Bad Colberg-Heldburg
From 1993 to 2019 Bad Colberg-Heldburg was a country town in the Hildburghausen district in the Franconian south of the Free State of Thuringia . It has been part of the new town of Heldburg since 2019 .
geography
The city was located in the extreme south of the Free State of Thuringia , in the fertile, hilly Heldburger Keuper landscape , on the Kreck, 288 m above sea level and was the largest city in the Heldburger Land .
City structure
Bad Colberg-Heldburg was made up of the following seven districts:
- Bad Colberg
- Desolate
- Gellershausen
- Heldburg , seat of administration
- Holzhausen
- Lindenau
- Völkershausen
Neighboring communities
The neighboring communities before the city was dissolved were clockwise: Westhausen , Straufhain , Bad Rodach , Ummerstadt , Seßlach , Hellingen and Gompertshausen .
history
On March 23, 1993, the then six independent communities Bad Colberg, Gellershausen, Heldburg (with Einöd), Holzhausen, Lindenau and Völkershausen founded the unified community Bad Colberg-Heldburg and formed the districts.
On January 1, 2019, the city of Bad Colberg-Heldburg and the communities of Gompertshausen and Hellingen merged to form the new city of Heldburg . Since 1994 she has been a member of the Heldburger Unterland administrative community . The city had an area of 53.39 km², the zip code 98663, the area code 036871 and the license plate HBN.
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- Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
City council
From the local elections on May 25, 2014 until the city was dissolved, the council had 14 council members and was composed as follows:
| Party / list | Share of votes | G / V | Seats | G / V |
| Independent citizens | 82.4% | + 15.6 | 12 | + 3 |
| Bad Colberg Initiative | 9.8% | - 4.4 | 1 | - 1 |
| The left | 7.9% | - 2.8 | 1 | - 1 |
P / L: gain or loss compared to the 2009 election
The turnout was 53.0% (+ 1.9). The last mayor was Katja Kieslich (Independent Citizen).
coat of arms
It shows a silver pinnacle tower on a red heraldic shield, on which an upright golden lion lays his paws. The coat of arms comes from the old verifiable seals of the city. The resemblance to the coat of arms of the city of Meissen , an upright black lion there lays its paws on a red tin tower, clearly indicates the Wettin origin of the Heldburg coat of arms. The so-called Meißner lion can be found in numerous coats of arms of the former Wettin cities. The pinnacle tower indicates the fortitude of the city after it was fortified with a city wall. The coloring of the Heldburg coat of arms has been changed several times. A recovered wood-carved coat of arms from 1833, it hangs in the town hall, shows a golden lion and a golden tower.
Culture and sights
Buildings
The town's landmark was the Veste Heldburg , a medieval castle from 1317. The German Castle Museum was opened in it in 2016 .
Heldburg town church "Our dear women"
Spa clinic in Bad Colberg
St. Cyriakus in Gellershausen
St. Matthew in Lindenau
Veste Heldburg
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Memorials
The Billmuthausen Memorial stands on the site of the village of Billmuthausen, which was destroyed in 1978, and is located between Bad Colberg and Heldburg. The village fell victim to the military fortification of the inner-German border by the GDR authorities.
In the forest on the road that connects Poppenhausen with Einöd , there is a memorial that commemorates a massacre in 1942 of 20 Polish citizens.
Events
The Thuringian Montgolfiade takes place once a year in Heldburg .
dialect
The Main Franconian dialect Itzgründisch is spoken in the former urban area .
literature
- Max-Rainer Uhrig: The Heldburger Land . In: Frankenland, magazine for Franconian regional studies and cultural maintenance. Issue 6 Würzburg, June 1990. ( online ).
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide ; Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
- Hans Löhner: The “Bimmelbähnle” from Hildburghausen to Lindenau-Friedrichstal: A Thuringian narrow-gauge railway into Heldburger Land . Verlag Michael Resch, Neustadt / Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-5-3
- P. Lehfeld: Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXXI, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, District Court Districts Heldburg and Römhild, 1904, reprint, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, ISBN 978-3-86777-378-2
Web links
- Literature from and about Bad Colberg-Heldburg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Historical pictures of Heldburg 1958–1988 and of the Heybach organ Heldburg on a private website
- Website of the Heldburger Land tourism association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population by gender . Thuringian State Office for Statistics. Retrieved January 22, 2019.