Kyffhäuserland

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Kyffhäuserkreis
Height :	180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	129.02 km 2
Residents:	3843 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	30 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99707
Area code :	034671
License plate :	KYF, ART, SDH
Community key :	16 0 65 085
Community structure:	8 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Neuendorfstrasse 3 ; 99707 Kyffhäuserland, OT Bendeleben
Website :	www.kyffhaeuser-land.de
Mayor :	Knut Hoffmann ( CDU )
Location of the community of Kyffhäuserland in the Kyffhäuserkreis

Kyffhäuserland is a municipality in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . It was created on December 31, 2012 from the merger of eight municipalities . About 4000 people live in Kyffhäuserland.

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in the middle of the Kyffhäuserkreis. In the north, the border of the municipality is also the border of the Kyffhäuserkreis and the state border between Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt . In the east the community is bounded by the area of the city of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser and in the west by the area of the district town of Sondershausen and the city of Heringen / Helme . In the south, the town of Kindelbrück in the district of Sömmerda , the municipality of Trebra and the town of Großenehrich and the municipality of Oberbösa border.

Community structure

With only around 30 inhabitants per square kilometer, the municipality is one of the most sparsely populated areas in Thuringia. With the Hainleite in the south, the Kyffhäuser in the east and the Windleite in the west, there are three low mountain ranges in the municipality, whose extensive deciduous forests are partly still restricted areas due to previous military use . The largest river in the municipality is the Wipper , which flows through the four southern districts of Hachelbich, Göllingen, Seega and Günserode. The Badraer or Thalebener Bach , a tributary of the Unstrut , rises southwest of Badra and flows in an arc that extends northwards through the northern municipal area.

Community structure

The unified community consists of the districts Badra , Bendeleben , Göllingen , Günserode , Hachelbich , Rottleben , Seega and Steinthaleben , corresponding to the eight former communities. Furthermore, the paper mill , Schersen , Rathsfeld and Kyffhausen are in the municipality.

history

The eight municipalities from which Kyffhäuserland emerged have been doing their administrative business together since March 8, 1994 in the Kyffhäuser community , which was expanded to include the municipality of Oberbösa with effect from November 29, 1994. Since 2007 there have been efforts to transform the administrative community into a unified community. Finally, in autumn 2011, the municipal councils of eight member municipalities of the administrative community decided to dissolve them and to merge to form the Kyffhäuserland community. After the approval of the interior committee of the Thuringian state parliament, the state parliament approved the municipal merger on November 22, 2012. The municipality of Oberbösa did not join this step and changed to the administrative community Greußen on December 31, 2012 , while the other municipalities of the administrative community Kyffhäuser also merged on December 31, 2012 to form the municipality of Kyffhäuserland.

Population development

The population of the eight places has been declining for a long time:

1910 - 6,557
1939 - 6,203
1989 - 5,470
1995 - 5,042
2000 - 4,927
2005 - 4,689
2010 - 4,320

2012 - 4,119
2013 - 4,062
2014 - 4,032
2015 - 3,999
2016 - 3,949
2017 - 3,860
2018 - 3,872

2019 - 3,843

Data source from 1995: Thuringian State Office for Statistics, from 2012 as Kyffhäuserland

politics

Kyffhäuserland is the legal successor to the eight districts and the Kyffhäuser community.

Parish council

The result of the local elections on May 26, 2019 shown in the diagram led to the following distribution of seats (with details of the difference to the previous 2013 election):

Party / list	Seats	+/-	Local elections 2019 Turnout: 65.7% % 40 30th 20th 10 0 30.7% 13.7% 6.9% 11.6% 8.9% 6.2% 17.4% CDU Left ^b SPD FWKL ^d WV Seega WE ^f Our village Remarks: ^b The Left / Open List ^d Free voters Kyffhäuserland ^f Change in Rottleben Template: election diagram / maintenance / new result not 100%
CDU	5	± 0
Left / Open List	2	+ 1
SPD	1	± 0
FDP	0	- 1
Free voters Kyffhäuserland	2	- 4th
Seega voter association	2	+ 1
Change in Rottleben	1	± 0
Our village	3	+ 3

mayor

The first mayoral election after the community was founded took place on April 14, 2013 with a participation of 60.2%. The CDU politician Knut Hoffmann was elected with 50.8% of the valid votes cast. On March 17, 2019, he was re-elected with 65% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver with an eight-fold silver-green border, a green mountain topped with a crowned, bearded golden man, with a red tower above it. Three silver corrugated strips in the base of the shield. "

The community arose from 8 districts, this is what the eight-fold ridge stands for. The green mountain shows the Kyffhäuser Mountains with the characteristic monument above. The bearded, crowned man alludes to Emperor Barbarossa, who, according to legend, is supposed to sleep in the Kyffhäuser Mountains. The three silver waves symbolize the large and small rockers.

Coats of arms of the districts

The old castle in Bendeleben

Badra
Bendelife
Goellingen
Günserode
Hachelbich
Rottleben
Seega
Steinthaleben

Economy and Transport

The Kyffhäuser monument in Steinthaleben

The community is dominated by agriculture and has no significant commercial settlements for industry or services, which is also related to the disadvantageous location between mountains away from fast traffic routes. In the 20th century, the mining of potash played an important role, with production being discontinued after 1990.

Kyffhäuserland is about 15 kilometers south of the federal highway 38 . The federal road 85 leads through the Kyffhäuser Mountains in the northeast of the municipality, but without crossing any of its districts. Important state roads lead from Sondershausen to Bad Frankenhausen via Bendeleben and Rottleben and from Sondershausen to Kelbra via Badra. Since the Kyffhäuserbahn was discontinued in 2006 with previous stops in Rottleben, Göllingen and Hachelbich, there are no longer any separate connections to the rail network . The next access points to the rail network are now Sondershausen in the west (Erfurt – Nordhausen route), Berga-Kelbra in the north (Halle – Kassel route) and Griefstedt, Heldrungen and Artern in the southeast (Erfurt – Sangerhausen route).

Web links

Commons : Kyffhäuserland - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Accessed September 2018 (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ TLUG: Environment regional
↑ Mayoral election 2019 , accessed on May 13, 2019
↑ Information on the coat of arms on the community homepage

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] ververzeichnis.de

[3] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Accessed September 2018 (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[4] TLUG: Environment regional

[5] Mayoral election 2019 , accessed on May 13, 2019

[6] Information on the coat of arms on the community homepage