Ostendorf (desert)

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Approximate area of ​​the desert, Hegewiesenweg in 2005

Ostendorf was a village in what is today the area of ​​the city of Magdeburg , in the current district of Alt Olvenstedt .

Ostendorf was only a little east of the village of Olvenstedt, south of the course of the Große Sülze, in the residential area around Lebersdorfer and Ostendorfer Straße . Geographical location (estimated using the map of Gustav Reischel): 52 ° 9 '31 "  N , 11 ° 34' 34"  O coordinates: 52 ° 9 '31 "  N , 11 ° 34' 34"  O .

Like several other places in the region, Ostendorf was abandoned by its inhabitants in the Middle Ages and turned into a desert . Ostendorf is still reminiscent of the name of a street in the area as Ostendorfer Strasse .

source

  • Gustav Reischel : Historical map of the districts Wolmirstedt and Wanzleben . Graphic arts institute Louis Koch, Halberstadt 1912, (1: 100,000).