Bucha

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Southern Saale Valley
Height :	350 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.02 km 2
Residents:	1180 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07751
Area code :	03641
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 008
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 23 ; 07768 Kahla
Website :	www.vg-suedliches-saaletal.de
Mayor :	Hans-Joachim Loeper
Location of the municipality of Bucha in the Saale-Holzland district

Bucha is a municipality in the south of the Saale-Holzland district , west of Jena , and part of the administrative community of the southern Saale valley . The localities of Schorba , Pösen , Oßmaritz , Coppanz and Nennsdorf belong to the municipality of Bucha .

history

The first documentary evidence is assigned to a document dated April 4, 1290. The place name Bucha is probably derived from the Germanic Buchaha - "water course between beeches".

The place had been the seat of a parish district since the High Middle Ages , a scientifically proven list of names of the Bucha pastors goes back well before the introduction of the Reformation.

In the course of the state expansion, the place could have come into the possession of the Lords of Lobdeburg . In the 14th century, the Wettins extended their claim to power to the “care Burgau”, which also included the town of Bucha. A nursing was a particular legal form of church or state administration. Until the middle of the 15th century Bucha existed as a hamlet , today's place Bucha formed "Oberbucha", the part " Niederbucha " located in the direction of Oßmaritz , today a desert . The oldest surviving register of the inhabitants of the two places goes back to the first third of the 15th century. The state administration was carried out by the "Amt Burgau" in the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , it then became part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . After the Prince's abdication, Bucha was assigned to the Stadtroda district.

During the fighting in April 1945, Bucha was occupied by American soldiers who set up an artillery position on the Bucha Heights in order to bomb the city center of Jena .

After 1945 Bucha belonged to the Thuringian district of Jena and later to the district of Gera . A large part of the western district of Jena-Land was cultivated by the LPG " Ernst Thälmann ", based in Bucha. Bucha has been part of the Saale-Holzland district since 1994 .

Church in Bucha

Buildings

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Michaelis is equipped with an organ from the Heerwagen workshop .

traffic

Bucha can be reached via the Bucha junction on federal motorway 4, which runs immediately south of the town .

economy

The place has two business parks. Living in the municipality of Bucha is characterized by homesteads and agricultural properties. The first new residential area “Über dem Dorfe” with approx. 11 hectares is almost completely built on.

mayor

In February 2019, Hans-Joachim Loeper (independent) was elected mayor with 90.1% of the vote.

coat of arms

Description : “Split by silver and green; in front a fallen green beech leaf growing from a transverse branch, behind five fallen silver beech leaves, also growing from a transverse branch. "

Personalities

The former track and field athlete and Olympic champion Petra Felke -Meier lives in Bucha.
The former track and field athlete, Olympic champion in the javelin, former MP and former Landtag in the Thuringian state parliament Ruth Fuchs lives in Bucharest.

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ Karl H. Lampe (Ed.): Document book of the Deutschordensballei Thuringia (= Thuringian historical sources . NF Bd. 7 = Bd. 10, ZDB -ID 548596-4 ). Volume 1. Fischer, Jena 1936, No. 482.

↑ Kurt Zahn: The pastors of the Superintendentur Jena from the beginning to the end of the 18th century (= series of AMF. 68, ZDB -ID 2380765-9 ). 6th, revised and expanded edition, 2nd reprint of the revised and significantly expanded edition. Working Group for Central German Family Research, Kleve 2006.

^ Andrei Zahn: The inhabitants of the offices of Burgau, Camburg and Dornburg. A prayer register from around 1421–1425 (= AMF series of publications. 55). Working Group for Central German Family Research, Mannheim 1998.

↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia , accessed on May 13, 2019

Web links

Commons : Bucha (near Jena) - collection of images, videos and audio files

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[UB_DOB-THR-2] Karl H. Lampe (Ed.): Document book of the Deutschordensballei Thuringia (= Thuringian historical sources . NF Bd. 7 = Bd. 10, ZDB -ID 548596-4 ). Volume 1. Fischer, Jena 1936, No. 482.

[3] Kurt Zahn: The pastors of the Superintendentur Jena from the beginning to the end of the 18th century (= series of AMF. 68, ZDB -ID 2380765-9 ). 6th, revised and expanded edition, 2nd reprint of the revised and significantly expanded edition. Working Group for Central German Family Research, Kleve 2006.

[4] Andrei Zahn: The inhabitants of the offices of Burgau, Camburg and Dornburg. A prayer register from around 1421–1425 (= AMF series of publications. 55). Working Group for Central German Family Research, Mannheim 1998.

[5] Mayoral elections in Thuringia , accessed on May 13, 2019