Rodetal
The Rodetal runs between the villages of Reyershausen and Nörten-Hardenberg in southern Lower Saxony in the districts of Northeim and Göttingen in the area of the communities of Bovenden and Nörten-Hardenberg.
history
The road through the Rodetal was first mentioned in the early Middle Ages . At that time it belonged to Castle Plesse and provided a connection between Nörten-Hardenberg and Billingshausen . Due to the high taxes that the Hardenberg house had to pay when using the road, the Hardenbergs created their own path through the steep forest.
The oldest house on the street is on a former farm. It was built towards the end of the 15th century, beginning of the 16th century. Two large water mills were built in the 17th and 18th centuries, and later another mill to operate a sawmill . At the end of the 19th century, a potash salt mine was opened in the eastern part of the Rodetal with its own railway line through the Rodetal. Due to the massive discharge of the potassium hydroxide solution through the Rodebach, all life in the brook soon died out.
During the Second World War , large areas of the wet swamp meadows in the western part of the valley were drained for agricultural use. Towards the end of the war, the shaft - according to the Allied armory and arms production facility - was bombed more and more, but not hit. In the middle of the 20th century, the shaft was closed and a large-scale dismantling of the old facilities began.
economy
Today the Rodetal has a large basalt rock wool factory and a restaurant.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ' N , 9 ° 59' E