Stone Bridges (Nordhausen)

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Stone bridges
City of Nordhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 182 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : July 1, 1994
Postal code : 99734
Area code : 03631
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Steinbrücken is the southernmost district of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia .

location

Steinbrücken is located south of the city of Nordhausen and is on federal highway 38 near federal highway 4 with a connection to the Nordhausen junction with the highway. The district lies on the Riedgraben stream in the Helmeniederung , with a transition to the Windleite ridge .

history

The first written mention of stone bridges took place on July 7th, 1128. The place name refers to a stone bridge on a trade route of the former imperial city of Nordhausen in the direction of the southern neighboring cities of Mühlhausen , Gotha and Eisenach . To the west of the Kesselberg there was a control room that belonged to a medieval Landwehr. This surrounded and secured parts in the east of the County of Honstein. In the 19th century there were still ruins of the tower.

In the vicinity of the village, after the war, gravel and sand were quarried in the valley floor of the Helme for the needs of the regional construction industry, several quarry ponds remained. The BAB 38 leads north past the village in a wide arc .

church

Steinbrücken village church

Stone Bridges Festival

The Steinbrücken Open Air did not officially take place. It was never registered or even advertised as such. Registered as a private party by the local Uwe Hager , it quickly developed into a fixture in the blues and alternative scene in the GDR. Bands like Freygang , Engerling and Monokel played here as well as Die Firma and Feeling B , but West German groups like Normahl , Rausch and Abwärts also played . In addition, the then still unknown group Rammstein gave one of their early concerts in Steinbrücken on May 1, 1994.

Hager started organizing the parties in the mid-1980s. As a frequent concert-goer, he had many friends and began to invite bands to these celebrations. The Frankfurter Rundschau wrote:

“Even in his mid-twenties, Uwe Hager didn't want anything to do with the GDR state or the opposition. He grew a long beard, traveled after his favorite bands across the GDR and celebrated a lavish festival every year at Whitsun in the forest near Steinbrücken. (...) At first 500 spectators came, then later up to 6000. "

- Frankfurter Rundschau

The author Gunnar Leue also described these beginnings for the Berliner Zeitung:

“The illegal concert business also developed far from the capital. In Steinbrücken, Thuringia, bands did not make guest appearances either under the protection of the church or in private apartments, but on a self-made stage in the middle of the forest. Every year the villager Uwe Hager organized the most legendary unofficial rock festival in the GDR there. Its origins lie in a gigantic, private Whitsun binge for all 'long-haired' people from the area, which Uwe Hager intended to embellish with live music at some point. "

- Gunnar Leue, Berliner Zeitung

Hager himself described it as follows in an interview tape:

“In 1985 we started the concerts in Steinbrücken in a remote valley. The first band was Pasch, a local band from Thuringia, where Andre Greiner-Pol was the singer. The first time there were 200 people. Everyone had to pull a hundred entry fee, but all food and drink were free for three days. The year after, 1000 people came. "

- Uwe Hager

Musicians of the GDR combo Feeling B - several of the former members now belong to the Rammstein band - remember the festival well, at which they performed regularly from 1987 onwards. Christian "Flake" Lorenz reports in an interview tape.

“The first time we went to Steinbrücken with Freygang. They told us it's cool, come along. I was so fascinated that I had never seen it before. For me it was like a commune, half anarchist half hippie party. "

- Christian "Flake" Lorenz

Uwe Hager also remembers the first Feeling B gig :

“I spontaneously found Feeling B really good. I had already heard something on the radio; I liked "Tschaka" best. The people in Steinbrücken, it's province, that's Thuringia, they stood there petrified at first. Originally our concerts were an original blues festival. Later the other weird bands joined them. "

- Uwe Hager, Steinbrücken Open Air

According to Hager, the festival was characterized on the one hand by the uninhibited consumption of alcohol by the visitors, on the other hand by torrential rain that regularly silted up the area. Paul Landers , guitarist at Feeling B at the time and now active at Rammstein , remembers similarly :

“Feeling B arrived and that was quite a shock for me, I thought: No, I don't think so! Sodom and Gomorrah! But later (...) I found it really cool. (...) There was, like in Woodstock, a mud slide that you could always slide along it, it almost always rained at Whitsun. Then the mud slide was always in operation. "

- Paul Landers

Like many bands, Feeling B came back regularly and soon even had a fixed performance date on Whit Sunday. When the band broke up, they gave their official farewell concert in Steinbrücken. Afterwards, Feeling-B members Landers , Christoph Schneider and Lorenz presented their new band Rammstein . In addition, the six musicians from Rammstein worked for Hager in 1994 as entry stewards.

The Steinbrücken Festival no longer takes place in this form today. However, the band Freygang takes part in the so-called Maisprung in Steinbrücken on April 30th each year.

Web links

Commons : Stone Bridges  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 cities and villages - A manual . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 273 .
  3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 47 .
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Rundschau: Zur Sonne, zur Freiheit , July 17, 2009, accessed on January 13, 2017
  5. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: Western musicians like to play in the east , July 3, 2010, accessed on January 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 380.
  7. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 177.
  8. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , pp. 176/177.
  9. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 177.
  10. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others 3rd edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 363.
  11. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 380.
  12. ↑ thueringer-allgemeine.de: Steinbrückener is invited to the Rammstein Christmas party every year , July 14, 2015, accessed on January 13, 2017
  13. ↑ freygang-band.de: Tour plan accessed on January 13, 2017