Döllstädt

This article describes the village of Döllstädt . A place with a similar name is in the Ilm district, see Döllstedt . For the German businessman, see Louis Döllstädt .

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Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 10 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Gotha
Management Community :	Fahner height
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.37 km 2
Residents:	1103 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99100
Area code :	036206
License plate :	GTH
Community key :	16 0 67 011
Association administration address:	Markt 7 99958 Tonna
Website :	www.vg-fahner-hoehe.de
Mayoress :	Christina Kempf (BID)
Location of the municipality of Döllstädt in the district of Gotha

Döllstädt is a municipality in the district of Gotha in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative association Fahner Höhe .

Geographical location

Döllstädt is located on the flat southern slope of the Vargula hill and about 3 km northwest of the Fahner Höhe . Neighboring towns are Großfahner in the south, the OT Gräfentonna von Tonna in the west, the asparagus and strawberry town of Herbsleben in the north and Dachwig in the east. The highest point in the municipality is the Vargulaer Hügel at 252 m, the lowest point at 182 m on the municipality boundary with Dachwig, where the Kornbach leaves the municipality.

history

Church of Saints Peter and Paul

Rectory

Place name

The earlier form of the place name Tullenstat can be traced back to the Old Norse word Dulle, Old High German tulli or duli, which means something like tube, recess or channel. Tulli can also mean arrow or hoof, the horn sole of a horse. Given the importance that both horse breeding and the use of bows and arrows had in the Thuringian Empire, hoof or arrow sites are quite meaningful explanations for Döllstädt as a place near the royal court.

Early history

An early settlement was proven by finds from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. A large burial mound on the northern edge of the village, the "Vargulhügel", was removed in the 19th century. Today the field name "Vargulaer Hügel", about 1 km from the northern outskirts, reminds of this.

First mention

The place Tullenstat is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from the Fulda monastery from the year 799. In a deed of gift dated May 18, 874, Tolestat, along with 116 other places in Thuringia, is mentioned as the Fulda Abbey. Archbishop Liubert zu Mainz as well as Abbot Sigehard zu Fulda asserted the right to raise the tithe for themselves. The dispute over this was decided by King Ludwig the German (840–876) at the court of Ingelheim in favor of the Fulda Abbey. The place and castle belonged to the Lords of Tullestete . The family produced well-known personalities in the form of mayors and ministerials. In 1212 the place and castle went to the Lords of Salza , and later to the Counts of Gleichen . In 1540 the fortified moated castle was besieged without success and the village was cremated. Döllstädt belonged to the sub-care of the Tonna dominion , which from 1677 belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg as "Amt Tonna" .

In 1291 Gerhard II. Von Eppstein registered as Archbishop of Mainz for the Döllstadt Cistercian monastery of St. Petri and St. Nicolai . Döllstädt and the nunnery are mentioned again in documents around 1350. In 1524 the Ernestine Office of Gotha accepted the Reformation and the monastery was dissolved. The possessions were converted into a chamber property of the later Duchy of Saxony-Gotha . The Kammergut (363 ha), which was enlarged again in 1912 and which was the main employer of the village, was divided up after 1945 by the land reform of the time .

In 1777 a fortification with two gates and one gate was preserved. The castle hill has been bare since it was sacked and destroyed by Napoleonic troops in 1806.

Döllstädt belonged to the woad-growing area around Erfurt. In the 18th century, wild saffron (Carthamus officinarum) was grown particularly successfully on the Döllstadt fields . The substance known as safflower , which was obtained from this plant, was an important vegetable source of color. Also, anise and coriander was temporarily fitted with high merit, but it came around 1775 by pests to a halt.

In 1889 the village was connected to the railway network through the construction of the Gotha – Tennstedt line , and in 1897 to the Erfurt – Bad Langensalza line .

In April 1945 the place was occupied by American troops, from July it belonged to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ), from 1949 to the GDR accordingly. In the course of the land reform of 1945, the Fideikommissgut Döllstädt, 80% of which was the main employer of the village, was divided up and occupied with displaced persons and small farmers. A little later, the large and small farmers had to hand over their goods and lands to the agricultural production cooperatives (LPG) founded at the time . The former castle building was used as a state nursing home from 1950.

Today orchards and large asparagus fields dominate the area around the village. After 1990 the place was expanded to include the newly created residential area Im Teich with 32 terraced houses and 50 single-family and semi-detached houses.

Attractions

• The Döllstädter Schloss is now a nursing home for the elderly of the Evangelical Church.
• The remains of a tower hill castle are a ground monument and are located in the east of the village. The place was devastated when the French moved through in 1806. A display board provides further information.
• The Döllstadt Church of St. Peter and Paul was rebuilt in 1542, it goes back to a chapel from the time of the monastery. The church is a listed building and has been restored several times. Several grave slabs stand on the inside of the churchyard wall. The former rectory is in a dilapidated structural condition with a neglected rectory garden.
• The stump of a former windmill near Herbslebener Strasse has been preserved.

Personalities

• Timotheus Kirchner (born 1533 in Döllstädt, died 1587 in Weimar): Lutheran theologian, professor of theology and superintendent in Weimar.
• Heinrich Joseph Golde (born 1802 in Döllstädt, died 1886 in Erfurt): composer and conductor. Music master of the Prussian 32nd Infantry Regiment in Erfurt. Composed the Prussian March, Frasini and Flag Consecration March and the Great Festreveille. A memorial set for him in Erfurt was removed in 1945.

literature

• Johann Georg August Galetti: Attempting a history of the Tonna rule . Tonna 1777, p. 108-114 .
• Baurath Eberhard: Döllstädt . In: Paul Lehfeld (Ed.): Building and Art Monuments of Thuringia. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Tonna District Court . Booklet X. Jena 1891, p. 209 .
• Döllstädt. In: H. Patze, P. Aufgebauer (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany / Thuringia. Kröner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Website of the administrative community. (When the 1100 year celebration was celebrated in 1984, it was not yet known that the year 799 was the year of first mention, according to information from the VG.)
3. ↑ Guido Reinhardt: History of the market Gräfentonna. Langensalza 1892.
4. ↑ NABU Thuringia (ed.): On the nature and history of the Fahner Höhe. Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-00-005479-0 , p. 104.

Web links

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