Blankenburg (Thuringia)

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Blankenburg (Thuringia)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '  N , 10 ° 45'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Unstrut-Hainich district
Management Community : Bad Tennstedt
Height : 272 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.18 km 2
Residents: 156 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density : 22 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99955
Area code : 036043
License plate : UH, LSZ, MHL
Community key : 16 0 64 007
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Kirchheilinger Str. 3
99955 Blankenburg
Website : www.blankenburg-thueringen.de
Mayor : Jörn Sola ( FW )
Location of the municipality of Blankenburg in the Unstrut-Hainich district
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Blankenburg is a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . It belongs to the Bad Tennstedt administrative community based in the city of Bad Tennstedt .

geography

Geographical location

Blankenburg is located in the northwest of the Thuringian Basin , in the so-called Schlotheimer Graben , which is flanked by the Heilinger Heights .

To the east, the settlement area borders on the 158.8 ha large nature reserve Großer Horn , in the north of the village is the source of the Schambach- Oberlauf Fernebach , which forms the Blankenburg reservoir east of the settlement .

history

Church 2011

The community was first mentioned on March 20, 1143. Initially belonging to the Peterskloster in Erfurt , the village was sold in 1272 to the administrator of the Teutonic Order , who was based in Mühlhausen . The late Gothic church of St. Boniface from the 15th century was rebuilt in 1701 in the Baroque style. Of the two bells in the tower, the smaller one was cast in 1812 and is still in use today, while the larger bell dates from the 17th century. Several severe storms and fires in the 18th and 19th centuries caused great damage in Blankenburg.

The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Langensalza until 1815 and after its cession to Prussia from 1816 to 1944 to the district of Langensalza in the province of Saxony . The village hall was built in 1914 and has been connected to the power grid since 1924. After the advance guard of the advancing US Army recognized German defensive positions on the "Long Field" at the beginning of April 1945 and encountered resistance, American tanks and assault guns shelled the place.

In 1953, the citizens built a sewer themselves. In 1956 the LPG "Einigkeit" was founded, in 1958 the LPG "Aufbau" followed, which became "Einigkeit" on January 1, 1965. At the beginning of the 1970s, the streets were paved.

A missile base of the NVA was set up between Blankenburg and Freienbessingen . This "forest settlement" was a large asylum seeker home from 1992 to 2007, only to be demolished.

In 1991 the community came to the Bad Tennstedt administrative community.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Blankenburg consists of six members, all of whom have belonged to the Free Voting Group Fire Brigade Association since the local elections on May 26, 2019 .

mayor

The honorary mayor Jörn Sola (FWG fire brigade) was re-elected on June 5, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ^ Hessian Historical Commission (ed.): Mainzer Urkundenbuch. Volume 2: Peter Acht : The documents from the death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) to the death of Archbishop Konrad (1200). Part 1: 1137-1175. Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1968, (38).
  4. ↑ Jürgen Möller: The fight for northern Thuringia in April 1945. The fighting in the area north of Mühlhausen-Langensalza and the advance of the V. US Corps from the Werra through the districts of Heiligenstadt, Worbis and Sondershausen to Unstrut and on to the Saale (= end of the war in Central Germany 1945. Vol. 1). 2nd, edited edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-212-9 , p. 96.
  5. ↑ City council election 2019 in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on July 6, 2019 .

Web links

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