City of Gernrode

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City of Gernrode
City of Quedlinburg
Local coat of arms of Gernrode
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 28 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 227 m
Area : 34.06 km²
Residents : 3394  (Dec. 31, 2020)
Population density : 100 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st of January 2014
Postal code : 06485
Area code : 039485
Historic city center
Historic city center
Area of ​​Gernrode in 1750 drawn by Johann George Schreiber
View from the Försterblick

City of Gernrode is a district of Quedlinburg in the northeastern edge of the Harz Mountains in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . Gernrode was first mentioned in a document in 961 and was given the right to use coats of arms and seals in 1539, which is often equated with conferring city rights. For almost 700 years the place was the seat of the first spiritual, after the Reformation free worldly women's monastery Gernrode .

In the old town with its winding streets there are many buildings from different centuries of the city's history. At the small market is the Gernrode town hall from the historicist era , to the west of it the Romanesque tower of the former market church of St. Stephanus , as well as the most famous sight, the Romanesque collegiate church of St. Cyriacus . The collegiate church of St. Cyriacus is located on the southern route of the Romanesque Road .

geography

position

Gernrode is located on the northern edge of the Harz low mountain range (Eastern Harz) in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt nature reserve . It is located about 6.5 km south of the core town of Quedlinburg, directly east of the Bad Suderode district and southwest of the Rieder district of Ballenstedt at about 200 to 320  m above sea level. NN . The Steinbach flows to the west and the Wellbach to the east, both are tributaries of the Quarmbach and thus those of the Bode . Gernrode is somewhat protected from rough north winds by the upstream Bückeberg ( 250  m above sea level ). The highest elevation in the vicinity is the Viktorshöhe at 581.5  m above sea level. NN . The Gernrode district has an area of ​​3406 hectares, of which 2718 hectares are forest and 20 hectares are water.

geology

Shell limestone profile in the quarry on Bückeberg north of Gernrode

The region around Gernrode shows the formation of the approximately 500 million year old Harz and its displacement to its younger foreland. Since the Ordovician , the resin has been in a sea basin that has been filled with fine-grained sediments over the course of 180 million years. The bottom of the sea changed in the Devonian in swellings and basins . At the same time, intense submarine volcanism set in, which lasted into the later Lower Carboniferous . This led to the penetration of basalt bodies into the Devonian sediments . These are known as intrusive bodies , one of which appears at the Osterteich near Gernrode. The Harz was captured between 360 and 330 million years ago by the Variscan mountain formation , the area was folded, lifted and partially eroded. It was concluded around 300 million years ago with the rise of acid magmas . The granite massif of the Ramberg belongs to this time. 320 to 272.5 million years ago, during the time of the Rotliegend , the erosion intensified into the depressions formed after the mountain formation. In the hollow between Hoym and Badeborn , the younger rocks from the Cretaceous period have been preserved. The ridge of the Ruhmberg near Badeborn is the beginning of the Quedlinburg saddle . Rocks such as shell limestone , which is between 243 and 230 million years old, can be found here. To the south of Badeborn is the Blankenburger Mulde, which is filled with sandstones from the Cretaceous period, between 89 and 81 million years old. The southern flank of the Mulde is morphologically raised with the counter stones . These consist of quartzitic sandstone , which is particularly solidified by silicate solutions from the subsoil. The visible steepness of the layers is evidence of the elevation of the Harz basement and its shift to the north around 80 million years ago. The Bückeberg on the northern edge of Gernrode comes from the Lower Muschelkalk and belongs to the erection zone along the northern edge of the Harz Mountains. In the former Bückeberg limestone quarry, the steep and partially overturned layers of shell limestone are clearly visible. One of the complete coherent Muschelkalk profiles in Central Germany can be viewed there.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Gernrode
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Temperature ( ° C ) 0.3 0.6 3.7 7.6 12.5 15.8 17.3 16.8 13.7 9.6 4.8 1.5 O 8.7
Precipitation ( mm ) 37 33 44 45 62 66 50 57 36 33 41 41 Σ 545
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.8 2.4 3.5 4.8 6.2 6.2 6.1 6.0 4.5 3.3 1.7 1.6 O 4th
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Climate diagram of Gernrode

The average annual temperature in Gernrode is 8.7 ° C. The warmest months are July and August with an average of 17.3 and 16.8 ° C and the coldest January and February with an average of 0.3 and 0.6 ° C, respectively. Most of the precipitation falls in June with an average of 66 millimeters, the lowest in February and October with an average of 33 millimeters.

The Harz is an obstacle in the westerly wind drift coming from the southwest . Through the Brocken with 1141.1  m above sea level. NN the air masses are forced to rise and rain down in the process. The north-eastern side lies in the rain shadow of the Harz Mountains. In this area is the place Gernrode with very low annual precipitation of only 545 millimeters. Since the months of December, January and February have the lowest precipitation values ​​in absolute terms and the strongly decreasing trend already begins in late autumn, one can speak of a winter drought.

Local breakdown

The place is divided into the monastery property with the area around the collegiate church and the old town, mentioned for the first time on July 17, 961 in a document by King Otto I , east of it in the area around the former market church St. Stephanus and the town hall.

Starting from this medieval core, a belt of villas in Art Nouveau style was built at the transition from the 19th to the 20th century . The new Osterfeld building area and the industrial area on the stones have been built since 1990.

The districts of Gernrode, Haferfeld and the Sternhaus belong to the city ​​of Gernrode .

story

In the shadow of the collegiate church until the Reformation

Gernrode Collegiate Church

In 959 Margrave Gero founded a women's monastery in his castle Geronisroth and appointed his daughter-in-law Hathui as abbess. The foundation was confirmed by King Otto I on July 17, 961 .

His successors gave the chapter in documents the freedom to choose an abbess and to accept a guardian according to the needs of the monastery. Gernrode was in the district of the Diocese of Halberstadt , but was directly subordinate to the Pope and the Emperor. The monastery developed into an important Ottonian and Salic center and was on an equal footing with the imperial abbeys . Emperor Heinrich V was visiting Gernrode and Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa held a court day here in 1188.

In the confirmation document from 961 a place Rode is mentioned for the first time, which was next to the monastery and the castle Geronisroth. The place Geronrod emerged as a clearing village after the ending -rode . Gernrode has been the name of the city since 1700. The abbesses had sovereignty over the village of Gernrode. The abbess was assisted by a guardian in the performance of her duties; this had to protect the abbey from attacks and exercised the secular jurisdiction over the monastery and the high jurisdiction over the place Gernrode. In 1149 Albrecht the Bear from the house of the Ascanians became the guardian of the monastery. From then until the end of the abbey in 1616, the Ascanians mostly provided the abbey's protective bailiff.

