Birkenfelde

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Birkenfelde (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '  N , 10 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Uder
Height :	285 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.39 km 2
Residents:	545 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37318
Area code :	036083
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 007
Association administration address:	Settlement 14 37318 Uder
Website :	vg-uder.de
Mayor :	Adrian Grieß ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Birkenfelde in the Eichsfeld district

in the town

St. Leonard Church

Birkenfelde is a municipality in the Uder administrative community in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld .

geography

Birkenfelde is located in a valley formed by the Iberg in the east, the Heiligenberg in the southwest and the Hennefeste in the west. The valley is also known as the Birkenbach valley because of the birch stream that rises on the Hennefeste.

As a typical clustered village , the houses are arranged around the church standing in the center on a sandstone rock. The townscape is characterized by simple half-timbered houses on high plinths made of roughly hewn sandstone blocks.

The former Rumerode estate, located about one kilometer to the northwest, belongs to the location of Birkenfelde .

history

Birkenfelde was first mentioned in 1055 in a document from Archbishop Luitpold I of Mainz . In this reference point, among other things, six Hufen of land are bequeathed to St. Peter's Monastery in Nörten . Hertwig and Siegfried de Birkenfeld were mentioned as witnesses in 1209. In 1313 the monastery Norten handed the family von Hanstein the jurisdiction of a village half, the other half belonged to Mainz as a fief to the above, named after the village of knights of Berchinefeld and later the Lords of Linsingen .

The place Birkenfelde belonged to Kurmainz until the secularization in 1802 . From 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1909 a branch of the cigar industry was established on site.

From 1945 to 1949 the place belonged to the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 became part of the GDR . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, Birkenfelde was affected by the closure of the nearby inner-German border. Since 1990 the place belongs to the re-established state of Thuringia.

Of the formerly two manors that existed in Birkenfelde, only the Karlshof still exists (today a retirement and nursing home), the Steinerhof was demolished after the expropriation as part of the land reform in 1948.

On February 21, 1996, the Christian Scouting Association of Germany bought a listed four-sided courtyard in Mitteldorf as the federal center.

Population development

Population development of Birkenfelde from 1668 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

Development of the population (December 31) :

1668: 536 1735: 394 1812: 284 1840: 628 1909: 527 1946: 1024

1963: 692 1979: 760 1994: 575 1995: 571 1996: 562 1997: 589

1998: 598 1999: 600 2000: 602 2001: 613 2002: 596 2003: 589

2004: 582 2005: 596 2006: 602 2007: 600 2008: 587 2009: 585

2010: 601 2011: 588 2012: 589 2013: 582 2014: 573 2015: 567

2016: 571 2017: 550 2018: 549 2019: 545

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics, on the history of the Iberg communities: Thalwend, Schönhagen, Birkenfelde

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Birkenfelde consists of eight council members.

• CDU and clubs: 8 seats

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

mayor

The honorary mayor Adrian Grieß (CDU) was elected on June 5, 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : “On a silver background with a green shield base, a green birch with seven silver roots rooting in the shield base, the lower branches hung with a black chain and the crown covered with a coat of arms, divided six times by red and blue, the blue bars covered twice three lenses and one silver lens. "

The birch stands for the place name. The seven roots correspond to the seven desert areas Hunrode, Rumerode, Schelmerode, Schwickschwende, Auf dem Rode, Mackenrode and Thunrichsberg - from which the place emerged. The coat of arms in the center is the family coat of arms of the noble family von Linsingen . The chain stands for Saint Leonhard , namesake of the church.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Catholic Church of St. Leonhard (built from 1708 to 1711)
• Karlshof (historical building from 1659)
• Maria-Hilf-Chapel on the Hennefeste (built 1850)
• War memorial in honor of the fallen and missing of the First World War (inauguration on August 7, 1924 on the Anger, relocation to the churchyard in 1950)
• War memorial in honor of the fallen and missing of the Second World War in the churchyard
• Steinerhof sports and club house

societies

• Birkenfelde Fire Brigade Association 1864
• FSV Birkenfelde 1921
• Kirmesverein Birkenfelde 1994
• Christian Scouting Germany

literature

• Festschrift 900 years of Birkenfelde (1955). Heiligenstadt 1955.
• Iberg communities (ed.): On the history of the Iberg communities Thalwend, Birkenfelde and Schönhagen. Anniversary publication 2005 . Mecke, Duderstadt 2005, p. 230 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Hans Atzrodt, Helmut Godehardt: The first written references of places Birkenfelde and Zella . In: Kulturbund der DDR, Kreiskabinett Worbis (Hrsg.): Eichsfelder Heimathefte . Issue 2. Heiligenstadt 1984, p. 135-137 .
3. ↑ Peter Acht (arr.): The documents since d. Death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) until z. Death of Archbishop Konrad (1200) . In: Historical Association for Hesse (Ed.): Mainzer Urkundenbuch . Volume II-1 (1137-1175). Darmstadt 1968. (296)
4. ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, page 47
5. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result: Birkenfelde. Retrieved June 6, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on June 5, 2016 . 
7. ^ Levin Freiherr von Wintzingeroda-Knorr: The desertions of the Eichsfeldes. List of desolations, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt (province of Hanover), Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen (state and city) and Worbis (province of Saxony) . Ed .: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt. Halle / Saale 1903, p. 5 f., 155, 380, 422, 532, 537, 599 f., 672 f., 674, 775 ff., 812, 815-817, 823, 857 .

Web links

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