Mansfeld Land

The Mansfeld region is a region in south-western part of Saxony-Anhalt. As namesake of the region, the Counts of Mansfeld, who had lived in the area since about 1000 years served.

Geographical location

The Mansfeld region covers the west and north west, the eastern foothills of the resin and is limited in the eastern part of the Saale. North and south of the rural communities of the two former district towns Eisleben and Hettstedt form the boundary, while limiting the Mansfeld region from southwest to west Sangerhausen and the town of Mansfeld.

Until after the Second World War the Mansfeld mountain district formed ( approximately north- west of a line Annarode - Siersleben - Gerbstedt ) and the Mansfeld Seekreis ( southeast places above line) the Mansfeld region.

After the founding of the GDR, the mountain and the Seekreis were dissolved and transferred to the two circles Hettstedt and Eisleben, with smaller areas of the Mansfeld region fell in the west to the circle Sangerhausen and in the south to the hall circuit and to the circular cross- ford.

Since a new county government reform in 2007 is one of the Mansfeld region - after several years of independent district Mansfeld was - now the district of Mansfeld- South Harz.

In this expansion described above, it is identical to the former county of Mansfeld roughly.

Transport links

  • Highway: A 38, Göttingen / Kassel - Eisleben -Halle / Leipzig
  • B 80, Bad Karl port Nordhausen Hall
  • B 180, Wanzleben-Börde-Aschersleben-Hettstedt-Zeitz-Frankenberg/Sa.
  • B 86, Hettstedt -Mansfeld - Sangerhausen Straußfurt
  • B 242, Seesen - Clausthal- Zellerfeld- brown location -Mansfeld ( Hall )
  • Magdeburg- Hettstedt -Erfurt
  • Halle / Saale- Eisleben -Kassel
  • Klostermansfeld - Wippra

Economy

Situated close to the industrial area Halle- Leipzig and the characteristically industrial district hall belonging, the Mansfeld region was part of the most important industrial conurbation of the GDR. In particular, the copper mining and smelting of copper and its about 80 accompanying metals had it share. All copper -promoting, manufacturing and processing plants throughout the GDR were combined under the umbrella of the Mansfeld Kombinat " Wilhelm Pieck " which also ran the Mansfeld mining railway. Before that it was the Mansfeld AG for mining and metallurgical company.

The decommissioning of for nearly eight centuries operated mines and iron works meant a sharp break this monostructured Economic Area whose problems through the political changes of 1989 /90 were lower. The newly created business parks and the remediation of contaminated sites did not bring the hoped-for economic recovery by far.

Tourism

The region is located to the south of Eisleben Sweet Lake and the Harz mountains and the Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Mansfeld some good conditions for recreation and cultural tourism.

Since 1946, Eisleben carries the official nickname Luther city. This takes into account that when Martin Luther was born, shortly before his parents moved into the only a few kilometers away Mansfeld. Coincidentally, Luther died in his native city, where he was staying, to mediate in a dispute between the Counts of Mansfeld (the one branch in Eisleben, a town castle entertained ). Tourist attractions include the birth and the death house of the Reformer.

The town of Mansfeld was - in terms of Luther - always in the shadow of the larger Eisleben; However, after the political changes may Mansfeld Lutherstadt perform the additional name: Mansfeld Lutherstadt.

Today's trains running on the remaining distance Klostermansfeld - Siersleben - Hettstedt trains the former Mansfeld mining railway remember the formerly bustling operation of this narrow gauge industrial railway that connected all of the wells, many lodges and other premises of the Mansfeld- combine with each other. In addition to the extensive freight by far the mine railway also served the passenger transport - and primarily the worker - commuter traffic.

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