Petershütte

Petershütte City of Osterode am Harz Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	195 m above sea level NN
Residents :	745  (Jul 1, 2012)
Incorporation :	1st February 1971
Postal code :	37520
Area code :	05522
Location of Petershütte in Osterode am Harz

Petershütte was a village near the B243 at the Upper Harz rand in Söse valley and is now with the neighboring villages Katzenstein and Petershütte and the former county town of Osterode am Harz grown together, so that it now forms a district of Osterode. Osterode is located in the district of Göttingen (formerly in the district of Osterode am Harz ) in southern Lower Saxony in Germany .

history

The earliest mention of the place was in 1585. A written testimony from 1622 refers to “Petersberg. Alte Glashütte ”. Therefore could here first a Waldglashutte have passed, which was ultimately called critical to the resulting settlement: Peter mountain hut was speaking economically contracted to Petershütte as was notably 1673 first mentioned.

An ironworks was operated on the Söse from the beginning of the 16th century . A settlement was formed here by the workers. The hut was closed around 1600. A paper mill existed in the vicinity until the 19th century, in whose buildings a copper mill was operated until before the Second World War . Then there was a satellite camp of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp .

Petershütte forms an urban unit with Katzenstein and Lasfelde .

On February 1, 1971, Petershütte was incorporated into the district town of Osterode am Harz.

politics

Local council election 2016

Participation: 55.63% (−9.60% p)

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Local council

Together with Lasfelde and Katzenstein, Petershütte forms a joint local council of 15 councilors, which has been composed as follows since the local elections on September 11, 2016 (changes compared to 2011):

• SPD : 9 seats (−2)
• CDU : 5 seats (+1)
• FDP : 1 seat (+1)

societies

TuSpo Petershütte is an association that merged with Katzenstein and Lasfelde in 1943.

Web links

• From the history of the towns of Lasfelde, Petershütte and Katzenstein - offered by the city of Osterode

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lasfelde / Petershütte / Katzenstein | City of Osterode am Harz In: osterode.de , accessed on April 28, 2020.
2. ↑ Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph : The place names of the district of Osterode (=  publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen . Volume 40 ). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 124–125 ( adw-goe.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps , p. 326.
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 215 .
5. ^ Website of the Göttingen municipal services , accessed on October 1, 2016
6. ↑ TuSpo Petershütte .