Wild man

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Wildemann (disambiguation) .

Wild man Mountain and university town Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 37 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	520 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.34 km²
Residents :	786  (Jan. 9, 2018)
Population density :	235 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	38709
Area code :	05323
Location of Wildemann in Lower Saxony
View from Badstubenberg to the city center

Wildemann (1970)

Wildemann ( [ˈvɪldəˌman] ^{? / I} ) has been a town in the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld , Goslar district in Lower Saxony ( Germany ) since January 1st, 2015 . Before that, Wildemann was the smallest of the seven mining towns in the Upper Harz . The place describes itself as the little Tyrol . From 1972 to 2014 Wildemann belonged to the Upper Harz municipality .

geography

Wildemann is deeply cut in the Innerstetal , which winds around the Gallenberg at this point. Because of the narrowness of the valley, the village is very elongated and the slopes are built on on both sides. Only in the center, where the Grumbach flows into the innermost, is the valley a little wider. In the west, Wildemann is bordered by the Gallenberg, in the north by the Hüttenberg and in the east by the Badstubenberg, which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was already interested in because of its diverse rock formations. The slopes are made accessible by high-altitude hiking trails. From Badstubenberg, Johanneser Straße leads past old mining facilities to Clausthal-Zellerfeld . A long high-altitude hiking trail runs over the Hüttenberg towards Lautenthal . Other hiking trails lead to Bockswiese and along the mirror valley to Erbprinzentanne on federal road 241 . Most of these hiking trails are also passable by mountain bike and serve as cross-country trails in winter. The Harzer Försterstieg also runs through Wildemann.

history

Wildemann around 1650

Wildemann was founded in 1529 by miners from the Ore Mountains . This had the contract for the Guelph Dukes to mining in the Harz take on a larger scale again. The forecast after they sighted a while penetration into the inhospitable Innerstetal Wilden Mann , who with a savage lived wife. His traces were located exactly where the largest ore deposits were. Attempts to catch him have failed. Nor did he respond to calls. Eventually he was shot at with arrows, which injured him so much that he could be captured. In captivity he neither spoke nor was he persuaded to work; he only seemed to be interested in the deposits of the ore. When it was decided to take him to the Duke, he died of gunshot wounds. Large silver deposits were found at the place where the Wilde Mann was caught, and that is where Wildemann was founded.

Silver was first extracted from raw ore in 1533 at the Wildemanns Fundgrube mine , which was built on Badstubenberg . In the years that followed, mining was intensified, the Stuffenthaler Gangzug running in the direction of Zellerfeld was built and several pits were dug there. The Spiegelthaler Zug, which runs to the east, was also opened up. In this shaft, the Harz driving art was used for the first time in 1833 , which made it much easier for the miners to drive in. In 1553 Wildemann was granted mountain freedom . In 1534 Wildemann was promoted to town. In 1574 Wildemann had 995 inhabitants. Like many other villages in the area, Wildemann also suffered from the Thirty Years' War . After Tilly's troops raided the mountain town of Lautenthal , 100 of them reached Wildemann in 1626, which they then captured and plundered.

In 1875, the town was opened up to rail traffic with the Innerstetalbahn , after a 278 m long tunnel had been created through the Gallenberg. At first, Wildemann did not have a corresponding reception building: after the construction of a new access road - today's Bahnhofstrasse - it was not completed until 1879 and significantly expanded in 1904. This railway line was closed in 1977.

The development of the health resort was mainly promoted by the doctor and mayor Viktor Zachariae (1837–1900). In 1873 Wildemann was recognized as a Kneipp spa . Wildemann had the status of a Kneipp and climatic health resort until the end of 2010. Mining came to a standstill in the last Ernst-August mine in 1924. Old gangways in the other mines opened up by Wildemann were abandoned as early as the 19th century. The townscape is characterized by a large number of miners' houses from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Incorporations

On January 1, 2015, the Upper Harz municipality and its affiliated municipalities, Bergstadt Clausthal-Zellerfeld , Bergstadt Altenau , Bergstadt Wildemann and Schulenberg im Oberharz, were dissolved by state law and the new mining and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld was formed from the previously independent municipalities.

