Dingelstädt

The title of this article is ambiguous. For people with the name Dingelstädt, see Dingelstädt (family name) . For the district of Huy with the same name, see here

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 10 ° 19 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Height :	335 m above sea level NHN
Area :	59.4 km 2
Residents:	6887 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	116 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	37351 (Dingelstädt, Helmsdorf, Kefferhausen, Kreuzebra, Silberhausen)
Area code :	036075
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 118
City structure:	5 districts
City administration address :	Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 26/28 37351 Dingelstädt
Website :	www.dingelstaedt.eu
Mayor :	Andreas Karl Fernkorn ( CDU )
Location of the town of Dingelstädt in the Eichsfeld district

City Church

Gymnasium, front view

Gymnasium, western courtyard

The small town of Dingelstädt is a rural community in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld .

location

Dingelstädt lies between Heilbad Heiligenstadt and Mühlhausen on the upper Unstrut . In the north, the Dün ridge delimits the urban area.

Rural community division

The rural community of Dingelstädt is divided into the following districts:

• Dingelstädt
• Helmsdorf
• Kefferhausen
• Kreuzebra
• Silberhausen

history

Dingelstädt was first mentioned in an undated document in the 9th century and is one of the oldest named settlements in Eichsfeld . The name refers to an old Germanic Thingstelle / -stätte (court). Researchers suspect a former royal palace on the "Kerbschen" mountain (= kirchberg mountain) . However, apart from the location and a proven circular wall 110 meters in diameter, there is no concrete evidence of this. A castle was certainly in place, because in 1134 a knight was named by Kirchberg . The Kirchbergers were feudal men of the Archbishop of Mainz . When this family died out, a Heinrich von Bodungen was enfeoffed. Berg and the proven village were listed as desolate in 1546, but St. Martin's Church still existed. It was the seat of the archpriest and therefore very old. People from the surrounding towns made a pilgrimage there on May 1st in the 19th century. In 1700 the church was rebuilt. Extensions followed, and the monastery has been used by the Ursuline Order since 1994.

The first school in Dingelstadt, initially only for boys, can be traced back to 1606. At that time, a classroom was set up for the almost 70 students in the town hall, which, in addition to teaching in the same building, also served as a dance hall and tavern. The municipality's prison cell was also located in the town hall. The first opportunity for the girls from Dingelstadt to attend school came in 1729. Almost a hundred years later, in 1833, the dance hall and the tavern in the town hall were converted into classrooms for girls and boys. At that time, 118 pupils attended the boys' school, 113 the girls' school, and 256 the boys and girls' school. When the St. Gertrudis Church was built from 1852 to 1855, the town hall was torn down; As compensation, the parish allocated seven houses, including their outbuildings, for use during the “Long Night”. The school building was straightened out in October 1854 and put to use a year later. Until 1932 it was necessary to expand various outbuildings and erect more due to the steadily increasing number of students. In 1959 the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) " Käthe Kollwitz " was added, which is now called "St. Josef-Gymnasium ”, in 1981 the foundation stone was laid for the POS “ AS Makarenko ” , today's regular school“ Johann Wolf ”.

The place was granted city rights on February 14, 1859. From 1815 (until 1945) Dingelstädt belonged to the administrative district of Erfurt in the Prussian province of Saxony, before that from 1807 to the Kingdom of Westphalia ( Canton Dingelstädt ).

On April 7, 1945, the place was occupied by American soldiers without a fight . Two civilians were shot and buildings had been damaged by previous fighter-bomber attacks. After being occupied by the Red Army in early July 1945, Dingelstädt became part of the Soviet Zone and in 1949 the GDR.

Starting from a business in Dingelstadt, in December 1974 and early 1975 soft drinks caused a hepatitis A epidemic with 594 patients in the northern districts of the Erfurt district. After heavy rain, the company had used spring water contaminated with faeces to produce the drinks ( Vita-Cola ).

On January 1, 2019, Dingelstädt merged with the communities of Helmsdorf , Kefferhausen , Kreuzebra and Silberhausen to form the new rural community and city of Dingelstädt, whereupon the Dingelstädt administrative community , to which all communities belonged, was dissolved.

The noble family of Dingelstedt

In addition to the noble lords of Kirchberg , who were wealthy near Dingelstädt, there was also the noble family of Dingelstedt from around 1300, who named themselves after the place. In the 14th century some members of the family were resident in Heiligenstadt:

• Albrecht von Dingelstädt (1311), citizen of Heiligenstadt with his sons Albrecht and Heinrich
• Heinrich von Dingelstädt (1316), councilor in Heiligenstadt
• Dietrich von Dingelstädt (1344) in the St. Martinstift in Heiligenstadt
• In 1356 Albrecht bought their estate in Heiligenstadt from the von Worbis family
• Martin von Dingelstädt (1364) in the St. Martinstift in Heiligenstadt
• Curt von Dingelstädt (Dyngilstete) (1372)
• Theodor von Dingelstädt (1389) in St. Martinstift zu Heiligenstadt (in the Liborius Chapel there was an inscription: "Anno domini MCCCXLIIII Dnus Theod. De Dingelstede Canonocus eccl. Heiligenstadiensis ista fecit fieri")
• Heinrich von Dingelstädt (1363), Vogt zu Bischofstein
• Heinrich von Dingelstädt (possibly the same?) (1390) mayor and (1397) councilor in Heiligenstadt

coat of arms

Blazon : "A rooted green oak tree in silver with a free-floating golden ring around the trunk."

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 5,073 1995: 5.101 1996: 5.105 1997: 5,092 1998: 5,070 1999: 5,082

2000: 5,059 2001: 5,024 2002: 4,965 2003: 4,922 2004: 4,860 2005: 4,798

2006: 4,766 2007: 4,713 2008: 4,676 2009: 4,698 2010: 4,665 2011: 4,381 *

2012: 4,338 2013: 4,324 2014: 4,322 2015: 4,372 2016: 4,324 2017: 4,349

2018: 4,335 2019: 6,887 **

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

* from 2011: update of the 2011 census

** from 2019: the newly formed town of Dingelstädt

Economy and Transport

In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, Dingelstädt was one of the few places in Eichsfeld where larger industrial companies settled. In addition to the traditional wool combing and worsted spinning mills, it was mainly cigar factories, weaving mills, knitting mills, spinning mills, file mills, mill construction companies and machine factories that contributed to the good reputation of the city. Until 1989 many people from Dingelstadt worked in the textile industry ( Eichsfelder Obertrikotagenwerk ), cigar production ( cigar factory ) or upholstered furniture production. There were over 80 private craft and commercial enterprises, which was an enormous number for the conditions in the GDR . Today there are over 300 craft and commercial enterprises based in Dingelstädt. In the industrial sector there were numerous new settlements and start-ups after the restructuring of the economy. The commercial area opened in 1991 is fully utilized and a 100 hectare industrial area was created in the south-west of the city. Today the focus is on the metalworking industry.

The federal highway 247 runs east of the city . The Leinefelde – Treysa railway line , where the Dingelstädt (Eichsfeld) station is located, was closed in 1998. The Kanonenbahn cycle path was completed on the second rail bed in October 2019 . It connects the Unstrut cycle path with the Werra valley cycle path with a gradient of almost 1% .

The Silberhausen stop on the Gotha – Leinefelde railway line is served hourly by regional trains operated by DB Regio Südost .

politics

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 63.6% (2014: 54.5%)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

54.7%

8.1%

10.3%

6.7%

3.1%

11.3%

5.8%

CDU

Greens / SPD ^b

CWE ^c

FDP

left

AfD

Active ^g

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-7.0  % p

-5.7  % p

-0.2  % p

-0.8  % p

-3.4  % p

+ 11.3  % p

+ 5.8  % p

CDU

Greens / SPD ^b

CWE ^c

FDP

left

AfD

Active ^g

Remarks:

^b Greens-Free Citizens- SPD

^c Christian voter community Eichsfeld

^g Active for the rural community

City council

The distribution of seats in the Dingelstädt City Council is as follows after the local elections on May 26, 2019 :

Party / list	Seats	Share of votes
CDU	11	54.7%
AfD	2	11.3%
Green - Free Citizens - SPD	2	08.1%
FDP	1	06.7%
The left	1	03.1%
Christian voter community Eichsfeld (CWE)	2	10.3%
Active for the rural community	1	05.8%

mayor

In the local elections in Thuringia in 2019 , Andreas-Karl Fernkorn (CDU) was elected mayor with 93.3 percent.