City foundation of the Renaissance

Grave slab of Elisabeth von Weida

In 1533 the first school building was built in Gernrode at the behest of the abbess Anna von Plauen and maintained with funds from the abbey. The idea of ​​founding a school goes back to her predecessor Elisabeth von Weida , who died in 1532 . A writing by Luther from 1524 had evidently moved them to have a school built, because Luther demanded that schools be built for the common people. Anna von Plauen and her successor Anna von Kitlitz continued the school policy and maintained relationships with the University of Wittenberg . At the school, children were given the same education regardless of their family status. It is assumed that it was probably the oldest Protestant elementary school in Germany. Classes continued in the classrooms until 1847.

The abbess Anna von Plauen granted the place the right to use a seal and a coat of arms in 1539. An express granting of town charter, however, never seems to have taken place. Mostly, however, this year is seen as the date when the city was founded. In 1939, the Anhalt City Parliament, in which Gernrode had a seat and a vote, congratulated on the 400th anniversary of the granting of city rights.

Due to its minor importance, Gernrode always remained a market town, the place and the market were not walled. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Gernrode was still referred to in documents as a town and very rarely as a town .

When Anhalt was divided into four principalities in 1603 , the monastery and the city were assigned to the seniority estates. The administration and government of the former imperial direct monastery was now in the hands of the respective senior of the Anhalt princes. The legal succession was in 1728 by Emperor Karl VI. finally transferred to the Princely House of Anhalt. In 1802 the last loan was made by Franz II .

Under the Anhaltiners from the 17th to the 19th century

When the seniority estates were divided up in 1669, the northern part of the former monastery area with Großalsleben and Alikendorf fell to Anhalt-Dessau . The areas on the Harz were given to Anhalt-Bernburg . The city of Gernrode came to a branch line of the Anhalt-Bernburger to Anhalt-Harzgerode . From 1709 the town of Gernrode belonged to the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg.

View of town around 1800

In 1806 the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg was elevated to a duchy. After the duchy had expired, in 1863 it came together with the duchy of Anhalt-Dessau to form the duchy of Anhalt with the state capital Dessau. The Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg was divided into two main areas in the 18th century - the state of Bernburg and the area in the Vorharz region. The Anhalt area in the Vorharz consisted of the five judicial offices Ballenstedt, Gernrode, Güntersberge, Harzgerode and Hoym. The Gernrode office bordered Prussia in the north and west, and the seat of the Gernrode office was the Princely Court of Justice around 1739 . The building was located west of the Collegiate Church, probably it was the former Äbtissinnen- Palas . In the early 18th century, areas in the southern part of the former monastery district were used for occasional stays by the Anhalter Princes; their structural features were probably suitable for a court . Therefore, this part of the population was soon called "the castle". The Schlossallee, which is still on the preserved monastery wall, is a reminder of this. From 1721 the wife of Prince Karl Friedrich , Wilhelmine Charlotte Countess of Ballenstedt, who was of bourgeois descent, was banished to Gernrode together with her sons. The two sons were named Friedrich and Carl Leopold. Friedrich died in Gernrode in 1758, his brother became a general in Hessen-Kassel . He died there in 1769. The mother of the two died in Gernrode in 1740.

Collegiate church and surroundings around 1900

The abbey district was converted into a domain in 1832 , and its use as an agricultural operation almost resulted in the destruction of the abbey church and the abbey district. The domain was bought back in 1858, and from 1859 the restoration of the church by Ferdinand von Quast began.

Prince Victor Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg was of importance to the city of Gernrode . He ruled from 1721 to 1765 as an absolutist ruler. He had a memorial built for himself in the city when he had a guest house built on the Stubenberg instead of a lawn in 1754. Later this guest house was rebuilt and expanded and used as a hotel. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed here in 1805 on his fourth trip to the Harz Mountains. The prince also built the “Sternhaus” and “Viktorshöhe” hunting lodges.

Resort in the 19th century

Around 1700 there were about 1000 inhabitants in the city. At the beginning of the 19th century, the place began to become a resort. At this time, Goethe and other well-known people such as Heinrich von Kleist and Wilhelm von Kügelgen Gernrode, especially the hotel on the Stubenberg, visited.

Through tourism, Gernrode developed into a modern small town, because the infrastructure had to be improved for vacationers due to the increasing demands. In addition, the construction of villas and factories began. At that time there were three bathing establishments available to guests, the Osterteich, the Schraderbad and the Ottobad, named after Otto Edler von Graeve , a divining rod man . The transport links were improved during this time, so in 1885 the Quedlinburg - Aschersleben railway line and in 1887 the Selke Valley Railway opened by the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Railway Company.

Interwar period

The post-war years from 1918 brought hard times, hunger and deprivation for Gernrode too. The inflation at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in Gernrode, as elsewhere, was attempted by issuing vouchers.

View of Gernrode from the Stubenberghaus, 1940

In the time of National Socialism from 1933 to 1945, the state of Anhalt and the state of Braunschweig were subordinate to a Reich governor with special powers. During this time, the state of Anhalt formed the Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt together with parts of the former Prussian province of Saxony . During this time there was a school of the Association of German Girls (BDM) in Gernrode in a villa from the early days.

During the Second World War , 178 men and women of various nationalities, mostly Poles, had to do forced labor in armaments-related companies . Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke relocated its construction department with around 80 employees from Dessau to the former boarding school " Haus Hagental " near Gernrode . For Gernrode, the war brought a serious setback in development, and numerous casualties, wounded and injured were to be mourned. At the end of the war there was a considerable influx of refugees and resettlers - the number of inhabitants exceeded the number of 6,000 at that time. All vacant beds in the city were used for accommodation.

On April 19, 1945, Gernrode was occupied by US troops without a fight , and they made the Stubenberg their headquarters. They installed Dietrich Wilde from Suderode as the new mayor on May 1, 1945 . According to the agreement reached in the Moscow Declaration on the division of Germany, after the withdrawal of the American occupation, Soviet troops moved in on June 30, 1945.

FDGB vacation spot and industrial settlements in the GDR

After the founding of the GDR in 1949, an administrative reform was carried out in 1952. The main parts of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , founded in 1947, were divided between the two districts of Magdeburg and Halle . The city of Gernrode came together with the district of Quedlinburg to the district of Halle.

Ruin of the FDGB holiday home "Fritz Heckert" 2009

The establishment of the FDGB holiday service began in Gernrode , which led to a rapidly increasing number of overnight stays due to the limited travel options in the GDR. The Hotel Stubenberg became one of the first FDGB holiday homes in 1948. In 1952, construction began on the "Fritz Heckert" holiday home, the union's first newly built holiday home. In addition, there was also the “friendship” holiday home, a former daughter's home that had to be demolished in 2012 after a major fire.

