Nordhausen

Nordhausen is a town on the Zorge within the district Nordhausen and former imperial town. The district city as university area and as a northern Thuringian cultural and business center, the recognition of middle with sub abilties of a higher middle. The 7th largest city in Thuringia in keeping with population lies at the southern fringe of the Harz within the northwest of the Golden Aue. Nordhusa, first stated in 876, have become named Nordhuse in 929 in a deed of donation with the useful resource of Henry I to his spouse, Queen Mathilde, who set up a female's pen right here in 961.

Nordhausen became from 1220 next Muhlhausen considered one among unfastened imperial cities in Thuringia, until it fell in 1802 due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prussia. The Nordhauser Roland as a landmark of the town symbolized the imperial freedom. In the fifteenth century, the town became a member of the Hanseatic League. Early settlements in the location were acknowledged within the 19th century for excavations, however with inadequate means and below insufficient documentation, consisting of on the burial mound of Auleben.