Kohlgraben (Vacha)

Kohlgraben City of Vacha Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	350 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	36404
Area code :	036962
Location of Kohlgraben in Vacha
The Kohlgraben corridor near Völkershausen.

Kohlgraben is a homestead in the district of Vacha in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

Carbon ditch located two kilometers south of Völkershausen and traffic moderately by a farm road to the main road connected the 2,601th The geographic height of the place is 350  m above sea level. NN .

history

The homestead was first mentioned in a document on August 10, 1330.

The graphic artist and textile designer Richard Dölker (1896–1955) - artist name "Riccardo Dölker" lived in the village in the 1950s. He is considered the inventor of batik painting and became famous in the 1930s for his series of motifs, Capri-Fischer, which he developed during a study visit to the Amalfi Coast. His “artist's grave”, composed of sheet metal elements designed like a silhouette, is located directly next to the Michaeliskirche in the cemetery of Völkershausen.

literature

• Olaf Ditzel, Walter Höhn: Vacha and the neighboring communities in the Oechsetal . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg / Fulda 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-121-8 , p. 21-24 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 150.

View of the artist grave of Riccardo Dölcker (1896–1955).