Ammern (Unstruttal)

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Unstruttal municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 224 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1425  (Jun. 30, 2004)
Incorporation : September 2, 1995
Postal code : 99974
Area code : 03601
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Location of Ammern in Unstruttal
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Ammern is a district of the municipality of Unstruttal in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .

geography

The district Ammern is located north of Mühlhausen / Thuringia on the outskirts and in the Unstrutaue . To the east of the village, the busy federal road 247 runs through the adjacent district . It leads into the Eichsfeld . There is a stop on the Gotha – Leinefelde railway line . The arable soils in the floodplain consist of alluvial land and at the transitions to the higher areas the soils are further away from the groundwater and consist of shell limestone . 210 m above sea level is measured at the Ammern gauge.

history

The Eichsfeld and the area of ​​the Free and Imperial City of Mühlhausen with Ammer (Ammern) around 1759 (The map contains some errors: see map description on Commons)

Ammern was first mentioned in a document on January 28, 897. For centuries the place was part of the sphere of influence of the Free and Imperial City of Mühlhausen . In 1565, Ammera had a population of 72.

In 1802 Ammern fell together with Mühlhausen to the Kingdom of Prussia , from 1807 to 1813 to the Kingdom of Westphalia ( Canton Dachrieden ) created by Napoleon and was assigned to the district of Mühlhausen in the Prussian province of Saxony after the Congress of Vienna in 1816 .

On September 2, 1995, the merger of the municipalities of Dachrieden, Ammern, Horsmar, Eigenrode and Kaisershagen to form the municipality of Unstruttal, which has its administrative headquarters in Ammern, took place on March 14, 1995.

Culture and sights

  • The Protestant village church of St. Vitus was built around 1270 as a choir tower church and probably renewed in the 18th century. The church was last renovated between 1998 and 2000 with funding from the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

Personalities

  • Johann Sebastian Koch (born June 16, 1689 in Ammern; † January 17, 1757 in Schleiz), singer and court music director

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 17.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Jordan (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Volume 1: (- 1525). Danner, Mühlhausen 1900, p. 41 .
  3. ↑ Ammern on the website of the municipality of Unstruttal. ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 18, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeinde-unstruttal.de
  4. ^ Ingrid Scheurmann , Katja Hoffmann: Sacral buildings (= preserve cultural heritage. Funding projects of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. 1). Monuments, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-935208-10-3 , p. 313.

Web links

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