Rieseberg (Königslutter)

Giant mountain City of Königslutter am Elm
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 20 ″  E
Residents :	391  (April 1, 2014)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38154
Area code :	05353
Location of Rieseberg in Lower Saxony
Church and maypole

Rieseberg is a district of Königslutter am Elm in the Helmstedt district in the state of Lower Saxony , where an elevation of the same name is located. The place gained notoriety through the Rieseberg murders , in which SS members murdered eleven political opponents in 1933 .

location

Rieseberg is located around 5 km southeast of the Wolfsburg / Königslutter motorway junction ( A 39 and A 2 ) and around 6 km north-northwest of the city center of Königslutter on the edge of the Schunter lowland . The old town center has the shape of an elongated horseshoe.

history

The local church was built in 1585 and belongs to the Königslutter provost of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig .

In August 1959, the Pappelhof youth home of the German Federation of Trade Unions was opened near Rieseberg .

On March 1, 1974, Rieseberg was incorporated into the city of Königslutter am Elm.

Surname

View up to the Rieseberg elevation

Rieseberg was first mentioned in 1344 as Risberghe . Further names were 1353 Ryseberge , 1359 Riseberch and 1530 Rißenberg . All spellings have in common that they are named after a huge mountain . The original Ris later changed to Rise . That meant something like slope and can still be found in English as to rise . But there were also the theory that the village name with the word fagots represents twigs branch in conjunction.

coat of arms

In the coat of arms of Rieseberg, a green hill can be seen in the silver shield. A green-brown tree can be seen growing out of it. So the place name is reproduced in a speaking manner. The silver wave bar is representative of the Scheppau and Mühlenbach and generally refers to the nature reserve of the Rieseberger Moors . On March 19, 1964, the President of the Braunschweig administrative district approved the coat of arms.

Nature reserves

Rieseberger Moor

Southwest of Rieseberg is the mountain of the same name, Rieseberg, at 158  m above sea level. NHN .

It is made of shell limestone and carries a mixed deciduous forest. Because of the chalky soil, many chalk-loving plants thrive here, including orchids. The mountain has been a nature reserve since 1983. The association “ Open-Air and Adventure Museum Ostfalen (FEMO) ” set up a “Rieseberg Adventure Path”, the starting point of which is the parking lot at the sports field.

To the southeast of Rieseberg lies the Rieseberger Moor , which has been a nature reserve since 1955. It is a well-preserved fen with approaches to the raised moor , on which there are large areas of gray willows, birches and alders. The peat layers are 1 to 2 m thick. They formed in an approximately 1 × 1 km large depression from about the 7th millennium BC. It was used economically since 1744 for cutting peat and until the 1950s for extracting bog brine.

The crime scene of political murders in 1933

Memorial stone in front of the Pappelhof in memory of the Rieseberg murders

On July 4, 1933, the "Pappelhof", located outside the village in the direction of the Rieseberger Moor, became the scene of eleven political murders by the SS , which later became known as the Rieseberg murders . The SS had brought the political opponents ( SPD and KPD members) from Braunschweig on the same day after torture and interrogation. An example was to be made on them in retaliation for the death of an SS member on June 29, 1933 in Braunschweig. The bodies were buried in the local cemetery and exhumed in 1953 . The farm was union property and served as a vacation home for workers' children; today it is privately owned.

Web links

Commons : Rieseberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the city of Königslutter am Elm
2. ↑ History 1950 to 1969 on the Internet presence of the district of Helmstedt , accessed on February 23, 2018
3. ^ 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. 272 .
4. ↑ State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony: Top 50 - Topographic Map 1: 50,000 Lower Saxony / Bremen , as of 2000.