Bad Tennstedt

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Bad Tennstedt
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′  N , 10 ° 50 ′  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Unstrut-Hainich district
Management Community : Bad Tennstedt
Height : 172 m above sea level NHN
Area : 27.42 km 2
Residents: 2462 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 90 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99955
Area code : 036041
License plate : UH, LSZ, MHL
Community key : 16 0 64 004
LOCODE : DE BH6

City administration address : 		Markt 1
99955 Bad Tennstedt
Website : www.badtennstedt.de
Mayor : Jens Weimann ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Tennstedt in the Unstrut-Hainich district
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Bad Tennstedt is a country and spa town in the Unstrut-Hainich district in northern Thuringia and the seat of the Bad Tennstedt administrative community , to which 12 other municipalities belong.

geography

Bad Tennstedt is located in the western part of the Thuringian Basin about 20 km northwest of Erfurt in the middle of an agricultural area. In the vicinity of the city there are some sulphurous springs, the water of which has been used as a medicinal product in the spa since 1812.

history

Numerous finds in the area of ​​Bad Tennstedt indicate that people have settled here since the Neolithic Age . Since 1875, systematic archaeological excavations have taken place again and again. For example, a burial mound was found on the lime mound in the parcel at the court , which had been removed in 1888 and in which a young woman was buried in a stretched position on her back. The finds included ceramic remains and fragments of spiral rings as well as amber jewelry.

The favorable and strategic location of Tennstedt underpins the tradition that there was a royal court in the early Middle Ages . It is also believed that the courtyard developed into two fortifications, which were located on two adjacent hills to the left and right of the road exits to the north. The Tennstedter Wasserburg owed its importance to the Eisenach – Weißensee – Neuchâtel road, as it was the main route to his seat for the Landgrave of Thuringia. There are hardly any traces left of the Tennstedt castles, as the stones were used to build the city wall.

The place is first mentioned in a deed of donation from the year 772, according to which the property was bequeathed by a clergyman Alwahlah to the Fulda monastery . A deed of donation from Charlemagne to the Hersfeld monastery is attested from the year 775 .

Tennstedt has had an urban constitution since the 13th century. In 1419 the suburb of Osthöfen also received city rights. The city wall with four gates - today a landmark of the city - was only built between 1448 and 1483, when it was completed it was already militarily outdated. Tennstedt was from the 14th to the 17th century, one of the five Waidstädte of Thuringia, who had the right, with woad act of the important dye Indigo provided for textile production.

Tennstedt came as part of the Office Herbsleben in the Treaty of Leipzig in 1485 to the Duchy of Saxony of Albertine . After the defeat of the Ernestines in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547, Tennstedt continued to belong to the Albertine state territory, which was now called the Electorate of Saxony . In the Naumburg Treaty in 1554, Elector August ceded the office of Herbsleben to the Ernestines without the city of Tennstedt. Since then she has belonged to the Albertine office of Langensalza . As part of the Electorate of Saxony, the city was designated the seat of a district administration in 1657. It was the only place that was directly subordinate to the Tennstedt district office .

The stationing of occupation troops in the Seven Years' War caused great hardship . In 1800 a saltpeter hut was built in Tennstedt , and in 1828 a paper mill. In 1811 the discovery of a sulfur spring gave the city a major boost. In 1812 a spa park was laid out and the first bathhouse opened. The health resort began in 1813. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe arrived in Tennstedt on July 24, 1816 and cured there for about 7 weeks. It was there that he began correcting “Reinecke Fuchs”, met Cölestin August Just and the Homer critic Friedrich August Wolf . On various tours, he got an overview of the city and its surroundings. He was inspired by the karst springs for his color theory . It was not until the end of the 19th century that efforts were made to make the place more attractive by building additional spa facilities and guest houses, but the typical spa architecture was limited to the Kurstrasse.

After its cession to Prussia, Tennstedt belonged to the Langensalza district in the province of Saxony from 1816 to 1944 . In April 1945 Bad Tennstedt was occupied by US troops and passed on to the Red Army in early July . Like all of Thuringia, the place became part of the Soviet Zone and, from 1949, of the GDR .

On June 17, 1953 , pastor and superintendent Gerhard Collector called for the resignation of the GDR government and free elections in front of 500 people on the market square in Bad Tennstedt. The assembled crowd spoke the text of the Deutschlandlied in chorus, followed by an address by the pastor and finally, “Now everyone thanks God”. The Soviet commandant also declared a state of emergency over Bad Tennstedt. The "ringleaders", among them Pastor Collector, were arrested by the People's Police.

  • town hall

  • Osthöfer Gate

  • city ​​wall

  • Fronveste

politics

City council

The city council of Bad Tennstedt consists of 14 people elected in the city council election and the separately elected mayor. The city ​​council election of May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Party / list Share of votes Seats
IG-BT Interest group Bad Tennstedt 28.1% 4th
Plain text Plain text 19.8% 3
CDU Christian Democratic Union 16.4% 2
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 13.3% 2
LEFT The left 11.7% 2
FWG Free voter community sports club 10.7% 1
total 100% 14th
Turnout: 61.7%

mayor

The honorary mayor Jörg Klupak (SPD) was re-elected on June 6, 2010. With the election on June 5, 2016, he was replaced as honorary mayor by Jens Weimann (CDU) with a turnout of 59.4% with 50.7% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver on a green ground, the lower half of a natural fir tree; to the right of the trunk growing a bishop in blue and gold regalia, a gold bishop's staff in his right hand, a silver book in his left, with a bunch of blue grapes on it; to the left of the trunk a lion divided seven times by red and silver . "

Symbolism: The fir tree is already in the coat of arms in the early 15th century. The colorful lion indicates the former supremacy of the Thuringian landgraves . The bishop stands for the ecclesiastical properties of the monasteries of Hersfeld , Gandersheim and Fulda . He used to wear a bishop in blue and silver regalia. The grape stands for viticulture in bygone times.

