Schulenberg im Oberharz
Schulenberg in the Upper Harz is a municipality in the resin in the Samtgemeinde Upper Harz in Lower Saxony district of Goslar.
- 2.1 Population development
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 Sports
- 6.1 traffic
Geography
Location
Schulenberg is located in the Upper Harz Harz nature park. Its nucleus is located approximately 8 km ( straight line ) south of the central city of Goslar, west above the Okertalsperre to about 450-505 m above sea level. NN. The highest point of the area is the Schalke (approx. 762 m). In the north west, the landscape passes over ( 645.4 m) over the Little Wiesberg ( 512.5 m) to the Great Meadow Mountain. South-west of Schulenberg opens the giant stream in the fed by the Schalke arm of the reservoir.
Neighboring communities
Since Schulenberg is enclosed on all sides by unincorporated territory resin, it has no immediately adjacent neighboring communities. However, is located in the west of the county seat of Samtgemeinde Upper Harz, Clausthal -Zellerfeld. South of the Okertalsperre is the mountain town of Altenau, and the town of Goslar is with their district Oker at the northern exit of the Oker valley.
Community structure
At school in the Upper Harz mountain include the west of the core located small local districts middle school Mountain, Oberschulenberg and Festenburg.
History
The former Schulenberg was a former mining and smelting settlement from the 16th century. The place was divided into the districts of upper, middle and lower Schulenberg. A little above the town, the mines of the school Berger coalfield, were promoted was mainly silver, copper and lead. With the object of the pits, the last and most productive the pit Juliane Sophia was in 1904, the main economic activity of Schulenberg was in the timber. The forest workers' settlement was finally abandoned in 1954 and the building torn down to the ground to make the newly built Okertalsperre place. Citizens found west of their old home on the Little Wiesberg a new home. There, the present school mountain, about 60 meters located above the reservoir was created. From 1956 to the Okertalsperre was then flooded. The status of a climatic health resort was abandoned in late 2010.
Population Development
Schulenberg in the Upper Harz is the smallest by area and by population in municipality of Lower Saxony.
( From 1968: Status as at 31 December)
Policy
Parish council
The Council of the Municipality Schulenberg in the Upper Harz is made after the local elections on September 11, 2011 consist of:
- SPD: 5 seats
Two of the seven seats remain unfilled. The SPD received 100 % of the valid votes, as only they contested the municipal elections. However, their list included only five candidates.
Mayor
Mayor Detlef Henke.
Coat of arms
The school Berger coat of arms shows a blue below, concave surface, a 12 - endiges, blue antlers against a golden background.
Religion
In Schulenberg is the Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter 's Chapel, was built in 1956 and belongs to the parish school chapel hill in the parish of Harzer Land.
Culture and sights
Sports
On the Okertalsperre athletes can sail, surf, take canoe trips, swimming and pedal boating. In the village you can play tennis, in a practice facility golfing, also climbing and hiking. On the Great Wiesberg find mountain bikers ( bike alpinum ) and winter sports (ski alpinum ) with two drag lifts good ways to cross-country skiers will find in the entire region an extensive trail network.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
East of Schulenberg runs the country road 517, which branches off from the main road on Okerstausee 498 and from there get past Schulenberg and then to the districts of Central and Oberschulenberg about to the southwest to Clausthal -Zellerfeld; there is a bus.