Westerhausen (Thale)

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Westerhausen
City of Thale
former coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 24 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 144 m
Area : 17.42 km²
Residents : 2092  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Population density : 120 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 1, 2010
Postal code : 06502
Area code : 03946
View of Westerhausen from the Hamburg coat of arms on the Teufelsmauer
View of Westerhausen from the Hamburg coat of arms on the Teufelsmauer

Westerhausen is a district of the town of Thale in the Harz district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Geographical location

Westerhausen (from west to east)

Westerhausen is located in the northern Harz foreland between the two cities of Blankenburg (Harz) and Quedlinburg . The place borders on the Warnstedt district of the city of Thale , on the town of Blankenburg with its district of Börnecke , on the community of Harsleben and the city of Quedlinburg. The village is traversed by the Zapfenbach from west to east. The landmark of the place is the Königstein rock group .

history

In the area of ​​Westerhausen, 6000 year old settlement activities are proven.

In Westerhausen, a Franconian moated castle was built to protect the crossing on an important east-west and north-south road connection over the northern Harz lakes and swamps, the name of which was soon transferred to the entire settlement complex. Before 827 the Halberstadt mission church St. Stephan was built.

The first documentary mention was made on February 19, 1046 in a document issued in Wallhausen by King Heinrich III. , in which he confirms the donation of various goods from Margrave Ekkehard II of Meissen , including Wesderhvson , to Gernrode Abbey , whose ownership can still be traced back to the 13th century. On July 20, 1064 in Goslar another mention was made in a document in which King Heinrich IV. Confirmed gifts from his mother, Empress Agnes , including Witesleib ( Weddersleben ) and Westerhvsvn , to the Peterskloster in Goslar.

Since the 12th century, land ownership of the Halberstadt monasteries St. Paul and St. Johann as well as rights of the Quedlinburg imperial monastery has been evident in Westerhausen . The monastery of St. Johann and its provost Wichmann (later Archbishop of Magdeburg) took care of the first drainage measures in the Westerhausen area in the middle of the 12th century with the help of Flemish families. The Quedlinburg estate on the plan, which belonged to the provost and which the Counts of Blankenburg-Regenstein as a fief and a v. Rustleben had an afterfeed, was sold in 1541 to two private half-spouses, whose services had to be rendered to the office, but whose upper fiefdom of the Quedlinburg monastery finally fell to Prussia in 1802.

Since the middle of the 12th century, Westerhausen has belonged to the Counts of Blankenburg- Regenstein as a Halberstädter fiefdom , who set up a kitchen estate here, later a Vorwerk of the Blankenburg office, which was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. As early as 1523, Henning Radecke had preached in the spirit of Martin Luther in St. Stephen's Church ; In 1530 Radecke was involved in the introduction of the Reformation in the county. The count family themselves, which had to deal with considerable debts and the resulting pledges, especially in the 16th century, only converted to the Lutheran faith in 1539 for political reasons.

After the Blankenburg-Regensteiners died out in 1599, it passed to the Dukes of Braunschweig . In 1643 the "Grafschaft Reinstein" came to the Counts of Tattenbach , which was expressly confirmed in the Peace of Westphalia . They established an office here. In 1670 troops of the Elector of Brandenburg, who had been lord of the liege since 1648, forcibly occupied Westerhausen. Hans Erasmus von Tattenbach had been denied his fiefdom because of his participation in the Hungarian magnate conspiracy against Emperor Leopold I. The peculiarity of the office (Reinstein-) Westerhausen within the Prussian principality of Halberstadt was expressed in its current seal image: It bore the inscription SIGEL DES AMBTS WESTERHAUSEN , under the electoral hat was a four-part coat of arms with the Regenstein horns and the applied chamber scepter. Braunschweig's efforts to regain possession of Westerhausen were unsuccessful. The last time Braunschweig tried to swap Reinstein-Westerhausen for his rights on the Rammelsberg near Goslar in the run-up to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803. The Westerhausen office included the towns of Warnstedt, Weddersleben, Thale and Neinstedt (at times partially) and in the time of the Tattenbach also the Westerburg office with the towns of Rohrsheim , Dedeleben , Deersheim , Dingelstedt , the desert Regenstein Castle, numerous desert landmarks, forests and the feudal lordship over the water castle Westerburg (pledge from v. Steinberg) and partly the feudal lordship over the town of Derenburg (pledge from v. Veltheim ), with Dedeleben and Dingelstedt partly belonging to the Prussian Halberstädter office Schlanstedt and in Thale (v. Knigge) and Deersheim had its own patrimonial judicial districts. The Reinstein -ättenbach knights formed the v. Hoym (Stecklenberg), v. Knigge (Thale), v. Steuben (Thale), v. Steinacker (Deersheim) and v. Hünecke (Dedeleben).

