Steina (Bad Sachsa)

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Steina
City of Bad Sachsa
Coat of arms of the Steina district
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 324 m above sea level NN
Residents : 730  (Sep 1, 2017)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 37441
Area code : 05523
Steina (Lower Saxony)
Steina

Location of Steina in Lower Saxony

Steina im Harz is a street village and district of the city of Bad Sachsa in the district of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony , Germany . It is a climatic health resort .

location

Steina is located in the Harz Nature Park . It is located about 2.5 km west of the main town of Bad Sachsa in Steinatal below the Steina Dam on the upper reaches Steina called gene density .

history

The place name goes back to the Steina stream, the first documented mention of which from 1268 is already identical to the current spelling. As a compound of stone and -aha , the name means stony body of water , which probably indicates the bed of the stream littered with rock.

On July 1, 1972, Steina was incorporated into the town of Bad Sachsa.

politics

Local council election 2016
Turnout: 66.16% (+ 0.33% p)
 %
80
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
72.35%
20.21%
7.44%
Gains and losses
compared to 2011
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-0.89  % p
-3.20  % p
+ 4.10  % p

Local council

The local council consists of five councilors (changes to 2011).

  • SPD : 4 seats (± 0)
  • CDU : 1 seat (± 0)

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

coat of arms

Steina coat of arms
 Blazon : “In red a golden (yellow)“ W ”whose upper ends represent key beards turned outwards. In the middle of the shield is a floating silver (white) fir with roots. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by the heraldist Gustav Völker was approved by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior on December 5, 1950. The "W" refers to the influential Watterode family, who had crossed fishhooks in their coat of arms; the key-beards should remind of this. The Harz spruce stands for the community as a health resort in the southern Harz.

Culture and sights

  • The Steina Glass Museum preserves in its rooms the memory of an old handicraft that was important for the southern Harz. It shows what was made of glass here over 300 years ago . In September 2010 the glass museum was rebuilt and made barrier-free.
  • Sights are the Römerstein , the Karst area and the Evangelical Katharinen Church.
  • For years the Kiepenmarkt and the Kielkoppfest have been taking place on the first weekend in August, the largest events in Steina.
  • The "Volksbühne Steina" - an amateur theater - is at home in the old Kurhaus Steina .

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

The place is connected to traffic via the K 12 (former L 604 to the B 243 ) and the K 15 to Bad Sachsa.

The closest railway access point is the Bad Sachsa stop , formerly Tettenborn station .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the city of Bad Sachsa . See there: Life in Bad Sachsa, accessed on April 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph : The place names of the district of Osterode (=  publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen . Volume 40 ). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 158–160 ( adw-goe.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 215 .
  4. ^ Website of the Göttingen municipal services , accessed on September 29, 2016
  5. ↑ Heraldry Steina
  6. ↑ Steina Glass Museum
  7. ↑ The Katharinen Church
  8. ↑ Kielkoppfest and Kiepenmarkt
  9. ^ Volksbühne Steina eV