Beichlingen
Beichlingen
City of Kölleda
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 52 ″ N , 11 ° 15 ′ 21 ″ E | |
Height : | 200 m |
Area : | 19.1 km² |
Residents : | 498 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
Population density : | 26 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
Postal code : | 99625 |
Area code : | 03635 |
Beichlingen is a district of the city of Kölleda in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia .
geography
Beichlingen is five kilometers north of Kölleda in the Thuringian Basin on the southern edge of the Schmücke . The forested Künzelsberg ( 380.1 m above sea level ) belongs to the eastern part of the district .
history
Beichlingen was first mentioned in a document in 1014. The Counts of Beichlingen of the same name had their ancestral seat here at Beichlingen Castle above the community, and later the Counts of Werthern-Beichlingen .
Beichlingen was hit by the persecution of witches from 1618 to 1690 . A woman and two men got into witch trials .
In April 1945 the place was occupied by US troops . At the beginning of July these were replaced by the Red Army . This moved into quarters in the manor belonging to the Oberweimarischer Hof ("The Shepherd's Farm"), which was later also called "Russenhof" or "Roter Hof".
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Altenbeichlingen was incorporated.
In 1969 the engineering school for veterinary medicine " Kurt Neubert " was founded in Beichlingen and developed into an efficient educational institution. Three lecture halls, three teaching laboratories, a large animal operating room, a treatment room for small animals, three dormitories with a total of 468 places, a cafeteria, a sports hall and other facilities were built by 1984. The veterinarian Kurt Neubert was the chairman of the USPD local group in Sömmerda . He had been tortured and murdered by Reichswehr troops in March 1920 . In 1992 the engineering school was closed.
During the GDR times, a central pioneer camp was operated in the village .
In October 2017, the local council voted to join the city of Kölleda. According to state parliament printed matter 6/6060 in the draft law for the Thuringian law on the voluntary reorganization of municipalities belonging to districts in 2019 (ThürGNGG 2019), this was implemented on January 1, 2019. The municipality of Beichlingen was previously part of the Kölleda administrative community . Altenbeichlingen was a part of the municipality of Beichlingen.
Population development
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Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council from Beichlingen was composed of 8 councilors and councilors. It is re-elected every five years.
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Parties and constituencies | 2014 | 2009 | 2004 | 1999 | 1994 | ||||||||||
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Share a | Seats | Share a | Seats | Share a | Seats | Share a | Seats | Share a | Seats | ||||||
Free community of voters b | FWG | 86.0 | 7th | 72.2 | 6th | 74.1 | 6th | 65.1 | 3 | - | - | ||||
Beichlingen leisure sports club | FSV | 14.0 | 1 | 27.8 | 2 | 25.9 | 2 | - | - | - | - | ||||
Social Democratic Party of Germany | SPD | - | - | - | - | - | - | 34.9 | 3 | 50.3 | 5 | ||||
Farmers' association / rural women | FARMERS | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 49.7 | 3 | ||||
percentage of invalid votes | 3.6 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 7.7 | 4.6 | ||||||||||
Total seats | 8th | 8th | 8th | 8th | 8th | ||||||||||
voter turnout | 58.2% | 54.8% | 62.4% | 71.7% | 73.1% |
mayor
The honorary mayor Lutz Bauer was elected on September 18, 2005. He was last confirmed in his office on September 24, 2017 with 95.6% of the votes.
Local friendship
- Since 2002 there has been a local friendship with Berlichingen in Baden-Württemberg.
Culture and sights
- Beichlingen Castle
- Evangelical village church “St. Aegidius " : successor to the church that burned down in 1930 ( location → )
- Hereditary funeral of the Counts of Werthern-Beichlingen in the churchyard. The last owners of Beichlingen Castle until 1945, Thilo von Werthern-Beichlingen and his wife Walpurgis, née. Princess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and Elisabeth Countess von Werthern are buried there.
- Row with six graves of German soldiers - five of them young intelligence soldiers - who died on April 11, 1945 when the US troops marched into the churchyard
- Granite boulders in front of the churchyard with the names of 16 soldiers from the village who did not return from the First World War
societies
- Fire Brigade Association e. V.
- Freizeitsportverein (FSV) Beichlingen e. V., founded in 1990, has organized the Schlossberglauf annually since 1997
- Friends of Castle Beichlingen e. V., founded in 1991
Events
- Schlossberglauf Beichlingen
- Beichlingen Easter fire
Surroundings
- Former Central Pioneer Camp , later the “Kinder- und Jugenddorf” e. V. "Am Windberg", since 2015 community "Am Windberg e. V. "
- Forest swimming pool that can no longer be used
- Weißer Berg with tomb of Count Georg von Werthern-Beichlingen
- Bergzug Schmücke with Künzelsberg , ramparts of the Monraburg and Wendenburg
Personalities
- Georg von Werthern (born September 15, 1581 in Beichlingen, † June 10, 1636 in Dresden ), statesman of the Electorate of Saxony
- Georg Graf and Herr von Werthern-Beichlingen (born November 20, 1816 in Beichlingen, † February 2, 1895 ibid), diplomat in Prussian service
- Thilo von Werthern (born March 18, 1818 in Beichlingen, † February 1, 1888 in Großneuhausen), landowner and politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 250, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
- ↑ http://www.schloss-beichlingen.de/index.php/verein/veterinaeringenieure
- ↑ Anna Dorothea Miethe: Memorials, Labor Movement - Antifascist Resistance - Building Socialism , Urania-Verlag Berlin 1974, p. 349
- ^ "Beichlingen will be integrated into the city of Kölleda" Thüringer Allgemeine from November 4, 2017, accessed on October 11, 2018
- ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ↑ 2009 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ^ 2004 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ^ 1999 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ^ 1994 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia - election of September 18, 2005. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia - election from 24.09.2017. In: wahlen.thüringen.de. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
- ^ The place where you learned to live on the Windberg (website of the association) ; Living in your own village in Northern Thuringia @ bring-together.com, accessed November 11, 2016
- ^ Woldemar Lippert : Werthern, Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 125-127.