Steterburg (Salzgitter)

Steterburg City of Salzgitter (Thiede district) Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 37 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 25 ″ E
Height :	approx. 100 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1939
Incorporated into:	Thiede
Postal code :	38239
Area code :	05341
	Location of Steterburg in Salzgitter-Thiede

Steterburg is a residential area that belongs to Thiede in the independent city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony. It is located in the north-west of Thiede and is separated from the rest of the district by a small forest area.

About two kilometers north of Steterburg is the Braunschweig district of Geitelde , in the northeast Leiferde . A few kilometers to the west are the so-called canal villages of Salzgitters: Üfingen , Sauingen , Beddingen and Bleckenstedt .

In the south lies the Beddinger Holz forest area.

history

Historic residential buildings in front of the monastery grounds in Alt Steterburg

middle Ages

A place called Steder or Stedere already existed in the Middle Ages west of today's Steterburg . This place was mentioned several times between 1007 and 1543; later he fell wildly. Steder already existed before the first documented mention. The castle Stederburg which was built from 924 to 933, is therefore younger than the location. Its usefulness became evident as early as 938 when Hungarian soldiers were defeated from there. It was a spur castle on the edge of the Oker lowlands , which Heinrich I , King of Eastern Franconia from 919 to 936, had built.

Later, around the turn of the millennium, Count Altmann von Oelsburg owned the Stederburg Castle and the associated village. In his will he decreed that a nunnery should be founded from his estate. Around the year 1000/02 the Steterburg Abbey was founded by his wife and daughter.

Even if the monastery and later women's monastery no longer exists as an institution, the new buildings erected after a decline in the 16th century are still there.

For the further history of the monastery see: Steterburg Abbey

Early modern age

After the heyday of the monastery and village of Steterburg, there was a decline from 1546 to 1547 during the Schmalkaldic War , which completely destroyed the place.

Construction of today's residential area in 1938/1939

Until 1938, the residents of Steterburg lived in the so-called Alt Steterburg , where they worked on a domain belonging to the monastery .

In the course of the establishment of the Hermann-Göring-Werke (today's Salzgitter AG ), the construction of a workers' settlement in the National Socialist style began in the area of the women's monastery, which was finally dissolved in 1938. In less than a year by the beginning of 1939, around 1,070 apartments were built for several families each, so that in the end nearly 7,000 people lived in Steterburg.

The place was incorporated into Thiede on April 1, 1939, which in turn became a district of Watenstedt-Salzgitter on April 1, 1942.

Population development

year	Residents
1938	265
Jan. 1939	approx. 7000

religion

The collegiate church in Steterburg is now a Protestant parish church. The Catholic St. Bernward Church is located in the extreme southwest of Steterburg at the transition to Thiede.

Evangelical collegiate church
Catholic St. Bernward Church

Attractions

Economy and Infrastructure

Only about one kilometer southwest of Steterburg is the Volkswagen plant in Salzgitter , which in 2010 employed over 5500 people.

The Schäferwiese shopping and commercial area is located in the northwest of the residential area . To the south there is an allotment garden.

Transport links

North of Steterburg is the federal highway 39 , which connects Salzgitter with the federal highway 7 in the southwest and Braunschweig and Wolfsburg in the northeast. A motorway entrance is right on the outskirts.

Another main road runs along the western edge of Steterburg, leading to Üfingen, Watenstedt and Salzgitter AG . This road also provides a connection to the Central and North industrial roads .

Another road that runs through the north of Steterburg leads in the direction of Thiede and Braunschweig.

Web links

www.steterburg.de (private website of the residential area Steterburg)

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To the history section:

Reiner Adler after Hartmut Alder: History overview - Steterburg with collegiate church on Steterburg.de , accessed on May 6, 2014
Hartmut Alder: 1938 - Siedlungsbau / Bau der Siedlung Steterburg on Steterburg.de, accessed on May 6, 2014