During the Prussian period, the offices of Westerhausen, which was expanded in 1718 through the purchase of the aristocratic court (Wasserburg) by King Friedrich Wilhelm I (after the fortress was razed in 1758, the Regenstein was also taken into office as a chamber property), and Stecklenberg formed a separate district Westerhausen in the Principality of Halberstadt. This can be seen in detail on the map by Tobias Mayer (1750 at Homann-Erben, Nuremberg) and belonged to the canton of Quedlinburg-Land (capital Ditfurt) in the Westphalian Saale Department from 1808–1813 . From 1815 Westerhausen was an administrative district in the Aschersleben-Quedlinburg district of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1844 new boundary stones were set against the Duchy of Braunschweig in Bruch, which assigned the land owned by Westerhausen farmers to the municipality of Westerhausen and thus Prussia at the expense of Braunschweig. After Aschersleben had become a city district in 1901 (until 1950), Westerhausen was part of the Quedlinburg district until 2007, although its history varied in size and belonged to different districts. In 1913 parts of the Eselsstall forest district were bought by the Prussian tax authorities.

On September 30, 1928, the Westerhausen manor district was united with the rural community of Westerhausen. Since July 1, 2007, Westerhausen has been part of the Harz district (district town Halberstadt).

During the GDR era, a children's holiday camp was built and maintained in "Fiedlers Mühle" , which was destroyed by fire.

The 1050th anniversary celebrated in 1987 was based on a twofold error. A document from 937 was referred to, which was incorrectly dated in the Codex Diplomaticus Quedlinburgensis by Anton Ulrich von Erath , published in 1764 . In this document Uuesterhuse is named as one of several places with which the newly founded nunnery Quedlinburg was endowed. The wrong dating was u. a. with the correction of the date in the first volume of the diplomas of the source edition Monumenta Germaniae Historica to September 13, 936, which was not yet known in the preparatory phase 1985/86 and an advance to 1986 was therefore not organizationally possible. Therefore the celebration, which had been prepared with considerable effort by local businesses and institutions, was carried out as originally planned in July 1987 with great sympathy from the population. The correct local assignment of the place named in the document of 936 to Westerhüsen near Magdeburg as well as the same reference in the Corveyer traditions (Tr 035 from 822/26) was not known at that time, but has since been identified by local history research corrected.

On September 1, 2010, the place was incorporated into Thale. Until then he belonged to the administrative community Thale . The last mayor was Eberhard Heintze.

Memorials

In St. Stephen's Church there are memorial plaques to those who fell in the Seven Years' War, the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and the German Wars of Unification in 1864, 1866, 1870/71. After the formation of a commission in 1919, the local council decided in 1920 to erect a war memorial for those who died in the First World War on the church square in the direction of Hauptstraße, which was erected according to designs by Ebert von Zeitzmann and Kranz and inaugurated on October 16, 1921. On November 17, 1996, memorial plaques were inaugurated on the semicircle for the fallen and victims of the Second World War in Westerhausen .

In the local cemetery there is a grave of Adam Rogaczenski, who was abducted from Poland to Germany during the Second World War and a victim of forced labor . Another plaque commemorates André Galice, who was killed in April 1945 during the " death march " of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp .

Opposite the war memorial is a memorial stone for the 1050th anniversary celebrations (see history) in 1987, which was created by Wilhelm Hartlep and which shows the local coat of arms of Westerhausen, which was valid from 1973 to 1994, but which is not included in the coat of arms of the state of Saxony -Stop was recorded. Until 1973 the coat of arms of the municipality always formed the respective state coat of arms.

politics

Municipal Council (until 2010)

(according to the official final result of the election to the Westerhausen municipal council on June 13, 2004; voter turnout: 50.1%)

  • Voter groups - 47.7%, 7 seats
  • CDU - 35.6%, 5 seats
  • Individual applicants - 16.8%, 1 seat

