Gittelde is a village and a former municipality in the
district of Göttingen, in
Lower Saxony,
Germany. Since 1 March 2013, it is part of the municipality
Bad Grund
Bad Grund (Harz) is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the western Harz, approx. 7 km west of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, and 10 km north of Osterode am Harz.
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History
Gittelde was founded in the 10th century. In a document dating from 953 the place was mentioned for the first time, and a few years later market and mint rights were awarded in 965.
Sights
There are many well-preserved half-timbered houses in the center of the town, e.g. in ''Breite Strasse'' street, a comparatively broad street which might have been an oblong market as the town has never had a rectangular market place like other market towns. ''Lange Straße'' is another historic street with traditional half-timbered houses. Some houses have doors with colourful wood carvings.
St. Mauritius Church, which was founded in the Middle Ages, has a neoromanic nave dating from the 19th century. Its spire was built in a
baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
style around 1700. Inside the church a
gothic altar with wood carvings can be seen. St. Johannes Church which was possibly founded in the 10th century has a spire dating from 1660.
The railway station of Gittelde on the
Herzberg–Seesen railway line is a historic wooden building in the southeast of the town.
The ruins of ''Stauffenburg'' Castle are worth a visit as well. The castle was founded shortly after 1050. It was used as a prison until 1778 and as a quarry afterwards.
[G. Ulrich Großmann: ''Hannover und Südniedersachsen'', p. 190. Köln 1999]
File:Gittelde1.jpg, St. Mauritius Church
File:Gittelde2.jpg, St. Johannes Church
File:Breite Straße in Gittelde3.jpg, Half-timbered houses ''Breite Straße'' street
File:Lange Straße in Gittelde4.jpg, Half-timbered houses in ''Lange Straße'' street
File:Bahnhof Gittelde-Bad Grund.jpg, Railway station
File:Harz 003.jpg, General view of Gittelde
References
Former municipalities in Lower Saxony
Populated places disestablished in 2013
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