Town twinning

The city of Bad Tennstedt has a city partnership with Bad Salzschlirf , the administrative community has partnership contacts to Stromberg (Hunsrück) , Bernkastel-Kues and Koźmin Wielkopolski .

Culture and sights

City view after Merian around 1650

In the Middle Ages, Bad Tennstedt was an important hunting , farming and trading town with transport routes in the direction of Leipzig , Kassel and Frankfurt am Main on a northern alternative route to the Via regia . Tennstedt experienced a decline, similar to the neighboring towns of Thamsbrück and Weißensee , from the 17th to the 19th century, when the importance of agriculture in general and the cultivation of woad in particular declined and the flow of traffic shifted. So Bad Tennstedt still shows the cityscape of the 16th century.

In the city center is the relatively large triangular market, which one historical trade route leaves in an easterly direction to Weißensee and two in a westerly direction to Bad Langensalza and Mühlhausen . In the middle of the market square is the stately town hall with a tower from 1598. In the southwest of the city there is a hill on which the Gothic town church and the Fronveste stand. The town church once carried the patronage of St. Wigbert and is today consecrated to the Holy Trinity. Parts of the choir date from 1418, the rest was mainly created during the reconstruction between 1652 and 1659 after the church burned down in 1636. With its two Gothic towers with baroque domes it shapes the cityscape.

The Fronveste lies behind the church, from which a defense tower and some small buildings have been preserved. It was built around 1465 as a prison and today houses the city museum. A moated castle existed east of Tennstedt until it was bought by the city in 1484 and used as a quarry. The city is surrounded by a city wall (built between 1443 and 1489 instead of an older fortification), parts of which in the west and east, some defense towers and the Osthöfer Tor have been preserved. The Osthöfer Tor from 1448 with a roof structure from 1579 is one of the landmarks of Bad Tennstedt today.

To the east of the city was the suburb of Osthöfen, which was also elevated to a city in 1419, but was never fortified. In this area there are two other churches of medieval origin, on the one hand the Nikolaikirche from the middle of the 15th century, which today serves as a cemetery church, on the other hand the Heiliggeistkirche, which belonged to the medieval hospital of the city. It was first mentioned in a document in 1506 and is now the city's Catholic parish church.

Other sights are the Renaissance town houses in the old town and the spa park in the northeast with various facilities for cold water cures.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Persons who are connected to Tennstedt

The toothbrush monument in Bad Tennstedt commemorates the inventor Christoph von Hellwig

Economy and Transport

economy

  • The Median Clinic is a rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics and neurology, a specialist hospital for neurological early rehabilitation and a center for paraplegics. With around 300 employees who care for around 70 patients, it is the city's largest employer.
  • The company Emmi's Feinkost Specialties is known nationwide. B. Thuringian style dumpling mass produced.
  • Other companies are the 10 or so “Bad Tennstedt / Ballhausen” farms that produce and secure biogas for around 1,000 households.
  • The companies in the villages of the Bad Tennstedt administrative community are also connected to the economy of Bad Tennstedt .

traffic

literature

  • Hermann Wohlfarth: Tennstedt in the present and the past. Möller, Tennstedt 1894, (also reprints).
  • 1180 years Bad Tennstedt. On the occasion of the 1180 anniversary of the city of Bad Tennstedt. Deutscher Kulturbund local group Tennstedt, Bad Tennstedt 1955.
  • Kurt Heinz: Bad Tennstedt. History of the spa town in Thuringia. 1899-2006. 2nd edition, slightly edited and supplemented by Harald Rockstuhl. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2007, ISBN 978-3-936030-36-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bad Tennstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Tennstat in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Bad Tennstedt  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Pages on the prehistory and early history of Bad Tennstedt on the website of the Bad Tennstedt Culture and Heritage Association, accessed on January 1, 2011
  3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 137.
  4. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 245-246.
  5. ^ On the Naumburg Treaty: Carl Friedrich Göschel : Chronicle of the city of Langensalza in Thuringia. Volume 2. sn, sl 1818, p. 207 f.
  6. ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt: Finding aid for the inventory. D 48. Tennstedt district office. 2011, (PDF; 902 kB).
  7. ↑ Sabine Spitzer in Thüringer Allgemeine of March 8, 2017, p. 15: Goethe already praised the healing power of sulfur water.
  8. ^ Bad Tennstedt. In: Hans Joachim Kessler: Healing water and bubbling springs. Encounter with historical baths in Thuringia. E. Reinhold, Altenburg 2001, ISBN 3-910166-44-X , pp. 46-51.
  9. ↑ The cry for freedom. June 17, 1953 in Thuringia. Exhibition by the Ettersberg Foundation in the Thuringian Parliament in Erfurt in June 2012.
  10. ^ Report of the Erfurt district authority of the People's Police from June 29, 1953.
  11. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: City Council Election 2019 - City of Bad Tennstedt , accessed on July 6, 2019
  12. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 6, 2010. Elections for community and city council members. Preliminary results. Retrieved June 6, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Local elections on June 5, 2016. Accessed June 11, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine, March 8, 2017, p. 15: Toothbrush was invented here.
  15. ^ John Stangeland: Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood, p. 5