Culture and sights

St. Stephen's Church
Main road

Attractions

Architectural monument, archdeacon seat, sermons in the spirit of Martin Luther by Pastor Henning Radecke as early as 1523, later seat of an evangelical superintendent.
  • Half-timbered buildings
There are numerous half-timbered buildings from the 16th to 20th centuries in the village. The German half-timbered road leads through the village.
  • Small monuments
Particularly noteworthy are the small monuments Prussian round base milestones at the exit of the village on the abandoned road in the direction of Warnstedt and the border petrification against the Reichsstift Quedlinburg am Steinholz from the 18th century as well as the Hungerstein from 1931 north (after implementation 2011 west) of the extensive natural monument Königstein . On its south side there are vineyards of the Harz winery Kirmann, which belongs to the Saale-Unstrut wine-growing region .
  • Local history museum Westerhausen

Educational and recreational facilities

The place has facilities for preschoolers and a primary school .

The open-air swimming pool, the animal enclosure, the riding arena, sports fields, the motocross track and the local history museum are to be mentioned as educational, sports and recreational facilities.

Network of cycle and hiking trails

The Harz foreland cycle path , which begins at Röderhof am Huy at the confluence with the Aller-Harz long-distance cycle path , serves as a feeder to the R1 European cycle path and the Harz circular path .

The section of the hiking trail of German emperors and kings from Königstein to Königspfalz Tilleda (signpost at Königstein) via Warnstedt (junction to Thale and to the Teufelsmauer- Stieg), Neinstedt (intersection of European long-distance hiking trail E11 Thale to Ballenstedt ) crosses at the hikers' meeting at Am Junkernhof Eisleben) and Harzgerode and the section from Quedlinburg to the cathedral city of Halberstadt via Langenstein . Other regional hiking trails are looked after, marked and set up by the Harz Club (signpost on the stone). In addition, the Westerhausen Association for Local History and Nature Conservation created the signposted local history educational trail (1997) and the path of the stones (2011) marked with six monoliths . Also noteworthy are the border path at the NSG Steinholz and Harsleber Berge to the Steinholzwarte , part of the Quedlinburger Landgraben , along baroque boundary stones, the paths of the historic racecourse in the donkey stable and the loop around the Königstein viewpoint .

Regular events

Important events in community life are motocross races (some runs for the German championship), the rifle festival , the zoo festival and the spring singing in St. Stephen's Church .

The Westerhausen Museum Day is an important regional historical conference in the Harz region that has been held every two years since 1995 under a specific general theme by the Association for Local History and Nature Conservation Westerhausen / Harz in cooperation with the Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt e. V., the Harz Association for History and Antiquity . V. and other institutions invited for a specific occasion. The individual contributions are usually published.

natural reserve

Königstein near Westerhausen, also known as the Camel Rock or "Big Camel". A symbol of the village.
Königstein near Westerhausen

The Westerhausen district is located in the Harz and Vorländer landscape protection area (formerly the northern Harz foreland). It extends proportionally in the nature reserve Harsleben Mountains and Steinholz (year of protection: 1967).

The wet meadows rich in sedge and rushes in the Helsunger Bruch are a protected biotope (1999).

Area- wide natural monuments are the field Helmstein (1990), the old peat cut in the Helsunger Bruch (1994, change 1996), the Königstein (big camel) , 189 m above sea level, whose rock like that of the Teufelsmauer (Harz) is a stratified rib of the Lower Cretaceous, ( Nature conservation as early as 1932, 1965 natural monument, 1997 extensive natural monument) and Hirtenwiese (2000).

Area natural monuments are the Dalgenberg (1965), the Kuckucksberg (1965) and the Little Camel (1965, preparatory work since 1927).

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Westerhausen offers retail, craft and agricultural businesses, including the estate Klamroth with the associated farm shop, farm Friedhelm Konietzke with attached broiler operation and the wine region Saale-Unstrut belonging Harz winery Kirmann . As part of the regional, agricultural supply, there is a vegetable farm shop and a cheese farm. An NP market , a butcher shop and a local bakery serve to further supply the population . Medical care is provided by a doctor, a dental practice and physiotherapy. An outpatient care service has existed since October 2014 to care for the elderly and those in need. Additional services can be used by two hairdressers, a cosmetic and a nail salon.

The place has a privately run branch of the agency of the Deutsche Post AG. Until 2018 there was a branch of the Harzsparkasse , which since 2019 has only been used as a cash dispenser. A branch of the Ostharzer Volksbank e. G. was closed at the end of 2016.

