Alterstedt
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Alterstedt
Community of Schönstedt
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 38 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 59 ″ E
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| Height : | 246 m |
| Residents : | 200 |
| Incorporation : | April 9, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 99947 |
| Area code : | 03603 |
Alterstedt is a part of the community Schönstedt in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
geography
Alterstedt is 7.07 km (as the crow flies) west of Bad Langensalza (Marktkirche) and 790 m east of the Hainich National Park . The north-eastern edge of the village is touched by the L 1042 , which connects the place with Weberstedt in the north-west and Zimmer in the south-east.
history
Alterstedt is mentioned for the first time in 1186. In the spelling "Altensteten" the records even go back to the year 900 AD. In spring 1526 the residents of Alterstedt took part in the peasant uprising, which was bloodily suppressed in May 1526 by Duke Georg Graf von Gleichen of Tonna . The Alterstedter then had to pay reparations.
In the late Middle Ages, there was a control room on the Warthügel northwest of the village, which served as an external fortification for the town of Langensalza and the castle in Ufhoven. In the community chronicle of the neighboring village Waldstedt, another watch tower is mentioned - the Julianswarte - this was located on a hill on the corridor border of the places Ufhoven and Waldstedt. This observation point served as a link to the Alterstedter observation point and, as a tower ruin, was a landmark that was also documented in writing in the 18th century.
The symbol of the village is a linden tree next to the church of St. Pancratius. The farmsteads - mostly four-sided courtyards - are densely packed along the main street and two short side streets. The village is nestled between the Sumbach and the Wild Water. The former Alterstedter manor house with farm buildings was once surrounded by a fortification ditch on the northeastern edge of the village, on the road to Kammerforst.
In the years 1760 to 1763 as part of the Seven Years' War , in 1813 on the occasion of the Battle of Leipzig and in 1866 for the Battle of Langensalza , the small village was repeatedly the victim of looting. The local residents were mistreated, women raped and cattle stolen. The nearby Hainich often offered protection on these occasions , where the residents, sometimes with their animals, fled in troubled times. The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Langensalza until 1815 and after its cession to Prussia from 1816 to 1944 to the district of Langensalza in the province of Saxony .
On August 3, 2014, Alterstedt was inundated by a flash flood as a result of a storm . The highest water level was 1.50 meters. Damage to roads and paths as well as houses and farms was the result.
economy
The townscape has always been rural. Agriculture and livestock were farmed. Up until 1991, the LPG pig farm was the town's largest employer. In addition, the farmers delivered their fruit and vegetable harvests to the local acceptance point of the VEB Wholesale Fruit, Vegetables and Table Potatoes (OGS).
After reunification in 1990, Alterstedt suffered from high unemployment. This changed only slowly in the course of the general upswing. Today the companies in nearby Bad Langensalza are the biggest employers for the residents of Alterstedt.
politics
The honorary local mayor Christel Galek was elected on May 25, 2014.
Attractions
- One of the attractions is the Hainich an der Thiemsburg treetop path 3 km away .
- The village church of St. Pankratii . The parish belongs with the parishes Mülverstedt, Waldstedt, Weberstedt and Zimmer to the parish office Schönstedt in the Evangelical church district Mühlhausen.
- The Alterstedter village linden next to the church is the symbol of the village and a symbol of the coat of arms and the former community temple. It was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1839 with the following words: After the second ring, the congregation gathered under the large linden tree, the adornment of the open space in front of the church, from which centuries of the past look down on the now living generation ... The linden tree has a height of 18 meters and an average trunk circumference of 7.5 meters with a circumference of 8.4 meters at its thickest point. Their age is estimated to be 500 to 600 years.
Regular events
- The traditional Easter bonfire takes place on Maundy Thursday .
- The Alterstedter Summer Festival takes place on changing dates in summer .
- The Alterstedt autumn market takes place on the last Saturday in September . Here products from our own production are offered.
- The Alterstedter fair takes place on the second weekend in October .
Economy and Infrastructure
Alterstedt was one of the first localities in this region of Thuringia to have broadband internet coverage. This was by the inhabitants on their own initiative with the help of wireless - radio produced. Since November 2005 , the Landnetz e. V. the radio network, which now also supplies other villages.
In 2013 the site of the former LPG was redeveloped, the dilapidated buildings demolished and a photovoltaic system with 1.5 MW output was built on the site.
Personalities
- Karl Theodor Rümpler (* 1817 in Alterstedt; † 23 May 1891 in Erfurt), horticultural teacher and writer
- Oskar Trübenbach (* 1900, † unknown), NSDAP member of the Reichstag and district leader, took over an ancestral farm here as a farmer in 1934.
literature
- Nico Lange: History of Alterstedt until 2011 , ISBN 978-3-86777-298-3 , 120 pages, 47 figs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Feared of damage caused by the flood in the small town of Alterstedt. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , from August 5, 2014. Accessed December 9, 2016.
- ↑ Information board on the linden tree.
- ↑ Availability of our Internet connections and expansion area. In: www.landnetz.de. Retrieved May 21, 2016 .
