Steigerthal (Nordhausen)

Steigerthal City of Nordhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 13 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	232 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1999
Postal code :	99734
Area code :	03631
Location of Steigerthal in Nordhausen
Steigerthal in a snow coat

Church of St. Katharinen in Steigerthal

Steigerthal is a rural district of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia .

location

Steigerthal is located northeast of the city of Nordhausen on Landesstraße 2076 in the hilly terrain of its district in the southern foothills of the Harz Mountains . The area monument Pfaffenköpfe is in the hallway .

history

The first documentary mention of Steigerthal took place on June 11, 1288.

A fortified church stood between Steigerthal and Buchholz. From this church, which belongs to the desert of Hunsdorf , there are ruins, wall and moat.

On April 1, 1999, Steigerthal was incorporated into Nordhausen.

church

St. Katharina (Steigerthal)

Personalities

• Georg Gotthilf Evers (1837–1916), Lutheran theologian, convert to Catholicism, book author and botanist, officiated here from 1868 to 1873 as Lutheran pastor

Web links

Commons : Steigerthal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Steigerthal at: www.nordhausen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Eichsfeldkreis, LK Nordhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 1. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad-Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 272.
3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 145.
4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999