Wiederode
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 9.2 ″ N , 10 ° 31 ′ 44.4 ″ E
Wiederode (also Wenderode , older name: Winetherode , pronunciation of the th as [ .theta ] or [ ð ] ) is a deserted village in the area of the present town of Goslar .
geography
The desert is on a parcel east of today's Vienenburg – Goslar railway line , between the towns of Harlingerode in the south and Vienenburg in the north. A small strip of forest crosses the area, which in turn is bounded in the west by the Hurlebach . Only a few hundred meters northwest of the desert is a disused railway keeper's house, which was still in use in the 20th century and was intact until July 2016 when it burned down and ended up as a ruin.
The area on the desert consists of the hills Kleiner Wiederöder Berg and Großer Wiederöder Berg , between which the border between the Free State of Braunschweig and Prussia ran, which still forms the border between the cities of Goslar and Bad Harzburg today.
history
etymology
The meaning of the name Winetherode or Wiederode apart from the ending -rode is not certain. One version refers to the Low German word turn , wenne for "turn", "limit" and points out to Wiederode that in the border region of Harzgaus has found. Another variant, on the other hand, establishes a connection to the Wends and thus Slavic peoples, who never dominated this region, but still settled from the Germania Slavica in an area that had been Germanic settled for a long time, which is especially in view of the name of the neighboring desert Düringerode ( Thuringian ) is not absurd. Possibly the name is congruent with the existing Wennerode east of Vienenburg , which was called "Wenderode" on older Prussian maps of the 19th century.
Early history
As with many other clearing locations in the region, the founding origin of Winetherodes can be found in the 9th to 10th centuries.
In an article by the Harz Association for History and Archeology from 1908, the desert is mentioned in detail: Of course, it was only a small hamlet whose mill was on the Hurlebach. The fact that no stone bearings were found apart from the masonry of a chapel is explained by the fact that the houses were adobe buildings. The discovery of bones and skulls proves the existence of a permanent cemetery on the site.
Wiederode fell desolate between 1281 and 1286. In the last year mentioned, the village is called "Woste Wenderode" (Wüstwiederode).
Modern times
The name Wiederöder Berge still shows the former existence of the village, and in the collective memory the presence of the village seemed to have persisted long after its disappearance. The Harlingerode Superintendent Eggers remarked at the end of the 18th century:
- “Close to the Oker im Steinfelde, in the Hildesheim territory , there are dead heads u. Bones in great abundance, and it is said that there used to be a village there and that this place was the churchyard. "
Name dispute
In the old Harlingerode popular belief, there is talk of a desert called Harlierode : According to legend, its inhabitants left the village and founded the new settlement Heregeltingeroth (Harlingerode) further south on what is now Kirchbrink. Since Harlingerode has been a Vorwerk of the Goslar cathedral monastery since 1053 and the ending -ingerode suggests that it was founded no more than 150 years earlier, it would have to be a very old desert, which would also have the same name as today's Harlingerode. The local historian Hilmar von Strombeck went even further in 1873 and, if this theory is true, interpreted that "Neu-Harlingerode" also includes the population of Jettgerode / Göttingerode , which had also previously disappeared . The problem here is that Göttingerode was only mentioned after Harlingerode and there is also evidence of the existence of the old settlement until the 15th century.
Alternatively, an identity with the desert of Isingerode is being considered, the position of which could not be clearly established.
literature
- D. Dr. Ed. Jacobs: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Archeology. Volume 41, 1908. pp. 280-287.
- Hilmar von Strombeck: On the history of some devastation in the immediate vicinity of Harzburg. In: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity. Volume 6. 1873. pp. 155f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Stenal: The Harz History 5: The time of the Thirty Years War. 2015. p. 72.
- ↑ The old railway station in Vienenburg burned down | Goslar on regionalgoslar.de , accessed on October 24, 2017.
- ↑ Prussian regional survey sheet 4029 Vienenburg on lgln.niedersachsen.de , accessed on July 18, 2020.
