Wieda

Wieda is a municipality in the district of Harz in Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony. Wieda is part of Walkenried.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Location

Wieda is located in the southern Harz north of Bad Sachsa the Harz nature park. The village road extends in a north-south direction to nearly 7 km length in the tree- forest valley of the river Wieda to about 320 to 460 m above sea level. NN. Northwest of Wieda rises the highest mountain in the southern Harz, the Stöberhai (approx. 720 m ) north of the first hunting head ( 602.1 m), east of the second head hunting ( 603.1 m) and southwest of the Ravens mountain (about 659 m ).

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities of Wieda are:

  • Bad Sachsa (8 km)
  • Direction of adjustment (10 miles)
  • Brown layer (17 miles)
  • Benneckenstein (17 miles)
  • Bad Loud Mountain (20 miles)
  • Zorge (4 km)
  • Walk Ried (5 km)

History

In connection with the monastery founded in 1127 Walkenried Wieda was first mentioned as a smelter of this monastery. A place Wieda but there was not until the 16th century. Only through the mountain freedom of the Counts of Hohenstein (1521 ) the possibility for the settlement was created. After the suppression of the peasant uprising of 1525 attracted rebellious peasants by the Thuringia in the Harz Mountains, where they guaranteed the mountain freedoms personal safety. Greater recovery took the place after 1569 cinnabar mine sun shine was abundant yield of mercury. An iron smelter in Wieda is attested for the first time in 1562, whose meaning is related closely with the mining of iron ore from the Kirchberg transition in Kastental. At the beginning of the 17th century at the time of the highest furnace was built in brunswick -blank burg resin with a height of 6.84 m. 1610, the first church was built in Wieda 1662 came the first pastor here after a schoolmaster worked since 1640. The Thirty Years' War made the entire mine being in Wieda an end and the village impoverished.

1778 the present church was consecrated and built at the same time the free-standing bell tower on the opposite mountain cheese, so the bells could be heard throughout the valley.

In the 19th century, many Wiedaer emigrated to America, because since the beginning of the century began a decline in the iron industry and a general economic decline. This also meant that you broke the meantime renewed blast furnace in 1863. Under the leadership of Mr. Preen, the workers finally helped himself and ran a hut as a productive co-operative, which gained fame through the Wieda ovens manufactured here and their operation was eventually discontinued in 1972. The grounds of the Wiedaer hut burned in a major fire on 23 July 1973, almost completely and was remodeled in 1975 to a park with tennis hall.

1899 was primarily to strengthen the economy, the narrow-gauge railway built Walkenried-Braunlage/Tanne that Wieda association with the station located at the southern Harz route Walkenried. The train crossed the entire site along the river with the four breakpoints Wieda -South ( match factory ), Wieda, Wiedaer cottage and station Stöberhai. The railway ceased operation in 1963 and dismantled the tracks. 2007, a bicycle and hiking trail was built on the old railway line.

Policy

Parish council

The council is composed of 11 women council and councilors.

  • SPD: 5 seats
  • CDU: 4 seats
  • Individual candidate Arthur Liebetruth: 1 seat
  • Left: 1 seat

Tourism

Since the end of the 19th century, tourism was part of the main industry of the town, which reached its peak in the 1960s and 70s. Many Berliners had here during the time of the Berlin Wall to her holiday home. Due to the competition from cheaper international travel the tourist operation has decreased markedly again. This was once the largest hotel of the place to green fir has been closed for several years and expire. Likewise, the traditional mountain hotel Stöberhai was not rebuilt after a major fire in 1980 again.

Until the end of 2010 Wieda was healing climatic renowned spa resort.

In the former Stöberhai station there is a forest restaurant with daily wildlife feeding.

Traffic

Until the 1960s, ran right through Wieda the southern Harz narrow gauge railway, but which was decommissioned in 1963. Today Wieda is connected via the bus line 472 of Hahnemann Travel with Walk Ried and Bad Sachsa, however, which only runs from Monday to Saturday.

From Wieda from the country road runs to Walkenried and Zorge.

Museums

In Wieda there since 2005, the glass and steel museum in the former town hall in the Otto - Haberlandt - Straße 49, in the economic history of the town is documented in the fields of glass industry as well as mining and smelting.

In a room of the elementary school ( kindergarten today ) Schulstraße 6 is a small museum of the dissolved telecommunications sector C of the Bundeswehr is set up on the Stöberhai, can be seen on the Stöberhai in the facilities of the former radar tower since 2006.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Heinrich Häberlin (1799-1866), Prussian court architect
  • Otto Haberlandt (1922-1990), politician ( SPD)
  • Guido Neumann (1932-2009), lawyer and TV judge
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