Posthof (Liebenburg)

Posthof Municipality of Liebenburg ; (district of Othfresen ) Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 22 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 36 ″ E
Height :	155 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	38704
Area code :	05346
Location of Posthof in Lower Saxony

Posthof is a settlement that belongs to the district of Othfresen in the municipality of Liebenburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony.

geography

The following places surround Posthof:

Hohenrode in the northwest
Salzgitter-Bad in the north
Othfresen in the east
In the southeast
Kunigunde and Jerstedt in the south
Ostharingen in the southwest
Upen in the west

The Innerste flows on the western outskirts of Posthof .

history

Posthof has been a junction of important road connections since the establishment of a post line in 1569. A large post office building was not built until 1827. In 1869, however, the construction of the railway line from Hildesheim to Goslar with a train station in neighboring Othfresen led to the decline of the Posthof.

Ironworks

After the closure of the postal route, the Othfresen ironworks was built in 1869 in the village of Bethel Henry Strousberg . It was the first industrial company in Posthof and Othfresen. Here was iron ore from neighboring Salzgitter Hills smelted, more and more workers in Posthof so settled. But iron production was stopped as early as 1874, as there was a lack of demand throughout Germany. A sugar factory was built on the factory premises in 1883 and lasted until 1965.

In the Third Reich , the ore deposits in the Salzgitter ridge regained importance, but the smelting no longer took place in Posthof.

For the history of the renewed iron ore mining from the 1930s see: Heimerode

Economy and Infrastructure

In the north of Posthof there is now an industrial area with supermarkets, a sausage factory, a pipe factory, etc. In the south of the village are the former workers' housing estates with several dozen houses on Am Camp and Strousberg-Strasse. There is also a hotel in the village.

Transport links

Posthof is located directly on Bundesstraße 6 , which connects Jerstedt and Goslar in the south with Salzgitter-Bad in the north. This is crossed by the state road 500, which leads to Lutter am Barenberge , Ostlutter and Ostharingen in the west and to Othfresen, Liebenburg and Schladen in the east.

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For the history section : Website of the Liebenburg community