Woffleben
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Woffleben
City of Ellrich
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '22 " N , 10 ° 43' 36" E
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| Height : | 215 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 459 (Oct 31, 2015) | |
| Incorporation : | April 9, 1994 | |
| Postal code : | 99755 | |
| Area code : | 036332 | |
Location of Woffleben in Thuringia |
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Woffleben , with its 459 inhabitants, is the third largest district of the town of Ellrich in the Nordhausen district ( Thuringia ).
geography
landscape
Woffleben is located in the southern foreland of the Harz Mountains . Zorge flows through the place . To the southeast of Woffleben, on the border with Lower Saxony , the Wieda , which comes from the west, flows into Zorge.
Locality
The townscape of Woffleben is particularly characterized by the village church of St. Johannis and the preserved part of the church wall. The church is a listed building. It was built on the orders of Frederick the Great and consecrated in 1752. Therefore a keystone above the entrance gate shows the FR (Friedericus Rex). The church has an "idiosyncratic floor plan". In the early days of the GDR, the church showed considerable damage and was closed. Since around 1980 it has been used again by the parish after being repaired and was thoroughly renovated after the fall of the Wall. The community belongs to the Evangelical Uniate (Prussian) Confession.
From 1683 to 1689 Chamber Councilor von Gladebeck, b. Münchhausen, build the manor house on the Amthof, which became a royal domain in 1718 and is still inhabited today. In 1777 Frederick the Great had houses built for 6 families on the street to Ellrich (today Street of Friendship 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29) - these were called colonist houses. In 1937 two advertising pillars were set up in the village , which still serve their purpose today. In the kindergarten, built in 1956, there is currently a doctor's practice, a hairdresser and the village community room. The consumer, built in 1974, was sold and converted into a commercial and residential building in 2013.
natural reserve
The karst-rich surroundings are protected by the nature reserves NSG 313 Himmelsberg (since April 2, 1996) and NSG 314 Sattelköpf (Hörninger Kuppen) (since April 26, 1996). On June 1, 2004, large parts of the district were included in the European network of protected areas of the Natura 2000 areas and belong to the project areas No. 004 Kammerforst-Himmelsberg-Mühlberg and No. 005 Hunnengrube-Katzenschwanz-Sattelkopf . On December 30, 2010, the Südharz Nature Park was set up, which also includes the district of Woffleben.
history
Archaeological finds near the train station show that there was an early settlement in the Iron Age (450 BC - around zero). The finds can be viewed in the Tobacco Store Museum in Nordhausen.
On May 13th 927, the Saxon Duke and East Franconian King Heinrich I, with the consent of his son Otto, gave, among other things, the interest in Wafilieba (Woffleben) in the Zorge Gau to his wife Mathilde as a widow's estate, the village was an imperial estate of the German emperors and kings. In 1140 King Konrad III received Wafeleiva (Woffleben), now part of the Walkenried monastery, was transferred back. In 1434 the manor Wafeleiben (Woffleben) was owned by Hans von Bula. The famous Broihan beer was first produced on the estate in 1526 according to the recipe of the Hanoverian master brewer Broihan. In 1593, Woffleben and Hörningen were pledged to the Count of Bodenhausen for 1,000 Rheinsche gulden .
In 1715, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia waived all rights in Nordhausen in a lease agreement and did not allow Woffleber Broihan beer to be sold in Nordhausen. In 1752 the St. John's Church was consecrated. The construction was ordered by King Friedrich II after he had visited the council of Woffleben, which at that time belonged to Prussia, in 1740 . During the Seven Years War on November 21, 1761, 500 Frenchmen of the Monett Corps marched through Woffleben, plundering. When French soldiers appeared again on October 17, 1806, the inhabitants suffered again from looting and abuse; After the county was taken over, in 1807 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Westphalia under Napoleon's rule and Woffleben had to pay 2000 thalers fire protection money.
During the time of National Socialism there was the sub-camp complex Project B 3a ( underground relocation of anhydrite for rocket production) of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp . The Anna prisoner camp was located on the former Bischofferode estate. A civil labor camp with around 60 barracks and several outbuildings was located directly on the Zorge in the direction of Bischofferode. These warehouses were built for the planned expansion of the Mittelwerk V-weapon production facility in Mittelbau-Dora in Himmelsberg. However, in February 1945, Henschel Flugzeugwerk AG received the tunnels for the construction of the Hs missiles 117 (butterfly) and 298 (typhoon). The project B 3b (anhydrite, hydra) in the neighboring Mühlberg of Niedersachswerfen was discontinued after only two months in October 1944. Many people died in the camps. The camps were evacuated on April 4 and 5, 1945, and the death marches went to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . After the US troops occupied Woffleben , the barracks were used by the Allies as accommodation for displaced persons , where they waited for their journey home.
In April 1945 the place was occupied by US troops . Based on the decisions of the Yalta Conference , Woffleben became part of the Soviet occupation zone at the beginning of July 1945 and belonged to the GDR from 1949 until German reunification . From 1952 to 1972 it was in the restricted area to secure the inner German border . During this time it was only possible to enter the village with a pass. The school, built in 1950, was called POS Fritz Gießner during the GDR era . After 1998 it was only a primary school and was closed in 2001. In April 1991 D. Copping from England became an honorary citizen of Woffleben; her great-grandfather was once a pastor there. In 1994 it was incorporated into Ellrich.
Economy and Transport
The southern Harz line from Northeim to Nordhausen has had a train station here since 1906. The road from Nordhausen to Ellrich was built through the town as early as 1846 . In 1933 a drinking water pipe was laid in the village.
In addition to agriculture, small businesses determine the town's economy. The watermill was shut down after the fall of the Wall and restored by the current owners. The small village smithy had to be given up for reasons of age.
In the area of the Himmelsberg nature reserve , the company BPB Formula Walkenried-Kutzhütte, the German division of the company Saint-Gobain Formula, has started mining gypsum . The adjacent Rüsselsee opencast mine has been dismantled for years and is owned by the Remondis company from Lünen (formerly Südharzer Gipswerk SHG Ellrich). The disused quarry Hohe Runde am Hagenberg only has a small remaining area; it also belongs to the Remondis.
The resident country inn has a small guesthouse and a large hall. The carnival program of the Kannenleeter Carnival Association is performed here every year .
tourism
Two cross-border hiking trails cross the district: the historic, 110 km long Kaiserweg from Goslar to Tilleda has been running through Woffleben for 1500 years . Since 2009, the modified route from the 200 km long, near-natural karst hiking trail from Förste to Pölsfeld has been crossing the Woffleber karst area.
Personalities
From 1885 to 1892 the theologian Robert Pasche worked as an assistant preacher or pastor at the Woffleben church.
Others
The Woffleber have the nickname "Kannenleeter", which refers to the fact that Broihahn beer was once brewed here and was drunk from cans with leed (lids).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures on www.stadtellrich.de ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Thuringia receives eighth National Natural Landscape: Southern Harz becomes a nature park. Thuringian Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, Environment and Nature Conservation, December 29, 2010
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Chronicle on www.woffleben.de ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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