Rhoden (Osterwieck)

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Rhodes
City of Osterwieck
Coat of arms of Rhodes
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 114 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.36 km²
Residents : 454  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 38835
Area code : 039421
View of Rhoden
View of Rhoden

Rhoden is a village in the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

The place is located in the northern Harz foreland between Großem and Kleiner Fallstein , northwest of Osterwieck and southeast of Hornburg in Lower Saxony . The Zieselbach , a tributary of the Ilse, runs along its southwestern edge of the settlement .

history

Rhoden was first mentioned in 1235 with Hugoldus de Roden . In 1302 the place is mentioned as Rode and 1308 as Roden . The name means clearing , clearing site. Rhoden was created as a round village. The tithe to be paid by Rhoden to Halberstadt Abbey is already described in a document from 1242. The monastery gave fiefs to noble families in Rhoden, such as the von Berwinkel family , who had an episcopal fief in the village from 1311.

Rhoden belonged to the Diocese of Halberstadt until 1648 and then came to the Principality of Halberstadt . The place was directly subordinate to the Office Hornburg and in 1815 came to the administrative district Magdeburg of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1818 Rhoden had two aristocratic estates, 90 houses, 550 inhabitants, a church, brickworks, forestry, inn, watermill and windmill.

From 1961 the place was directly in the border area of the GDR and could only be reached with a special permit. Rhoden is home to several listed, historical buildings. These include the Hoym Manor (1670), the Taubenturm (17th century), the Dorfkrug (1554) and the St. Vitus Church from the 12th century.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Rhoden, Aue-Fallstein , Berßel , Bühne , Lüttgenrode , Schauen and Wülperode merged with the city of Osterwieck to form the new city of Osterwieck.

Border tower Rhoden (Osterwieck)

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 15, 1997 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : "In silver, a red rose with green sepals and a green clump, raised by two crossed blue double hooks."

The colors of the former municipality are red - silver (white).

The municipality had been using its coat of arms for a long time. It has been used since the 30's. The figure of the rose is intended to remind of the noble family von Saldern, who were wealthy here and who helped shape the history of the place. The angled double hooks refer to the earlier construction activities in the hilly area of ​​the large Fallstein, report a district sign and represent signs of salvation and blessing.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rhoden (Osterwieck)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Osterwieck . January 14, 2010 ( daten.verwaltungsportal.de [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on May 8, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Udolph : Place names around Halberstadt - witnesses of history . In: Adolf Siebrecht (Ed.): History and culture of the Diocese of Halberstadt 804-1648 .
  3. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . 1862, Volume 22, p. 451, Lehnsregister Halberstadt
  4. ^ Karl von Seydlitz: The administrative district of Magdeburg: Geographical statistical and topographical manual . Magdeburg 1820, p. 292
  5. ^ Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2010 StBA
  6. ↑ Main statute of the municipality § 2 paragraph 1 ( MS Word )