Wiedigshof

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Wiedigshof
Community Walkenried
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : approx. 270 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 37445
Area code : 05525
Wiedigshof (Lower Saxony)
Wiedigshof

Location of Wiedigshof in Lower Saxony

Wiedigshof is a locality in the municipality of Walkenried in the district of Göttingen . The settlement is located directly on the border with Thuringia in southeast Lower Saxony on the southern edge of the Harz Mountains and is surrounded by fields.

geography

The following places surround Wiedigshof:

Itelteich

The Wieda flows through Wiedigshof , the water of which here in dry periods often completely seeps into the gypsum karst before it reaches the river mouth a few kilometers east-southeast near Woffleben in the Zorge . One and a half kilometers north of the settlement lies the Itelteich , which was artificially dammed by Cistercian monks from the Walkenried monastery and fed by karst springs. The Itelteich nature reserve also includes the adjacent forest area, the Himmelreichhöhle and several karst springs .

geology

Himmelreichhöhle

Geologically, Wiedigshof is located in the southern Harz Zechstein belt . To the north and northeast of the village are the Karst hiking trail and two abandoned gypsum quarries, including the Kahle Kopf .

Molded bricks from the Walkenried Gipsfabrik in today's brick format made of screed plaster are installed on a field barn in Wiedigshof, among other things. They could be from the years after 1870, when the oil mill was converted into a plaster mill.

Place name

The name Wiedigshof did not appear between 1140 and 1557. The settlement there is mentioned at this time as Hildeuuinesborne , Hildewinesburne , Hildungshoff and Hildingeshoff . Born ( -borne , -burne ) indicates the location at a spring or a well. In 1579 the name Vorwerk at the Wiedigesmullen (see section Pelzmühle ) can be traced for the first time . 14 years later the settlement itself is called Widingshoff . Between 1617 and 1803 it was mentioned as Widigeshoff , Weides Hoff , Wiedigeshoff , Widingshof , Wildenhoff and Windingshoff . It is often noted that it is the formerly Hilligeshof farm.

history

middle Ages

The Hunderode desert is assumed to be northeast of Wiedigshof and the Immenrode desert to the northwest. These two historical settlement sites as well as the deserted Ratheresrode should prove that people lived in the vicinity of today's Wiedigshof also outside the village of Walkenried, first mentioned in 1085, as early as the High Middle Ages .

Coat of arms of the Counts of Hohnstein

The history of Wiedigshof itself goes back at least to the year 1140. At that time the farm was owned by the Walkenried monastery . It was converted into a grangie by 1205 and later fell desolate. It was not until 1528 that the Counts of Hohnstein approved the reconstruction of the farm, presumably a little further east of the younger domain .

Hunderode desert

In 1129 Hunderode is mentioned as villam, que dicitur Hunderoth . The location about 1.7 kilometers northeast of Wiedigshof is considered unsafe.

Immenrode desert

The deserted Immenrode between Wiedigshof and Walkenried on the so-called Mauerwiese is mentioned in 1129 as a village and part of the Walkenried monastery foundation. In 1885 the foundations of a church were found here, the longitudinal axis of which extended in an east-west direction. The semicircular apse reached a diameter of six meters. The foundation walls of the transept, side chapels, pillars and walls of the side aisles were not intact, while the walls of the west portal were clearly recognizable and the length of the church to the center of the apse could be determined to be just over 26 meters. Whether it is remains of Immenrode cannot be proven beyond doubt. The place name is mentioned several times as Immenroth , Imminrode , Emmeroth , Hymenrode , Himmenroth , Ymmenroth and Ymmenrod until 1242. In 1557 and 1593 it appears on desert maps, so that the village must be considered abandoned by the 16th century at the latest. The ending -rode indicates a clearing site on which Immenrode was created.

Ratheresrode desert

This desert is probably also near Wiedigshof and is mentioned in 1132. Your affiliation to the property of the Walkenried monastery is considered to be certain. Here, too, the ending -rode indicates that it was created at a clearing site.

16th and 17th centuries

Fur mill

The fur mill is said to be the remains of the deserted town of Immenrode. The mill was north of Wiedigshof an der Wieda. It is mentioned between 1533 and 1740 as WiedeßMuhlen , Wiedigesmulle , Wiedigesmullen , molam pelliceam , Pelz Mühle and Pelz- und Windiges-Mühlen . The development of the place name shows that earlier mentions refer to the nearby Wiedigshof, before the name changed to Pelzmühle. The name Wiedigsmühle is older than the name Wiedigshof, which is why it can be assumed that the name of the mill was transferred to the farm and not the other way around. The younger name Pelzmühle refers to the processing of leather or tannery .

