Hohnstedt desert
The Hohnstedt desert is a deserted settlement in what is now the Hohnstedter Holz conservation area, a forest area in the southwest of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony .
history
The village center consisted of 11 to 15 farmsteads and was located on the Wöhrenberg, an elevation. During the Hildesheim collegiate feud around 1520, 50 villages in the region are said to have burned, and the village has probably already suffered damage. The final desertification is to be assumed in connection with a feud between Moritz von Sachsen and Heinrich II . The village of Hohnstedt was found desolate in 1553. After the village was devastated, 9 families settled in Ehmen on Hohnstedter Strasse and 2 families in Mörse .
remains
In the local history museum of Gifhorn there is the floor tile of a parish church, which was probably built in 1322 from the stones of a square residential and defense tower, a so-called motte . At the former location, a boulder with an inscription reminds of the deserted Hohnstedt.
literature
- H. Kochanek: In the protection and shadow of the castle in: Flechtorfer Dorfchronik, Braunschweig 1985
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ' N , 10 ° 43' E