Buchholz, Thuringia

Buchholz is a municipality in the district of Nordhausen in Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community Hohenstein / South Harz, which has its headquarters in the town of Harztor.

• 3.1 Natural Monuments
• 3.2 Historical Monuments

Location

Buchholz is located at the coming of Stolberg and leading to Nordhausen country road 1037th north lies Herrmannsacker and south of the mountain in the age Stolberg Vorgebirgsbereich the resin.

History

In 1312 Buchholz was first mentioned. The farmers of the village were subject in the 1950s, the forced collectivization and formed after the collapse of the agricultural cooperative Buchholz eG In the village there is a retirement home and apartments.

Parish council

The local council in Buchholz consists of six council members:

• Volunteer Fire 2 seats
• Village Club 2 seats
• Hunting company 2 seats

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Culture and sights

Natural Monuments

In the immediate vicinity of the community is the Great Buchholz sinkhole, an emerging as a result of underground leaching of salt or gypsum by sudden collapse at the surface funnel. Also located in Buchholz Diabasbruch. As diabase refers to geological in the German language old, mostly Variscan, anchimetamorphe, vergrünte igneous rocks originally tholeiit - basaltic composition.

Historical monuments

Since 1984 a stele recalls on the village green to the victims of the death march of 400 prisoners of the concentration camp outside the camp Rottleberode, which was driven in April 1945 by members of the SS through the town.