View of Gernrode

In 1961 the 1000th anniversary was celebrated in Gernrode and in 1989 the city charter was granted 450 years ago.

Although tourism dominated, industrial companies settled here. In 1960, for example, VEB Harzer Uhren, which emerged from an expropriated private watchmaking company, was founded. The company began producing cuckoo clocks in 1969 . In addition, there were companies in Gernrode for the production of upholstered furniture and for the production of beverages and spirits. In agriculture, the areas of the farmers were combined into an LPG (forced collectivization), which covered the whole spectrum from fruit growing to cattle breeding to arable farming. There was already a Teickner tree nursery in Gernrode before the war. In 1972 this was merged with a tree nursery in Blankenburg to form VEG Saatzucht, Baumschulen und Landschaftsgestaltung Gernrode.

In reunified Germany

Selketalbahn station

The upheavals during the fall of the GDR in autumn 1989 and the new travel options brought the end of the holiday service of the trade unions and the holiday homes of most companies and the number of holidaymakers fell significantly. The former holiday homes were closed except for the "Stubenberg". Only a few of the companies located in Gernrode survived the peaceful revolution, but only on a very small scale. With the absence of holidaymakers and the closure of businesses, there was a sharp rise in unemployment . Despite a number of usage concepts for the former holiday homes, these have so far been empty, such as the “Fritz-Heckert” and “Friendship” homes. They have fallen into disrepair and will likely need to be demolished. The Stubenberg was sold to a private investor in 1992 and reopened as a hotel.

Since January 1st, 1994, the city has been part and seat of the administrative community of Gernrode / Harz . In addition to the city of Gernrode, the communities Rieder and Bad Suderode belonged to it .

The climatic health resort title awarded in GDR times was no longer confirmed after 1990.

Numerous renovations of the old building fabric were successfully carried out after the GDR had overcome the shortage economy. Unemployment fell significantly in the period 2009–2019 and tourism recorded increasing numbers of overnight stays.

A rail connection to Quedlinburg has existed again since March 4, 2006 after passenger rail traffic on the Frose – Quedlinburg line was suspended on January 31, 2004 due to a signal box fire in Ballenstedt. The narrow-gauge Selketalbahn was extended and operations began on June 26, 2006 on the occasion of the Harz Festival in Gernrode.

With the new district structure that came into force in Saxony-Anhalt on July 1, 2007, Gernrode is part of the new Harz district . As a result, the municipal area reform began to create larger administrative units. The city of Gernrode was compulsorily incorporated into the city of Quedlinburg by law on January 1, 2011 and thereby lost its political independence. Until it was dissolved, it belonged to the administrative community of Gernrode / Harz , which had its administrative headquarters in the city and also ceased to exist on January 1, 2011. A lawsuit against the compulsory incorporation took place and was granted a positive decision on February 19, 2013 due to a formal error in the hearing process, thus the incorporation was reversed and Gernrode, Bad Suderode and Rieder were initially able to regain their independence. However, Rieder was incorporated into Ballenstedt on December 1, 2013 on a voluntary basis, Gernrode and Bad Suderode by law to Quedlinburg again on January 1, 2014. With the decision of the City Council of Quedlinburg and the approval of the Harz district on October 21, 2014, Gernrode is again allowed to call itself "City", as it was before the incorporation, but remains legally a locality of the City of Quedlinburg.

On July 1, 2014, the new municipal constitution law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt came into force. In its § 14 (2) the municipalities are given the opportunity to assign this designation to the districts that were towns before the incorporation. The city of Quedlinburg has made use of this regulation. Your amended main statute dates from March 12, 2015. In § 1 (3) the districts and localities are listed with their official names.

Population development

Due to the location of Gernrode away from the trade routes, its market has never exceeded local importance. The population only began to grow in the 19th century with industrialization and the beginning of tourism. It reached its greatest value in 1945 when it grew to around 6,000 people due to war refugees. It then fell continuously until 1989 and stood at 4,600. Since the opening of the border in 1989/1990, the number of residents has decreased significantly due to high unemployment and the decline in the birth rate. On December 31, 2007, the official population for Gernrode was 3824 according to the data from the State Statistical Office of Saxony-Anhalt.

Population development in Gernrode from 1811 to 2012
year resident
1811 1700
1875 2270
1880 2444
1905 3165
1910 3327
1925 3827
1933 4058
year resident
1939 4457
1989 4600
2003 3959
2004 3949
2005 3931
2006 3897
2007 3824
2012 3533

age structure

The following overview shows the age structure as of December 31, 2008. Some figures reflect three years of age, others over 15 years of age.

Age from - to 0-16 16-18 18-25 25-35 35-45 45-60 Over 69 total
population 413 58 322 316 565 940 1151 3765
Percentage 11.0 1.5 8.5 8.4 15.0 25.0 30.6 100.0

Population forecast

The data on the development of the population in the area of ​​the former town of Gernrode come from the State Statistical Office of Saxony-Anhalt (as of September 2009). For Gernrode, a population decrease of 20.5 percent (771 people) between 2008 and 2025 is predicted.

Adjacent forecast in comparison. to the real dev. since 1990

Forecast of the absolute population development from 2008 to 2025 for Gernrode (main residences):

date 2008 2010 2015 2020 2025
resident 3765 3672 3461 3237 2994

politics

Old town hall of Gernrode, demolished in 1914

List of mayors since 1800

  • 1802–1805 Andreas Ernst Monax
  • 1806–1821 Andreas Ernst Reuthe
  • 1822–1823 J. Carl Moldenhauer
  • 1824–1862 Leopold Sobbe
  • 1863–1875 Friedrich Franke
  • 1876–1905 Friedrich Könnemann
  • 1906–1933 Gustav Schröder
  • 1933–1945 Ewald Buslau
  • 1945 Dietrich Wilde
  • 1945–1954 Otto Friemel (KPD / SED)
  • 1955–1975 Hans Soldin
  • 1976–1979 Hartmut Wald
  • 1979–1985 Jürgen Clemens
  • 1985–1990 Margit Frömling
  • 1990–1994 Wolfgang Schneider
  • 1994–2008 Werner Grundmann
  • 2008 – June 2015 Detlef Kunze
  • since July 2015 Manfred Kaßebaum

Former City Councilor

Allocation of seats in the Gernröder city council

The council has existed as a city authority that meets regularly since around the year 1250. The council was initially headed by two and later three mayors. It was made up of three council departments or agents , which alternated annually in the management of community affairs. Each consisted of a mayor, a city treasurer and two councilors, a total of twelve people, four of whom formed the seated council. Until the 19th century there were three mayors who took turns. Then the office was limited to one person.

