The current issue in the "Ortsheimatpfleger" series is already available to buy...

Everyone walks through doors or gates or crosses bridges every day, but hardly anyone takes a closer look at these places or knows their historical significance. Yet they have an important function: bridges connect places separated by obstacles, doors separate private life from the public. In earlier times, the authorities used gates to exclude ordinary subjects.

The Ortsheimatpfleger went in search of traces. On around 60 pages, the volunteers present a selection of doors and gates as well as bridges from various parts of Salzgitter, some of which have long since disappeared or had to change their location. The oldest bridge in Salzgitter over the Mühlengraben near Hohenrode can be found in the brochure, as can the now dismantled bridge over the tracks at the disused railroad station in Barum or the inscriptions on the former "Sprützenhaus" in Sauingen. The fire station, built in 1843, is the oldest remaining fire station in Salzgitter.

In short: there are many special features to see and architectural secrets to discover in the new brochure....

Information:

The new brochure "Hereinspaziert - Türen, Tore, Brücken und Pfosten in Salzgitter" has been published in the "Die Ortsheimatpfleger" series published by the city of Salzgitter.

Following the 2018 (No. 5 "31 districts in portrait") and 2015 (No. 4 "House battles") brochures, the city archive has published the current sixth edition with the volunteer Ortsheimatpfleger, which can be purchased for five euros at the Salzgitter City Archive, Nord-Süd-Straße 155, 38159 Salzgitter and at the Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder (at the supervisor of the "Kuhstall" exhibition rooms) during the respective opening hours.