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City of Oberharz am Brocken
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| Height : | 498 m |
| Area : | 5.92 km² |
| Residents : | 85 (Jan. 1, 2014) |
| Population density : | 14 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 38875 |
| Area code : | 039457 |
  Location of Sorge in Oberharz am Brocken
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Sorge is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz Mountains in the Harz district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
Geographical location
Sorge is on federal highway 242 between Braunlage and Tanne (Harz) , not far from the Lower Saxony border. A connecting road branches off to the west of the village via the forester's house Wietfeld to Elend . Furthermore, the Harzquerbahn , which has a stop here , runs through the village . Until after the Second World War, the place also had a connection to the narrow-gauge railway Walkenried – Braunlage / Tanne .
Origin of name
As the onomastic Karlheinz Hengst was able to prove for identical and similar Central German place names, the term Sorge still signals the worrying conditions that prevailed at the time the place was founded. In the village itself, however, the opinion is widespread that the name Sorge is derived from the Middle High German word Zarge = border. In the Middle Ages and from the 16th century onwards, as with other Harz locations, the boundaries between different domains ran. After the Congress of Vienna, the border between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Duchy of Brunswick ran at Sorge .
history
The place emerged from an ironworks ( iron hammer for the production of iron), which is mentioned in 1224 as Niedervogelsfelde . The actual steelworks Sorge and with it the place name did not arise until the beginning of the 16th century. In 1506 a smelter is mentioned of concern. Most of the residents provided their livelihood with charcoal burning and cattle farming. The place was formerly in the Benneckenstein office of the Hanoverian part of the County of Hohenstein. At the time of the French occupation of the Harz, Sorge belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia and was part of the Harz Department , Nordhausen District , Canton Benneckenstein.
Before the Second World War, Benneckenstein mit Sorge was not part of the Hanoverian part of the County of Hohnstein, but as an exclave to the Prussian district of Grafschaft Hohenstein (see e.g. map of the Grafschaft Hohenstein, around 1910). Benneckenstein was Schwarzburgisch (partly Sondershausen, partly Rudolstadt) until around 1740 and was then acquired by Prussia.
From 1945 to 1990, concern was on the German-German border.
On July 25, 1952, Sorge was integrated into the Wernigerode district of the newly formed GDR district of Magdeburg . It has belonged to the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 1990.
With the opening of the Harzquerbahn in March 1899, Sorge was connected to the railway network. Another connection followed in August of the same year with the opening of the branch line of the Südharzbahn . The tracks were led one over the other by a bridge structure. There was initially no track connection due to regulatory fear of competition. The platform of the Südharzbahn was about seven meters above that of the Harzquerbahn on a dam. The passengers changing over steps on the slope was always felt to be a nuisance. In 1911 an iron overpass was built with a baggage lift, platform bridge and stairs, which made crossing the rails superfluous.
It was not until 1913 that a connecting track was built that was initially only intended for through cars for passenger traffic. Later, all passenger trains ran to the Sorge station of the Harzquerbahn. Trains that were supposed to continue to Tanne then drove back to the Südharzbahn line and from there on past the upper stop in the direction of Tanne.
Due to the division of Germany, only trains on the Harz Cross Railway stopped in Sorge after 1945. The station building was demolished because of sponge infestation and in the course of border security measures in 1975. The former location can still be seen. In 1974 a new stopping point was built in the center of the village for the Harzquerbahn.
On January 1, 2010, the community of Sorge merged with the communities of Elend, Stiege and Tanne and the cities of Elbingerode (Harz) , Hasselfelde and Benneckenstein (Harz) to form the city of Oberharz am Brocken.
politics
mayor
The local mayor is Otfried Wüstemann
coat of arms
Blazon : "In silver, a red deer head with ten-pointed antlers over a green three-mountain."
Sorge carried a coat of arms in common law that was neither heraldically correct nor approved by the state. In 1995, the municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch was commissioned to develop a coat of arms that incorporates elements of the previous coat of arms. A deer head in the sense of pars pro toto and a three-mountain in relation to the natural environment were chosen.
The colors of concern are: red - silver (white).
Memorials
- Collective grave site in the local cemetery for nine Lithuanians , whose names are unknown , who were deported to Germany as prisoners of war or civilian workers during the Second World War and who were victims of Nazi forced labor .
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tourism
Sorge has been developed for tourism since the beginning of the 20th century. The Harzquerbahn and the proximity to the federal highway 242 ensure good transport connections. The place lies in the nature reserve Harzer Bachtäler as well as on several hiking trails and offers access to the mountain bike and cross-country skiing network. The townscape is characterized by some half-timbered houses that are under monument protection.
The documentation center in Landhaus Weichelt, Köhlerberg 4, provides information on local history. In addition, there are exhibitions on various topics, for example a few years ago “Archaeological finds during the construction of the new federal highway 6n” or “Otto the Great - Bavaria and Europe”. About two kilometers from the town center to the west is the local open-air museum for the history of the border with a piece of border systems that have been preserved in their original state and the "Ring of Memory". In addition, since 2007 there has been a museum on the same subject in the former building of the Sorger halt.
Attractions
- Trading post built in 1756
- Circular hiking trails with information boards
- Exhibition of the border museum in the station building
- Historic hotel building "carefree"
- Illuminated feeding place for wildlife observation
- modern playground with double swings
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Hengst : Care as a name in the Ore Mountains and its foreland. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 1/2009, pp. 4–9.
- ^ Emil Vogel: The development of the Sorge ironworks from January 1, 1894 to January 1, 1919 , with a historical review of the past and the relationship with the community of Sorge i. Harz, anniversary publication 1919
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
Localities and districts: City of Benneckenstein (Harz) | City of Elbingerode (Harz) | Misery | City of Hasselfelde (with Rotacker ) | Königshütte (Harz) | Rübeland cave site (with Neuwerk and Susenburg ) | Concern | Stairs | Fir tree | Trautenstein
Other locations: Büchenberg and Eggeröder Brunnen (to the city of Elbingerode) | Almond wood and Wietfeld (on misery) | Lüdershof and Neue Hütte (to Königshütte) | Kaltes Tal and Kreuztal (to Rübeland caves)