As a representative of the citizens there was a city ​​council until December 31, 2013 , which was called City Council in Gernrode . The members of the citizenship are elected by the citizens of the city for a period of five years. Detlef Kunze (FDP) was elected honorary mayor of the city on March 2, 2008 after a runoff election against his predecessor with 60.4 percent of the votes.

Since the last local election on June 7, 2009, the CDU had four seats (25.6%), the SPD one seat (4.8%), Die Linke two seats (9.1%) in the 16-member city council FDP three seats (18.3%), groups of voters six seats (42.2%). The turnout was 44.6%.

badges and flags

Official representation of the coat of arms

Abbess Anna I. von Plauen awarded the town of Gernrode a coat of arms on September 14, 1539.

In 1937 a copy of the award document from 1539 was found in the council files from the hall book of the then clerk Grünewaldt from 1663: “Anna des Freyen weltlichen Stift Gernrode Aptissin des Heylg. Rom. The richly born castle countess of Meißen, countess of Hartenstein and women from Plauen, etc., gave the council and the whole community of the town Gernrode a sigil as follows, namely with two red towers, a yellow door between them, and a yellow man between them Standing tall on both towers, and with the right front foot of the one tower, grasping the knob, everything like this in a white field ” .

Gernrode has had its own seal and the above-mentioned coat of arms for around 450 years . Since the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the city's coat of arms led to confusion because the coloring did not correspond to the heraldic rules. According to heraldry , metal must not stand on metal, i.e. gold not on silver or yellow not on white. On the old coat of arms, however, there was the yellow lion on a white background. The city had previously obtained reports on the coat of arms, but then let the matter rest. In 1997, the creation of a coat of arms documentation was commissioned in order to use an officially approved coat of arms as a national emblem, in accordance with the rules of heraldry. The municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch ( Magdeburg ) took care of the graphic execution and documentation .

Coat of arms used until 1997

The historical coat of arms only needed a revision. The tinging now corresponds to the rules of heraldry. The color of the tower roofs is red; they do not refer to the once blue (covered with slate) roofs of the collegiate church, but represent the symbol of a well-fortified city, regardless of whether Gernrode ever had a city gate between two towers. The lion, the heraldic animal of the Reuss von Plauen and Abbess Anna von Plauen, was golden. So the Gernröder lion could only be golden. In the award document, the shield was clearly identified as white (silver). This is correct with regard to the city gate, so the lion is only a minor figure and can, as an exception, remain reinforced in gold on silver.

On July 16, 1997, the city of Gernrode received the award document from the regional council in Magdeburg.

The coat of arms now has the following blazon : “In silver, a red castle with two pointed, gold-knobbed round towers, each with a window opening; the towers connected by a pinned, black jointed, roofed gatehouse with five window openings beamed and closed golden gate with black fittings; on the roof of the gatehouse a red-armored and red-tongued striding golden lion, his right paw placed on the tower roof. "

The colors of the place are red and white.

Civic flag? Flag of Gernrodes
aspect ratio: 7:11

The town's flag is striped in red and white and has the city coat of arms in the middle.

Town twinning

Gernrode has had a town partnership with the small town of Bachant in northern France since October 7, 1969, and with the town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony since October 3, 1990 .

religion

The majority of the Gernröder population does not belong to any religious community. There is a Protestant and a Catholic community. About 10 to 15 percent of the population belong to the Protestant community.

The Protestant parish of St. Cyriakus (Gernrode with the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus and Rieder with the church of Mariae Virginis) belongs to the Evangelical Church of Anhalt and there to the parish of Ballenstedt .

The residents of the Roman Catholic faith belong to the Catholic parish of Sankt Elisabeth in Ballenstedt-Gernrode-Harzgerode, which is based in the Sankt Elisabeth Church in Ballenstedt, in the Halberstadt deanery of the Magdeburg diocese . On March 12, 2004, the Catholic Curate of Gernrode / Harz was dissolved as an independent pastoral care office and joined the parish of St. Elisabeth in Ballenstedt.

Culture and sights

School and City Museum Gernrode

Elisabeth von Weida - introduced the Reformation in Gernrode Abbey

The museum is located in the old elementary school in Gernrode near the collegiate church and is run by the cultural association Andreas Popperodt e. V. operated. The association bought the school in 1998 to save it from falling into disrepair. The Protestant elementary school, which was founded in 1533, was temporarily housed in the previous building of the current building; it is one of the oldest Protestant elementary schools in Germany. On the foundations from the 15th / 16th centuries In the 18th century, a new building was erected in the early 18th century, since then the house has remained unchanged and the old school hall has been preserved in its original form. This is located on the ground floor of the northern part of the building, where you can experience what lessons looked like 100 years ago.

In the rooms of the museum you can see exhibitions on the city's history as well as an extensive collection of minerals from the Harz Mountains.

Churches

Collegiate Church of St. Cyriacus

The collegiate church of St. Cyriakus is one of the best preserved Ottonian sacred buildings in Germany.

Collegiate Church of St. Cyriakus

The church was first mentioned in 961. Due to the extensive restoration under Ferdinand von Quast from 1858 to 1872, it is largely in the condition of the 10th century. The sacred building was the collegiate church of a women's monastery that had been founded by Margrave Gero and was dissolved in 1616. The church is a cruciform, double-choir, three-aisled basilica with a pair of western towers and an eastern and western crypt. There were two important construction phases: the first was in the second half of the 10th century with the construction of the church, in the second in the 12th century the westwork was rebuilt and a west apse with crypt and the cloister were built.

With the abolition of the monastery in 1616, the church and the monastery buildings began to fall into disrepair. The monastery buildings, which had been almost completely preserved in the 18th century, were demolished in the 19th century. The church was used as a farm building. Windows were partially bricked up, the crypts were separated from the rest of the church by walls and were given access from the outside. They were used to store potatoes, the nave galleries were used as granaries and cattle were housed in the cloister.

West crypt

In 1834, the art historian Franz Theodor Kugler drew attention to the run-down building. The art historian Ludwig Puttrich persuaded Duke Alexander Carl von Anhalt-Bernburg to prevent further deterioration and to arrange for a restoration. The Prussian conservator Ferdinand von Quast was entrusted with the restoration of the collegiate church. The restoration from 1858 to 1872 kept the original designs or restored them. The galleries of the nave were opened again, the openings in the outer walls of the crypts were closed again and the crypts were opened again towards the church. The painting of the church was designed by Quast according to his own ideas. The restoration and the decoration, like the church itself, have the status of a monument. Later, between 1907 and 1910, the north and south stair towers of the westwork were fundamentally renewed because they were in danger of collapsing. Since the renovation of the towers, only conservational building work has been carried out on the church.

