Timmenrode

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Timmenrode is a district of the town of Blankenburg (Harz ) in the district of Harz, in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geographical Location

Timmenrode is located in the northern Harz southeast of the town of Blankenburg (Harz ), on the state highway to the valley, branching off more roads to Wienrode on the main road 81 and the district of Blankenburg Helsungen of the in place. North West of the town extends the nature reserve and tourist destination Devil's Wall, the rock formations are emblem of Hamburg and cowshed popular destinations near Timmenrode. By Timmenrode flows the Jordan river.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 490 mm, which is extremely low, as it falls into the lower -twentieth of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 2% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 2.1 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies moderately. At 39% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Timmenrode was first mentioned in documents in 1199. The place was the property of the Counts of Blankenburg Regenstein, the extinct 1599, which Timmenrode passed into the possession of the Duke of Brunswick. Two heavy large fires destroyed the place in the years 1567 and 1723 almost completely.

By 1945 Timmenrode belonged to the Brunswick County Blankenburg, 1952 reached the place where the circle of Quedlinburg GDR district of Halle ( Saale). Only after the political changes of 1989 came Timmenrode to the district of Wernigerode, who came up on 1 July 2007 in the district of Harz.

On 1 January 2010, until then independent municipality Timmenrode together with the communities Heimburg, Hüttenrode, Wienrode and Cattenstedt and the City of Their castle in the town of Blankenburg (Harz ) was incorporated.

Partner community

• Samtgemeinde Heart Lake in the Emsland (since 1991)

Traffic

Through the village led from 1907 to the railway line from Blankenburg to Quedlinburg about Thale Bode Valley (known Quäke ). During 1973, passenger services were set, there was until 1993 still freight for the ironworks Thale. Once there was another special trips with a historic steam train in April or May 1994, was begun in the same year by the owner EHW Thale with the dismantling of the track systems of Timmenrode to Thale. The railway tracks towards Blankenburg can still be seen in some places today.

Exist with the Harz transport company bus links to the surrounding towns.

Personalities

• Christian Ernst of Windsheim from Erlangen died here on November 5th in 1766.