Susenburg

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Susenburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 430 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Incorporated into: Rübeland cave location
Postal code : 38889
Area code : 039454
View of Susenburg (2013)
View of Susenburg (2013)
Kalkwerke housing estate in Susenburg, 1959
View to the Susenburg
Dennert-Tanne on the Susenburg with a view of the Bodetal

Susenburg belongs as a district to the locality Höhlenort Rübeland of the city of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz Mountains . He is after the medieval castle named Susenburg are available from today only few remains. In the village is the Susenburg pond .

history

The name of the district, which was also called Sausenburg in the early modern period , probably comes from the legend that a princess Suse lived on the castle above the town. The district was created in the 1950s southwest of Rübeland as a workers' housing estate for the expanding Harzer Kalk- und Zementwerke .

After the reunification , more and more people left the district, which can be attributed to the condition of many (company) apartments and the rather modest infrastructure.

Castle

The ruin Susenburg is situated on a spur, from which the Bode valley in the direction of the transition dam Konigshiitte can overlook far above the Bode. Fragments of the castle ( 51 ° 44 ′ 28.6 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 47.2 ″  E ), for example old steps, can still be seen. They were discovered during modern road works northeast of the emerging settlement.

The castle was never mentioned in a document, the name only appeared occasionally in inventory lists; so includes e.g. For example, the inventory list of the Count's Stolberg ironworks from 1555 has the following entry: sousenburgk, doruff is a keep . In addition, the castle is mentioned in the 13th century as a wooden site for the Counts of Regenstein .

The castle complex probably dates from the time of Henry I (876–936). It is unclear and questionable whether the 160 m long and 60 m wide facility was ever completed. The complex has probably been desolate since 1700 at the latest.

The castle ruins are now a stop on the historical (hiking) route of the German emperors and kings of the Middle Ages . The Susenburg is the location of a Dennert fir of the HZV Rübeland.

geology

In a shed below the Susenburg a basic are enstatite - porphyry - and an acidic granite -Porphyr-speed open-minded that the unterkarbonischen penetrated shale and to the Rotliegenden between chunks and Ramberg intruded means Harz courses include. On his third trip to the Harz Mountains, which was dominated by a strong interest in geological conditions, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote on September 7, 1784:

“From Elbingerode out marble, half an hour from Susenburg to the Dukborns-Kopf, which is also marble, I found a quartz-like type of rock that continues to occur more frequently over Schnapphahns-Grund; it is a grayish quartz with white quartz grains sprinkled into it; in the next little wood slate seems to change again. On the Susenburg this stone stands on the slate and sets with one back down to the Bude (Bode), the noticeable separations of the same highlight hor. 7 , and the fall of the benches is towards evening. These rocks are commonly thought of as the walls of an old castle. "

From this outcrop at the Susenburg, Goethe included four rock samples described in detail in his resin collection. His travel companion, Georg Melchior Kraus , made two sketches of the rock formation at the Susenburg.

Web links

Commons : Susenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Béatrice Austria: Excursion 16: Geological hike around Königshütte . In: Friedhart Knolle , Béatrice Oesterreich, Volker Wrede, Rainer Schulz: Der Harz - Geologische Exckursionen , Klett-Perthes, Gotha 1997, ISBN 3-623-00659-9 , p. 163.
  2. ↑ Bergbau-Zeitschrift 07/2007: here table normal profile ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.6 MB), accessed on March 26, 2013