Gräfinau-Angstedt

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Gräfinau-Angstedt
City of Ilmenau
Gräfinau-Angstedter coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 406 m
Residents : 1883  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Incorporation : April 6, 1994
Incorporated into: Wolfsberg
Postal code : 98693
Area code : 036785
church
town hall
Memorial to the fallen of the First World War
Annawerk
Statue in the market square

Gräfinau-Angstedt is a place in the Ilm district in Thuringia . It is a district of the city of Ilmenau . In the local dialect the place is called Granowwe .

geography

Gräfinau-Angstedt is located in the Ilm Valley approx. 6 km east of the core town of Ilmenau . The valley here is about 1500 meters wide and extends in a north-south direction. The place is about 400 meters above sea ​​level . To the west rises the 527 meter high Wolfsberg, which gives the former community Wolfsberg its name . To the east are the 487 meter high Hopfberg and the 498 meter high Brandberg, which belong to the Paulinzella monastery forest .

Gräfinau is a row village , while Angstedt is a cluster village . The two village centers are only 200 meters away from each other and are only separated by the Ilm, but have grown together to such an extent that one can no longer see that Gräfinau-Angstedt emerged from two settlements.

2 km north of the village is Lehmannsbrück , a farm that was formerly used as a retirement home. It consists of several residential buildings, all of which are used privately today.

The Annawerk , a relay factory that has been closed since 1990, is 1.5 km south of Gräfinau-Angstedt . It stands near the confluence of the Wohlrose and the Ilm. A Mühlkanal- like branch of the Wohlrose once fed the plant with water energy. Today (April 2013) it is dry.

history

The two places Gräfinau and Angstedt were first mentioned in 1282, just like the other places of the former Wolfsberg community. The name Gräfinau comes from the name graeflich Ouwe (gräfliche Aue). The counts in question were probably the Käfernburger who ruled over this area in the 13th century. The name Angstedt is derived from the surname Ank . The first church was built in Angstedt in the 13th century. The current church construction dates from the years 1827 to 1831. The Gräfinau citizens also owned a church-like building, which later had other functions. It was used, for example, as a school and club house.

Gräfinau-Angstedt was created in 1924 from the union of the village of Gräfinau west of the Ilm, which belongs to the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter Amt Stadtilm, and the village of Angstedt, which belongs to the Schwarzburg-Sondershäuser Amt Gehren, east of the Ilm. Until the dissolution of the state of Thuringia on July 25, 1952, Gräfinau-Angstedt belonged to the Arnstadt district . Then the place was assigned to the Ilmenau district in the Suhl district . In 1994 the districts of Ilmenau and Arnstadt were merged to form the Ilm district to which the town belongs. On April 6, 1994, Gräfinau-Angstedt merged with Bücheloh and Wümbach to form the new community of Wolfsberg. This was incorporated into the city of Ilmenau on July 6, 2018 with other communities.

Most of the inhabitants of Gräfinau-Angstedt belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The Dietrichswinde desert was located in the municipality .

Population development

  • 1832: 1360 inhabitants in 220 buildings
  • Gräfinau 1863: 959 inhabitants
  • Angstedt 1887: 824 inhabitants
  • 1910: 2139 inhabitants
  • 1977: 2655 inhabitants
  • 2004: 2223 inhabitants

coat of arms

Blazon : "From blue to red divided with a silver wave bar, floating above the bust of a golden angel, floating below a golden cancer."

The crab, which can be identified in a seal as early as 1685, stands for the district of Gräfinau and symbolizes the formerly intensive fishing in the Ilm. The angel as a speaking element stands for the district of Angstedt. The river Ilm, which separates the two districts, is heraldically implemented in the coat of arms by the wave beam.

The coat of arms was designed by heraldist Frank Diemar and approved on May 25, 1993.

Culture and sights

  • Gräfinau-Angstedt has an active club life. Practically every resident belongs to one of the 20 local associations. The hiking club, the Gräfinauer Kirmesverein and the Karnevalsverein (GCV) are particularly well-known for their activities.
  • The Church of St. Maria was built in 1830 by an unknown builder. It is the successor to the church from 1231, which was consecrated to Mary, Nicolai and All Saints , and stands on a hill. In the same year the organ was created in the workshop of Johann Friedrich Schulze . The classicist construction and interior design, which is atypical for rural areas, is assigned to the Schinkel School. The large bronze bell dates from 1512, the two smaller ones are more recent. In the mid-1990s, the tower cracked due to traffic and the building was extensively restored. The church shows clear similarities to the St. Helena Church in Siebleben , built in 1827 . Perhaps the two churches had the same architect.
  • The Heimatstube, which offers a brief glimpse into the history of Gräfinau-Angstedt.
  • Gräfinau-Angstedt is located on the Ilmtal cycle path .
  • The district of Gräfinau Granowwe is popularly known .

politics

Claudia Gorzelitz has been the local mayor since the local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019. She was chosen as the only applicant with 73.3% of the valid votes cast. The district mayor and eight other members form the district council.

Former full-time mayor of the municipality of Gräfinau-Angstedt was Werner Ruhlig from 1969 to 1990, and Georg Juchheim from 1990 to 1994. After the formation of the Wolfsberg community in 1994, Gräfinau-Angstedt did not have its own local mayor, as the full-time mayor of Wolfsberg had his seat in the village. After the incorporation to Ilmenau in 2018, a joint local district mayor was temporarily responsible for the 3 places of the former community of Wolfsberg until May 2019.

Economy and Transport

The economy in Gräfinau-Angstedt is shaped by agriculture. Dairy cattle breeding is predominant on pastures along the Ilm valley. Most residents, however, commute to work in nearby Ilmenau . In the south-east of the village is the In den Langen Lehden industrial park .

Gräfinau-Angstedt has road connections to Ilmenau via Wümbach , to Gehren (Landesstrasse 1047), to Pennewitz , to Cottendorf and to the Traßdorfer Kreuz on the B87 . The public transport is (Miter Ilmenau) through the bus lines 305 of the IOV Omnibusverkehr GmbH Ilmenau , as well as by the line 320 (Gräfinau- Stadtilm ) of the RBA Arnstadt GmbH realized.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau 02/2019. In: Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau. City of Ilmenau, March 8, 2019, p. 10 , accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ New Thuringian Wappenbuch Volume 2, page 19; Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen eV 1998 ISBN 3-9804487-2-X
  3. ^ Website of the church district Arnstadt-Ilmenau
  4. ↑ City administration Ilmenau: Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau 07/2019. June 7, 2019, pp. 1–10 , accessed July 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Don't forget after many years: Werner Ruhlig . In: Free Word, Ilm-Kreis edition . Volume 68, Number 200, August 28, 2019, p. 9 .

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