Schlewecke (Bad Harzburg)


Schlewecke, in Oker dialect: Sleiwecke is a suburb that forms a municipial district of Bad Harzburg in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony, Germany. As of June 30, 2018, Bündheim had a population of 1,753.

Geography

The district is located between Bündheim to the southeast, Göttingerode to the west, Harlingerode to the northwest and Westerode to the northeast.

History

Etymology

Schlewecke was first mentioned in 1147 as Sleueken and in 1180 as Sclivede. The suffix Schle- stems from a Proto-Germanic root *slaihwō and cognates to German Schlehe and English Sloe. The prefix either means "creek" or cognates to English -th, as in "wealth", "strength". Other names were Slevedhe and '
'Slyofede''.

Timeline

Schlewecke was always an unimportant village of farmers and woodcutters. The recent church was built in 1708.
On January 1, 1963, the community of Schlewecke merged with Bündheim to Bündheim-Schlewecke, that again became part of Bad Harzburg on July 1, 1972.

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