Volkmarskeller
Volkmarskeller is the name of a cave in the Harz low mountain range with a church once next to it near Blankenburg in the Harz district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).
Geographical location
The Volkmarskeller is located in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park just under 5 km west of the old town of Blankenburg in the upper part of the monastery grounds. It is about halfway along the hiking trail that leads from Michaelstein Monastery to the Elbingerode forest settlement of Eggeröder Brunnen and passes the cave a little below.
history
Around the time from 850 to 870, Liutbirg , who was highly respected by her contemporaries and who was a close confidante of Bishops Haimo von Halberstadt and Ansgar von Bremen , lived in a hermitage . Their hermitage was believed to be in the Volkmarskeller until the 1930s, when Walther Grosse was able to prove that it was Wendhusen monastery near Thale .
The church next to the hermitage, consecrated to St. Michael , was donated to the Quedlinburg Abbey in 956 by Otto I. The cave not far from the imperial hunting palace Bodfeld served pious hermits as accommodation from then on. B. 1118 of the death of Bernhardus presbyter solitarius de Laide sancti Michaelis reported. After a few years of preparation since 1135, according to the Annales Cistercienses , the official occupation of the cave and church with Cistercian monks from the Kamp monastery took place on July 28, 1146 under the direction of Abbot Roger.
At the request of Abbess Beatrix II of Quedlinburg, Pope Innocent II confirmed the founding of the monastery in 1146 and the goods in Marsleben , Groß- and Klein-Ditfurt, Sülten and other places (today mostly deserted areas in the Near Quedlinburg ). Burchard joined the new convent. In the period from 1151 to 1167 the monastery was relocated to Evergodesrode to the lower valley exit at the current location of the Michaelstein monastery .
The dilapidated cave was dug up and made accessible again in the years 1884–1887 by building officer Brinkmann.
Volkmar mine
Not far from the Volkmarskeller is the former Volkmar iron ore mine . The red iron ores , initially mined in Pingen since the Middle Ages , genetically belong to the sedimentary-exhalative deposits of the Lahn dill type. The steep iron ore deposit in the roof structure was mined in the Volkmar mine. The hematitic iron ores are bound to the Devonian reef limestones of the Elbingerode complex . An explosive explosion occurred here in 1893, caused by the complicated handling of dynamite at temperatures below 7 ° C. After that, the mine was shut down. In 2007, the Bergverein zu Hüttenrode erected a memorial to the friend who died in the process, which stands on the road and forest path between Eggeröder Brunnen – Volkmarskeller and the Michaelstein monastery near Blankenburg.
hike
The freely accessible Volkmarskeller is included as no. 87 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin. The cave is listed in the Central German cave cadastre under the number RÜ-19.
Web links
- Volkmarskeller , in reconstruction drawings of German castles , on burgrebaus.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Béatrice Oesterreich: Geochemical facies analysis of Devonian reef carbonates of the Elbingeröder complex (eastern Rhenohercynian, Harz). Dissertation, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald 1990, 202 pp.
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 87 / Volkmarskeller , on harzer-wandernadel.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 16.2 " N , 10 ° 52 ′ 21.4" E