Arenshausen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '  N , 9 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Hanstein-Rusteberg
Height :	202 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.79 km 2
Residents:	998 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	172 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37318
Area code :	036081
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 001
Association administration address:	Steingraben 49 37318 Hohengandern
Website :	www.vg-hanstein-rusteberg.de
Mayor :	Matthias Geyer (independent)
Location of the municipality of Arenshausen in the Eichsfeld district

Catholic Church of St. Matthew

Arenshausen is a municipality in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia . It belongs to the Hanstein-Rusteberg administrative community .

history

The original founding and development of Arenshausen is largely in the dark. When the Kingdom of Thuringia fell in 531 , to which the area belonged in recent years, a strong influx of Franks began from the west . The place names were also introduced by the Franks. During this time, the place was ruled by a noble family, a knight dynasty with names: "Arns", "Aro", "Arnfried", "Arnwald" etc. (see "Place names of the Eichsfeldes" by Dr. E. Müller). The ending of the villages founded after them in "hausen" or "bi den husun" is seen as particularly characteristic Franconian. They mostly refer to a settlement with a manor house. In old documents the village is often mentioned as Arnshusen or Arenshusen. The von Arenshusen family lived in a fortified courtyard, the so-called "Wallhof". This was on the Hopfenberg in a high position.

The first documentary mention took place from 1189 to February 18, 1190. The secularization ended the rule of Kurmainz in 1802. The place finally came to Prussia in 1815, it belonged to the administrative district of Erfurt of the province of Saxony . When the railway was built in 1867, foundations and old vaulted cellars were excavated. From the special geographical location of the place it can be concluded that Arenshausen is one of the oldest villages of the second settlement period of the Eichsfeld.

Arenshausen was occupied by the US Army on April 9, 1945 . This was preceded by attacks by fighter bombers and artillery fire. Four civilians died and numerous buildings were destroyed or damaged.

Attractions

• catholic church St. Matthäus (Arenshausen)
• Protestant Church of St. Petrus (Arenshausen)

Geographical location

Arenshausen is located on the river Leine and on Landesstraße 2009 in Eichsfeld . The community is on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . Arenshausen is located a few kilometers east of today's three-country triangle Thuringia / Hesse / Lower Saxony . From July 1945, the Soviet , American and British zones of occupation came together here. From 1952 to 1989 Arenshausen was in the " exclusion zone " of the inner-German border . Since 1990 the place belongs to the new federal state Thuringia.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 1,039 1995: 1,039 1996: 1,049 1997: 1,067 1998: 1,057 1999: 1,053

2000: 1,040 2001: 1,034 2002: 1,026 2003: 1,020 2004: 1,025 2005: 1,042

2006: 1,020 2007: 0999 2008: 1.002 2009: 1.008 2010: 1.003 2011: 1,012

2012: 1,029 2013: 1,014 2014: 1,013 2015: 1,021 2016: 0999 2017: 0987

2018: 990 2019: 998

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Arenshausen consists of 8 council members.

• CDU : 3 seats
• FWG Arenshausen: 5 seats

(Status: local elections 2019 )

mayor

Matthias Geyer (non-party) was elected mayor of Arenshausen on October 27, 2019. Alfred Spies (CDU) had been in office since 2008.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by red and green by a silver rafter; At the top in front a slanting silver wavy bar, at the top behind a silver six-spoke wheel ( Mainzer Rad ) and at the bottom a silver angel, holding a book with a cross in both hands. “An earlier seal motif was fundamental for the Arenshausen coat of arms contains the apostle Matthew . The rafter symbolically indicates the first letter of the place name and at the same time plays on the suffix -hausen as a talking symbol . on. The Mainz wheel indicates that it once belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz, while the wavy bar indicates the location on the leash.

traffic

Arenshausen station. The platform on the track to Heiligenstadt is slightly offset to the east

Arenshausen has a train station on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . In 1990 it gained considerable importance in the short term when, on May 26, the line to Eichenberg , which had previously been interrupted by the inner-German border, was reopened and Arenshausen was expanded to become a border station. As early as July 1, the controls were canceled.

Arenshausen has a junction on the "Südharzautobahn" A 38 .

literature

• Anton Bartl, Bernhard Jung, et al .: 800 years of Arenshausen 1190–1990 . Heiligenstadt 1990.
• Paul Lauwerwald: History and development of the Nordhausen-Arenshausen railway line . Pedagogical District Cabinet, Worbis 1989.
• Bernhard Jung, Maria Reichenbächer: 100 years of the Evangelical Church in Arenshausen . Evangelical Church Community Arenshausen, Arenshausen 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Peter Acht (arr.): The documents since d. Death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) until z. Death of Archbishop Konrad (1200) . In: Historical Association for Hesse (Ed.): Mainzer Urkundenbuch . Volume II-2 (1176-1200). Darmstadt 1971. No. 531
3. ^ Eduard Fritze: The last days of the war in Eichsfeld . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2002. ISBN 3-936030-06-5 . P. 185
4. ↑ City council elections 2019 in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on November 7, 2019 . 
5. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Elections in Thuringia, mayoral elections in Arenshausen. Retrieved January 16, 2020 . 

Web links

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

• Eichsfeld Project ( Memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )