Dachwig
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Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ' N , 10 ° 51' E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Gotha | |
| Management Community : | Fahner height | |
| Height : | 172 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 12.73 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 1617 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 127 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 99100 | |
| Area code : | 036206 | |
| License plate : | GTH | |
| Community key : | 16 0 67 009 | |
| LOCODE : | DE DW2 | |
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| Mayor : | Volker Aschenbach ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Dachwig in the district of Gotha | ||
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Dachwig is a municipality in the district of Gotha in Thuringia and a member of the Fahner Höhe administrative association .
geography
The community is located in the Thuringian Basin about 6 km north of the Fahner Höhe in the triangle of the cities of Bad Langensalza , Gotha and Erfurt . The highest point of the municipal area is 234 m in the Oberfeld , at 162 m, the lowest point, the Jordan leaves the municipal area in the east.
Waters
The Jordan stream flows through Dachwig , the inflow and outflow of the Dachwiger dam . This dam (also known as "Speicher Dachwig") is located southwest of Dachwig in the Großfahner district, northwest of Erfurt. The reservoir was built in 1976 to irrigate agricultural land and served this purpose until 1990. In 1993, the lake experienced major fish deaths , probably as a result of botulism . Today it is a resting and breeding place for water birds and songbirds and thus fulfills an important nature conservation function. The dam consists of a homogeneous earth dam made of cohesive material. On the eastern edge of the village, the Jordan receives the water of the Kornbach, which comes from the direction of Döllstädt and flows along the northern edge of the village, below the swimming pool.
history
Origin until 1900
The first written mentions as Dahaba ("Tonbach") in the inventory of Hersfeld Monastery were made in 755 and 802. Other place names were Dachebechi and Tachabechi . According to an older chronicle, Dachwig has been known by name since the year 874: as Dagoberti Vicus (Latin: village of Dagobert). Possibly Dagobert was the founder of the place. However: Dachwig celebrated its 1150th anniversary in 2010. After that, it must be assumed that the document was first mentioned in 860. At the end of the 15th century, Dachwig belonged to the Vogtei Walschleben in the area of the city of Erfurt . Even before the Thirty Years' War , the place had 1,142 inhabitants who earned their income from agriculture and manual work. After the devastating effects of the war, a famine in 1640 and the plague, Dachwig only had 109 inhabitants after 1648. The place recovered only slowly, but was hit several times by major fires. Since the administrative reform of 1706, Dachwig belonged to the Gispersleben office . In 1711 the village inn was renewed. In 1760 the bridge over the Jordan on Witterdaer Weg was built. Dachwig had four gates that were guarded by gatekeepers until 1826. A tower guard on a watchtower in the “Zur Warte” corridor warned the population in the event of fire or other disasters with a horn signal. The former church was in front of the site on the Johanniskirchberg, the new church was completed in 1863. On the stormy night of November 13, 1894, a major fire destroyed 27 homesteads with 36 buildings and left 19 families homeless.
The organ building was from 1760 at home in Dachwig. The first master organ builder was Johann Georg Kummer , who created the organ in Erfurt's Andreaskirche in 1787. Later masters were Ernst Siegfried Hesse (organs for Erfurt Cathedral and for the church in Riga) and others from his family, Albin Hickmann, Georg Hoecke and Max and Alfred Andreas. The Dachwig organ building company had up to 50 employees. Church, concert and carousel organs were created, but also barrel organs. In 1951 the organ building in Dachwig went out.
In 1802 Dachwig came with the Erfurt area to Prussia and between 1807 and 1813 to the French Principality of Erfurt . With the Congress of Vienna the place came back to Prussia in 1815 and in 1816 it was affiliated to the Erfurt district in the Prussian province of Saxony . The Dachwig train station and the Erfurt-Langensalza train line opened on November 25, 1897.
1900 to the present
→ Main article: Air raid on Dachwig
On April 8, 1945, two days before the occupation by US troops , Dachwig suffered an American air raid with incendiary bombs at 6:38 p.m. , which killed 56 residential and farm buildings (with cattle). A woman and a child were killed. Dachwig was the " target of opportunity" for 6 twin-engine bombers of the Douglas A-26 "Invader" type, which were unable to locate their actual target in Sondershausen because of the smoke there from previous bombardments. Each of these machines was loaded with 6-7 incendiary containers, each containing 110 incendiary bombs of 1.8 kg: a total of 7.7 tons (4,300 bombs). The valuable old village chronicle was also lost.
The village was rebuilt with the limited funds in the Soviet Zone / GDR . In 1975, on the occasion of the local 1115 anniversary, the village museum was opened. It emerged from the agricultural property donated by the married couple Hermann and Elsbeth Martin for this purpose.
After 1989, Dachwig laid out an industrial area and a new housing estate on the Lützer See . Many lovingly restored half-timbered buildings can be found in the village, as well as houses that hide their characteristic facades behind insulation panels. From 2005 to 2009, a total of 1.6 km of lanes in the village were completely renovated at a cost of 1.1 million euros.
There is an outdoor swimming pool in Dachwig . In contrast, an indoor swimming pool that was built and inaugurated on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the GDR in 1989 never went into operation. Contrary to the standards, the pool is only 18 m long and there is no water treatment system.
The commercial area with numerous companies located there as well as the residential area "Am Kornbach" have been built since 2000.
Worth seeing
St. Petri village church
According to the chronicle, there was a St. Sebastian chapel in the 12th century, it was replaced by a new church with the introduction of the Reformation and consecrated as St. Peter church ( location ). In 1400 the Johanneskirche was built in front of the Niedertor, which was built in 1495, outside of the former location. In 1525 Johann Spinler was the first Protestant pastor in Dachwig. Due to considerable structural damage, the church had to be demolished in 1862, and in November 1863 the new building could be re-consecrated as St. Peter's Church at the old location. In 1943 the big bell was melted down for war purposes. After extensive renovation, the church was inaugurated on July 14, 1963. The church square was redesigned in 2009 with old paving stones. The church, which is classified as an architectural monument, belongs to the Elxleben parish. The pastor's position is currently (2011) vacant.
Local museum
In 2001 the newly founded “Dachwiger Heimat- und Museumsverein e. V. “officially an interesting village museum in a half-timbered building at Langen Straße 27 ( Lage ) in the center of the village. The actual founder of the museum is Elsbeth Martin, who in 1984 donated her farm with the local history collection from three centuries to the town. Old rural and handicraft traditions as well as pictures of the eventful local history can be seen here. The association holds its meetings in the vaulted cellar.
Dachwig dam
Bird sanctuary. Created and used until 1990 for agricultural irrigation purposes. (See in the section on waters )
Niedermühle
The Niedermühle Dachwig ( Lage ), which has been a listed building since 1995 , is the last grinding mill once operated by the Jordanbach and, along with the boiler mill in Gotha and the forest mill in Luisenthal, one of the last remaining flour mills in the Gotha district. The state of their mill technology is that of a small craft mill in the first half of the 20th century. Individual grinding machines correspond to the state of the 19th century. With the exception of the electric motor installed around 1950, hardly any technical modernization measures worth mentioning were taken after 1925. Today the property in the form of a four-sided courtyard from 1847 houses a technical museum , a restaurant with a guesthouse and a company apartment. After extensive restoration work, the low mill was on February 2, 2014 on the occasion of an open day opened while on February 7, launched the official operation.
politics
Municipal council
The council of the community consists of 12 councilors and councilors. Since the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the seats have been distributed among the individual parties as follows:
societies
Twelve associations ensure the social life of the place.
traffic
Dachwig is located on federal highway 176 , which leads from Bad Langensalza to Erfurt via a bypass (since 1983) south of Dachwig. The place also has a stop on the Kühnhausen – Bad Langensalza railway line , which is served every hour by trains on the Erfurt – Leinefelde (–Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe) DB Regio Südost line.
Personalities
- Johann Michael Hesse (1734–1810), progenitor of the Hesse family of organ builders
- Elsbeth Martin (* 1919 in Gierstädt, since the age of 3 in Dachwig; † 2010): Farmer who, together with her husband Hermann Martin, laid the foundations for today's Dachwig local history and village museum by collecting everything that belonged to a farm put.
literature
- Reinhold Andert: "The Tretenburg, Herbsleben and the Königsleutedörfer" (Dachwig was a Königsleutedorf in the Thuringian Kingdom until 531.) In: "Der Thüringer Königshort", Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1995, ISBN 3-928498-45-2
- Reinhold Andert: “The ring around Herbsleben”, In: “The Franconian Rider”, Dingsda-Verlag Querfurt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-928498-92-4
Web links
- Information on the Dachwig village museum
- Website of the administrative association with information about Dachwig
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b website of the community
- ^ History of the Walschleben community
- ↑ Call for help in “Die Gartenlaube” (1894), issue 50, p. 855.
- ↑ Thomas Blumenthal: Anatomy of an attack. The bombing of the city of Sondershausen on April 8, 1945 . University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich 2002. pp. 76, 90
- ↑ Wieland Fischer: The waves are racing. Cost factor: Secret plans provide for the demolition of the Dachwig indoor pool . Thuringian newspaper, January 20, 2010
- ↑ Wieland Fischer: “Homestead full of history. Dachwiger honor museum founder Elsbeth Martin on her 90th birthday ”. Thuringian regional newspaper, May 26, 2009
- ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger Gotha of January 29, 2014, p. 2
- ↑ http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/wahlseite.asp?aktiv=KW01&startbei=kommunalwahlen/KW_wahlverbindungen.asp Thuringian State Office for Statistics, municipal council election 2014 - final result, municipality of Dachwig
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