Ettersburg

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 11 ° 17 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Fulfilling municipality :	At the Ettersberg
Height :	322 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.92 km 2
Residents:	682 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	234 inhabitants per km 2
Area code :	03643
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 017
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 23 99439 OT Berlstedt, rural community, town of Am Ettersberg
Website :	www.gemeinde-ettersburg.de
Mayor :	Jens Enderlein
Location of the municipality of Ettersburg in the Weimarer Land district

Ettersburg is a municipality in the north of the Weimarer Land district ( Thuringia ). The fulfilling municipality for the municipality of Ettersburg is the rural municipality Stadt Am Ettersberg .

location

The municipality of Ettersburg is located on the northern edge of the forest of the Großer Ettersberg . From then on the transition into the fertile Thuringian basin begins . The main road in 1054 roams the eastern district of the town.

history

A deed of foundation by Count Berno von Querfurt from 1089 is considered the first documentary mention of the place. The count founded an Augustinian convent , which was subordinate to the Mainz monastery . A castle was built near the village that was named after Berno's son Wichmann. Remnants of the facilities, such as the rampart and keep, can still be seen in the ground. Due to several attacks by the lords of the castle on the surrounding area, Louis the Saint felt compelled to entrust his brother Heinrich Raspe with the destruction of the castle. After the reconstruction, the castle came into the possession of the Counts of Gleichen and was sold to the monastery in 1477. In 1525 the monastery was closed and expropriated as a result of the Reformation . As a result, the collegiate church was partially demolished in 1544. After Ettersburg came into the possession of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , the construction of the first castle on the foundations of the monastery complex began in 1706. The construction of the second castle began as early as 1723. This complex was completed in 1736 under Duke Ernst August . Duchess Anna Amalia used the buildings for her summer stay between 1776 and 1782. This made Ettersburg a center of Weimar Classicism around Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christoph Martin Wieland . From 1842 the future Grand Duke Carl Alexander used Ettersburg as his residence. Well-known people such as Franz Liszt , Hans Christian Andersen , Heinrich Hebbel and Moritz von Schwind were guests during this time. In 1921 the castle and the chamber property became the property of the State of Thuringia . As a result, a state educational home was set up, which was, for example, the training center of Wernher von Braun and Wolf Jobst Siedler . Ettersburg belonged to the Hermann Lietz schools . The building has been used alternately since 1945.

During the GDR era, the LPG Am Ettersberg ran a company holiday camp for the children of its employees.

Population development

1910-216 1933-346 1939-369 1994 - 429 1995 - 416 1996 - 441 1997-483 1998 - 499 1999 - 515

2000 - 527 2001 - 522 2002 - 529 2003 - 564 2004 - 576 2005 - 586 2006 - 591 2007 - 590 2008 - 572

2009 - 564 2010 - 574 2011 - 570 2012 - 583 2013 - 587 2014 - 600 2015 - 627 2016 - 638 2017 - 651

2018 - 667

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Local election 2009

Turnout: 51.8%

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68.1%

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CDU

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badges and flags

• Local coat of arms - blazon : “In red a grafted silver tip; Field 1: a standing silver sword, field 2: a standing silver key, field 3: a red imperial orb banded with gold at the bottom. "
• The flag of the municipality shows the colors white and red.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (1809–1879), physician and botanist
• Otto Ludwig Paul August Sckell (1861–1948), gardener

People connected to the place

• Count Berno , (buried in Ettersburg in 1123), territorial lord
• Count Wichmann († after 1133 (?) In Erfurt), founder of the Ettersburg Church to the Erfurt Marienstift
• Johann Heinrich Merck (1741–1791), 1779 at the invitation of Duchess Anna Amalia guest at the castle for several weeks

Attractions

Ettersburg Castle

Village church

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial and Memorial

The former Buchenwald concentration camp is located south of Ettersburg on the Großer Ettersberg and belongs to the district of Weimar. Ettersburg and the camp area are connected by the "Zeitschneise", a medieval hunting trail that was re-exposed as part of the Capital of Culture project. The intention of the project was to create a connection between the contrasts between Ettersburg Castle, the center of Weimar Classical culture, and the horror of the years 1937–1945. The architect Walther Grunwald designed the project .

Ettersburg Castle and Park

The Ettersburg Castle and Park buildings and facilities on the western edge of the town are the most famous sights of the town. A foundation is located in Ettersburg Castle.

church

Today's collegiate church corresponds to the choir of the Augustinian canons, which was founded in 1085. It is of Romanesque origin. This choir room was used by 10 to 20 canons for their daily services. From there they went to the surrounding villages for pastoral care. In 1525 the last provost left the monastery with some canons; they fled because they feared pillage by the peasants. Others stayed in Ettersburg, followed the Lutheran doctrine and married following the example of the reformer. The Mönch family, still resident today, explains their family name from such a process. The cloister and the residential buildings fell into disrepair because they were no longer needed. Today only the choir of the collegiate church is left. The baptismal font from 1487 and the celebrant's seat on the south wall, on which the priests sat during the service, are still preserved from Catholic times. When the church walls were erected between 1863 and 1865, the chancel received a wooden vault in the Gothic style instead of a flat beam roof . The three windows in the east wall and the rose window in the west wall above the organ are also of Gothic origin. Two old tombstones (including Count Berno) were erected. The marble pulpit was brought into the choir room from another Thuringian church in 1864.

Research into history began in 1782 with the publication of three documents from the ducal archive in Weimar; Archivist Mitschke compiled the remaining data in 1893.

The choir room (ceiling and walls) was restored from 1986 to 1989 according to the findings of the last renovation in 1863. The roof was re-covered and the south wall grouted and colored according to the findings. The tower clock and the tower roof were repaired in 1985. The Peternell organ was restored in 2011.

→ Main article : St. Justinus and St. Laurentius (Ettersburg)

Cultural and architectural monuments

The following buildings have been placed under monument protection:

• the ground monument "Old Castle" is located immediately south of the connection path from the Ettersburg forest house to the castle
• the ground monument Ringwallanlage Brunfthof is located about 1 km south of the village in the forest town of Brunfthof
• former forester's house, Waldstrasse 3
• Former school building, Schulstrasse 3
• Single farmstead, Dorfstrasse 20
• the farmsteads Dorfstrasse 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52 (old numbering) form another monument ensemble.
• a memorial for three Soviet children and a Polish child of female forced laborers who were deported to Germany during World War II is located in the cemetery
• the park-like avenue on the road to Ramsla

literature

• Werner Deetjen : On the heights of Ettersburg (= weaver's library . 17). JJ Weber publishing house, Leipzig 1936.

Web links

Commons : Ettersburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Otto Dobencker : Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae. Volume 2: (1152-1227). Gustav Fischer, Jena 1898, p. 182, no.964 .
3. ↑ Wolf Jobst Siedler : A life is visited. In the world of parents. Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-704-5 , p. 120 ff.
4. ↑ 2009 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , Ettersburg, p. 97 .