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Körner municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 34 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 6 ″ E
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| Height : | 220 m above sea level NN | |
| Postal code : | 99998 | |
| Area code : | 036025 | |
Location of Österkörner in Thuringia |
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Österkörner is a district of the municipality of Körner in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
location
Österkörner is located about two kilometers northeast of Körner on federal highway 249 and borders the town of Schlotheim to the east . The local situation is in the valley of the Notter and was only developed in the post-war period by new farms. The former Österkörner estate had a breakpoint on the Ebeleben – Mühlhausen railway line , which divides the village into the lower and upper villages. The Lochmühle is located about one kilometer below the village .
history
The area around Österkörner was inhabited since the Neolithic Age. At the Hopfenberg and the Hasenstein in the Korner corridor, ceramic settlement sites were occupied. The sites at Langel and Königsholz are also related to a hill fort that was built there . At Langelholz near Schlotheim there is a Bronze Age burial ground .
The place Österkörner was near the militarily important Reichsburg Volkenroda, which was besieged in 1073 by Saxon and Thuringian nobles for over a month without success, because during this time the pregnant Empress and wife Heinrich IV , Bertha von Savoyen with her retinue and military Escort entrenched in the fortress. The rebels did not succeed in taking the "Volkenroth" castle, but after the peace treaty the fortress was destroyed in 1075. The extent to which the local population was involved in the fighting can only be guessed at.
In March 1197 the village Oester grains was first mentioned as the siblings Bya and Albert the monastery Volkenroda sell 6 hooves country in Oester grains, with the Registry of the Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia sealed the purchase contract. On July 27, 1219, a ministerial Gundelaus of Margrave Dietrich von Meißen exchanged the homestead in Österkörner and two Hufen of land for a one-hoof land in Mehler as well as 32 shock coins in order to be able to buy more land in Mehler. This exchange contract with the Volkenroda Monastery was confirmed by the Margrave's office.
The Vogt Rudolf von Körner (a secular administrator of the Volkenroda monastery) was the owner of the chapel in Österkörner, it was probably built on his property. His heirs were ready to give this chapel with the property to Hartmann von Lobdeburg , probably another nobleman who was wealthy in Österkörner and named himself after his place of origin - Lobdeburg near Jena . The monastery of Volkenroda was presented with the chapel, the goods will probably have remained in the hands of the nobleman. This inheritance matter ended before a landgrave's court, however, because further inheritance claims of relatives of the bailiff from the village of Körner had been violated, so the entire inheritance contract became invalid, the Volkenroda monastery was represented in the disputes that lasted until 1253 by a monastery bailiff, who with a The plaintiff's waiver of the inheritance shares ended.
During a campaign by King Adolf von Nassau in Thuringia, the unfortified site was captured and cremated by royal troops in 1294. In the 14th century political and social tensions also grew in the area of the Volkenroda monastery. The property, which is distributed over around 10 to 15 farms and small villages in the area around the monastery, was attacked several times by neighboring aristocrats and above all by the imperial city of Mühlhausen in order to atone for lost claims or abuse and other reasons. The right to feud now replaced the protracted legal process. Between 1373 and 1375 seven monastery courtyards and outbuildings were raided, in addition to the supplies, horses and cattle were also taken away. To defend themselves, the monks made a pact with a band of robbers led by the notorious "Isern Hans". The attempt made by the sovereign in 1376 to end the conflict through an arbitration treaty in Tonna also failed miserably. The village of Österkörner was not spared from further attacks and natural disasters in the following 100 years. The abbot Weihrich informed around 1450 that he could no longer pay the tax revenue expected from the village of Österkörner to the rulers, as this place had meanwhile become desolate and uninhabited. The Count of Tonna then gave the village of Österkörner to the Volkenroda monastery.
Even before the outbreak of the Peasants' War, the situation around the Volkenroda monastery came to a head. In 1517 the abbot felt he had an advantage by sending ducal Saxon riflemen and had several rebellious peasants "picked up" in the villages at a favorable opportunity - he wanted to make an example of the peasants as a deterrent and planned a show trial. The outrage over this approach triggered a first storm on the monastery, which the few soldiers were able to repel only with difficulty. The prisoners were released without conviction. In the course of the peasant war, the Volkenroda monastery was attacked and destroyed again by the rebellious peasants. The majority of the attackers came from the neighboring villages. The anger of the people was fueled by additional sermons by the Mühlhausen peasant war leader Pfeiffer. The mill houses also apparently tolerated the attack on the monastery. The secularization of the monastery only followed after a futile attempt by the Saxon elector to re-establish the monastery of Volkenroda. Parts of the destroyed building complex of the monastery Österkörner had previously been demolished in order to restore the farm buildings. The manor complex was later sold. In the following period, Österkörner belonged to the office of Volkenroda in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha .
An Eggert family owned the estate on a long lease in the 19th century, and in three generations they succeeded in increasing agricultural yields, maintaining and partially modernizing the dilapidated buildings, and the mill and an orchard were built. The following data comes from a statistical overview from 1867:
- The place Österkörner has 8 male and 12 female citizens. On the villa (the manor) 1 male and 1 female person; Place Volkenroda has 34 male and 33 female citizens; the oil mill at Körner has 4 male and 5 female citizens ...
With the construction of the Ebeleben – Mühlhausen railway line, completed in 1897 , the Österkörner estate received a railway connection. In 1907 the state took over the Eggert family's leasehold and converted the property into a domain. The agricultural work was done by farm workers and seasonal workers. In 1925 there was a fire on the domain, with several farm buildings and stables burned down. The next owner of the Österkörner estate was the Schumann family, who had lived in Österkörner since the late 1920s. Already during the Second World War , by order of the district administration, evacuees and refugees who were employed in agriculture were housed on the estate. The farm survived the fighting in spring 1945 without major damage. With the introduction of the land reform, the Schumann estate was dissolved and the land was distributed among new farmers. The village of Österkörner was created again through new buildings on the estate and beyond the railroad tracks - ironically called "Oberdorf" and "Unterdorf" by the residents. The distribution of the estate, which was already completed in 1947, was mainly carried out to refugees and displaced persons. The mentality and linguistic differences of the newcomers led to social tensions and attacks, a general sign of social conditions in the early post-war years. Thanks to the nearby potash mines and the newly created industrial jobs in Schlotheim, three kilometers away, the majority of the newcomers remained rooted in the region. In 1952 the LPG "Thomas Müntzer" was founded in Österkörner. The supply situation was improved through kindergarten, post office and consumption. Some residents of Österkörner asked the pastor of Körner to set up a parish hall in the village, as there was no church in Österkörner. This project was made more difficult by the state authorities through intimidation, and at last they agreed to rent the cultural space in Österkörner. At the same time, the nearby ruins of the Volkenroda monastery had fallen into disrepair since the 1960s, as the state had already given up the settlement.
literature
- 800 years of Österkörner. History and stories . Municipal administration Körner, Körner 1997, p. 47 (Festschrift).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the prehistoric and early historical settlement process in the district of Körner. In: Astrid Münzberg, Bernd Münzberg (Red.): 802–2002. 1200 years of grains. Local authority Körner, Körner 2002, pp. 11–43.
- ↑ 800 years of Österkörner. History and stories . Municipal administration Körner, Körner 1997, p. 5-8, 20 .
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 214.
- ↑ 800 years of Österkörner. History and stories . Municipal administration Körner, Körner 1997, p. 8-9, 21 .
- ↑ From the history of the village of Mehler. Obermehler - Großmehlra - Pöthen. 997-1997 . Festkomitee Obermehler, Heiligenstadt 1997, p. 112 .