A privately run pet cemetery has been in use since 1998.

traffic

The L 85 (formerly B 6 ) leads through the village to Quedlinburg or Blankenburg, on which two bus lines run by the Harz transport company ( PlusBus 230 Quedlinburg – Wernigerode or line 252 Quedlinburg – Thale). The old B 6 also represents the section of the Romanesque Road from the Michaelstein Monastery from Wernigerode to Quedlinburg. In the immediate vicinity of the village there is a driveway to the newly developed A 36 . In the village there are connecting roads to the B 79 (Harsleben, Halberstadt), to Warnstedt and Thale and to Börnecke. Westerhausen is located on the Harz foreland cycle path , which meets the European cycle path R1 at Neinstedt , and on the northern branch of the long-distance hiking path of German emperors and kings ( see above ).

In the vicinity are the Börnecke stop , the Blankenburg station ( Halberstadt – Blankenburg line ) and the Quedlinburg station ( Magdeburg – Thale line ), where the Abellio Rail Central Germany's regional trains stop. Quedlinburg is also the terminus of the Harz narrow-gauge railway ( Quedlinburg – Gernrode – Alexisbad ).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

People associated with the place

literature

  • Westerhäuser Heimatblätter . Hrsg. Heimatmuseum Westerhausen on behalf of the local administration and in cooperation with the Association for Local History and Nature Conservation, Westerhausen 1993 ff.
    • 1 (1993) Monuments in Westerhausen
    • 2 (1994) 100 years of the Westerhausen volunteer fire department
    • 3 (1995) The early settlement of Westerhausen (two parts)
    • 4–5 (1996/97) Documentary news on the history of Westerhausen
    • 6-7 (1998/99) small monuments around and in Westerhausen
    • 8 (2000/02) Landscape and nature around Westerhausen
    • 9 (2006/07) About waters and mills around and in Westerhausen
    • 10 (special edition, 2006) The contents of the tower button of St. Stephen's Church in Westerhausen
    • 11 (2008/09) Westerhausen. Rocks, stones, pavement
    • 12 (2012) Weg der Steine ​​in the area of ​​Westerhausen
    • 13 (2015) 25 years of the Association for Local History and Nature Conservation Westerhausen e. V.
  • Westerhausen . In: List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Vol. 7.2 - Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , pp. 246-251.
  • Denis Voigtländer: Westerhäuser Platt dictionary . 3. Edition. Westerhausen 2009.
  • Werner Körner: Legends and stories from Westerhausen and the surrounding area . Westerhausen 2012.
  • Ingrid Körner, Werner Körner: Westerhäuser Feldflurnamen and their meaning . Westerhausen 2013.