18th and 19th centuries

Coat of arms of the county of Klettenberg

In 1761, Wiedigshof is mentioned together with Neuenhof (today Neuhof ) near Bad Sachsa as the Vorwerk of the Walkenried office in the Upper Saxon Empire of the Holy Roman Empire . At the same time it belonged within the Margraviate of Brandenburg - the core province of the state of Prussia created in 1701 - to the County of Klettenberg .

Another mention of the settlement as a manorial Vorwerk of the Duchy of Braunschweig took place in 1843. At that time, Wiedigshof belonged to the Walkenried justice office within the district court district of Blankenburg and the judicial district of the higher regional court of Wolfenbüttel . It consisted of two houses and had 34 residents.

Second World War and the division of Germany

From 1939 to July 1, 1972, Wiedigshof belonged as part of the Walkenried community to the Blankenburg district , since its division in 1945 to the remaining Lower Saxony district , which eventually became part of the Goslar district and the Osterode am Harz district. In the latter, Wiedigshof was until the incorporation of the Osterode am Harz district into the Göttingen district on October 31, 2016.

Towards the end of the Second World War on April 9, 1945, three escaped prisoners of war were discovered in the hayloft of the Walkenried Forestry Office by the forester's son and the caretaker. This was reported to an officer standing in the yard, whereupon some soldiers wanted to investigate the tip. As a result, the prisoners fled towards the Wiedigshof. From the local road they were shot by a unit marching past and buried at the Röseberg but later reburied in the Walkenried cemetery. Nothing is known about the identity of the shot prisoners; they were probably Russians. No persons responsible for the act were identified and convicted.

On July 1, 1956, Wiedigshof was founded as a district of the Walkenried community in the form of a farming settlement. Until then it was a state domain .

In the spring of 1958, a refugee from the GDR was shot by the people's police on the inner-German border near Wiedigshof .

On March 6, 1959, in a watchtower of the GDR border police south of Wiedigshof, a people's police officer from the Rothesütte border company was carelessly killed by a rifle shot by a comrade on the street . This incident was partially observed from Wiedigshof by a West German patrol from the Walkenried Customs Border Inspectorate.

On April 13, 1990, the border crossing on the inner-German border between Wiedigshof and Obersachswerfen was opened initially to pedestrians and later also to car traffic.

present

Due to the small size of the district, among other things, there are no street names in Wiedigshof to this day. The house numbers  1–10 were assigned starting from the largest courtyard ( ⊙ ) of the town in the southwest along a side road branching off from the county road 424 in the northeast. The higher house numbers up to and including 16 , on the other hand, were assigned in a north-south direction to properties that are arranged parallel to the district road and to the west of Wiedigshof.

politics

Wiedigshof has neither its own local council nor a local mayor . The five-person local council of Walkenried is responsible for the local situation, which is elected by the residents of the municipality within their borders before November 1, 2016 without Wieda and Zorge but with Wiedigshof. In addition, the residents are entitled to vote for the determination of the members of the Walkenried municipal council within its current limits.

Religions

Wiedigshof does not have its own church or chapel and belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Walkenried in the provost of Bad Harzburg . The chapter house of the former Walkenried monastery is used for Protestant services.

The nearest Catholic church is also in Walkenried. The Holy Cross Church there is a branch church of the parish of St. Benno in Bad Lauterberg .

Economy and Infrastructure

Wiedigshof is characterized by agriculture. The scattered settlement consists of several courtyards and some single-family houses.

Transport links

Street

The location is on Kreisstraße 424 , which connects Walkenried in the north-west with the Thuringian state road 2067 between Obersachswerfen and Gudersleben in the south.

The next motorway junction is ten kilometers south-west of Wiedigshof at Großwechselungen in the municipality of Werther in the Nordhausen district on federal motorway 38 . Only about four kilometers southwest of Wiedigshof extending in a northwest-southeast direction B243 of bad lauterberg according Nordhausen , which also serves as an access road to the A 38th

Rail transport

The closest stations on the Northeim – Nordhausen railway line, also known as the southern Harz line and a few hundred meters north of Wiedigshof, are in Walkenried and Ellrich.

