Greifenhagen

51.62916666666711.421388888889294Koordinaten: 51 ° 37 ' 45 "N, 11 ° 25' 17 " O

Location of Greifenhagen ( Arnstein ) in Arnstein (Saxony- Anhalt)

Greifenhagen is a district of the city in the district of Mansfeld- Arnstein Suedharz and has about 280 inhabitants.

History

Greifenhagen is actually a double settlement, which is located on the current flowing to the floor Wipper Bach. Aerial photographs clearly show the division of the settlement: in the north there is a pile village, the southern part is a typical double-line village in which all plots are located on both sides of a road.

The northern part, the upper village was, in a document of 1032 as Wyrinthagorod - mentioned - Wernrode. The southern part, the lower village was, in several documents from the years 1184, 1188 and 1387 Grifinhagen, Grifenhagen and Gryffenhagen - Greifenhagen - called. Both place names indicate about their ending to a rich forest cover at the time of inception.

Supposedly the place name grasping Hagens goes back to the legendary Grifo, the Saxons called reasons of their own vested interests, to rebellion against his half-brother, the Frankish major domus Pippin in 747.

In the Middle Ages Greifenhagen belonged to the barony Arnstein. In 1387 it came with the places Arnstedt, Quenstedt, Welbsleben, the castle Arnstein, Harkerode, Sylda and Bräunrode to the Counts of Mansfeld. Greifenhagen was never there own church was present, the parish to nearby Bräunrode.

Economically Greifenhagen was heavily dependent on the industries of only about 8 kilometers away cities Hettstedt, Mansfeld, and of course also from the nearby copper shale wells. Many people working in the Mansfeld copper and brass works, from which after the Second World War, the VEB Mansfeld Kombinat " Wilhelm Pieck " was. With the settlement of large-scale socialist industry by the THA after the German reunification in 1990, many residents grasping Hagens lost their jobs.

On January 1, 2010, the formerly independent communities Greifenhagen, Alterode, Bräunrode, Harkerode, Quenstedt, Stangerode, Sylda, Ulzigerode and Welbsleben and the city Sandersleben (Anhalt) merged to form the new town Arnstein. The administrative community Wipper - A, one of the Greifenhagen, was dissolved.