Westerode (Bad Harzburg)
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Westerode
City of Bad Harzburg
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| Height : | 210 (196-247) m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 5.44 km² |
| Residents : | 1100 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 202 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 38667 |
| Area code : | 05322 |
 Westerode in Bad Harzburg
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 Aerial view of Westerode, November 2018
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Westerode is a district of the Lower Saxony city of Bad Harzburg with 1,100 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).
geography
Westerode is about two kilometers north of the Harzburg city center. The location is at an average altitude of 210 m above sea level. NHN on the north slope of the Butterberg and east of the Hornberg on the edge of an extensive arable landscape within the eastern Harzburg depression, the height within the village of 196 m above sea level. NHN on the northern edge of Westerode up to 247 m above sea level. NHN in the source settlement fluctuates.
The place is located with the Maschbach flowing through the place ( popularly : Bäckerbach) and the east tangent Kattenbach in the catchment area of the Schamlah and Ecker , a tributary of the Oker . The Radau forms the western border to the Harzburg districts Schlewecke and Bündheim .
Neighboring places
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Gut Radau Radauanger |
Vienenburg |
Bettingerode Lochtum |
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Mathildenhütte Schlewecke Harlingerode |
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Eckertal Stapelburg |
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Source settlement Bad Harzburg |
Ottenhai |
Local division
Mathildenhütte / Radauberg west of federal highway 4 and the spring settlement in the south are counted statistically in Westerode .
history
Early history
The oldest surviving document, in which Westerode is definitely mentioned, is the founding document of the Wöltingerode monastery from October 19, 1174. From comparisons with other places named long before 1174, whose names end with "-rode", historians conclude that the Rodedörfer originated in the 9th to 10th centuries. Westerode may well be 1000 years old. The first farms were founded along the Maschbach, as the naturally available water was the basis of life for people and cattle. Like the other villages in the Harzburg district, the village contributed to the Harzburg's catering and was therefore closely linked to the fate of the castle. In 1180 the Counts of Wöltingerode and Woldenberg were entrusted with the imperial fortress Harzburg by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa .
"1440" is the year of the little bell that hangs in the church tower. It comes from the old church in Westerode, which was called the chapel. It was located in the middle of the village on the east bank of the Maschbach on today's property at Krugstrasse 12. This chapel was cremated during the Thirty Years War . The site, which had been deserted for a long time, was rebuilt in 1657.
Modern times
From the year 1510 a list of names of the inhabitants of Westerode has been preserved. Earlier documents refer to the granting of fiefs of the Westerode lands to counts, monasteries and nobles. The oldest interest register of the Harzburg bailiff dates from 1548. It served the Duke of Braunschweig to record the extent of the property with the corresponding taxes and services in the individual villages.
During the Thirty Years' War , the first troops of the Catholic military leader Wallenstein reached the Harzburg office in 1625 . The Harzburg was not conquered, but the surrounding villages were badly devastated in the period that followed. The population tried to get to safety in the neighboring mountains.
The parish in Bettingerode went up in flames along with the church records of Westerode in 1641 . Until the end of the war, it was very uncertain in office because of the warring parties. Only around 130 people lived in the Harzburg office, 80 percent of the population had perished in the chaos of war. The bailiff Andreas Caspar von Uslar had the wall around the church that still exists today built in 1702.
In 1734 the church records of Westerode burned in the parish of Bettingerode . With "1773" the year is given in the weather vane on the church tower. In addition to agriculture and handicrafts, sources of income were the fruit and vegetable trade in the Upper Harz Mountains and Goslar . There was a quarry on Butterberg and a marl pit on Weißberg. The Westeröder had a privilege to transport wood to the salt works in Neustadt.
19th century
Today's village community center was built as a school building in 1817. Since 1568 there was a school in Bettingerode, where the older children Westerode went. The small children were educated by Westerode residents who knew how to write, read and arithmetic until 1817. The current church organ was built in 1843 by Johann Andreas Engelhardt , master organ builder in Herzberg. In 1861 the Mathildenhütte was put into operation in the Westeröder area. It was iron ore from the pit Friederike in Bündheim and pit Hansa smelted. After that, the houses for ironworkers were built at the Mathildenhütte.
In 1866 there were seven deaths in a cholera epidemic . The separation was completed in 1876. The previously small fields were merged into larger areas. This gave agriculture the opportunity to use the soil more practically and intensively.
The Heudeber-Danstedt – Bad Harzburg railway was opened in 1894, and Westerode was given a train station. The second school building was built in 1894 and is now part of the new school.
20th century
During the First World War , 25 men from Westerode were killed or went missing. The plaque with the names is next to the large memorial stone for both world wars south of the church. In 1922 a new classroom was set up in the former barn of the school building. In the same year, construction began in the settlement (today: Fasanenstrasse). The former bathing establishment was built around 1931.
During the Second World War , the village was largely spared from damage caused by direct effects of the war. At the end of the war, however, when the Muna ammunition factory in the Schimmerwald was blown up, many buildings were damaged. Westerode had 64 men to complain of dead and missing. Because during the war, many people are taken had who were evacuated from the big cities and then began the flow of refugees, the population increased to around 1500. After the Second World War was the head of Bad Harzburg gabbro -Steinbruchs Konrad Tonnies first mayor appointed.
In the typhus epidemic 1946–1947 there were around 60 deaths in Westerode. In 1955 the church got two new bells because the old big bell had been melted down during World War II. In 1959 the cemetery chapel was built and the old morgue was demolished.
The new school was built in 1962. The village community center, a library and the community administration were set up in the old school building. In 1964 the construction of the sewer system began and in 1965 the spring settlement was built south of the core town.
Incorporation
On July 1, 1972, Westerode was incorporated into the city of Bad Harzburg. Then the kindergarten was set up in the premises of the former municipal administration. In 1983 a large village community festival was celebrated, in which all local groups and associations were involved. Westerode was included in the village renewal program of the state of Lower Saxony in 1993. The first houses were built in the Kirchenfelde in 2000.
Population development
In 1578 there were a total of 26 farms in Westerode: three farm workers, four cart drivers or half-haulers and 19 köther . After the Thirty Years' War, Duke August the Younger of Braunschweig ordered that those who settled in the Harzburg Office should be free from all burdens for three years. This measure was very successful, so in 1699 there were no more uninhabited farmsteads in the entire office.
In 1758 Westerode had 39 farms. In 1798 the village had 46, 1813 49 and 1863 54 fireplaces. In 1900 there were 196 households and 78 residential buildings; since the beginning of the 20th century the population has remained relatively constant.
| Bad Harzburg-Westerode - population development since 1798 | ||||||
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| development | year | population | year | population | year | population |
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1798 | 328 | 2007 | 1131 | 2017 | 1079 |
| 1813 | 424 | 2008 | 1109 | 2018 | 1076 | |
| 1863 | 475 | 2010 | 1129 | 2019 | 1141 | |
| 1900 | 844 | 2011 | 1069 | |||
| 1925 | 879 | 2012 | 1073 | |||
| 1933 | 873 | 2013 | 1062 | |||
| 1939 | 1016 | 2014 | 1059 | |||
| 1950 | 1500 | 2015 | 1065 | |||
| 2005 | 1148 | 2016 | 1076 | |||
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Source: 1885–1939, value for 1950 rounded, from 2011, 2018 and 2019. |
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Thanks to new building areas, the population of Westerode continued to increase until 2014 and has remained constant since then.
- According to the development agency, the construction area Im Kirchenfelde Süd has been completely sold.
- Development and sales began in summer 2016 for the new Nicolairing building area with plots of 600 to 900 m² and an uninterrupted view of the Harz National Park . Development of the southern section began on January 28, 2019.
Infrastructure
With a discounter and a bakery, Westerode offers basic services for everyday needs. The Westerode primary school, a branch of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule , and a municipal day-care center with a crèche group, two kindergarten groups and an after -school care group are located in the center of the village .
With the Krodoland, Westerode offers a regionally relevant leisure offer with swing golf course , soccer golf , play golf and pit-pat . There is an indoor game room next door. Parts of the eastern Feldmark are also used for equestrian sports. Another sport offer is the hockey field in the forest area "Auf den Fuchshöhlen"; it was handed over to its destination on September 24, 1973. Since 2005, the Bad Harzburg Hockey Club has been using the artificial turf field in the sports park by the racetrack for training and games. The archery range of a local club is now located on the previous hockey field.
On October 15, 2018, the previously unused tennis hall was rededicated to a dream pin park and indoor playground "Kangaroo" with an investment volume of around 1.5 million euros. With an area of almost 2,350 square meters, it is one of the largest trampoline parks in Lower Saxony.
The Bad Harzburg solar park is located near the trampoline park .
traffic
The place has an exit on the four-lane federal highway 4 , which leads north in the direction of Vienenburg / Goslar / Braunschweig . The Bad Harzburg triangle is located in the Westeröder Feldmark and is the end point of the Bundesautobahn 369 and Bundesstraße 6 . Westerode is connected to Schlewecke , Bündheim , Bettingerode and the city center via district roads.
The bus route 821 (Vienenburg - Bettingerode - Bad Harzburg; regional bus Braunschweig ) crosses Westerode and its residential areas.
religion
The current church in Westerode was built as early as 1612 . From this year there is also a wooden plaque bearing the Brunswick coat of arms in color, followed by this inscription:
- "Hohestum pro patria 1612. [Glory to the Fatherland 1612] The Hochehrwürdige, illustrious, high-born Fuerste and Mr. Heinrich Julius (r. 1589-1613) postulated Bishop of Halberstadt and Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg , has by grace to this church building 600 guilders on Worshiped wood and lead. God Almighty bestow peace and eternal bliss on IFG and those same descendants. Anno 1612. "
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Inkscape value: (124733.53 px² / 1501177.21 px²) * 65.42 km².
- ↑ a b Source: City of Bad Harzburg, in: Goslarsche Zeitung : Immigrants save the population statistics , January 15, 2020.
- ↑ List of organs in southern Lower Saxony
- ^ Wilhelm Baumgarten : The larger Bad Harzburg . P. 55.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 272 .
- ↑ Bianka Beuleke: Chronicle Westerode. (No longer available online.) In: www.westerode.org. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 26, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Georg Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia . 1813, p. 118 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. wolfenbuettel.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ The district of Goslar at a glance. Numbers, data, facts. District of Goslar, December 3, 2018, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
- ^ City of Bad Harzburg: Living in Westerode . Issued and accessed on January 28, 2019.
- ^ Harald Meier, Kurt Neumann: Bad Harzburg. Chronicle of a city. P. 650.
- ↑ Scene 38: New jumping fun in Bad Harzburg . October 10, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
Bad Harzburg (city center) (with Ottenhai ) | Bettingerode (with Altfelder Krug and Gut Radau ) | Bündheim | Eckertal | Göttingerode | Harlingerode (with Steinfeld ) | Schlewecke (with Radauanger ) | Westerode (with Mathildenhütte and spring settlement )