Public transport

Wiedigshof is one of the few districts in the Göttingen district that is not connected to local public transport by buses. As compensation for parents of school-age children, cost advantages are granted for the exempted school transport outside of public transport. The need for action to create a future public transport connection is only derived if the situation changes. Wiedigshof belongs to the tariff and traffic area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen (VSN). The closest bus stops in Lower Saxony with a connection to line 470 Bad Sachsa – Walkenried – Zorge– Hohegeiß - Braunlage and line 472 Bad Sachsa – Walkenried – Wieda are in Walkenried.

Attractions

  • The approximately 30-kilometer-long T3 themed cycle path - a journey through history - in the Karst via Bad Sachsa, Walkenried, Neuhof, Tettenborn and Nüxei also leads through Wiedigshof.
  • The Wiedigshöfer Norway maple ( ⊙ ) is registered in the directory of natural monuments in the district of Göttingen under the number  ND OHA00089 . It has a circumference of 4.80 m and is about 250 years old.
  • From the southern slope of the Kirschberg near Wiedigshof there is a view across the former inner-German border to the St. Petri Church in Liebenrode.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bricks made of plaster. Association for local history Walkenried / Bad Sachsa und Umgebung eV, accessed on December 31, 2017 (German).
  2. ^ A b Ohainski, Uwe and Udolph, Jürgen: Lower Saxon Place Name Book Part II - The place names of the district of Osterode . 1st edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 179 .
  3. ↑ Schönermark, Otto: The desert areas of the Harz region . 1st edition. Salzwasser Verlag GmbH, Paderborn 1897, ISBN 978-3-8460-0405-0 , p. 31 u. 33 .
  4. ^ Ohainski, Uwe and Udolph, Jürgen: Lower Saxon Place Name Book Part II - The place names of the district of Osterode . 1st edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 83 f .
  5. ^ Harzverein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde eV: Harz-Zeitschrift 2013: 65th year . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86732-159-4 , pp. 35 .
  6. ^ Ohainski, Uwe and Udolph, Jürgen: Lower Saxon Place Name Book Part II - The place names of the district of Osterode . 1st edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 85 f .
  7. ^ Ohainski, Uwe and Udolph, Jürgen: Lower Saxon Place Name Book Part II - The place names of the district of Osterode . 1st edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 132 .
  8. ^ Ohainski, Uwe and Udolph, Jürgen: Lower Saxon Place Name Book Part II - The place names of the district of Osterode . 1st edition. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 124 .
  9. ↑ Büsching, Anton Friedrich: New Earth Description: Which contains the Swabian, Bavarian, Franconian and Upper Saxon districts, Volume 3, Edition 2 . Bohn, Hamburg 1761, p. 2292 .
  10. ^ Kratsch, Johann F .: The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states: Part 1 . Eduard Zimmermann publisher, Hamburg 1843, p. 775 .
  11. ↑ Shooting of prisoners of war near Walkenried. Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, December 12, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017 (German).
  12. ↑ a b Bad Sachsa - history of a spa town (1946–1971). Horst Möller, accessed on January 1, 2018 (German).
  13. ^ Bad Sachsa - history of a spa town (1991-2010). Horst Möller, accessed on January 1, 2018 (German).
  14. ↑ GDR guards were killed through negligent use of the weapon - victims at the border who were pronounced dead. Eichsfelder Nachrichten, December 23, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017 (German).
  15. ↑ Border openings in 1989 + 1990 in the Harz Mountains and in the southern Harz foreland. Horst Möller, accessed on April 15, 2018 (German).
  16. ↑ Local transport plan 2017 Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen. ZVSN Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen, accessed on April 15, 2018 (German).
  17. ^ Regional plan of the Southern Lower Saxony transport association. ZVSN Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen, September 1, 2016, accessed on April 15, 2018 (German).
  18. ↑ Themed circular route "T3" - a journey through history - in the Karst. Outdooractive, accessed on December 31, 2017 (German).
  19. ↑ Norway maple in Wiedigshof near Walkenried - Baumkunde. Baumkunde.de, accessed on January 1, 2017 (German).
  20. ↑ Liebenrode near Walkenried - once "pearl" in the Hohnstein county. Echo on Sunday from 7./8. February 1987, accessed on December 31, 2017 (German).