Elend, Saxony-Anhalt
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Situation of misery in Upper am Brocken
Misery ( resin ) is a district of the city of Upper am Brocken in the Harz district in Saxony- Anhalt.
Geographical location
Misery lies in the resin ( high resin ) in the Harz Nature Park / Saxony- Anhalt, just outside the Harz National Park. It is located south of the Hohnekamm with the strawberry head, southeast of Barenbergs and north-north- west of Jacob napping on about 480 to 525 meters above sea level. NN in the valley of the Cold Bode, which is north of the village Elendstal called and is designated as a nature reserve. About 3 km west of the village lies the nature reserve Kramershai and southern directions extend parts of the nature reserve Harzer stream valleys. The north- western neighbor village is Schierke.
Local structure
In addition to the main town and the residential places almond wood and Wietfeld belong to misery.
Climate
The annual rainfall is 1116 mm and is in the upper third of the detected by the measuring points of the German Weather Service values . More than 90% show lower values. The driest month is September; most rains in December. The wettest month falls about 2.1 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the upper third. In over 91 % of all places in the monthly rainfall varies less.
History
The corridor designation under the elendischen way is mentioned for the first time for 1483. In a statement bailiwick of the Office Elbingerode ( resin ) of 1506/ 07 is then recorded under revenue: Innome of the Sagemoln the woes concerning forestry XII Mar [ k]. There are many indications that this sawmill has already passed some time before.
Not only the establishment of an ironworks in the late 18th century led to the emergence of the small settlement of misery. Already in 1619 insisted on the misery in Hartze, which were in the possession of the Elbingeröder incumbent Statius von Munchausen Hauss and yard. He sold that house along with yard and located it Wiesenplatz for 200 dollars to his faithful servant Sander groom of the Erichsburg. This groom is referred to later as a forester. He could here keep cows and cattle, brew beer and pour out to passers-by. Besides this forest house that was used as a dairy farm and referred to the sawmill must have continued to exist. 1731 this is fundamentally repaired because the Ehlendsche saw-mill for those to St. Andreas mountains aljährlich destinirten Bloche able to be kept.
During the 18th century, there are always details about repairs at this sawmill. The forester's house misery joined in 1763 by the family Theuerkauf who were the descendants of the groom, in the possession of the forester Johann Dietrich leader who together with accessories between November 1787 and February 1788 sold his house to the Hanoverian state. During the year 1781 was started the construction of a new steel mill in misery that was not far from the former forester house.
The first school was built 1796. 1818, the blast furnace was demolished and in 1863 the iron works was closed down altogether, so that the cottage workers were unemployed and the population dropped rapidly. Your only source of income was then forestry.
After the First World War came to tourism added a new branch of industry. In 1925 there were already 31,550 nights in the summer. Since 1899 drove the Harz Railway and in 1928 built a road to Schierke and Wernigerode ( Feuersteinstraße ). 1933 forest pool was opened.
At the cemetery, a war cemetery for a large number found in April 1945 of fallen German soldiers.
Until 1990 was misery directly on the inner German border.
On 1 January 2010 the municipality of misery ended with the communities concerned, stairs and fir, as well as the cities Elbingerode ( Harz), Hasselfelde and Benneckenstein (Harz ), the city Upper am Brocken together.
Development of the Population:
Coat of arms and flag
Blazon: " In red a silver tip coated with a growing of green arched sign foot fir tree. "
The municipality misery leads according to your main articles of association ( § 2 para 1 ) a coat of arms. The Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch it designed by a former official seal and led it in 1996 to the approval process.
The flag of the former church is under the statutes green-white, covered with the coat of arms.
Sons and daughters of misery
- Friedrich Krebs (1832-1905), first Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
- Hartmut Esser ( b. 1943 ), a sociologist, a professor at the University of Mannheim