Bachfeld

This article deals with the place in Thuringia; for the boxer see Jochen Bachfeld .

Bachfeld City of Schalkau
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	415 m
Area :	10.46 km²
Residents :	438  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	42 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2019
Postal code :	96528
Area code :	036766

Bachfeld and the hamlet of Gundelswind are part of the town of Schalkau in the Sonneberg district in the Franconian south of the Free State of Thuringia .

geography

View over the place

Bachfeld lies on the Itz and Krellse rivers, about two kilometers west of Schalkau . The 564 meter high Heider Berg rises south of the village .

history

Evangelical St. Matthew Church in Bachfeld

The place was first mentioned in a document from Fulda. It was about the surrender of the lands in Bachfeld and Heid because of a horse theft in 929 by the noble owners of Gruber Castle .

Bachfeld has always been the largest farming village in the district of Sonneberg with its more than 1000 hectare parish corridor . Originally there were two main courtyards in Bachfeld, the Petter or Scheeßhof and the Schaumburger, later the vicarage and a few side courtyards. This probably explains the existence of two churches in Bachfeld, mentioned in the 14th and 15th centuries.

After looting and pillage during the Thirty Years' War, the areas of Bottigental, Gundersdorf and Wollmitz came into being, and later the Grub zu Bachfeld district. Today the hamlet of Gundelswind also belongs to the village. Of the three former Bachfeld mills, only the lower mill still exists, it was owned by Schaumburg.

The old village church and eight farmsteads burned down when American troops fired tanks in 1945.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Gundelswind was incorporated.

In 1953 Bachfeld received the first new church building of the post-war period. The Matthäuskirche was consecrated at the new location above the cemetery.

Before May 31, 1995, Bachfeld belonged to the administrative community of Schalkau , after which Schalkau was a fulfilling municipality . The Thuringian law for the voluntary reorganization of municipalities belonging to the district in 2019 provided for the incorporation into Schalkau. The law was adopted by the state parliament on September 12, 2019 and came into force on December 31, 2019.

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

1994: 513 1995: 526 1996: 537 1997: 541 1998: 553 1999: 539

2000: 537 2001: 532 2002: 536 2003: 528 2004: 506 2005: 500

2006: 511 2007: 507 2008: 493 2009: 486 2010: 492 2011: 491

2012: 489 2013: 473 2014: 462 2015: 456 2016: 453 2017: 440

2018: 438

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

The last mayor of the Bachfeld community was Christine Probst ( FDP ).

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bachfeld consisted of six council members, compared to 2014 there were no changes:

• Free voters 4 seats
• CDU / community of voters 2 seats

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In the shield, which is half-split and divided from silver and red to blue, a wavy sloping bar in mixed up colors at the top, front and bottom; at the top a silver flax blossom. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The horizontal division into silver and blue shows the connection with the Schaumberg noble family , to whom the area belonged for a long time. The flax blossom refers to the earlier flax cultivation and the sloping wave bar is a connecting element that represents the Itz and the Krensenbach that run through the municipality.

church

• St. Matthew (Bachfeld)

Regular events

• Kirchberg Festival
• Sock dance, always at the beginning of August
• A village plays fistball, tournament for everyone, 1st Saturday in September
• Plan-Kerwá, parish fair always in the last week of October or the first week of November

Economy and Infrastructure

Despite the wooded surroundings, Bachfeld has more of an agricultural character. Many residents commute to work in nearby Upper Franconia .

Bachfeld owns a train station on the Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway line . In addition, the place is on the federal highway 89 , which also leads from Meiningen to Sonneberg . Other roads connect the place with Katzberg and Sachsenbrunn .

dialect

Itzgründisch , a Main Franconian dialect, is spoken in Bachfeld .

Others

During the Second World War , women and men from Russia had to do forced labor in agriculture.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Bachfeld in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thuringian law on the voluntary reorganization of municipalities belonging to the district in 2019 and on the adjustment of court organizational regulations in Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff., Accessed on December 30, 2019
2. ↑ Hartmut Ulle: New Thuringian Wappenbuch. Eisenach, Gera, Greiz, Hildburghausen, Saale-Holzland-Kreiz, Sömmerda, Sonneberg, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Wartburgkreis . tape 3 . Working Group Genealogy Thuringia, 1998, ISBN 978-3-9804487-3-4 .
3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 282.