Ammerbach (Jena)

Ammerbach City of Jena Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 18 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	191 m above sea level NN
Area :	5 km²
Residents :	478  (December 31, 2017) [1]
Population density :	96 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 1922
Postal code :	07745
Area code :	03641

Ammerbach is a district in the southwest of Jena . It is located northwest of Winzerla and west of the Ernst Abbe settlement .

location

The district of Ammerbach is located in a funnel-shaped valley towards Bucha . To the right and left of the road there is mostly grassland, then forest on the slopes and hills. To the east of the district there is a connection to the town's settlements.

Surname

The place is named after the Ammerbach , where the place is located.

history

Ammerbach was first mentioned in writing in 1228 in a papal document. It mentions a chapel belonging to the parish church of Lobeda . This mention suggests that the place was under the control of the Lords of the Lobdeburg . The fact that it was first mentioned at a time when the chapel already existed suggests an older settlement of the place. Ammerbach and the chapel are assumed to have originated in the middle of the 9th century; documentary or archaeological evidence has not yet been found. In contrast, there are traces of settlement by stone-age band ceramists from the 3rd millennium BC. Chr. And the younger Bronze Age , passed down for the area through finds in a clay pit. The oldest tradition from court owners comes from the period 1421–1425.

The place was almost completely devastated during the Saxon civil war .

At that time Ammerbach was a popular destination ("Bierdorf") for Jena students.

Ammerbach was incorporated into the city of Jena on October 1, 1922. In 2009, about 460 people lived in Ammerbach. The original village character of this district has been preserved.

The transport connection to the local public transport network of Jena takes place via bus line 11.

By the place the narrow leads L 2308 , which further Bucharest leads, for cars before the completion of Jagdberg tunnel a popular alternative route for traffic jams on the A 4 .

religion

Ammerbach Church

Ammerbach has been Protestant since the Reformation. Although the village had its own church, it was often administered pastoral care from Burgau for long periods of time. Today it belongs to the Dietrich Bonhoeffer community .

See also : Ammerbach Church (Jena)

literature

• Barbara Aehnlich: Ammerbach. Linguistic studies on the field names of the Ammerbach district near Jena. Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-8200-4 . (see also the author's previous master’s thesis ; PDF; 1.2 MB)
• Gerhard Cosack, Reinhard Jonscher: From Ammerbach to Zwätze. From the history of the Jena suburbs (= series of the Jena City Archives. No. 2). Jena 1995.
• Herbert Schilling: Jena-Ammerbach. An economic historical study. Dissertation . Jena 1930.

Web links

Commons : Ammerbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Aehnlich: The field names around Ammerbach. P. 17. (PDF)
2. ↑ Otto Dobencker (Ed.): Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae (1128-1266) . tape 3 . Fischer, Jena 1925, p. No. 35 .
3. ^ Gerhard Cosack, Reinhard Jonscher: From Ammerbach to Zwatzen. From the history of the Jena suburbs . City archive, Jena 1995, p. 31 .
4. ↑ Ottogerd Mühlmann : About traces of Bonifatian missionary activity in the form of early church buildings in and around Jena and their structural changes . In: Press office d. Evangelical Luth. Church in Thuringia (ed.): Laudate Dominum. Eighteen articles on the history of the Church in Thuringia . Evang. Verlag-Anst., Berlin 1976, p. 9 ff .
5. ^ Andrei Zahn: The residents of the offices of Burgau, Camburg and Dornburg: a prayer register from around 1421–1425. (= AMF series of publications. 55). Mannheim 1998.
6. ↑ Ammerbach Church. In: dietrich-bonhoeffer-gemeinde-jena.de. June 30, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013 .