Harlingerode

Harlingerode
Harlingerode
Ortsteil of Bad Harzburg
	Harlingerode from the north with the Brocken in the further background, 2016
	Location of Harlingerode
	Harlingerode Harlingerode
	Coordinates: 51°54′33″N 10°31′13″E / 51.90917°N 10.52028°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Goslar
Town	Bad Harzburg
Population (2017-06-30)
• Total	3,085
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	38667
Dialling codes	05322
Vehicle registration	GS

Harlingerode is a village in Germany and district of Bad Harzburg in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony. As of June 30, 2017. Harlingerode had a population of 3,085.

History

Partial building of the *Zinkhütte Harlingerode*, 2009

Harlingerode was first mentioned as Gut Heregeltingerode (Estate of Heregeltingerode) on June 3, 1053 in a deed of donatio by Henry III and as Herlingerode in 1181. The stem Harl- is derived from a settlor Herilo, which is ultimately rooted in a Proto-Germanic stem *harjaz meaning "army", still visible in German "Heer" and obsolete English "here". -ingerode is a locally widespread ending around the northern Harz region that served as a generic suffix for town names derived by any personal names (compare Wernigerode and Elbingerode). Due to its interval of usage, it can be concluded Harlingerode was founded between the 9th and 11th century.^[2]

The village gained further importance during the 1930s when activities of mining industry were drastically increasing. The Zinkhütte Harlingerode was built in 1934, which made up the technologically most modern zinc mill in Germany up to the 70's. The demand of housing space owing to the immigration of mineworkers caused to rebuild the abandoned village Göttingerode south of the main town in the same year. After a drastic decrease of profitability due to falling metal prices, said zinc mill dropped its main processing in 1970 and further secondary activities in 2000. Several succeeding companies of recycling and zinc oxide industry have settled down since the 1990s.