Web links

Commons : Westerhausen (Thale)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Schirwitz: The prehistoric settlement of the Hessen Mountains near Westerhausen , in: Annual journal for mitteldt. Prehistory , Vol. 41, Halle 1957, pp. 127-138; Berthold Schmidt: A burial mound field of the younger Bronze Age near Westerhausen , in: ibid. , Vol. 51 (1961), pp. 165–191, plates 16–24; Adolf John in Westerhäuser Heimatblätter 3 (1995)
  2. ↑ Walther Schulz: Merovingian finds between Ohre and Harz , in: Zs. Fd Prehistory of sächs.-thür. Länder, XII (1925) , pp. 80-87, plate XVI; Martin Prell: Findings and methods for routing , in: Excavations u. Funde , Vol. 23 (1978), pp. 266-270, Pl. 42-44; Bernd Feicke in Harz-Forschungen 22 (2006), Fig. 3 = Map after Prell (1982)
  3. ↑ Document No. 150 in Harry Bresslau and Paul Kehr (eds.): Diplomata 16: The documents of Heinrich III. (Heinrici III. Diplomata). Berlin 1931, pp. 189–191 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) Papal confirmations for the Reichsstift Gernrode 1207, 1227: in Ercstede (today wüst) et in Westerhusen sedecim mansos , cf. Hans K. Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode (= Middle German Research, Vol. 38), Cologne, Graz 1965, Regesten p. 130 ff .; Bernd Feicke: The preparatory work of the Reichsstift Gernrode and the kitchen estate of the Blankenburg counts in Westerhausen. The legacy of Uta von Ballenstedt , in: Harz-Zs. 64 (2012), pp. 13-21.
  4. ↑ Document No. 133 in Dietrich von Gladiss (Hrsg.): Diplomata 17: The documents of Heinrich IV. (Heinrici IV. Diplomata). Part 1: 1056-1076 Berlin 1941, pp. 174-175 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  5. ^ Hermann Lorenz: Flamländer im und am Harz , in: Am Heimatborn, supplement to Quedlinburger Kreisblatt, No. 345 (June 26, 1934), p. 1393 f .; Bernd Feicke: Abbey and monastery property in the Halberstadt archdeaconate seat in Westerhausen am Harz . In: Harz-Forschungen , Vol. 22 (2006), p. 246; Gerlinde Schlenker : Rural conditions in the middle Elbe u. Saale area from the 12th to the 15th century , Halle 2000, p. 57, note 28
  6. ^ E. Jacobs: Ulrich XI., Graf von Regenstein (1499–1551) , in: Zs. D. Harzverein 34 (1901), pp. 151-443
  7. ↑ Fig. In Ztg. Freiheit , Halle, October 9, 1956
  8. ↑ Bernd Feicke: The effects of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in the West Harz . In: Contributions to regional u. State culture of Saxony-Anhalt, no. 29, Halle 2004, pp. 41–45
  9. ^ Walter Möllenberg : The County of Regenstein at the end of the Thirty Years' War , in: Zeitschrift des Harzverein 54 (1921), pp. 51–58; Bernd Feicke: Westerhausen in the 18th century , in: Nordharzer Jahrbuch 18/19 (1995), pp. 123-132, Kt.
  10. ^ Westerhausen, a town or large village and office in the Principality of Halberstadt. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 55, Leipzig 1748, column 853 f.
  11. ^ André Schürger: A boundary stone from 1844 and the annexation of the Westerhauser Bruch by Prussia . In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt, Sonderbd. 4, Halle 2006, pp. 263–264
  12. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 215 .
  13. ^ Anton Ulrich von Erath: Codex Diplomaticus Quedlinburgensis , Frankfurt / M. 1764, Urk. V (the reference to the document was made by the History Section of the Martin Luther University Halle, but was already considered problematic by local historical research at that time), cf. Bernd Feicke, Adolf John: On the settlement history of Westerhausen. A contribution on the occasion of the 1050 year old first known documentary mention , in: Nordharzer Jahrbuch, Vol. 12, Halberstadt 1987, pp. 45–53, plate 3, especially p. 53, note 8
  14. ↑ Theodor Sickel (Ed.): Diplomata 12: The documents Konrad I., Heinrich I. and Otto I. (Conradi I., Heinrici I. et Ottonis I. Diplomata). Hanover 1879, pp. 89–90 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  15. ^ Leopold Schütte: The old monk lists and the traditions of Corvey , Paderborn 1992, Vol. 6, T. 2, pp. 93-94; Bernd Feicke: Documentary news on the history of Westerhausen , in: Westerhäuser Heimatblätter 4–5 (1996/97), pp. 1–2
  16. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  17. ↑ Adolf John: The war memorial . In: Westerhäuser Heimatblätter (6–7) 1998/1999, pp. 11–12
  18. ↑ Bernd Feicke: The coat of arms of Westerhausen , in: Westerhäuser Heimatblätter (11) 2008/2009, pp. 11-14
  19. ↑ Bernd Feicke: A Prussian round base stone . In: Westerhäuser Heimatblätter 1 (1993), p. 4
  20. ↑ Bernd Feicke: Baroque border fossils of the office (Reinstein-) Westerhausen… In: Westerhäuser Heimatblätter 6–7 (1998/99), pp. 4–7
  21. ↑ From Königstein to Königspfalz on the way of German emperors and kings, Ed .: Regionalverband Harz e. V., Quedlinburg 2007
  22. ↑ District map 15, Quedlinburg district, Halle 2001, 1: 50,000
  23. ^ Westerhäuser Heimatblätter 12 (2012)
  24. ↑ "Landgut Klamroth" in Westerhausen Cheese, meat and sausage from the region at mz-web.de, accessed on June 1, 2016.
  25. ↑ Broiler fattening is planned in Westerhausen at mz-web.de, accessed on June 1, 2016.
  26. ↑ Farm shops at Westerhausen-info.de, accessed on June 1, 2016.
  27. ↑ Trade at Westerhausen-info.de, accessed on June 1, 2016.
  28. ↑ Nursing Jeannine Hinze at pflege-navigator.de, accessed on 17 April 2018th
  29. ↑ Harzer Volksbank Only 14 of the 25 branches remain , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, accessed on January 9, 2017.
  30. ^ Pet cemetery at Westerhausen-info.de, accessed on June 1, 2016.