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Elend is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the
Walther Grosse mentions fields ''under the Elend Road'' (''unter dem elendischen Wege'') for the first time in a manuscript of field names in the '' Amt'' of Elbingerode for 1483. In a '' Vogtei'' account for the ''Amt'' of Elbingerode (Harz) dated 1506/07 there is an entry which states: ''"Income from the sawmill at Elend in the Forest XII March"'' (''Innome von der Sagemoln zum Elende deß Forst XII Mar '). Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Magdeburg, Rep. H Stolberg-Wernigerode, H.A. A 33 Fach 1-5 No. 2, Sheet 12r There are a lot of indications that this sawmill had existed for some time before that.
On 1 January 2010, the municipality of Elend merged with the municipalities of
Elend is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz District
Harz is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its area is .
History
The district was established by merging the former districts of Halberstadt, Wernigerode and Quedlinburg as well as the city of Falkenstein (from the district of Aschersleben- ...
, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies in the Bode valley in the High Harz
The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German ...
in central Germany, at a height of . This part of the valley is known locally as ''Elendstal''. Elend is located near the former Inner German Border
The inner German border (german: Innerdeutsche Grenze or ; initially also ) was the border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990. Not including the ...
between West and East Germany.
Geography
About 3 kilometres west of the village is the nature reserve of Kramershai.Climate
History
Walther Grosse mentions fields ''under the Elend Road'' (''unter dem elendischen Wege'') for the first time in a manuscript of field names in the '' Amt'' of Elbingerode for 1483. In a '' Vogtei'' account for the ''Amt'' of Elbingerode (Harz) dated 1506/07 there is an entry which states: ''"Income from the sawmill at Elend in the Forest XII March"'' (''Innome von der Sagemoln zum Elende deß Forst XII Mar '). Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Magdeburg, Rep. H Stolberg-Wernigerode, H.A. A 33 Fach 1-5 No. 2, Sheet 12r There are a lot of indications that this sawmill had existed for some time before that.
On 1 January 2010, the municipality of Elend merged with the municipalities of Sorge
Sorge may refer to:
Places
* Sorge, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, a village and former municipality
* Sorge (Eider) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a tributary of the Eider River
* Sorge (Lake Geneva) in Lausanne, a tributary of Lake Geneva
* Germ ...
, Stiege
Stiege is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Oberharz am Brocken. Stiege has 1083 inhabitants (1-1-2010).
Transport
The village has a railway stati ...
and Tanne, as well as the towns of Elbingerode (Harz), Hasselfelde and Benneckenstein (Harz)
Benneckenstein () is a town in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it has been part of the town of Oberharz am Brocken. Benneckenstein is in the eastern Harz, 14 km southeast of Braunlage, and 24 km so ...
, forming the town Oberharz am Brocken.
Hiking
Not far from Elend is theHelenenruh
The Helenenruh ("Helen's Rest") is a 629 metre high rocky ridge near the village of Elend in the Harz Mountains of central Germany.
Today there is a refuge hut and rest area here, from which there are outstanding views over the village of Schie ...
, a rocky ridge with outstanding views, which is checkpoint no. 21 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network.
Notable people
* Friedrich Krebs (1832–1905), first chief apostle of theNew Apostolic Church
The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a Christian denomination, Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during an 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany.
The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Ne ...
* Hartmut Esser
Hartmut is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Hartmut of Saint Gall (died 905), Benedictine abbot
*Hartmut Bagger (born 1938), retired German general of the Bundeswehr
*Hartmut Becker (born 1938), German actor
*Hartmut Boockmann ...
(born 1943), sociologist, professor at the University of Mannheim
References
Sources
* Karlheinz Brumme: ''Elend. Chronik eines Harzdörfchens unterm Brocken'', Blankenburg, Wernigerode, o. J. 008* Dietmar Schultke: ''Der DDR-Alltag in der Grenzkompanie Elend'', in: 'Keiner kommt durch - Die Geschichte der innerdeutschen Grenze und Berliner Mauer, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 4. Auflage 2008External links
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