Volkmarskeller

Volkmarskeller a cavity of the middle mountains resin with a once located next to the church near Blankenburg im Harz (Saxony- Anhalt) is called.

Geographical location

The Volkmarskeller is located in the Harz Nature Park / Saxony- Anhalt about 5 km west of the town of Blankenburg in the upper part of the monastery ground. It lies approximately at the halfway of the trail that leads to the Elbingeröder forest settlement Eggeröder fountain from Michael Stone Monastery and passing through the cave just below.

History

Around the time 850-870 lived in a hermitage by contemporaries highly respected recluse Liutbirg who has been a close friend of the bishops Haimo of Halberstadt and Ansgar from Bremen. Their hermitage was suspected until the 1930s in Volkmarskeller until Big Walther could prove that it was the monastery Wendhusen at Thale.

The church, dedicated to St. Michael next to the hermitage was 956 donated by Otto I the convent of Quedlinburg. The cave located near the imperial hunting Palatinate Bodfeld served henceforth pious hermits as accommodation, as is, for example, in 1118 reported the death of a presbyter Bernhardus solitarius de Laide sancti Michaelis. After several years of preparation since 1135 was performed according to the Annales Cistercienses on July 28, 1146, the official occupation of the cave and church with Cistercian monks from the monastery Kamp under the direction of Abbot Roger.

At the request of the abbess of Quedlinburg Beatrix II, Pope Innocent II in 1146, the monastery was founded and this already 1138/39 donated from Quedlinburg ministeriales Burchard goods in Mars life, large and small - Ditfurt, Sülten and other places (now mostly abandoned settlements in the near Quedlinburg ). Burchard joined the new Convention. In the period 1151 to 1167 the monastery was moved to Evergodesrode to the lower Talsausgang at the present site of the monastery Michael Stone.

The dilapidated cave were excavated in the years 1884-1887 by Baurat Brinkmann again and made accessible.

Pit Volkmar

Not far from the Volkmarsdorf cellar is the former iron ore mine Volkmar. Here in 1893 occurred an explosive blast, which was caused by the complicated handling of dynamite at temperatures below 7 ° C. The mountain club to Hüttenrode put 2007 buddy here who lost their lives a monument that stands at the driving and forest road between Eggeröder Fountain Volkmarskeller and the monastery Michael Stein at Blankenburg.

Hiking

The freely accessible Volkmarskeller is included as No. 87 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin.