Zellerfeld

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Zellerfeld Mountain and university town Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 53 ″  N , 10 ° 20 ′ 29 ″  E
Height :	560 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	1924
Postal code :	38678
Area code :	05323
Location of Zellerfeld in Lower Saxony
Bergstadt Zellerfeld around 1654/1658, engraving by Matthäus Merian

The formerly free mountain town of Zellerfeld is a district of the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld .

geography

Zellerfeld is located in the Upper Harz and lies north of the neighboring town of Clausthal . 17 km to the north is Goslar , 4 km to the east is Schulenberg in the Upper Harz Mountains . Festenburg can also be reached via a forest path . Numerous Upper Harz ponds are located in the district.

history

Cella was built on the old Harzstrasse (the predecessor of Bundesstrasse 241 ) on which the Cella monastery was also located. Along the street, it grew together with Clausthal over time.

From 1601 to 1789 there was a mint in Zellerfeld , the Zellerfeld Mint . A fire broke out on October 18, 1672, which almost completely destroyed the city. The former St. Salvatoris Church (predecessor of today's St. Salvatoris Church ) and Gottesackerkirche also fell victim to this.

The former district town of Zellerfeld merged with the neighboring mining town of Clausthal to form the new mining town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1924. This was expanded in 1972 to include the municipality of Buntenbock and from 1972 to 2014 it was the administrative seat of the Upper Harz municipality, which was founded at the same time . On January 1, 2015, the joint community was transferred to the newly formed mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

coat of arms

Full coat of arms of the former mining town of Zellerfeld

The coat of arms of the "Free Mountain City of Zellerfeld" has been in use since around 1570. It shows a soaring white (or silver) horse on a shield with multiple red and gold stripes. In earlier presentations this had five stripes, since 1973 seven stripes have been shown. The white horse, which is still known today as the Lower Saxony horse, was ridden by the Principality of Grubenhagen , part of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , in the 14th century . The colors yellow (gold) and red probably stand for the historical national colors of the Duchy of Braunschweig.

After Zellerfeld was united with Clausthal in 1924, the Zellerfeld district took over this coat of arms as its district coat of arms from 1929. After the district was dissolved in 1972, it became the coat of arms of the newly founded joint municipality of Oberharz , which became part of the newly founded mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld on January 1, 2015.

On an engraving by Merian from 1654, the full coat of arms of Zellerfeld is shown at the top left, as it is also used in a similar form by the Samtgemeinde Oberharz. On this the coat of arms is shown in a helmet bush, above this the white horse and mallets and iron as a symbol for the mining industry. Here, however, the positions of the mallet and iron are still reversed compared to the current representation. H. the mallet is on the right as seen from the viewer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Morich: The Upper Harz Churches in the General Harz Mountain Calendar for the year 1938, page 35-38
2. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 78-79 .