Bergern (Bad Berka)
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Bergern
City of Bad Berka
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 4 " N , 11 ° 16 ′ 53" E
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| Height : | 385 m |
| Incorporation : | April 9, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 99438 |
| Area code : | 036458 |
 Location of Bergern in Bad Berka
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Bergern is a district of the city of Bad Berka in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .
geography
Bergern lies on the flat eastern slope of the forest-covered Hexenberg at an altitude of 396 m above sea level. NN . The federal highway 85 leads from Bad Berka to Weimar leading through the place and under the federal highway 4 with connection at Gelmeroda .
history
It was first mentioned in a document on March 10, 1241. The year 1534 is given in the documents from Bad Berka.
The name of the place is translated as Those who live near the mountains . In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the Berka rulership , later it came under the jurisdiction of the manor in Bergern. There was a manor as well as medium and small farmers. The village suffered just as much from the Thirty Years' War as it did from the battle of Jena and Auerstedt .
Rolf Kirchner has been the district mayor since 2014.
Culture and sights
The village church fell victim to acts of war in 1693 and a sheepfold was initially converted into a church to replace it. In 1696 a new church was built and was therefore given the name " Zum Kripplein Christi ". Around 1880 the church received a new organ from the workshop of Adam Eifert from Stadtilm, one of the predecessors of the Schönefeld organ building workshop . In 2007, the Irish-American artist Matt Lamb began decorating the church with images as a representation of Christian salvation history. The residents of Bergern took an active part. The exterior renovation was carried out by a specialist company. In 2008 the church was ceremoniously handed over to the community again , also with a visit from the Thuringian Prime Minister Dieter Althaus .
economy
The inhabitants have always lived from agriculture, with small and occasional small and medium-sized peasant property in addition to the manor . After the Second World War, agriculture followed the path of forced collectivization and, after the fall of the Wall in 1990, found new forms of land management. The youth forest home was once the main building of the manor, which was expropriated without compensation in 1945 and where educators and later forest workers were trained. The prefabricated building from the 1980s inside the facility was a boarding school for foreign forest apprentices (Vietnamese, Laotians). Today it is used by forestry in Thuringia for further training.
Personalities
- Matt Lamb (born April 7, 1932 in Chicago; † February 18, 2012 ibid), Irish-American painter and peace activist, came to Bergern in 2007 and painted the village church there in spring 2008.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th edition. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 29.
- ↑ a b Bergern on the Bad Berka website . Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ↑ Website of Thuringian Orgelsommer ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
