Stairs (Harz)
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City of Oberharz am Brocken
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| Height : | 490 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 31.74 km² |
| Residents : | 1094 (December 31, 2008) |
| Population density : | 34 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 38899 |
| Area code : | 039459 |
  Location of stairs in Oberharz am Brocken
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Stiege is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
climate
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The average air temperature in the stairs is 6.5 ° C, the annual precipitation 815 millimeters.
history
The castle in the village was probably built by the Counts of Blankenburg as a hunting lodge and to protect the mining operations that used to be carried out in the area , and is first mentioned in a document in 1329. Southeast of the village is in the Selke early modern Wüstung Selkenfelde .
On January 1, 2010, the municipality of Stiege merged with the municipalities of Sorge , Elend and Tanne and the towns of Elbingerode (Harz) , Hasselfelde and Benneckenstein (Harz) to form the town of Oberharz am Brocken. As one was for stairs for each district Ortschaftsrat chaired by a Ortsbürgermeisters formed.
politics
mayor
The last mayor of the Stiege community was Rolf-Peter König.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the district on July 23, 2008.
Blazon : "Divided and half-split, at the top in silver a red lock with two wings connected by a pointed round tower with two diagonally offset window openings and a spire with a tower ball, both wings with two chimneys each and one bay window each at the level of the eaves, the right wing with a central bay window and two, the left one with a total of ten rectangular window openings and a bay window on the outside left, below in front a silver miner's toughness in green, behind in gold over a blue wave shield base three fir trees growing from a floating green bar, the middle one higher than the outer ones. "
The colors of the former municipality are - based on the tinging of the coat of arms - green-silver (white).
The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .
flag
The flag is green - white - green (1: 4: 1) striped (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, longitudinal shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.
Memorials
Collective grave in the local cemetery for 27 concentration camp prisoners who were murdered by Nazi functionaries on a death march from the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in April 1945 while they were fleeing. On April 9, 1945, three fugitive Soviet prisoners of war were picked up in Stiege and shot by a local auxiliary police officer.
Attractions
Natural monuments
- Oak with a chest height circumference of 6.65 m (2015).
traffic
The Stiege station is an important on-the-go station of the Selketalbahn , which starts in Quedlinburg and branches off to Hasselfelde and Eisfelder Talmühle and is known to railway enthusiasts for the turning loop in the station area.
There are connections to Wernigerode , Güntersberge and Stolberg with the bus lines of the Harz transport company and the Südharz transport company .
The place is on the federal highway 242 , which crosses the Harz from the eastern Harz foreland near Hettstedt in a westerly direction via Hasselfelde , Braunlage , Clausthal-Zellerfeld to near Seesen .
Station stairs
Hotel in place
Church from stairs
Hunting lodge stairs
Personalities
- Waldemar Rienäcker (1895–?), Entrepreneur
- Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Alers (1811-1891), forestry expert and writer, wrote a specialist book about the Calvörde forest
literature
- Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 , p. 452.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing of Stiege Castle by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ^ German Weather Service, normal period 1961-1990
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
- ↑ Local Council Staircase. In: ALLRIS®net. City of Oberharz am Brocken, accessed on December 1, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Official Journal of the District No. 8/2008 Page 12 ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ LG Göttingen, December 3, 1953 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XI, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1974, No. 382, pp. 771–783 Shooting of three Russian foreign workers apprehended on suspicion of looting after unsuccessful attempt to place them in a prison ( memento of the original dated December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: the archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): Memorials for the victims of NS II . Bonn, p. 589
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
Localities and districts: City of Benneckenstein (Harz) | City of Elbingerode (Harz) | Misery | City of Hasselfelde (with Rotacker ) | Königshütte (Harz) | Rübeland cave site (with Neuwerk and Susenburg ) | Concern | Stairs | Fir tree | Trautenstein
Other locations: Büchenberg and Eggeröder Brunnen (to the city of Elbingerode) | Almond wood and Wietfeld (on misery) | Lüdershof and Neue Hütte (to Königshütte) | Kaltes Tal and Kreuztal (to Rübeland caves)