Selkenfelde

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Remnants of the foundations of the Selkirche
Information board: Selkenfelde desert

Selkenfelde in the Harz is a desert area near the Stiege district in the urban area of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

The Selkenfelde desert is located in the Lower Harz in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park . It is located about 1.7 km (as the crow flies ) northwest of the junction  of the state road 263 leading to Breitenstein (to the municipality of Südharz ) from the federal road 242 (Harzhochstrasse) between the villages of Stiege (to Oberharz am Brocken ) and Güntersberge (to Harzgerode ). Between the main road in the east and the Selketalbahn in the west, it is 495  m above sea level. NN in the forest of Forst Stiege , on the edge of the Upper Selketal nature reserve . Other information assume the location of the settlement area a little further west, west of the Selkirche . The river Selke rises a few hundred meters away .

history

According to legend, the Jagdhof Silicanvelth goes back to Charlemagne in the 8th century. It was first mentioned in 961 in two documents from King Otto I and fellow king Otto II from July 15 and 25 as Silicanvelth . Selkenfelde is expressly referred to as "villa", which means village. In 1203 King Otto IV gave the village of Stiege and with him Selkenfelde to Count Siegfried von Blankenburg for arms aid. The place is mentioned in 1209/27 in the count's list of properties as "villa que dicitur Selekenvelde". Until the end of the 14th century, the village community still had its own pastor. From the 15th century there were no more documented mentions of the place. It can therefore be assumed that the place was desolate long before the Thirty Years War .

Between 1885 and 1887 H. Brinkmann excavated the local church, the Selkirche. Traces of ravine clearly indicate the connection to the long-distance connection via Hohe Straße from Güntersberge to Stiege.

To the northeast, the Selkenfelder Schanze was built during the Seven Years' War .

hike

The Selketalstieg runs past the Selkenfelde desert . The desert is included as No. 55 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harzer hiking pin: stamp point 55 / Wüstung Selkenfelde / church , on harzer-wandernadel.de
  2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Education 25.02.2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 47
  3. ↑ photo of the information board Wüstung Selkenfelde on Selketalstieg on wikimedia.org
  4. ↑ RI II 1, 1 No. 302; DO I No. 228; DO II No. 1

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '  N , 10 ° 55'  E