Alexisbad

51.649411.117325Koordinaten: 51 ° 38 ' 58 "N, 11 ° 7' 1" O

Location of Alexisbad in Saxony-Anhalt

Former rest home of the Deutsche Reichsbahn

Alexisbad in the Harz mountain range, is a district of the city Harzgerode in the district of Harz, in Saxony- Anhalt. It has 42 inhabitants.

Geography

Location

Alexisbad is located in the Lower Harz Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt. It is located 2 km west-northwest of the city core of Harzgerode to about 310-345 m above sea level. NN in the Selke valley, on the west bank of the Selke. Just above Alexisbad opens the Schwefelbach in the Selke, flows into the below the village at the monastery mill Friedenstalbach. Just southwest of branches leading through Alexisbad Federal Highway 185 from the state road 242. Northeastern Northern neighbor is the Harzgerode district Mägdesprung.

Districts

The districts of Alexisbad are: wire drawing, monastery mill, steel hammer and saw-mill.

History

At the site of the present Alexisbad the abbot Hagano founded the monastery Hagenrode 975. There was a daughter cell of the monastery Nienburg, the resort Hagenrode one of the oldest settlements in the Lower Harz. The monastery Nienburg received 993 of King Otto III. the right to establish a market and a mint in Hagenrode. This law was renewed in 1000. From 1000 it belonged to the protection Bailiwick of Adalbert of Ballenstedt, father of the first Ascanian Esico of Ballenstedt ( 990-1060 ). On May 24, 1179 it was used as provost of the Benedictines under the protection of Pope Alexander III. detected and confirmed in his possessions. However, the monks left the area later, to settle at Naumburg. During the Peasants' War village and monastery were destroyed in 1525 and the lands were after the Reformation to the Anhalt landlords.

To drain the Harzgerode mines of silver mining a tunnel was driven near Hagenrode, was recovered from the 1692 pyrites ( pyrite ). Due to inefficiency of the studs fell back later. Under Friedrich Albrecht took you from 1759 Pyrite recovery again to produce sulfur by distillation. In 1766 the healing power of water has been studied and because of its iron, Epsom salt and cooking earth content first used two years later for cures. 1772 bathing was discontinued due to lack of guests.

During the reign of Alexius, the water of the tunnel in 1809 was re-examined and recommended due to its content of iodine, fluorine and iron. The reinvigorated Kurbetrieb led to the creation of a Directorate wells, construction of a bathhouse, a casino, and eventually to the emergence of Alexisbad. Architecture and town planning to go back to the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel ( 1781-1841 ). Most famous Kurgast the nationally famous spa, bath and resort was 1820 Carl Maria von Weber. On May 12, 1856 of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) was founded in Alexisbad during a tour of the Berlin Academic Association hut. In the park in front of the SPA today remembers the 1993 erected a replica originally from the 1931 stele at this establishment. The original is since 1981 the seat of the VDI in Dusseldorf.

According to Schinkel's design also built in a style appropriate 1822 Swiss house was built. It was heavily damaged during the U.S. artillery shelling in May 1945, demolished the ruins later.

In the early 19th century was an open Sundays only casino who visited especially simple people with their minimum bet of 8 pennies. The operation was discontinued after the gambling ban by St. Paul's Church Assembly ( 1 in force May 1849).

The stones of the old village was exploited in 1870 to build the hotel monastery mill, which supplied electricity for Alexisbad from 1912. In the GDR, the plants were used as a holiday home.

The writer Walter Kempowski Alexisbad described in Chapter Harzreise his novel Tadellöser & Wolff, but the place was called " Sophienbad ". He described his childhood experiences during the summer holiday 1939 in Alexisbad where family Kempowski in the " Officers " lived as a holiday guests. This " Officers " has been preserved and integrated into a hotel complex.

Structures

A still got tea house of the former Duchess from 1815, was rebuilt in the 19th century with the Protestant Petruskapelle.

Station

Since 1887, the Alexisbad station makes the operation center of the narrow- Selketalbahn. Here the routes of Gernrode, Harzgerode and Hasselfelde meet.

The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB ) set here, in contrast to Harzquerbahn a no steam locomotives of the series 99.23-24, but many different maverick. A special highlight is a double junction of two steam locomotives, but takes place only in special trains.

Station building and goods shed are closed and no longer in use.

Outside the station there is a small bus station with four bus stops, which makes the Harz transport companies the larger towns and cities Ballenstedt, Quedlinburg, Harzgerode and Guentersberge accessible.

Tourism

The town's economy is dominated by tourism. In the village there are several hotels, inns and restaurants. Hiking trails lead into the surrounding scenic surroundings. Typical destinations are the engagement urn, Luis temple and the refuge Köthener hut.