Pennewitz

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Pennewitz
City of Ilmenau
Pennewitz coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 37 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 460 m
Area : 5.47 km²
Residents : 480  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 88 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 6th July 2018
Postal code : 98694
Area code : 036783
Pennewitz (Thuringia)
Pennewitz

Location of Pennewitz in Thuringia

Pennewitz is a district of the city of Ilmenau in the Ilm district in Thuringia in Germany .

View of the place

geography

Pennewitz is located in the northern foreland of the Thuringian Forest between the Long Mountain in the south and the Paulinzella monastery forest in the north. To the east of the village lies the Rinnetal , to the west the Gehrener wetland . The watershed between Ilm and Saale runs through the Sorge district to the west of Pennewitz .

Local division

The Sorge housing estate is about 200 meters west of Pennewitz . It was created at the crossroads of two trade routes. But the Sorge is not a separate district.

history

Until 1920 Pennewitz belonged to the office of Gehren in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ( suzerainty ). After that it belonged to the Arnstadt district until 1952, to the Ilmenau district between 1952 and 1994 and since then to the Ilm district . From 1994 until it was incorporated into Ilmenau, Pennewitz was a member of the Langer Berg administrative association based in Gehren .

In the course of the Thuringia regional reform in 2018 and 2019 , Pennewitz was incorporated into Ilmenau on July 6, 2018 .

church

Pennewitz village church

politics

The district mayor has been Marko Löhn since the local elections in Thuringia in 2019 . He was elected in the runoff election on June 9, 2019. Together with four other members, it forms the Pennewitz district council.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 12, 1991.

Blazon : “Divided and split below; above in blue a growing golden lion with a red knocked out tongue and red reinforcement, below in front in black a golden iron crossed with a golden mallet, below behind a red six-spoke wheel on a golden background. "

Pennewitz belonged to the estate of the Counts of Schwarzburg. This is reminiscent of the colors of the coat of arms and a silver lion, alluding to the Schwarzburg family coat of arms. The miner symbol hammer and mallet stands for the copper mining operated in the place. Pennewitz is located on the northern edge of the Long Mountain on the former Nuremberg-Leipzig trade route. Another historically significant branch of business was therefore the carting trade, which is symbolized in the coat of arms by a wheel.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldists Frank Jung and Frank Diemar .

Economy and Transport

Pennewitz is dominated by agriculture. Pasture farming dominates the area .

Pennewitz is on the B 88 , which connects Ilmenau and Rudolstadt . There are also roads to Gräfinau-Angstedt and Herschdorf . Pennewitz airfield is located north of the village .

Personalities

  • Max Bock (1888–1953), politician (SPD), was born in Pennewitz

Others

In the local dialect ( Ilmthuringian ) Pennewitz is called Bamelz .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau 02/2019. City of Ilmenau, March 8, 2019, p. 10 , accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018
  3. ↑ City administration Ilmenau: Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau 08/2019. June 21, 2019, pp. 1–3 , accessed July 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New Thuringian Wappenbuch Volume 2, page 16; Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen eV 1998 ISBN 3-9804487-2-X

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