Helbra

Helbra is a municipality in the district of Mansfeld - South Harz in Saxony- Anhalt. The municipality is the administrative center of the municipality Mansfeld basic Helbra.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 flag
  • 3.5 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Museums
  • 4.2 Structures
  • 4.3 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Helbra is located about seven kilometers northwest of Eisleben.

Expansion of the urban area

Helbra with its 9.26 km ² is a relatively small community, by its small size and the greater extension of the village Helbra it has a moderately high degree of urbanization. By far the largest proportion of the area of ​​the municipality have fields and fields, followed by the proportion of the settlement area. Another corresponding proportion is covered by forest. The exact figures can be read in the table below. The proportion of water surface is small because it is only a little water except a few rivulets that were not counted.

Source: web atlas of the geoportal Rhineland -Palatinate, the information is freely nachmessbar.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Klostermansfeld and Benndorf in the north, Eisleben in the east, the south and Hergisdorf Ahlsdorf in the West.

History

1155 the village was first mentioned.

The name of the place was probably due to the location between Mansfeld and Eisleben. At the point you had made half the distance and also the increase of Eisleben by the thieves chamber. It was his goal so half ran, in Mansfeld dialect " helb ra". So the place name, the place itself is called today in Mansfeld dialect " Helwer " was born.

Helbras history of the last 150 years has been very much influenced by industrialization ( iron and steel works, copper mining, mine train). Of which today is hardly anything to see; only connoisseurs of history can explain the traces. The regional literature on this subject is revealing. After completion and shift towards Sangerhausen the industry is rapidly declining. The largest operation was the August- Bebel- hut, the largest and last Kupferrohhütte the GDR ( probably Germany ). Here the ore was the Mansfeld shafts, which usually contained just 1.5% copper, processed in copper matte ( 60% copper). This was then further processed in Hettstedt (former copper-silver hut) to pure copper. With the changes in 1990, the hut was closed. A landmark of Helbra, the Lange Heinrich ( of about 90 m high chimney), was also blown up.

Between Eisleben and Hettstedt was until 1922 a tram line, the so-called union web. The flat connection on the base villages allowed this route. For reasons of high maintenance costs, this compound was discontinued in 1922. Today only the railway embankments between Ziegelrode and Helbra and between Helbra and Klostermansfeld ( Sommerweg ) remember this tram route. The only preserved bridge is preserved in the area of ​​Neptune bath in Helbra ( passage to the gas station).

Policy

Parish council

The council is composed according to the local elections of 30 August 2009, 16 people. The 2009 local elections resulted in a turnout of 37.5 % to the following result:

Mayor

The voluntary and non-partisan Mayor Alfred Böttge was elected for the first time on 26 June 1994.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 22 July 1993, the regional council hall.

Blazon: " Argent, on a black ground, three green lime with black stem, wherein the mean lime the side partially covered. "

Flag

The flag of the municipality Helbra shows the colors green - silver ( white).

Twinning

A partnership exists with the community Finnentrop from North Rhine -Westphalia since 1990.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Home and mining trail, with a Malakowturm and the still intact Schmid bay.

Structures

  • The Protestant St. Stephen 's Church with a 1000 year old tower and a remarkable inner entrance door: this is not cut with the saw, but gebeilt.
  • Evangelical parsonage.
  • Remains of mining equipment.
  • The Catholic St. Barbara's Church.
  • Bad Anna and Neptunbad

Regular events

Every 2 years, on the last weekend of June takes place the Blasmusikfest of the Mansfeld region. In the intervening years, the summer festival is celebrated on the bathroom Anna.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • At the federal highway 180 which Eisleben and Hettstedt connects, it is 4 km to the east.
  • Helbra lies at the Berlin- Blankenheim Railway; from here went to the middle of 2012 trains continue from Klostermann field on the Wipperliese after Klostermansfeld; since mid-2012, however, the trains run only from Klostermann field after Wippra. The section of Helbra So thus excluding railways.
  • In Helbra is the crossroads of important historic trade route between Eisleben on the thieves chamber (steep and twisty increase ) over Klostermansfeld after Hettstedt and the connection between Volksstedt on the basic villages on Wimmelburg to Eisleben.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Wilhelm Spielberg (1826-1890), the Reichstag and Landtag
  • Heinz Schwitzke (1908-1991), author and editor
  • Fritz Schenk, (1930-2006), publicist and journalist
  • Dieter Montag (* 1949), actor
  • Norbert Bischoff ( born 1950 ), SPD politician
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