Gittelde is a village and a former municipality in the district of Göttingen, in

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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. 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. Bad Grund is also the name of the ...

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 style around 1700. Inside the church a

gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

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 The Herzberg–Seesen railway, also known as the West Harz Line (german: Westharzstrecke), is a 32 km long railway line, that runs along the western edge of the Harz mountains and serves the town and the district of Osterode am Harz. It is the ...

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 {{Göttingen-geo-stub