Bad Grund

Bad Grund (Harz ) is a municipality in the western Harz in the district of Osterode am Harz, Lower Saxony.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 Sound
  • 5.3 Structures
  • 5.4 Natural Monuments
  • 5.5 Regular events
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geographical location

Bad Grund is located in the Harz nature park between Seesen in the north-northwest, Clausthal -Zellerfeld in the east and Osterode am Harz in the south. To the north is located on the main road 242 Hubichenstein and north-northeast of the road Iberg. By Bad Grund lead the Harz forester Stieg.

History

On March 1, 2013, the member communities of the velvet municipality bathroom closed base ( resin ) to the new unit community of Bad Grund (Harz ) together.

Districts

The six districts with the associated settlements and their inhabitants on June 30, 2013:

* With Tabernacles and pigeons Born

With ** Teichhütte

*** With Neuhütte and Oberhütte

Place name

Former place names from the ground were in the years 1317 Fundo, 1321 Grunt, Grunt 1322 1405 reason 1504 why 1505 basically 1505 and 1519 basically basically. It is based on the place name of reason within the meaning of depression. In the high - as in the Low German, this is equally attested, for example, Old High German "grunt ", Old Saxon " basic " for " ground, floor ". In North West Saxons, the word refers to a " deep, gradually expiring incision site ". Middle Low German it is called " grunt ", or " depth, Valley, valley, valley bottom " known. North German means " ground ", " a valley between mountains, a valley ".

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bad Grund is made up of 22 council women and councilors.

  • SPD: 11 seats
  • CDU: 7 seats
  • Free Wählergemeinschaft Bad Grund: 2 seats
  • Greens: 1 seat
  • Left: 1 seat

(As at municipal election on January 20, 2013)

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Anthony's Church is located in the center of the town on the market, the church belongs to the parish of Clausthal- Zellerfeld. In built in the 1950s settlement pigeons Born the chapel was consecrated on pigeons Born ( On Rösteberg ) on 12 June 1960.

The Catholic St. Barbara's Church was 1961/62 built on the Danziger Strasse. At the parish were also the places Lautenthal and Wild Man. On February 6, 2010, was profanation. Today, the nearest Catholic Church is in Badenhausen eight kilometers away.

The New Apostolic Church in Hübichweg 12 was shut down in 2007. The church building was sold and is used as a residential building. The closest New Apostolic Church is located in Gittelde nine kilometers away.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Mining Museum
  • Watch Museum
  • Cave adventure center

Music

  • Regular home evening ( Harzer folklore )

Structures

  • Evangelical Lutheran St. Anthony's Church
  • Hydro- compressors Tower ( mining)
  • Atrium (former Kurgastzentrum )
  • Albert Isenberg tower on the Iberg

Natural Monuments

Regular events

Easter fire on Holy Saturday, Pond in flames at the Dove Born, Walpurgis Night celebration on April 30

Economy and infrastructure

Bad Grund was marked to 1992 mainly due to the mining of metal ores.

Traffic

About the Highway 524 bath has a basic connection to the B243 to Osterode am Harz and the federal highway 242 to Clausthal -Zellerfeld and Seesen and therefore the Highway 7 Bad Grund can be reached by buses for public transport.

Until 1971, held here also trains the railway line Gittelde - Bad Grund.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Carl Giesecke (1854-1938), engineer and industrialist
  • Irmlind Berg ( born 1941 ), former Bavarian State Parliament (SPD )
  • Manfred Zach (* 1947), writer
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