Only a few remains of the rich furnishings have survived, such as some grave slabs of abbesses, the tumba created in 1519 by the founder of the monastery, Gero, and the holy grave . The Romanesque baptismal font was not originally part of the furnishings, but was part of the demolished church of Alsleben . Today's historicist furnishings come from the time after the restoration.

The collegiate church is a stop on the southern route of the Romanesque Road .

Stephanuskirche

St. Stephen's Church before being converted into a school building

The Church of St. Stephen was probably built around 1400. It served as the church of the population, insofar as it did not belong to the monastery. However, it was used by the monastery on special festive occasions, for example at the celebration of the jubilee year 1489 under Abbess Scholastica von Anhalt , where it was a station in the procession. It was used by the congregation for church services until 1533. In the course of the Reformation, the abbess Anna von Plauen and the collegiate chapter decided to open the collegiate church to all residents of the place. Since then, until 1846, the church was only used as a mortuary for funerals; the cemetery extended right up to the church.

Tower of the Stephanuskirche with the school building (2003)

In 1847 the church was converted into a school except for the bell tower. The tower is made of rubble stones and has coupled acoustic arcades. Originally there were six bells in the tower, four of which have been preserved. There are three in the bell house, one in the lantern; this was part of the clockwork and is no longer struck. In function are: the Maria bell, called the bear (1437), the Schimmel bell (1792) and the Barbarossa bell (1188). The Barbarossa bell is the most important in terms of art history, as it was donated on the occasion of Emperor Friedrich I's visit to Gernrode from November 20 to 25, 1188. It first hung in the collegiate church and was transferred in the 13th century. The bells only ring for funerals. The tower was thoroughly overhauled in 1911, and the baroque tower dome was attached. The last renovation of the spire took place in 1988.

Historical buildings

Stubenberg

Stubenberg

In addition to the collegiate church, the Hotel Stubenberg is the second landmark of the city of Gernrode. It sits enthroned on the edge of a plateau of the mountain of the same name. The previous building was a hunting and pleasure house built by Prince Victor Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg. In the course of time, this building was expanded into a mansion and guest house and managed by a tenant. From 1840 the Stubenberg was easy to reach, because the street from Quedlinburg was extended into the Harz.

From 1900 the building no longer met the requirements with its extensions and conversions. In 1914, the demolition and the new building began, which was completed in 1915. It is largely based on the cubature of the previous building. It is a three-wing plastered on a high basement of granite . The neoclassical interior is still partially preserved. Until 1945 the hotel was a focal point in the social life of the place. At the end of April 1945, an American general and his news staff took up residence in the hotel. In June, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement , the Americans left Gernrode and made room for the Soviet troops. It was not possible to determine later whether they or the Americans looted the hotel's furnishings.

After that, the Stubenberg was used as a hospital and as accommodation for refugees until 1947. It then passed into the possession of the FDGB and was used as an FDGB holiday home until 1990/91. With the fall of the Wall , the FDGB ceased to exist and the building was transferred to the Treuhandanstalt . In 1992 the home was sold to a private investor who carried out extensive renovation measures. However, the investor ran into financial difficulties and a new owner had to be found. For a short time the Stubenberg was used as a seminar house. In 2004 the “light workers” left the house, which was then empty. Between 2004 and 2011 the building was empty and for sale. A fire allegedly caused by arson in 2008 could not spread due to fire protection walls and caused little damage. Subsequently, there was a riot in the building and various furnishings were stolen. In 2011 the house was sold and renovated and refurbished until October 2012. It has been operated as a hotel again since then.

Old elementary school

Old elementary school

The school building dates from the early 18th century, it was built on foundations from the 15th / 16th century. It is one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Saxony-Anhalt , the school was in operation at this point until 1849. The building is a two-story, elongated half-timbered building. The building is located near the collegiate church at the fork in Cyriacusstrasse and Klosterstrasse as the end of a square-like extension. Corresponding to its position in the fork of the road, it occupies a trapezoidal plot of land stretching to the south. The actual school building forms the northern part of the building, and the middle part was probably the schoolmaster's apartment. The southern part of the building contained the utility rooms. On the first floor of the northern part of the building there is a city museum and a classroom with historical furnishings.

In the previous building of today's building, the Protestant elementary school, which was founded in 1533, was temporarily housed, probably one of the oldest in Germany. The initiative to set up a school in Gernrode came from Stephan Molitor. He gave the abbess Elisabeth von Weida the advice to build a school and a hospital and to provide it with annual income. Due to the death of the abbess in 1532, the school was established by her successor Anna von Plauen in 1533. The former elementary school is run by the Andreas Popperodt eV cultural association. The association acquired the school in 1998 and, with great dedication, managed to save it from deterioration and restore it.

city ​​Hall

Gernröder Town Hall

Today's town hall Gernrode was built in 1914/15. It was supposed to replace the dilapidated previous building, which was built between 1664 and 1666. The planning for the new building lasted from 1908 to 1913. There were various projects by several architects, the decision was made in favor of the architect Schneck from Quedlinburg . This envisaged the location of the old town hall as the building site. The cost of the new building was estimated at 75,000 marks . The city council decided to raise the necessary money by borrowing from the ducal government debt administration of the state of Anhalt. Rooms in the town hall should be rented out to, among other things, the Sparkasse. Approval to take out the loan was granted on January 12, 1914 by the ducal government. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on May 5, 1914. A building was erected in historicizing half-timbered houses, with high crooked hips and a roof turret with a clock. The half-timbered upper floor rests on a massive plastered ground floor. The interior of the building corresponds to the construction time and is still in the original. From the town hall, all streets lead in a star shape in different directions.

The town hall is still used for citizens' consultations and for weddings after it has been incorporated into Quedlinburg. There are considerations to use the vacated space for the library of the place.

Former parish and sexton

Former sexton

The spacious courtyard with the former sexton of St. Stephen's Church and the adjoining former upper parish is located at Gerostraße 3 . The oldest part, the sexton's house, is an elongated eaves half-timbered building, which was partly placed on the enclosure wall of the courtyard; it is dated to 1571. In the years 1951/1952 the building was extensively renovated and a vault used as a potato cellar was recognized as a Romanesque chapel from the 11th century. This chapel was used as the market church of the village of Gernrode until the new Stephanuskirche was built in the 14th century. The chapel has been expertly restored. The cross vault of the chapel rests on four pillars and is supported by a central column, its architectural style is similar to the east crypt of the collegiate church. The chapel is one of the oldest monuments in Gernrode.

