Veltheim am Fallstein

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Veltheim am Fallstein
City of Osterwieck
Veltheim am Fallstein coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 5 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 43"  E
Residents : 460  (2010)
Incorporation : September 11, 2003
Incorporated into: Aue Fallstein
Postal code : 38835
Area code : 039426

Veltheim am Fallstein is a district of the town of Osterwieck in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt and lies between the Großer Fallstein and the Großer Bruch .

Population development

  • 1800: 0790 inhabitants
  • 1830: 0900 inhabitants
  • 1851: 1039 inhabitants
  • 1880: 1135 inhabitants
  • 1926: 0880 inhabitants
  • 1966: 0700 inhabitants
  • 1993: 0500 inhabitants
  • 2010: 0460 inhabitants

history

View over the Große Bruch from Hessendamm to Veltheim, behind it the Große Fallstein
St. Johannis Church with fortified tower

Veltheim is a typical clustered village . The place name (also Velten, Velthem, Veltum ) indicates a Franconian origin from the 7th to 8th centuries. The area of ​​Veltheim belonged within the tribal duchy of Saxony ( Ostfalen ) to Northern Thuringia until 814 and came to Derlingau after the district division changed by the foundation letter of Emperor Ludwig the Pious in 814 . On April 23, 966 in Quedlinburg , Otto I made the first documentary mention of the place on the occasion of a donation of a large number of goods from the Derlingau and Northern Thuringia to the presumed Magdeburg burgrave Mamaco.

Veltheim am Fallstein was the ancestral seat of the nobles of Veltheim, Counts of Osterburg and Altenhausen . Some family members of von Veltheim were close confidants and followers of the Ascanian Albrecht the Bear (Werner III. Von Veltheim was also Albrecht's brother-in-law). Against the background of the feudal eastward expansion forced by Albrecht the Bear - concerning the area of ​​the Nordmark ( Mark Brandenburg ) - around 1180 farmers from Veltheim were relocated to the Havelland and the place Velten was founded there.

Veltheim was the location of a no longer preserved castle complex. It was located in the southern part of the village and can be dated to around the 11th to 13th centuries. The Burgstrasse leading to the upper (southern) part of the village as well as the name of the castle ( East Fälisch: op de Borch ) used by Veltheim residents for this part of the village still indicate this fortification. On the eastern edge of the village - below the castle - there was an aristocratic court called the tower courtyard . (1402: "the courtyard where the stone tower stands, also called torbehove" ) In 1232 Siegfried von Osterburg from the von Veltheim family renounced the churches in Veltheim and Osterode am Fallstein and the tithe in two surrounding villages in favor of his liege lord . In 1289, Count Heinrich von Blankenburg sold the tower courtyard to the Teutonic Order .

An early medieval Deitweg leads through the center of Veltheim , which is also recognizable by the street name Deitweg (former street name: Tiefweg ). This old road once formed the connection between the bishopric of Halberstadt and the royal palace Werla near Hornburg / Schladen, only 10 km from Veltheim, and is still preserved as a dirt road west of Veltheim (towards Hornburg).

By merging the tower courtyard with the so-called Hagemann'schen Ackerhof, which is directly adjacent to the north, in 1781, the residential and farmyard of the manor was created in its present form. The manor house was built on the area of ​​the tower courtyard in 1784. The park ( official garden ) that adjoins it to the south is also part of the manor. Around 1400, Neudorf , located at the northern exit of today's village, was built , known as the Regendbody . Around this time the surrounding villages of Linden (southeast of Veltheim) Bodingerode (south of Veltheim) and Steinen (or Steinum - today Steinmühle, west of Veltheim) were given up. The two-aisled nave of the St. Johannis church in the center of the village was built in 1569. The church tower, on the other hand, is much older and of Romanesque origin.

As a result of the Thirty Years' War , Veltheim, belonging to the Halberstadt diocese , came to Brandenburg-Prussia when it was secularized . At the behest of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector , the settlement of Dutch farmers followed, the procurement of Dutch dairy cattle and measures to drain the Great Quarry . On April 5, 1722, a fire destroyed 78 farmsteads - three quarters of the village. The farms affected were then rebuilt on the same sites. The expansion of the village to the south (former castle) and west through the establishment of Brinksitzer - and add-on farms took place from around 1700. During the Napoleonic occupation , Veltheim belonged to the Saale department of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) and then returned to Prussia .

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, agriculture in Veltheim was strongly influenced by sugar beet cultivation. There were several sugar factories in the immediate vicinity (the Hessen Aktienzuckerfabrik since 1864 , as well as other factories in Hessendamm , Mattierzoll ).

From 1832 to 1849 Veltheim was the location of station no. 20 of the Prussian optical telegraph line , a communication system between Berlin and the Rhine Province .

Veltheim was located in the immediate vicinity of the German-German border and between 1961 and the opening of the border could only be reached with a special permit. A company of the border troops was stationed in the southern part of the village at that time. The Heudeber – Mattierzoll railway line , via which Veltheim had been accessible since 1898, was only operated as far as Hesse from 1961 and was completely discontinued in 1969.

The municipality of Veltheim am Fallstein belonged to the administrative community of Aue-Fallstein . Due to the voluntary amalgamation of the seven member communities of this administrative community to form the new unified community of Aue-Fallstein on September 11, 2003, Veltheim lost its political independence. On January 1, 2010, Aue-Fallstein merged with the other municipalities of the Osterwieck-Fallstein administrative community , to which it later belonged, to form the new town of Osterwieck.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was awarded on November 18, 1938 by the President of the Prussian Province of Saxony .

Blazon : "Two silver diagonal bars in red, each with three red six-pointed stars."

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg State Archives Councilor Otto Korn .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Benno Riechelmann: From Ackerhof to Großgut: Two centuries of economic development of the Veltheim manor in the Halberstadt district , Leipzig 1926.
  2. ↑ Die Volksstimme, July 1966.
  3. ↑ Ilse newspaper, Official Gazette of the city Osterwieck, January / February 2011th
  4. ↑ August von Wersebe: Description of the district between Elbe, Saale and Unstrut, Weser and Werra , Hanover 1829.
  5. ^ Certificate Otto I dated April 23, 966 in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg.
  6. ^ A b Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 5, Leipzig 1839, pp. 459–466.
  7. Jump up ↑ Heinrich Harmjanz : Early Ascension in the Havelland in Brandenburg (shown using the Glin as an example) , Berlin 1942.
  8. ^ Paul Grimm : The prehistoric and early historical castle walls of the districts of Halle and Magdeburg , Berlin 1958.
  9. ^ A b Friedrich Stolberg : Fortifications in and on the Harz from early history to modern times , Hildesheim 1968.
  10. ^ Document book of the Halberstadt monastery, document before December 31, 1232.
  11. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003.
  12. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010