Steynowe

Steynowe is a desolation in the district of Göttingen that has not yet been reliably proven . It is probably about 3.2 km northwest of Herzberg am Harz and about 500 m northwest of the small settlement of Mühlenberg . About 1.2 km southeast of the presumed location is the Hage desert .

history

Steynowe was first mentioned in a document around 1241. The name is also the name of the Große Steinau at that time (the village would therefore also be called Steinau today). The existence of a settlement can be derived from a document from 1290, in which the taxes to be paid were listed. But it is also conceivable that it was just a planned settlement that was never actually built. The exact location of the desert has not yet been clearly determined, but it is likely to be in the lower valley of the Große Steinau.

The place name is derived from the name of the water body and is probably a simple combination of the term stone with the basic word Au , which means a meadow or a watercourse .

literature

• Erhard Kühlhorn: The medieval desolations in southern Lower Saxony Volume 3. O – Z, Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-133-9 , pp. 287–288.
• Uwe Ohainski and Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Osterode , Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , pp. 160–161

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 56.6 "  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 19.2"  E