Bilzingsleben
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Bilzingsleben
Kindelbrück rural community
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| Height : | 150 m |
| Area : | 16.85 km² |
| Residents : | 669 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 40 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 06578 |
| Area code : | 036375 |
Bilzingsleben is a district of the rural community Kindelbrück in the Thuringian district of Sömmerda , on the northern edge of the Thuringian Basin .
geography
The Wipper , a tributary of the Unstrut, flows on the edge of the village .
Neighboring places are Frömmstedt , Kannawurf and Kindelbrück in the district of Sömmerda and the city of Bad Frankenhausen , Kyffhäuserland , Oberbösa and Oldisleben in the Kyffhäuserkreis .
history
Bilzingsleben was first mentioned in a document in 1174. In the 12th century travertine as a desirable building materials in quarries mined. In 1350 the Counts Heinrich and Hermann von Beichlingen pledged the village of Bilzingsleben to the city of Erfurt . The church was built between 1400 and 1450.
Until 1815 the place belonged to the Saxon office of Sachsenburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Eckartsberga in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th In 1819 , Thuringia's first history association was founded on the estate by Ludwig von Helmolt , district administrator of the Eckartsberga district.
On January 1, 2019, the community of Bilzingsleben was merged with Frömmstedt , Kannawurf and Kindelbrück to form the new rural community of Kindelbrück. Before that she belonged to the administrative community Kindelbrück . The community of Bilzingsleben was made up of the two districts of Bilzingsleben and Düppel .
Origin of name
The ending -leben probably goes back to the Old High German word leiba , which means something like leftover or legacy, i.e. briefly describes the legacy of the fathers . The first half of the place name usually contains the name of the person who left the settlement or property to his descendants. The first half of the place name Bilzingsleben contains the personal name Bulzo , and the ending -leben characterizes the village as the legacy of Bulzo.
The oldest form of name can be found in the documents of the Roßleben monastery . Here the place names are Bulzingeslove and Bulzingsleiben . The same form of name results from the first occurrences of the knight dynasty named after the Siedelhof (Rudolf von Bulzingsleiben, 1216).
Population development
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Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
Culture and sights
Find place in Bilzingsleben
1.5 km south of Bilzingsleben, the remains of a resting place for Paleolithic hunters were found in the former Steinrinne quarry , which was used repeatedly for a long time. This excavation site is one of the most important sites in Europe.
The first written mention of fossil jawbones and teeth from the quarry comes from 1710, when David Siegmund Büttner mentioned the signs and witnesses of the flood of Bilzingsleben in the work Rudera diluvii testes .
The excavated remains of Homo erectus are estimated to be around 370,000 years old. The finds come from layers of sand that lie under travertine deposits. In addition to stone tools have for the first time in Central Europe to a greater extent bone and antler tools , fireplaces receive and jobs. Numerous plant and animal remains allow an exact reconstruction of the environmental conditions of that time.
The archaeological site is a destination with professional guides.
Sacrificial stone
In the middle of the village, in the Schenksgarten, on the main street directly opposite the community center, there is a round stone disc known as a sacrificial stone, probably from the Germanic era. There can only be guesses as to their time of origin and function. It is circular with a diameter of over two meters and a thickness of 22 cm. A clear depression can be seen in the middle, to which radially grooves run from all sides of the edge at the same distance.
Karst spring
On December 27, 2014, a sinkhole occurred in the immediate vicinity of the Teichholzmühle belonging to the Bilzingsleben district. A pond with a diameter of over 20m and a depth of 9-12m was created. The spring in it emits 30–40 liters of water per second and flows into the nearby Wipper. Direct access is blocked for security reasons. The newly created pond is comparable to the Gründelsloch in the nearby Kindelbrück.
Personalities
- Bültzingslöwen , Thuringian noble family
- Ludwig von Helmolt (1769–1847), Prussian district administrator
- Georg Wilhelm von Kirsch (1752–1829), Hebrew and manor owner
- Ronald Weidemann (* 1931), diplomat of the GDR
Others
During National Socialism , the White Sinti family in Bilzingsleben was the victim of the Porajmos , the murder of Sinti and Roma . Hulda Weiß, born on January 14, 1938, was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp together with her siblings and parents on March 8, 1943 . Her mother died six weeks later, on September 13, 1943, because of the living conditions aimed at annihilation. No exact date of death has been obtained from Hulda, but it can be assumed that she died because children in the extermination camp had no chance of survival.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Places of the Prussian district Eckartsberga in the municipality register 1900 .
- ↑ Frank Boblenz : The “Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity in Art and History”. Thuringia's first history association was founded in Bilzingsleben in 1819. In: Home Thuringia. Vol. 18, H. 1, 2011, ISSN 0946-4697 , pp. 23-31.
- ↑ Monumente , Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, pp. 18–23, here p. 21.
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Thuringia . tape 8 . VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 267 .
