Unterschulenberg

Unterschulenberg around 1950, with the bridges for the Oker Dam in the background

With Mittelschulenberg and Oberschulenberg as well as Festenburg, Unterschulenberg formed the old Schulenberg in the Upper Harz Mountains in what is now the Lower Saxony district of Goslar . The residents were resettled in 1954, the buildings largely demolished, as the place is now flooded by the Oker dam.

location

Eight kilometers to the north is the district town of Goslar , three kilometers south of the mining town of Altenau and nine kilometers to the southwest of the mining town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld . Today's core town of Schulenberg in the Upper Harz is half a kilometer to the west.

Transport links

Like Mittel- and Oberschulenberg, Unterschulenberg was located on the predecessor of today's state road 517, which branches off about two kilometers northeast of federal road 498 and joins federal road 241 seven kilometers west of Unterschulenberg near Clausthal-Zellerfeld . Today it runs along the upper edge of the reservoir.

history

The pits of the Schulenberg mining district were located a little above the village , mainly silver, copper and lead were mined. With the abandonment of the mines, the last and most productive of which was the Juliane Sophia mine in 1904, the main branch of the economy in Schulenberg was forestry. From the beginning of the 20th century, plans were pursued to build a dam in the Okertal, which meant that the settlement was flooded. Since 1928 there was a building ban in Unterschulenberg. From 1938 the place got a bypass because the valley road would no longer be usable because of the later Okerstausees . After the Second World War , the Harzwasserwerke finally began building the dam in 1952. On Sunday, August 29, 1954, the approximately 300 residents marched from Unterschulenberg to Neu-Schulenberg with a march of around 10,000 people . This is where the current center of Schulenberg was built, about 60 meters above the reservoir. The old buildings were torn down to the ground; In 1956 the valley was flooded for the first time.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Schulenberg: A place sinks in the lake , page of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk , accessed on July 24, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 10 ° 26 ′ 30.4 ″  E