Borsch (geisa)

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Borsch
City of Geisa
Borsch coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 277  (270-285)  m
Residents : 714  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Postal code : 36419
Area code : 036967
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Borsch district
View from the north
View from the north
Catholic Church of St. Mary Magdalene

Borsch is a district of the town of Geisa in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Borsch is located on the Hessian-Thuringian border, about 20 kilometers (as the crow flies) west-southwest of the district town of Bad Salzungen , in the Thuringian Rhön , in the Ulstertal . The district of Lützenbachshof belongs to Borsch .

history

With the Borscher Schnabelkanne - an important archaeological find from the parcel “Borscher Aue”, the settlement of the place can be proven long before the birth of Christ. Borsch appears for the first time on March 27, 815 in the spelling “Borseo” in a document, Emperor Ludwig the Pious bequeathed the place (Villa Borsaha) to the Benedectine monastery Fulda as a gift. The first church, built as a Gothic chapel, was partially destroyed, the tower was preserved.

In the Turkish tax register of the abbey of Fulda from 1605 the place is mentioned under the name Borscha with 138 families.

After the Thirty Years' War the damaged building was still in use; in 1692 it was converted into a hall church. In the 1730s a new building was discussed. Construction began around 1740 and was consecrated as Maria Magdalenenkirche by the Fulda abbot Adolf von Dalberg . In the year 1691 the devotional chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was built on the outskirts, the construction of which, according to legend, goes back to the foundation of a local nobleman from the Boyneburg family , whose daughter is said to have been struck by lightning at this point.

The most famous son of the village is Johannes Koch , who became professor of metaphysics and director of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg at the time of the French Revolution . In 1955 there were 1079 inhabitants.

Shortly after the First World War, the Abel brothers' disused foundry was dismantled by the Fulda company Klein & Stiefel and rebuilt in Fulda.

Borsch celebrated its first documentary mention 1200 years ago during a festival week from July 27th to August 2nd, 2015.

The population was 671 on January 1, 2018.

politics

Joined the Geisa community

Borsch joined forces on March 8, 1994 through a joint contract with the towns of Bremen, Geisa (with Wiesenfeld) and Otzbach (with Geblar) to form the new unified municipality Geisa and thus lost its political independence. In Borsch there is a kindergarten set up by the Catholic parish and a parish hall as public buildings.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split; in front a silver butte with gold straps in red; four quarters of silver and black at the back. ”The coat of arms was approved on January 14, 1994. It symbolizes two influential noble families of the Rhön in the coat of arms. The silver butte in red is the coat of arms of the von Buttlar family and can also be understood as an indication of the influence of the Principality of Fulda. Constantin von Buttlar was prince abbot in Fulda from 1714 to 1726. A black and silver emblem is the symbol of the Boyneburg family. The municipality has had the motifs of its coat of arms in the local seal since the beginning of this century. The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Uwe Reipert.

Saint Nepomuk, Am Dorfbach in Borsch

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

  • Half-timbered houses shape the townscape.
  • Wayside shrines and wayside crosses testify to the Christian faith.
  • The Catholic parish church of St. Maria Magdalena was built in 1738 by the Italian builder Andrea Gallasini . Borsch's village church, along with a number of other baroque churches in the Rhön, is a testimony to the strong activity of the Fulda church princes at that time. On the west side of the church, a coat of arms stone refers to the owner - Prince Abbot Adolf von Dalberg.
  • The Chapel of the Visitation of Mary is located on the outskirts, the festive inauguration was carried out by Prince Abbot Placidus von Droste in 1695.

Nature reserves and monuments

The nature reserve Auewäldchen is located about one kilometer north of the village in the direction of the neighboring municipality of Buttlar and has a total area of ​​27 hectares, it was designated on September 11, 1967.

The two linden trees on the Stehberg were designated as a natural monument in 1994 .

Sports

The local football club, SV Borsch 1925 , which played in the Thuringian League from 2008 to 2012, is known nationwide . Since the 2012/13 season they have been playing in the national class south and only just missed the direct promotion. But already in the following season, SV Borsch managed to rise again in Thuringia's upper house with a sovereign 1st place. The home games are played in the sports park "An der Ulster".

Marching band / music association

In October 1980, seven musicians from the community founded a music association. The initiator of the establishment was the then Catholic parish priest, Engelbert Dietrich. In the course of the following years, other active musicians from the neighboring communities in the Thuringian Ulstertal such as Motzlar , Schleid , Geisa , Buttlar and Wenigentaft could be won. The foundation stone was laid for the brass band from Borsch in the Rhön , which from then on play actively under the name "Ulstertaler Musikanten". With an initial focus on the field of church music, the repertoire was gradually expanded. In addition to the regular test work, there have been performances at numerous music competitions and performance comparisons, church concerts, processions, marches and parades in the past. Today the program is heavily focused on folk brass music as well as Bohemian polkas and waltzes. Of course, the Ulstertal musicians always like to refer to their homeland , the Rhön, and don't miss out on regional songs.

Other clubs

The cultural life of the Borsch community is strongly characterized by its varied diversity. In addition to the sports club already mentioned (SV Borsch 1925) and the local brass band (Ulstertaler Musikanten), the men's choir Concordia, the rural women’s club, the history club, the Backhaus club and the volunteer fire brigade should be mentioned.

Fair

For a long time, the Kirmes (parish fair) takes place in Borsch on the first weekend in October. The young people of the Borsch community arrange themselves every year to form a fair society and prepare a corresponding festival every year with the participation of all other clubs. Traditionally, a real mutton (ram) and a mutton driver with a butcher lead the fair couples to the fair parade.

Web links

Commons : Borsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Heiler: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605, (Publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , place register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers
  2. ^ Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .
  3. ↑ Georg Klein: Klein & Stiefel - A family company in the light of industrial history , in Gregor K. Stasch (ed.), Thomas Heiler, Georg Klein: Maschinenbau in Fulda: Klein & Stiefel 1905-1979 , ISBN 978-3-86568-067 -9 , p. 23
  4. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  5. ↑ New Thuringian Wappenbuch Volume 3, page 96; Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen eV 1998 ISBN 3-9804487-3-8
  6. ↑ a b Georg Voss (Ed.): Borsch. In: Thuringia's architectural and art monuments. Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Geisa District Court. Booklet XXXVII. Publisher = Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena 1911 pp. 90-95
  7. ^ Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. Nature and landscape . In: Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . tape 7 . Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 87 .
  8. ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 78
  9. ^ Homepage of SV Borsch , accessed on May 22, 2012
  10. ^ Chronicle of the Ulstertaler Musikanten, brass band from Borsch in the Rhön