Stapelburg

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Stapelburg
North Harz municipality
Coat of arms of Stapelburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 4 "  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 49"  E
Height : 219 m
Area : 11.74 km²
Residents : 1406  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Population density : 120 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 38871
Area code : 039452
Stapelburg (Saxony-Anhalt)
Stapelburg

Location of Stapelburg in Saxony-Anhalt
Stapelburg, aerial photo (2015)

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

Location and local characteristics

Stapelburg is located directly north of the Harz Mountains on the border with Lower Saxony . In the triangle between Bad Harzburg in the west, Vienenburg in the north-west and Ilsenburg in the south, it spreads almost 4 km south of the small forest area of Schauener Holz . After leaving the Harz Mountains, the Ecker flows through the western part of the village in a south-north direction. The place itself crosses the voice corner, a branch from the Ecker.

Due to its location, Stapelburg has developed into a residential area. It is a stop on the Heudeber-Danstedt – Vienenburg railway , which replaced the old railway to Bad Harzburg after the reunification of Germany. It is served by the Regio-Express lines Halle (Saale) and Magdeburg - Goslar. With its own junction on the federal motorway 36 , Stapelburg is connected to the motorway network.

history

The village Stapelburg was the latest in 1564 together with the Vorwerk Bila (s) shausen that by the brothers Heinrich and Fritz von Bila from Hainrode below the Stapelburg Castle has been created. A few kilometers south-southwest of Stapelburg was the Ahlsburg in the Harz Mountains above the Eckertal .

The history of the place was initially linked to that of the castle. This was also the case in the Thirty Years' War , when the imperial troops encamped in the castle under Oberwachtmeister Oswald von Bodendieck plundered the place completely. In 1743 a major fire destroyed large parts of the village, and the villagers took stones from the now dilapidated castle to rebuild. The present church was built in 1891.

In 1896, Adolf Just founded the Jungborn Kuranstalt in the Ecker Valley , a naturopathic institute focused on the use of water, earth, light and air as well as simple food, therapeutic gymnastics and massage . Prominent guests included Franz Kafka , Marika Rökk , Viktor de Kowa and Hans Albers .

From 1936, a munitions plant (Muna) with the name "Luftwaffe Munitionsanstalt 4 / VI Stapelburg" was built in Schimmerwald, northwest of Stapelburg and belonging to the Bad Harzburg area . It served to supply the Goslar air base with ammunition . On April 10, 1945, before the US forces arrived, the facility was blown up; for this purpose, Stapelburg was completely evacuated. A small housing estate in Stapelburg that was built for senior Muna employees still bears the street name Munasiedlung today.

During the GDR era, Stapelburg was located in the area of ​​the inner German border , which, after the border security measures , resulted in the establishment of a restricted zone from 1954 onwards. Non-residents could only visit relatives living in Stapelburg with a pass. The Jungborn spa facility, located in the 500 m protective strip, was closed and the buildings were demolished in 1968 after brief use as a retirement home.

On November 11, 1989, two days after the fall of the Berlin Wall , the citizens of Stapelburg opened the border fortifications to the neighboring Eckertal , creating the first border opening outside Berlin. Ten years later, a memorial to commemorate this historic event was inaugurated here.

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

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split by gold and blue; in front a half-striding black stag bursting out of the gap; behind a silver hatchet, the edge of which is turned outwards. "

The right half is taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Stolberg, the left half from the coat of arms of those of Bila. The place was formerly called Bilashausen and was founded by the brothers Heinrich and Fritz von Bila between 1559 and 1564. The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg state archivist Otto Korn and awarded the place on March 8, 1938 by the President of the Province of Saxony.

Attractions

  • Stapelburg Castle , ruins of a medieval road protection castle
  • Historic linden tree and war memorial on the castle hill
  • The church, a yellow brick building in the neo-Gothic style
  • In the cemetery to the east of the village there are graves for 17 people who were abducted to Germany during the Second World War and whose names were deported and who were victims of forced labor in an ammunition factory, as well as for a Soviet aviator who was murdered in 1944
  • Memorial site of the former Naturheilanstalt Jungborn in Eckertal with information boards and two "light-air-houses" built in the earlier form
  • Monument to the opening of the border on the former inner-German border between the places Stapelburg (East) and Eckertal (West), there also the Grenzmuseum Stapelburg
  • Ahlsburg , a lost castle above the Eckertal

  • Stapelburg castle ruins

  • Linden tree and war memorial

  • Evangelical Church from 1891

  • Memorial in Jungborn

  • Wall opening monument

Clubs and events

Stapelburg is characterized by a lively club life to which numerous events are linked.

  • Interest group Burgberg eV with annual Burgbergfest in August
  • Förderverein Jungborn Harz eV with annual Jungborn Festival in June
  • Heimatverein Stapelburg
  • Schützengesellschaft Stapelburg 1722 eV with shooting festivals
  • Stapelburg Minstrels eV
  • SV unit Stapelburg (soccer)
  • Harzblick allotment garden association
  • Rassekaninchenzuchtverein eV
  • Poultry Breeding Association Stapelburg
  • Association Children's Aid for Transylvania eV

Sons and daughters of the place

Trivia

The historical story Junker Christoph Bernhard by the writer Käthe Papke from 1938 is set in the Thirty Years War in Burg and the village of Stapelburg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stapelburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spa guests in Jungborn. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Air munitions facility in Stapelburg. In: Sperrgebiet.eu. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ border opening in resin - November 11, 1989. In: godlarsche.de. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  5. ^ Associations in Stapelburg. In: Website of the municipality of North Harz. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kinderhilfe für Siebenbürgen eV: Kinderhilfe für Siebenbürgen eV. Accessed on November 17, 2019 .