Population development

Population development from 1821 to 2018

year Residents source 1574 0995 1820 0985 1830 1108 1848 1242 1861 1292 1871 1276 1885 1381 1905 1407 1910 1560 1917 1258 1925 1453

year Residents source 1933 1419 1939 1392 1946 2089 1950 2088 1956 1817 1961 1725 1968 01700 ¹ 1970 01506 ¹ 1973 1520 1975 01446 ¹

year Residents source 1980 1416 ¹ 1985 1368 ¹ 1990 1377 ¹ 1995 1365 ¹ 2000 1190 ¹ 2005 1146 ¹ 2010 1052 ¹ 2014 0911 ¹ 2018 786 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

Local council election 2015

Turnout: 59.35%

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

52.34%

29.36%

14.75%

3.52%

SPD

CDU

FDP

Green

Local council

Since the incorporation into the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Wildemann has a local council , which was elected on April 26, 2015 and consists of five council members as follows (change to the 2011 city council election).

• SPD : 3 seats (−2)
• CDU : 1 seat (−2)
• FDP : 1 seat (± 0)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Arno Schmidt (SPD).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red on green floor standing a naked wild man with green foliage wreath which a leaping silver Ross who left laying on the back; with his right hand he is holding arooted green fir growing out of the ground. "

Justification for the coat of arms: Klemens Stadler says in his book: “In 1534 the mining site was declared a free mining town. According to the year in the romanization of the later city seals of 1627 and 1739, it received the seal right in 1548. The seals show the Lower Saxony horse , which has been used as a badge by the Welfenhaus since the 14th century , standing in front of him the wild man with a tree. The heraldic image, which is also common in other mining areas, speaks for the place name; it was also a general symbol for the Harz, as evidenced by the Wildemannstaler in the old Upper Harz mints. The man behind the horse has appeared in literature since the 19th century. "

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The 8,800 m long 19-Lachter tunnel , which was laid out in the 16th century, is one of the oldest accessible mining facilities in Upper Harz mining. In addition to the water solution tunnel, this visitor mine houses various machines from the beginning of the 20th century. There is also a view of the deep Ernst August shaft.
• The Protestant Maria Magdalenen Church, consecrated in 1915, is an authentic reconstruction of the previous church that burned down in 1914 and was built in 1541 in half-timbered style.
• In the south of Wildemann on Bahnhofstrasse, the former station building, inaugurated in 1879 and expanded in 1904, has been preserved, which was built at 408  m . From here you can still see the entrance to the 278 m long railway tunnel through the 460  m high Gallenberg. Between the Gallenberg and the former station grounds, Wildemann's main street, Clausthaler Straße, was bridged by a viaduct, which was removed after the railway line was closed. The local fire brigade is now located in the former station building.

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  Bronze statue of the "Wild Man" in front of the former town hall

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  Wildemann meanders along the innermost

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  The innermost part flows openly through Wildemann

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  View of the town center from Badstubenberg

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  The Maria Magdalenen Church

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  Former train station

Farm with old breeds of farm animals

The mountain farm Klein Tirol, located on the outskirts, has dedicated itself to the breeding and conservation of traditional livestock . The races Red Höhenvieh , Harz goat and the Harz fox , a breed of dog, are bred on the farm. They are on the red list and the farm is one of the ark farms listed by the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Domestic Animal Breeds . The farm became known through the farmer Wolfgang Beuse , who was the last Wildemann farmer to take care of the local agricultural tradition. The farm is open to visitors, especially for the traditional Harz cattle drive (Pentecost Sunday) or for the shepherds' meeting on the harvest festival . Farmer Beuse and his farm are also the focus of the 92-minute documentary Wilde (r) mann, produced by Roswitha Ziegler for Arte and ZDF in 2009 .