Town twinning

• Aiud , town in the Romanian district of Alba
• Jarosław , city in Poland
• Künzell , a large community in the Fulda district in Hesse
• Felsberg (Hessen) , town in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse
• Wenden (Sauerland) , municipality in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia

Culture and sights

• Catholic St. Gertrudis Church ; neo-Gothic 1852–1855.
• Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Mary in the Bush
• Franciscan monastery Kerbscher Berg ; neo-Romanesque monastery church of St. Petrus, built by Paschalis Gratze in 1899–1900 , pilgrimage church
• St. Josef High School

Festivals and Celebrations

• Gertrudismarkt in April
• Shooting festival in July
• Porridge cake festival (town festival) on the third weekend in August
• Small fair for the feast of the birth of Mary in September
• Christmas market in December

Personalities

• Isidorus Keppler (1715–1792), Roman Catholic theologian
• Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735–1804), scholar, councilor and librarian
• Jakob Joseph Wandt (1780–1849), Bishop of Hildesheim
• Anton Thraen (1843–1902), pastor and astronomer
• Aloys Schäfer (1853–1914), Catholic Bishop and Apostolic Vicar of Saxony
• Aloys Schaefer (1887–1952), teacher and local researcher
• Karl Paul Haendly (1891–1965), mayor from 1930 to 1934, after the war first Lord Mayor of Oberhausen
• Franz Huhnstock (1891–1965), teacher, rector and local writer
• Johannes Albrecht SJ (1907–1943), Roman Catholic friar who was executed during the National Socialist dictatorship
• Aloys Schäfer (1911–1999), mayor and district administrator in Eichsfeld, co-founder of the CDU in Eichsfeld
• Alfred Gertler (1913–2001), politician ( center ), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Helmut Meinhardt (1933–2018), Professor of Philosophy in Gießen (1972–1998)
• Alfred Schuchart (* 1935), Catholic theologian
• Norbert Hoffmann (1942–2018), Roman Catholic theologian and author
• Ludwig Fromm (* 1950), Professor of Architecture and Scenography at the Muthesius University in Kiel
• Thomas Gertler (* 1948), Catholic theologian and former rector
• Barbara Bornemann (1955–2018) opera and concert singer
• Ursula Strozynski (* 1954), painter and graphic artist
• Michael Robert Rhein (* 1964), singer and instrumentalist of the medieval rock band In Extremo
• Karsten Wöhler (* 1974), former handball player , manager of ThSV Eisenach until July 31, 2018
• Adrian Wöhler (* 1987), handball player
• Julia Krüger (* 1990), presenter

literature

• Johann Vinzenz Wolf : Memories of the market town Dingelstädt in the Harz department, district of Heiligenstadt. (Reprint) . Cordier, Heiligenstadt 1994, ISBN 978-3-929413-12-0 . , - as a digitized version on Google Books
• Dingelstädt. In: Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , pp. 77-78.
• Carl Duval: "Dingelstedt" . In: The Eichsfeld . (Reprint). Harro von Hirschheydt Verlag, Hannover-Dören 1979, ISBN 3-7777-0002-9 , p. 540-551 .
• Heinrich Koch: Chronicle of the city of Dingelstädt. Ed .: Norbert Günther. Part 1, Part 2. Dingelstädt 2004, p. 204 .
• Heinrich Koch: Dingelstädter home history for pupils of the Catholic elementary school . Ed .: Norbert Günther. Dingelstädt 2004, p. 92 .
• Annelie Günther, Anni Raub, Vinzenz Weinrich: Bi us do would be laughed. Eichsfelder purr . Ed .: Dingelstädter Association for Home Care. Mecke, Duderstadt 2005, ISBN 3-936617-43-0 , p. 144 .
• Alois Schäfer: History of the city of Dingelstädt. Publishing house Heinevetter Dingelstädt 1926

Web links

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

• City of Dingelstädt Official website of the city of Dingelstädt
• Dingelstädter Verein für Heimatpflege Website with many historical photos and reports on the town's history

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. Wartberg Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 32/33
3. ↑ Winfried Körner u. Rolf Barthel: On the history of the school system in Dingelstädt . In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte . tape 2 , 1982, p. 181-183 .
4. ↑ Bernd Schulze: A massive hepatitis epidemic caused by drinking water pollution in 1974/75 in Eichsfeld . Ärzteblatt Thüringen 25 (2014), 115-117
5. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 , accessed on May 20, 2019
6. ^ Johann Wolf: Memories of the market town Dingelstädt in the Harz department, District Heiligenstadt, Göttingen 1812, pages 18-21
7. ↑ [1] (Henricus de Dingelstete) on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
8. ↑ RIplus Regg. EB Mainz 2,2 (sheets 1-10) n. 2957, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [2] (accessed on August 22, 2017)
9. ↑ RIplus Regg. EB Mainz 2,1 n. 1674, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: [3] (accessed on August 22, 2017)
10. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: City Council Election 2019 in Thuringia - City of Dingelstädt , accessed on October 8, 2019
11. ↑ Local elections 2019 / mayor elections , mdr.de, accessed on May 28, 2019.