An extension wing from the 18th century is attached to the sexton, which, with its outbuildings, formerly had the character of a four-wing manor. The upper parish was in this building; The pastors lived there until 1910. The buildings were last used as a Protestant rest home. The buildings have been empty since he moved to the monastery grounds in 1998.

Bläkhof

Gate entrance to the Bläkhof

The Bläkhof is a former noble farm, the walls of which are still partially preserved. The court was closely connected to the monastery, because the gentlemen von Gersdorff , as ministerials, were the owners of the monastery. The size of the courtyard and its appearance still have an enormous urban impact. Most noticeable is the gates of the enclosure; in the archway above the driveway there is a head with its tongue hanging out. This demon mask should ward off evil. At the small gate next to the gate entrance there is a no longer recognizable coat of arms in the keystone above the door. The house is a half-timbered building with a half- hipped roof from the 18th century. The ground floor is plastered and consists of broken bricks and bricks . The still existing but badly dilapidated farm building consists of half-timbered houses.

Other individual monuments

The buildings listed above are particularly striking monuments, some of which shape the site. In the area of ​​the village of Gernrode there are around 100 others that are registered in the local register of monuments. The monuments listed below are only a small selection.

The oldest secular building in Gernrode is located at Abbissinstrasse 6 , a noble courtyard from the 16th century, which is an assembly of a massive tower and half-timbered house.

On the church square next to the collegiate church is the Swiss House, a villa that was built in 1850 on the basement of the former princely office building in the Swiss style. During the renovation of the collegiate church, the conservator Ferdinand von Quast lived there for a while (today's user is the Landeskirche Anhalt ).

Another monument is located in Burgstrasse 1, within sight of the collegiate church . It is a small city villa that was built in 1906 as a representative residential building. From the collegiate church on Clara-Zetkin-Straße past the old elementary school in the direction of the town hall there is a half-timbered house from the 18th century on the right-hand side. From around 1900 a representative Art Nouveau building in half-timbered style has been preserved in Otto-Franke-Straße 34 , with the interior largely original equipment and room layout. The Mohs memorial is located on Marktstrasse, a memorial to the mineralogist Friedrich Mohs .

Fortifications

The place Gernrode was surrounded by moats, streams or parts of the wall, a closed city ​​wall never existed in Gernrode. Documents show that Gernrode owned three city ​​gates with gatehouses around 1534 , the Ostentor, the Häusentor - called Heussigentor or Häusgentor - and the Steigertor. There was a turnpike each at the end of Wassertorstrasse and at the brewery on Spittelplatz. They were the only means of access to the place and were mainly used for market tariffs. All three city gates were always manned by a post. The city gates were demolished on August 20, 1835, as their building structure had suffered severely over time.

The coat of arms stone at the house in Markstrasse. 4 was probably part of the east gate

The Ostentor was at the eastern entrance to the place, it is first mentioned in 1480. It stood from the Scheelichen across the Marktstrasse. At the residential building at Marktstrasse 4 there is a coat of arms stone with the coat of arms of the Princes of Anhalt of high quality, possibly it was part of the Ostentor. A storm in 1784 destroyed parts of the gate. The gate was bordered by the Scheelichenbach, which was no longer visible. The wall that surrounds the garden of the property of the former Adler pharmacy was possibly part of the boundary of the market settlement.

The house gate was the north entrance of the place, it was in the house street between houses no. 6 and no. 7. The place was surrounded by a ditch at this point. The gate was repaired in 1758 on behalf of Prince Friedrich, the son of Prince Karl Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüssler.

The Steigertor had two gatehouses and a barrier. It was located from the end of Schulstrasse to the opposite side of Marktstrasse and secured access from Harzgerode. The gate was the south entrance of the place. The Steigerbrunnen was located near the gate. The place is always shown without a wall in the few existing illustrations. Presumably, it was believed that the monastery district, which was protected by a wall and reached as far as Spittelplatz, would offer sufficient protection in an emergency.

More Attractions

In addition to the monuments mentioned above, there are other sights in and around the village.

Harz watch factory

Not far from the collegiate church is the Harz clock factory with the largest cuckoo clock outside the Black Forest at Lindenstrasse 5 and a weather house with a height of 9.80 meters and a width of 5.20 meters, both records are in the Guinness Book of Records . In sight of the Harz clock factory stands the tower of St. Stephanus at the foot of which there is an atonement cross , called Gero cross , it was erected as atonement for the bloody acts committed by the margrave Gero during the subjugation of the Slavic tribes of the Elbe and Oder. In the direction of Ballenstedt on Bahnhofstrasse, two more sights can be seen on the left. These are noted in the Guinness Book of Records: the largest skateboarding table in the world and the largest wooden thermometer with a height of 7.45 meters. The station of the Selketalbahn , the oldest narrow-gauge railway in the Harz , has also been located in Bahnhofstrasse since 1887 . Another attraction is the bear monument near the Bremen pond . It marks the place where the last bear was shot in the Anhalt Forest in 1696 . Lookout points above Gernrode are the Försterblick and the single tree .

Regular events

During the summer, concerts of the MDR music summer take place regularly in the collegiate church . On the second weekend in September, the Open Monument Day takes place in Gernrode. On this day, the monuments in the city, which are usually closed, are open to visitors free of charge. Every year on a Sunday in Advent, the Christmas market with handicrafts and a program takes place next to the collegiate church. In addition to these events, the Freundeskreis Selketalbahn e. V. regularly carried out special trips with the Selketalbahn.

Infrastructure

Road connection

Gernrode is on the state roads L 241 and L 243 and about 10 km away from the newly built four-lane A 36 . Gernrode can be reached via the Quedlinburg-Ost junction. The A 14 motorway is 50 kilometers to the east, the A 2 65 kilometers to the north and the A 7 95 kilometers to the west of the city.

Rail transport

The former station for the standard gauge on the Frose – Gernrode – Quedlinburg line was built in 1889 as a through station. Right next to the train station Gernrode located since 1887 the railway facilities of Selketalbahn . Until the extension of the tracks for the narrow-gauge railway in 2006, Gernrode was the terminus for the Selketalbahn and until January 31, 2004 the possibility of changing from the Halberstadt – Thale railway to the Harz narrow-gauge railways .

