alone in Nordhusen. After the Kaiser left and the Nordhusener returned from the Hunoldesburg, they were surprised that the young woman's house had been spared. They believed she was in league with the enemy and avoided her. She was left alone in Nordhusen. She was seen there for a few more years and suddenly disappeared. A short time later, the story went around in Hundisburg that the young woman was seen again as an apparition in a white dress. On her belt she wore a bunch of keys with which she can unlock a cellar in the Hunoldesburg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ^ Bock, local history of the district of Neuhaldensleben, 1920, page 126

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 3.5 ″  E