Osterode am Fallstein

Osterode am Fallstein is a district of the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . The village is four kilometers east of Hornburg and 25 kilometers northwest of Wernigerode . The landscape is on the northern edge of the Großer Fallstein and the western end of the Großer Bruch . The small village has about 180 inhabitants.

Village church in Osterode am Fallstein

history

The place was first mentioned in 1136.

Anna Landmann from Osterode was the last woman to fall victim to the witch hunt in Hornburg in 1597 .

Until reunification , Osterode was right on the inner-German border . For over 17 years (June 1, 1973 to June 12, 1990) Osterode was part of the municipality of Veltheim .

The place received the addition am Fallstein on December 23, 1997. On September 11, 2003 the village became a district of the municipality of Aue-Fallstein , which merged on January 1, 2010 with the other municipalities of the Osterwieck-Fallstein administrative community to form the new town of Osterwieck.

literature

• Ewald Seyffarth and Gerhard Reiche : Family book Osterode. Copy of the manuscript . Osterwieck 1990. 1400 families in the period 1600-1965, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 434.

Web links

Wiktionary: Osterode am Fallstein  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Osterode ( memento of October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the former community of Aue-Fallstein
• Osterode on the side of the unified community and city of Osterwieck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1997
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010

Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′  N , 10 ° 40 ′  E