Description

The Yellow Series Volume 49/2024
Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen
Published by Nordhäuser Antiquity- and history association as well as the Nordhausen city archive.

Table of Contents
Editorial …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4

Schmidt, Burkhard
Nordhausen’s oldest piece of furniture – the Tettenborn “Gothic chest” ……………. 9

Kuhlbrodt, Peter
The beginnings of the County of Hohenstein under the rule of Count Johann
von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and his sons Ludwig Christian and
Gustav Otto ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 18

Floorboard cutter, Kurt
The churches in Kehmstedt and Oberdorf/Wipper during the term of office of
Pastor Johann Otto Schmaling (1722 – 1731 in Kehmstedt and Oberdorf) ……… 39

Cabbage rush, Jürgen
Benneckenstein and the consequences of the “German-German War” 1866 ………… 56

Schlüter, Wilm
About four days on the way to the city planner of the century with Nordhäuser
Embossing: Philipp August Rappaport’s “Harz Trip July 1898” (Documentation) ….. 61

Grönke, Hans Jürgen
The triumph of tobacco in Europe up to the history of the Nordhäuser
Company “Walther & Rejoice – Nordhäuser chewing tobacco, Rauch-, Sniff- &
The Cigar Factory" ……………………………………………………………………………………… 88

Hirschman, Juliane
“A place of German art and ethnic uprising”. The theater
Nordhausen during the Nazi era ………………………………………………………………………. 99

Protect, Michael / Martins, Cedric
The fallen Nordhausen soldiers of the Second World War (1939 – 1945) … 119

Puzzle, Christina
“Should we be against Hitler just because of that?, because he lost the war?“
Political exams at the Humboldt School 1946 (part One) ………………………… 141

Roth, Wilhelm
Our hometown Kleinlomnitz in the Oberzips (Slovakia) – Escape and return
1945 to Günzerode in Thuringia. A way from the past into the
Future ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 166

Lauerwald, Paul
On the prehistory and the first years of the “Yellow Series” up to 1980 ……….. 180

Tobacco Store Support Association e.V.
30 Years of tobacco storage – 30 Years of the Förderverein Tabakspeicher e. In. …………. 190

Eisfeld, Vincent
Free knowledge for the city: The Nordhausen Wiki. Origin, concept,
Organization and perspectives ……………………………………………………………….. 198

Schmidt, Dirk
Wallpaper wonders. The panoramic wallpapers in the “Waldhaus Japan” in Bleicherode … 208

Gerwin, Sven
Visibility as a motor for contemporary commemorative culture.
A workshop report on the renovation of the “Nordhausen Cemetery of Honor”
between 2019 – 2025 ……………………………………………………………………………. 216

Theilemann, Wolfram G. (Edit)
Alphabetical author index to the 1977 – 2025 in the “Contributions(n) to
(local history or) History of the city and district of Nordhausen
published essays …………………………………………………………………………. 241

List of abbreviations ………………………………………………………………………….. 278
Author directory ……………………………………………………………………………….. 281