Track opening in 2006

The earlier traffic on the Quarmbeck - Gernrode - Ballenstedt - Ermsleben line to Aschersleben , the oldest regular-gauge branch line in the Harz, the so-called Balkans , was discontinued in 2004. The branch line Frose - Ballenstedt was built in 1868 by the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahnen (MHE) at the urging of the Duke of Anhalt, who wanted to use it to reach his castle in Ballenstedt. After Deutsche Bahn AG had shut down the standard-gauge section to Aschersleben via Gernrode, work began on April 18, 2005 to extend the Selketalbahn from Gernrode to Quedlinburg. To this end, the Gernrode terminus was converted into a through station. The Selketalbahn the HSB has been extended until the end of December 2005, at 8.5 km from Gernrode to Quedlinburg. The existing standard gauge line  - on the route of the disused branch line Quedlinburg – Frose - was re-gauged to meter gauge for this purpose . On March 4, 2006, the Gernrode – Quedlinburg line was officially opened with parties at the railway stations in Gernrode and Quedlinburg, as well as special trains. Since June 26, 2006, there has been a scheduled train service for the Harz narrow-gauge railways to Quedlinburg with at least two pairs of steam trains a day.

Bus transport

The public transport system is, among other things by the PLUSBUS of the country's network of Saxony-Anhalt provided. The following connection leads through Gernrode:

Gernrode can also be reached from Thale, Wippra via Harzgerode and Stolberg via Güntersberge using other bus routes operated by the Harz Transport Authority .

Air traffic

To the east, seven kilometers away, is the Ballenstedt airfield , a commercial airfield that has an approximately 700 meter long grass and asphalt runway and is approved for night flight operations. Aschersleben airfield is located 25 km east of the Aschersleben airfield as a small special airfield (approved for aircraft up to 5700 kilograms like Ballenstedt) . Magdeburg-Cochstedt Airport, which was reactivated on September 1, 2006, is located about 32 kilometers northeast of Gernrode .

The nearest international airports are 127 kilometers southeast of Leipzig / Halle Airport and 162 kilometers northwest of Hanover Airport .

Education

Historical development

In Gernrode there was a Catholic collegiate school since the second half of the Middle Ages, in which many of the later abbesses , provosts and canonesses were educated. The school was an all-girls school and admission was restricted to the nobility. From time to time boys were trained, such as the nephews of the abbesses Anna von Plauen and Anna von Kittlitz . The training was carried out by an employed private teacher. Lessons in Gernrode that encompass both sexes and the entire population have only existed since the Reformation . In the course of this, a public elementary or elementary school was set up in 1533 by the abbess Anna von Plauen in 1533 . This school was located on the site of a current school building from the early 18th century. In 1830 the rooms were no longer sufficient for teaching and additional rooms were rented on Cyriakusstrasse. However, their capacity was not sufficient in the long run, so in 1847 the nave of the St. Stephen's Market Church was converted into a school. After completion, all classes were combined. These rooms were soon no longer sufficient for teaching and in 1901 the middle school building was inaugurated. The two buildings on the school square are used by the primary school.

Former school building in Gernrode

Because of its scenic location and the favorable climatic conditions, Gernrode developed into a place for daughter boarding schools in the 19th century. In 1830 Caroline Moldenhauer founded the first daughter boarding school in Gernrode. At that time, there were few opportunities for young girls to learn a trade or otherwise receive further training after completing school. This gap was to be closed by the boarding schools, young girls received lessons in languages, housekeeping, and later in shorthand and typing . The need for such daughter homes was apparently great, because in 1929 there were about twelve of these boarding schools in Gernrode. Most of the houses were on today's Steinbergstrasse and on the Schwedderberg. The largest of the homes was the Hagental House, it was founded in 1880 as a Christian rest home and in 1883 became a state-recognized women's school and home for daughters. The presence of the many young girls determined the image of the city at this time, so that it was called the young girl city. The expansion of the secondary schools for girls up to the Abitur led to a gradual reduction in boarding schools; with the beginning of the Second World War they ceased to exist.

During the GDR era, all schools were unified into polytechnic high schools, which taught the secondary school leaving certificate in ten classes. The Abitur could be obtained in two more years at the Extended High School (EOS).

schools

There is a primary school and a secondary school in Hagenberg in Gernrode . Both schools have been in the new buildings on the Hagenberg since 1997 (secondary school) and October 2010 (primary school). There are 65 classrooms in the new building. Next to the school buildings there is a 3-field sports hall and an outdoor sports facility with a small playing field and arena. A third new building has been under construction since 2013, and after completion the special school with a special focus on intellectual disabilities will move from the Quedlinburg core city to Gernrode.

Sports facilities in the Hagental

Leisure and sports facilities

There are two swimming lakes near Gernrode, the Osterteich and the Bremer Teich . A lifeguard is present at both of them during the bathing season. In 1997 a 3-field sports hall and a sports field with arena (type C) and small playing field were completed at the secondary school in Hagenberg . These are for the mass sports accessible and be used for school sport. The largest sports field with a sports hall is located in the Hagental. The soccer section of SV Germania Gernrode trains there.

Healthcare

There is a pharmacy and various medical practices in the local area. There is also a medical center with several medical practices and a physiotherapy practice.

graveyards

The only cemetery is located between the school square and the road to Harzgerode on the Klettenberg. The cemetery used to be much larger and reached as far as the Church of St. Stephen. After the Reformation, this served as a burial church before it was converted into a school building in 1847, with the exception of the bell tower. At that time there were various mausoleums at the church. With the conversion of the church into a school and the new construction of the road to Harzgerode, the cemetery was reduced to its present size. In 1986 a new cemetery chapel was opened.

The graves of three Polish forced laborers are located in the cemetery . One of them was hanged in public in 1942 for prohibited contact with a German woman.

The second, now historic, cemetery was on the north and east sides of the collegiate church. The cemetery and the area around the collegiate church were cleared, leveled and then enclosed with a lining wall in the course of the renovation between 1862 and 1872 . In the area of ​​Burgstrasse, the lining wall follows the cemetery wall. There is a green area in the former cemetery.

business

Local businesses

Center of Gernrode

The general economic development in the 19th and 20th centuries also led to an upswing in Gernrode and numerous businesses, companies and firms were founded, especially in the 1930s. After the Second World War , these plants were expropriated and transferred to state-owned forms such as a state-owned enterprise (VEB) or an agricultural production cooperative (LPG). The companies VEB Harzer Uhren, VEB Harzer Likörfabrik, VEB Metaplast and others were created in Gernrode.

