Schmatzfeld

Schmatzfeld North Harz municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 29 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 58"  E
Height :	196 m
Area :	6.22 km²
Residents :	348  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density :	56 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	38855
Area code :	039451

Schmatzfeld is a district of the municipality of Nordharz in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Geographical location

The place is about seven kilometers north of Wernigerode on the federal highway 244 .

history

Schmatzfeld was first mentioned in a document on July 26, 1259 as Smatvelde . The document confirms the acquisition of two pieces of land near Schmatzfeld by Count Gebhard I von Wernigerode von Adelheid von Ravensberg, widow of Ludwig . A medieval cemetery with 30 burials from the 13th and 14th centuries, uncovered in 1984, suggests that there was a church in the parish and that the place had reached a certain size. In 1471, however, the village was described as abandoned, which is likely to be related to a desert period in the Middle Ages.

At the end of the 15th century a Vorwerk of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode was built on the area of ​​the abandoned village , which quickly gained economic importance.

The domain Schmatzfeld was up for sale in 1930, the largest agricultural commodity in the former county of Wernigerode .

Settler families then founded 44 farmsteads, some of which matured into very well-run farms during the second third of the 20th century. These farmsteads formed the basis of the local LPG , which still exists today as the Bundschuh agricultural cooperative .

Schmatzfeld volunteer fire department

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities Schmatzfeld, Danstedt , Heudeber , Langeln , Abbenrode , Stapelburg , Veckenstedt and Wasserleben merged to form the unitary community of North Harz .

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on August 18, 2009.

Blazon : "Split of green and silver, in front two golden ears of wheat in stacks, at the back 5 black diagonal bars spanned by a left red thread."

The colors of the former municipality are yellow-green.

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Jacobs : Document book of the city of Wernigerode up to the year 1460, 1891, p. 6
2. ↑ Wendlik, Steffen: On the social-historical development of the Schmatzfeld domain since the middle of the 19th century. 1995. 177 S., Magdeburg, Univ., Wiss. Housework, 1995 .
3. ↑ Cf. Rosegger, Sylvester: Performance and technical equipment of family businesses in the Schmatzfeld settlement on the northern Harz. Ms. Diss., Berlin 1948.
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
5. ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 10/2009 Page 9 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

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