Mansfeld Land
Mansfeld Land (
Geography
In the west and northwest, Mansfeld Land covered the eastern foothills of the
Until the
After the foundation of East Germany, these 2 counties were disbanded and transferred to the counties of Hettstedt and Eisleben, small areas of Mansfeld Land in the west went to Sangerhausen and in the south to Saalkreis and Querfurt.
Since the county reform of 2007, Mansfeld Land – after several years as the independent county of
The extent of Mansfeld Land described above is roughly identical with the former County of Mansfeld.
Transport links
- Motorway: A 38 Göttingen/Kassel – Eisleben – Halle/Leipzig
- Federal highways:
- Railway:
- Magdeburg – Hettstedt – Erfurt
- Halle/Saale – Eisleben – Kassel
Economy
Located not far from the
The closure of mines and smelteries that had been working for almost eight hundred years resulted in an abrupt change to this monostructured economic area whose problems were exacerbated by the political changes of 1989/90. And newly created business parks and the remediation of contaminated sites did not bring the expected economic recovery.
Tourism
The region has the right environment for recreational and cultural tourism around the lake of Süßer See south of Eisleben and in the Harz Foreland and the Luther memorial sites in the Lutheran towns of Eisleben and Mansfeld.
Since 1946 the town of Eisleben has had the official "nickname" of the Luther town (Lutherstadt). That takes into account the fact that Martin Luther was born here shortly before his parents moved the few kilometres to Mansfeld. Coincidentally, Luther died in his native town, where he was staying to mediate a dispute between the counts of Mansfeld (one branch of whom maintained a town castle in Eisleben).
Tourist attractions include the houses where the Reformer was born and died.
The town of Mansfeld was - as regards Luther - always rather overshadowed by the larger Eisleben; after
Today, on the remaining stretch of railway line from Klostermansfeld to Hettstadt via Siersleben, trains of the old
Literature
- Britta Schulze-Thulin: Mansfelder Land und Unteres Saaletal. Wanderführer für Mitteldeutschland, Vol. 3. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), 2008, ISBN 9783898125475
- Mansfelder Land. Edition no. 1 Werte unserer Heimat. Vol. 38).
- Hier der Harz und dort die Saale -Das Mansfelder Land. Multimedialer Streifzug durch die Heimat Martin Luthers. Multimedia-CD-ROM. Schneemann, Berlin o.J., ISBN 3-00-009782-1
- Renate Seidel: Die Grafen von Mansfeld - Geschichte und Geschichten eines deutschen Adelsgeschlechts. Fouquè Literaturverlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1998, ISBN 3-8267-4230-3
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