Salzbergstrasse (Wernigerode)

The Salzbergstraße is one of the main urban roads in the city of Wernigerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It runs southwest of the city center in the Harz Mountains and relieves the inner-city traffic in its first section up to the confluence with Forckestrasse .

history

The name Salzbergstrasse is very old. It goes back to the salt trade in the Middle Ages. Here an old trade route led up the salt mountain towards the mountains. From 1950 to 1990 it was called Maxim-Gorki-Straße .

On the west and east sides of Salzbergstrasse, some listed buildings have been preserved to this day. According to the list of cultural monuments in Wernigerode, these include :

location	designation	description	Registration number	Identification type	image
Salzbergstrasse 1 (map)	movie theater	Volkslichtspiele (cinema) in the hall of the old rifle house	094 25055	monument	More pictures
Salzbergstrasse 2 (map)	hotel	Former Monopoly hotel and union building	094 03 350	monument	More pictures
Salzbergstrasse 3 (map)	Library	Villa Marta reading room	094 25056	monument
Salzbergstrasse 5 (map)	villa		094 03292	monument	More pictures
Salzbergstrasse 8 (map)	Residential building		094 03304	monument
Salzbergstrasse 13 (map)	pension	Pension Swiss House	094 25057	monument

literature

• Walther Grosse : History of the city and county of Wernigerode in their forest, field and street names, Wernigerode 1929
• Walther Grosse: What the Wernigerode street names tell, Wernigerode [around 1935]
• Hermann D. Oemler : Time leaps: Wernigerode , 2011.

Web links

Commons : Salzbergstraße (Wernigerode)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann D. Oemler: Time leaps. Wernigerode , 2011.