Eckardtshausen

Eckardtshausen community Gerstungen Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 48 ″  E
Height :	358  (350-375)  m
Area :	6.16 km²
Residents :	711  (December 31, 1992)
Population density :	115 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1996
Incorporated into:	Marksuhl
Postal code :	99834
Primaries :	036925, 036929
Eckardtshausen in the east of the municipality
The town center (2008)

Eckardtshausen is a district of the Gerstungen community in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Eckardtshausen is about twelve kilometers (as the crow flies) north of the district town of Bad Salzungen and about 8 kilometers south-southwest of the Wartburg town of Eisenach on the 461 meter high Milmesberg . The Wilhelmsthal district belongs to Eckardtshausen .

history

At the church

Culture house

Gasthaus Zum Hirsch

Eckardtshausen probably already has a long history in spite of the later first documentary mention and was once the main town of the Marks encompassing the Upper Elte and Upper Suhl . According to local tradition, the original settlement area was about one kilometer north of today's village on Kirchberg - as evidenced by the field name the Gebrannte . The importance of this place is also expressed in the fact that the Eckardtshausen parish church is one of the original parishes in the Eisenach area. In the Middle Ages, the place was near a crossroads, this concerned the Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig and a connecting road from Bad Salzungen via Möhra to Eisenach. The place once called Ockershausen was a fiefdom of the Lords of Frankenstein . Eckardtshausen has been part of the Wartburg office since the 14th century . The Karthäuserberg near Wilhelmsthal is evidence of extensive property holdings from this Eisenach monastery. With the secularization of the church property in the 16th century, the remaining rights of the monasteries in both districts were then jointly owned by the dukes Johann Casimir and Johann Ernst .

Copper mining began early around the town of Eckardtshausen. At the small settlement of Wackenhof as well as at the forester's house Attchenbach and parallel to the Rennsteig , section Förtha to Ruhla, you will find numerous documents for pits, smelting sites, charcoal piles and old transport routes.

The village of Wilhelmsthal, which is about two kilometers away and belongs to Eckardtshausen, goes back to the Wintershusen mentioned in 1349 , where in the 16th century there was a ducal wilderness barn , later a hunting lodge and from around 1700 the Wilhelmsthal Castle , built by Duke Johann Wilhelm , whose name is also the Place took over. Goethe was a guest there and described the Wilhelmsthal landscape in his elective affinities .

Culture and sights

• In the center of the village is the village green and the St.Matthäus church . The church was built in 1614, the sanctuary has a square floor plan with an edge length of 6 meters, the nave is about 12 meters long and 8.6 meters wide. The galleries and furnishings were renewed in 1879.
• In the local area you will find a number of listed buildings, including the Zum Hisch inn .
• The Wilhelmsthal Castle was 1699 to 1719 by Duke Johann Wilhelm built. During the GDR era, the castle was initially a children's home and later a special school with boarding school.
• The Altenberger Lake is a dammed lake in the 19th century in the district Wilhelmsthal. The campsite located there is one of the most popular local recreation areas in the Wartburg district and is used as a permanent campsite.
• The Wilhelmsthaler See can be used as a gondola pond.
• The Milmesberg south of the village offers a 360 degree panoramic view of the Wartburg, the Thuringian Forest around Ruhla, the Frauenseer Forest and the Rhön.
• The Salzung messenger woman is a 400 to 500 year old red beech on the Milmesberg. It was designated as a natural monument in 1966 .

literature

• Michael Köhler: A new district of Eisenach. Eckhardtshausen - past and present . In: Reinhold Brunner (ed.): Eisenach year book . tape 1993 . Hitzeroth, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-89398-141-1 , p. 129-130 . (The incorporation to Eisenach mentioned here did not materialize, however.)
• Horst H. Müller: "Travel Guide Thuringian Forest and Edge Areas" (1977), p. 279 ff.
• Johannes Hesse: "Diary of the community nurse Elisabeth Diener" (2014)

Web links

Commons : Eckardtshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Debes: The Wartburg Office in the first third of the 16th century . Eisenach 1926, p. 10.
2. ^ Siegfried Wünscher: History of copper slate mining and its metallurgy in the Principality of Eisenach . Eisenach, Verlag Philipp Kühner 1932, p. 159
3. ↑ Hermann Hemboldt Eckardtshausen In: Lehfeldt, Paul / Voss, Georg (ed.): Building and art monuments of Thuringia. Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Booklet XL. Jena 1915, p. 432
4. ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 44