Buttlar

This article covers the municipality of Buttlar, for further meanings see Buttlar (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Wartburg district
Fulfilling municipality :	Geisa
Height :	260 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.31 km 2
Residents:	1259 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36419
Area code :	036967
License plate :	WAK, SLZ
Community key :	16 0 63 011
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Bermbacher Str. 1 36419 Buttlar
Mayor :	Johannes Ritz ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Buttlar in the Wartburg district

Buttlar is a municipality in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The fulfilling municipality for Buttlar is the city of Geisa .

geography

Buttlar is located in the far west of Thuringia at 260 m above sea level. NN in the Ulstertal near the border with Hesse in the Thuringian Rhön . The Standorfsberg rises to the west. To the east lies the 425 m high Michelsberg and south of it the valley of the Bermbach runs through the towns of Bermbach and Mieswarz .

Community structure

Buttlar consists of the districts Buttlar, Bermbach and Wenigentaft . With effect from March 25, 1994, these were merged to form the newly formed municipality of Buttlar. The hamlets of Borbels (24 inhabitants) and Mieswarz (32 inhabitants) have no status as a district.

history

Buttlar is an old Fulda village in the Geisa district , which has only belonged to Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach since 1815 . The noble family von Buttlar , named after the place , first appeared in a document in 1170 with Hartnid de Butelir . In 1233 Johann de Buttlar appeared as the Fulda marshal and in 1246 Hartung de Buttlar appeared as a co-founder of the Fulda monastery Mariental .

In the Turkish tax register of the abbey of Fulda from 1605 the place is mentioned under the name Bottlar with 69 families.

In 1906 Buttlar was given a stop on the Ulstertal Railway, which ran south of the village, followed by the Wenigentaft-Oechsen Railway , which ran north of the village in 1912 .

On October 12, 1910, work began on the outskirts of Buttlar to sink a potash shaft, which by the end of 1912 had reached a depth of 310 m. By June 1913 they had reached 390 m. On June 28, 1913, the tubbing lining of the shaft partially collapsed, killing six miners and injuring five. As a result there was a water ingress, the shaft work was interrupted until the beginning of 1914 and after the beginning of the World War it was completely stopped at a depth of 408 m. The shaft construction site was finally shut down in the early 1920s.

After 1945 the inner German border divided the Ulstertalbahn. That is why it was shut down in 1952 and the tracks on both railway lines around Buttlar were dismantled in 1953.

In 1955 there were 706 inhabitants.

Wenigentaft and Bermbach were incorporated into Buttlar on March 25, 1994.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Buttlar consists of 12 council members.

• CDU : 9 seats (+4)
• GREEN : 3 seats (+1)

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

mayor

Johannes Ritz (CDU) was elected honorary mayor on June 5, 2016. He replaced the Rosa Kind (CDU), who had been in office since 2004.

Culture and sights

• The new construction of the Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary took place in the neo-Romanesque style from 1872 to 1876.
• The Michaelskapelle is a pilgrimage chapel on the Michelsberg. It was built in 1714.
• The Buttlar Castle is a former moated castle and was the seat of the family of Buttlar , whose members played a role as clergy, military and courtiers in Fulda, Hessen. For a few years now, it has been privately owned and completely renovated, and now holiday apartments are rented there.
• Right next to the church is the former school, a half-timbered building built in 1870, which has been privately owned for several years.
• The parish linden tree not far from the church was designated as a natural monument in 1954 .

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  The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin

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  Buttlar Castle

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  Village school from 1870

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2003, 17 farms were registered that use 210  ha of land for agriculture.

The following cycle paths run through the municipality :

• The Hessen Railway Cycle Route leads from Hanau on former railway lines for approx. 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön and ends in Bad Hersfeld .
• The Ulstertal cycle path as part of the Rhön cycle path . This has a total length of 180 km and leads from Bad Salzungen to Hammelburg , through all three federal states of the Rhön : Bavaria , Hesse and Thuringia .

Personalities born in Buttlar

• Karl Hofmann (1862–1928), politician (center), member of the Reichstag
• Heinrich Winter (1928–2017), mathematician

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Buttlar, Bermbach and Wenigentaft of February 22, 1994 (GVBl p. 302).
3. ↑ Information . In: District Office Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Wartburgkreis from 10 August 2010 . Bad Salzungen 2010, p. 14 .
4. ↑ Inventory of Thuringian monuments and art, issue 37, page 98.
5. ↑ 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 , location register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers.
6. ↑ Harald Rockstuhl : The history of the Wenigentaft-Oechsener Railway 1912–1952. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2000, ISBN 3-932554-00-0 , page 16ff.
7. ^ 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 .
8. ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Buttlar, Bermbach and Wenigentaft of February 22, 1994 (GVBl p. 302)
9. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 29, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016. Mayoral election. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 2, 2019 . 
11. ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 75.

Web links

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

• Buttlar Castle