Wienrode

Wienrode City of Blankenburg (Harz)
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	233 m above sea level NN
Area :	13.89 km²
Residents :	799  (Feb. 15, 2018)
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	38889
Area code :	03944

Wienrode, corner building Mühlenstrasse / Lange Strasse

Wienrode is a district of the town of Blankenburg (Harz) in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

Wienrode is located in the northern Harz , about 4 km southeast of the town of Blankenburg (Harz) , on the road to Treseburg , which branches off from the federal road 81 . There are also road connections to Cattenstedt and Timmenrode .

The nature reserve and excursion destination Teufelsmauer extends north of the village and the Bodetal and the Roßtrappe lie to the south .

history

According to the chronicle on the municipality's official website, Wienrode is said to have been mentioned in 1139 when the St. Johann monastery in Halberstadt received a piece of forest near the town. The corresponding document actually refers to the Wigenrode desert west of Stötterlingenburg. The actual first mention of Wienrode has not yet been researched. At Wienrode there was a mining of brown coal.

Wienrode was in April 1945 in the Harz basin, which was still defended by the Wehrmacht against the US Army . On April 20, around 1,000 German soldiers surrendered in and near Wienrode. There was a massacre. Colonel Grassau and a group of his staff went unarmed in the open to meet the US troops in order to surrender. Residents of the village then found him - shot in the head - and 16 other German soldiers shot. They were buried in the Wienrode cemetery. A boulder bears their name.

At the beginning of July 1945, Wienrode was also incorporated into the Soviet Occupied Zone SBZ , from which the GDR emerged in 1949.

In 1952 the place came to the Wernigerode district of the GDR district of Magdeburg .

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent municipality of Wienrode was incorporated into the city of Blankenburg (Harz) together with the municipalities of Heimburg , Hüttenrode , Cattenstedt and Timmenrode and the city of Derenburg .

badges and flags

Blazon : "Diagonally divided by silver over red, above a diagonal green branch with three green leaves and two hanging red cherries, below a diagonal, four-ended silver antler rod bent to the left."

In 1997 the municipal council of Wienrode commissioned the Magdeburg local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch to develop an insignia. Until then, Wienrode did not have an officially approved coat of arms, but used one and included it in the official seal. However, this coat of arms was neither correctly depicted nor approved by the state. It was therefore a resolution of March 20, 1997 by the municipality to include the previously used cherry symbolism in the newly designed coat of arms. This symbol is associated with the cherry cultivation that has been practiced for generations in and around Wienrode. It was also decided to lead a deer pole in the diagonally split shield in relation to the Counts of Regenstein and Blankenburg.

The flag of the former municipality of Wienrode is a white and red stripe flag (1: 1) with the municipality's coat of arms.

traffic

There are bus connections to the surrounding towns in the direction of Thale , Blankenburg , Wernigerode , Altenbrak , Treseburg and Benneckenstein . There is also a connection from Blankenburg to the Deutsche Bahn in the direction of Halberstadt via the Halberstadt – Blankenburg railway line .

Forsthaus Eggerode

Forsthaus Eggerode

The former forester's house Eggerode belongs to Wienrode, which the German Pathfinder Association Sankt Georg (DPSG) acquired from the Treuhandanstalt in 1991 and which today serves as the diocesan center of the DPSG in the diocese of Magdeburg . At the time of the GDR there was a local recreation facility for the VEB Städtischer Nahverkehr Halberstadt on the grounds of the forester's house .

Web links

Commons : Wienrode  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Möller: The fight for the Harz. April 1945 . Rockstuhl-Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2011. p. 291. ISBN 978-3-86777-257-0
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010