Green spaces and recreation

There is an outdoor swimming pool , a spa park as well as a glow golf course and mini golf in the village . There is also the "Hundewald", a year-round open-air area for dogs. Wildemann is surrounded by a variety of hiking trails.

societies

• One of the sports clubs is the TSG (gymnastics and sports community), which offers a wide range of sports

Panoramas

Economy and Infrastructure

media

Because of its location in a narrow valley, TV reception in Wildemann was very difficult for a long time. In the 1970s there were several television converters on the hills overleaf. Wildemann was one of the first places in Germany to be opened up by cable television in the early 1980s. Until 2013, Wildemann was one of the few DVB-T converters in Germany with the Wildemann transmitter . With an output of 5 watts, it was the weakest German DVB-T transmitter.

education

There is a primary school in Wildemann .

traffic

Wildemann has a connection to the federal highway 242 via the country road 515 . Wild man with buses of public transport to reach (line 831 of the RBB ).

Until 1976, Innerstetalbahn trains stopped at Wildemann station . A year later it was discontinued and dismantled.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Helmut Kleinicke (1907–1979), civil engineer and rescuer of the Jews

Web links

Commons : Wildemann  - Collection of Images

• Web presence of the mountain town Wildemann
• View of the mountain town of Wildemann Private website
• Carl Grote: Chronicle of the mountain town Wildemann
• Link catalog on the subject of Wildemann at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.8 MB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1440 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2014, accessed on April 29, 2020 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Budget 2018. (PDF; 6.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Clausthal-Zellerfeld. January 9, 2018, p. 231 , archived from the original on November 19, 2018 ; accessed on April 29, 2020 .  
3. ^ Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Wildemann . In: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Hrsg.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Western Harz, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Osterode, Seesen . tape 36 . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-8053-0305-X , p. 171 f .
4. ^ Ducker and Humboldt (eds.): Writings on economic and social history . 1966, p. 169 .
5. ↑ Wilhelm Görges (ed.): Patriotic stories and memorabilia of the past . Meinecke, Braunschweig 1844, p. 243 .
6. ↑ Evert Heusinkveld: The Innerstetal train Langelsheim - Altenau. Nordhorn 2007, p. 71.
7. ↑ Lower Saxony State Parliament, 16th electoral period, printed matter 16/3359: Small question What is the significance of predicates such as “state-approved climatic health resort” especially for heather tourism and the tourism industry in Lower Saxony? (PDF; 102 kB) . Retrieved March 23, 2011.
8. ^ Law on the rebuilding of the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, district of Goslar . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  21/2014 . Hanover October 22, 2014, p. 299 , p. 13 ( digitized version [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on November 9, 2019]).
9. ^ Ducker and Humboldt (eds.): Writings on economic and social history . 1966, p. 169 .
10. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann : About the current condition and importance of the Hanoverian Harz . Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1832, p.  56 ( digitized in Google Book Search [accessed April 29, 2020]).
11. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities in Germany 1900 - Zellerfeld district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .  
12. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Zellerfeld district ( see under: No. 14 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
13. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  172 ( digitized version ).
14. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 57 , district of Goslar ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on April 29, 2020]).
15. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on April 29, 2020 .  
16. ↑ Result of the election to the local council of the mining town Wildemann (PDF)
17. ↑ Announcement of the election results of the Wildemann local council elections (PDF)
18. ↑ Local council of the town of Bergstadt Wildemann on the website of the mining and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld , accessed on April 15, 2018.
19. ↑ ^{a b} Klemens Stadler : German coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany . The municipal coats of arms of the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. tape 5 . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1970, p. 83 .
20. ↑ Evert Heusinkveld: The Innerstetal train Langelsheim - Altenau. Nordhorn 2007, p. 15.
21. ↑ List of the GEH -Arche-Höfe [1] , accessed on October 1, 2015
22. ↑ Information pages on Harz cows, Harz goats and Harzer shepherds
23. ^ Report of the taz from December 4, 2009 on Wolfgang Beuse
24. ↑ Glowgolf Harz, Wildemann at glowgolfharz.de
25. ^ Educational institutions on the website of the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld , accessed on December 10, 2017.