In 1958 the farmers merged to form the LPG. The former state-owned Saatzucht, Nurseries and Landscaping Gernrode was founded in 1972, from the former Teickner commercial tree nursery and a tree nursery in Blankenburg. There, fruit trees, ornamental shrubs and various trees were grown and sold. Some of these establishments, which were almost exclusively geared towards the Socialist Council for Mutual Economic Aid, went bankrupt after reunification in 1990 or reduced production considerably. Still, some companies managed to adapt to the market. The former VEB Harzer Uhren, as Harzer Uhren GmbH, produces grandfather, wall and cuckoo clocks at two locations and is an important employer for Gernrode.

The VEB Harzer Likörfabrik produces and sells liqueurs and fruit wines after the transformation into the family business Harzer Likörfabrik Rolle GbR. Another medium-sized company is the Rundfunk Gernrode group of companies with services in the field of electrical technology, special machine construction, lightning protection, cabling and electronics production. In order to enable the settlement of further companies, the industrial park was laid out on the stones at the beginning of the 1990s. Many companies have now been founded or have settled there. In order to consolidate Gernrode's position as a business location, the industrial park was expanded by twelve hectares.

Economic sectors

The economic sectors are divided into: agriculture, industry and the service sector. Agriculture is mainly operated as a sideline. In the industrial sector there are construction, wood processing, production of individual reusable and packaging systems, plastics processing and beverage production. The service sector is mainly limited to tourism and daily needs.

tourism

Place of the Romanesque Road

Tourism is an important economic factor for Gernrode. Therefore, the creation of a modern tourist infrastructure is one of the most important tasks. There are five guest houses , a hotel , twelve holiday apartments, 13 holiday homes, a campsite and a youth hostel available to guests. Gernrode has been a state-approved resort since 1996.

The number of overnight stays is highly dependent on the season, with peaks around Easter, from May to July, from September to October and at Advent / New Year. The greatest period of weakness is from January to March. At peak times, the capacities in Gernrode and in the whole of Vorharz are very busy. Most of the accommodation and accommodation options were newly built or completely renovated.

Gernrode and the collegiate church of St. Cyriacus are on the southern route of the Romanesque Road , the tourist route to the Romanesque monuments of Saxony-Anhalt that was launched in 1993 .

The hiking trail “ Ways of German Emperors and Kings of the Middle Ages” leads past Gernrode in the Harz Mountains . The European cycle path R1 runs on the Bückeberg north of Gernrode .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Well-known personalities who were born or lived in Gernrode include, among others, Andreas Popperodt (1525–1578), Rector of the elementary school and author of the chronicle of the Gernrode Monastery, the Annales Gernrodensis , Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs (1773–1839), Mineralogist and developer of the Mohs hardness scale named after him, Friedrich Moldenhauer (1797–1866), inventor of phosphorus matches . More recently, the painter and graphic artist Otto Schutzmeister (1920–1985), the church music director Günther Hoff (1928–2020) and the football coach Jürgen Röber (* 1953) were among Gernrode's sons and daughters.

Honorary citizen

Numerous personalities were made honorary citizens of the city of Gernrode. The people who received honorary citizenship through the city of Gernrode include: 1907 Friedrich Könnemann, 1876 to 1905 mayor of Gernrode and from 1886 to 1906 member of the Anhalt State Parliament , in 1931 August Trautewein first social democratic city councilor who served on the local council for 27 years, too In 1931 Albert Baur, who was the first chemist to produce artificial musk, was made an honorary citizen of Gernrode.

Personalities working in the city

Media, publications and films

The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung has a local editorial office in Quedlinburg. Furthermore, the locally published papers SuperSonntag , Wochenspiegel and the Harzer Kreisblatt gazette . The regional program of public service broadcasting is Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk (MDR) with a regional office in Halberstadt. The regional television station Harz (RFH) can be received via the local cable network mainly in the Harz district.

Connected with Gernrode is the plot of the novel Margrave Gero (1916) by Paul Schreckenbach about the founder of the monastery. The youth book Der Eselstritt (1974) by Hans-Ulrich Lüdemann also begins in Gernrode; it describes the experiences of a twelve-year-old boy in the vicinity of a fictitious company VEB Plastboot .

Due to the historical structure of the building, the Gernrode Abbey Church served as the background for the following film and television projects:

Bibliography and map index

literature
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  • Topographic maps at the State Office for Surveying and Geographic Information Saxony-Anhalt, sheets TK 10 4232 NW (Friedrichsbrunn), 4232 SO (Gernrode), 4232 NO (Mägdesprung), edition 2005; TK 25 4232 (Quedlinburg) and 4332 (Harzgerode), edition 2006; TK 50 sheets L 4332, Quedlinburg, edition 2004.
  • Geological map of the Prussian Geological State Institute , delivery 240 sheet 2381 (Quedlinburg) Berlin 1927.

Web links

Commons : Gernrode (Harz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. German Weather Service, normal period 1961–1990
  3. Hours of sunshine based on the data from the climate computer from wetteronline.de with data for Gernrode for the period from January 1990 to December 2007 averaged by 30
  4. ^ According to the formerly free German Weather Service, normal period 1961–1990
  5. for comparison: in Cologne there is almost 798 millimeters of precipitation
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  14. StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2014
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  17. Main statutes in the version dated March 12, 2015
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  21. Website at the Stala Saxony-Anhalt with the probable population forecast ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  22. Hans Hartung: On the past of Gernrode . 1912, p. 74.
  23. Result of the mayoral election at Stat. State Office of Saxony-Anhalt
  24. Page no longer available , search in web archives: Stat. State Office of Saxony-Anhalt@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stala.sachsen-anhalt.de
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  26. ^ Decree Kuratie Gernrode from 2004 on the website of the Diocese of Magdeburg , accessed on May 17, 2017.
  27. ^ Website of the cultural association Andreas Popperodt eV ( Memento from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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  29. Festschrift: 250 years of the Stubenberg-Haus Gernrode 1754–2004 . Working group 250 years of the Stubenberghaus 1754–2004, Gernrode 2004, pp. 18–24.
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  33. a b Official Journal of the Gernrode Administrative Community , number 5/1997, p. 4
  34. Hans Hartung: On the past of Gernrode . 1912, p. 70
  35. ^ Website of the Harz clocks
  36. MDR website with venues ( Memento from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  37. ^ Website of the Friends of the Selketalbahn
  38. Dirk Endisch: The "Balkans": The branch line Frose-Gernrode-Quedlinburg. Leonberg-Höfingen 2004.
  39. ^ Website Freundeskreis Selketalbahn eV
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  41. Ursula Matthias: Gernrode the thousand-year-old town on the Harz - past and present . Gernrode 1993, pp. 52-53.
  42. ^ Website of the secondary school Hagenberg Gernrode
  43. ^ Website of the SV Germania Gernrode eV
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