Badra

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Badra
Community Kyffhäuserland
Badra Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 26 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 225 m above sea level NN
Area : 13.99 km²
Residents : 569  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 41 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2012
Postal code : 99707
Area code : 03632
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Location of the district in Kyffhäuserland
Holy Spirit Church in Badra (2014)
Holy Spirit Church in Badra (2014)

Badra is a municipality Kyffhäuserland in Thuringia Kyffhäuserkreis .

geography

Badra is about five kilometers west of the Kyffhauser on the state border with Saxony-Anhalt . The district town of Sondershausen is about seven kilometers southwest of Badra. The place is surrounded by the Kyffhäuser Nature Park . The Badraer Bach flows through the village . The Schersen homestead belongs to Badra .

history

Badra was first mentioned in a document in May 1197 as the Saxon palace estate of Heinrich the Lion . The place had been owned by the Schwarzburg family since 1356 . The church in Badra was built in 1721. Until 1918 the place belonged to the rule of the principality Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

The "Badraer Schweiz" nature reserve, which has existed since 1928, shows steppe flora that is worth protecting.

The place was occupied by US troops around April 11, 1945 and, like all of Thuringia, handed over to the Red Army at the beginning of July .

On December 31, 2012, the Badra community merged with other communities in the Kyffhäuser Community to form the Kyffhäuserland community.

Population development

Development of the population of the municipality of Badra (December 31) :

  • 1994-632
  • 1995-632
  • 1996-620
  • 1997 - 623
  • 1998 - 627
  • 1999 - 623
  • 2000-640
  • 2001 - 635
  • 2002 - 627
  • 2003 - 626
  • 2004-614
  • 2005 - 613
  • 2006 - 618
  • 2007-610
  • 2008 - 606
  • 2009 - 592
  • 2010 - 576
  • 2011 - 560
Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Culture and sights

Buildings

Historic landmarks from the region (2014)
  • the Protestant parish church of St. Spiritus is a baroque hall church with a south tower. The lower tower floors are from the previous building, the church was rebuilt in 1721. The last renovation of the church took place in 1999.
  • the memorial to the victims of the world war in the cemetery, built after the fall of the Wall
  • the rectory
  • the vacant manor house
  • a collection of historical landmarks from the 19th century in front of the country inn
  • the Kelbra reservoir is a retention basin, it extends into the Badra corridor
  • the Numburg soil monument on the Schlossberg (251 m above sea level) is located on the southern edge of the Kelbra retention basin. An early medieval castle stood on the gypsum hill. To the south it was protected by a straight wall. The system reached down to the slope after the Helmetal (now a reservoir). In the late Middle Ages, the fortification still contained a church from which some remains of the wall have been preserved.

Natural monuments

Badraer Switzerland
  • The "blue stone" is a conspicuous ice age boulder, which geologists believe comes from Sweden .
  • To the north of Badra is the Badraer Schweiz nature reserve , part of the Kyffhäuser Geopark . One of the special features of this karst of the Zechstein is the sinkhole area active on the northern edge.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Kelbra reservoir was a popular destination as early as the GDR era; it also serves as a water reservoir.

traffic

The state road from Sondershausen to Kelbra runs through Badra .

Partnerships

There is a partnership with Elbingerode am Harz .

Sons of Badra

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Dorbencker (arrangement and ed.): Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae (1152 1210) . tape 2 Part 1. Fischer, Jena 1898. No. 1053
  2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012
  3. ^ Ingrid Scheuermann, Katja Hofmann: Funding projects of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . Ed .: German Foundation for Monument Protection. tape 1 (sacred buildings). Monuments, Bonn 2012, ISBN 3-935208-10-3 , p. 313 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Timpel and Peter Sieber: Castles - Graves - Old Crosses . Prehistoric and early historical soil monuments in Thuringia. Edited by Günter Behm-Blancke. Museum for Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia. Weimar 1974.
  5. ↑ Entry on the partnerships of the integrated community Hattorf am Harz and its member communities . Accessed on April 21, 2019, 02:18