Bienstädt

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '  N , 10 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Gotha
Management Community :	Nesseaue
Height :	350 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.16 km 2
Residents:	655 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99100
Area code :	036208
License plate :	GTH
Community key :	16 0 67 004
Address of the municipal administration:	Dr.-Külz-Str. 4 99869 Friemar
Website :	www.vg-nesseaue.de
Mayoress :	Birte Kalmring ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Bienstädt in the district of Gotha

Bienstädt is a municipality in the Thuringian district of Gotha and a member of the Nesseaue administrative community .

geography

Bienstädt is about 13 kilometers (as the crow flies) northwest of the Thuringian capital Erfurt on the southeast edge of the Fahner Höhe . The highest point is a border point on the ridge of the Fahner Höhe ( 405.3  m above sea level ), followed by the Bienstädter Berg ( 385.2  m above sea level ) with the Bienstädter Warte located there. Geologically the area is one of Erfurt Formation of the Keuper .

The watershed of the Weser and Elbe runs through the Bienstädter Flur . The headwaters of the Weißbach are located on the south-eastern edge of the town, which flows into the Gera on the northern outskirts of Erfurt . The western part of the corridor belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Nesse and thus to the river basin of the Weser. The once numerous natural surface waters were diverted into trenches as a result of the amelioration . In a depression in the fields to the east of the village is the 1.6 hectare, drainless Haibacher See .

The L 1044 leads through the village, which connects the village to the south via Zimmersupra and Ermstedt with Gamstädt and the B 7 passing there and to the northwest with the L 1027, which comes from Molschleben and leads over the Fahner Höhe to Gierstädt .

history

Friedenskirche

Bienstädter Warte

According to Dorbencker , Bienstädt was first mentioned on March 17, 1252. The two places Beinstedt and Hofhusen (today's desert ) are also mentioned in 1263, which are in the territory of the Counts of Tonna / Gleichen . The field name on the outskirts "Unter der Mühle" refers to a former windmill built in 1731. Bienstädt belonged to the main care of the Tonna dominion , which from 1677 belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg as "Amt Tonna" . In 1733 a major fire in Bienstädt devastated over 50 houses. On May 5, 1893, almost a quarter of the village burned down, followed by a fire on June 4 of the same year in which 25 houses fell to rubble.

religion

In October 2012, the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office was abolished and the parish now belongs to the Friemar parish office , which also includes the parishes Reitingsleben and Tröchtelborn . Before that, Gierstädt , Großfahner , Kleinfahner and Töttelstädt belonged to the parish of Bienstädt . The rectory in Bienstädt and its community room is still a meeting place for Christian doctrine, senior citizens and for church services in the cold season.

→ Main article : Friedenskirche Bienstädt

politics

The municipal council consists of nine members. In the local elections on June 7, 2009 , only candidates who belong to the CDU were elected. The turnout was 63.3%. Mayor is Birte Kalmring (CDU).

Attractions

• Friedenskirche,
  → Main article : Friedenskirche Bienstädt
• The flood: Presumably as early as the Middle Ages, the surface water and the roof drainage of the church were diverted into a small pond in front of the church, which is popularly known as "the flood". Around 1800 the water was used for brewing beer, although it was polluted and smelled bad by all kinds of cattle, by the "washing up" of horses and their carts and also by the negative effects of the nearby cemetery. They then switched to the water from a well near the rectory. Until 1995, when the bus turning loop was rebuilt, the Schwemme was much larger and had a flat driveway. Even today, the church roof drainage goes into the flood, which is also fed by a well under the nearby linden tree in front of the old school (today the community hall), which is now covered by an old wood mill stone.
• The Bienstädter Warte has been part of the outer fortification system of the city of Erfurt since the late Middle Ages, in 1411 it was one of 16 urban wards . The ruin, which is now protected as an architectural monument, was also named Uffhusener Warte after a former village location in its neighborhood . The tower has a square floor plan with a side length of 4.65 m, the control room once towered 18 meters above the ground, today the remaining height is around 6 m. After a fire in 1733, in which over 50 houses were destroyed, the farmers were allowed to remove usable building material from the control room, which at that time had already fallen into disrepair.
• The Landhotel (Obertor 1): The stones of the partially demolished waiting tower were used for the foundation of the house, which was still a tavern at the time, after the great fire of 1733 mentioned. Between 1811 and 1814, when the new Friedenskirche was built, the tavern's hall was used for religious services. Between 1835 and 1865 the inn was run by six tenants. In 1890 the community sold the tavern to the innkeeper Thiel from Großengottern. In 1907 the imperial post office and telephone moved into the restaurant. During the GDR era, the restaurant was operated by the consumer cooperative. In 1991 what was then known as the "Bockwurstkneipe" was privatized again. The southern extension was built in 1993.
• The Offhauser Quelle is reminiscent of the Offhusen desert in the western part of the corridor . The stratified spring in the Upper Muschelkalk fills a hollow 50 × 20 m. In a loan letter from 1485 from Siegmund, Count von Gleichen, Uffhausen still appears as a living village, in the visitation file of the parish of Bienstädt from 1533 as wustung Uffhußen .
• In an ash grove on the Bienstädter Berg there is a 22 m high pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) with a trunk circumference of 4.16 m as a natural monument .

particularities

On the Bienstädter Berg, not far from the Bienstädter Warte, there was the eavesdropping post HA III "Wespe" of the MfS during the GDR era . After the "turnaround", Deutsche Telekom acquired the site and rented it to young people for a "techno center" in the late 1990s. Today (2015) all buildings there except for a radio mast of the German radio tower and an earlier, now ruinous Stasi prefabricated building are demolished. A large " Bienstädt solar park " with over 16,000 solar modules is to be built there on an area of ​​5.7 hectares .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Ilm district LK Sömmerda, district-free city of Erfurt . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 3. Erfurt 1999.
3. ↑ Otto Dobencker (arrangement and ed.): Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae (1128–1266) . tape 3 . Fischer, Jena 1925. (No. 2009)
4. ↑ Dr. August Beck: History of the Gothaischen Land , Volume III, Part I, 1875
5. ↑ ^{a b} Information board near the bar
6. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics
7. ↑ Information board at the Schwemme
8. ↑ Information board on the tower
9. ↑ Reinhard Krause: The oak on the Bienstädter Berg . In: The people . Erfurt March 31, 1983.
10. ↑ Patrick Krug: Clean energy from Thuringia: Solar park planned near Bienstädt . Thuringian newspaper, March 30, 2015

Web links

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

• Official website of the administrative association Nesseaue