Eckolstädt

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Eckolstädt
City and rural community Bad Sulza
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 275 m above sea level NN
Residents : 676  (2009)
Incorporation : March 15, 1996
Incorporated into: Saaleplatte
Postal code : 99518
Area code : 036421

Eckolstädt is a district of the city and rural community Bad Sulza in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .

location

Eckolstädt is on the Ilm-Saale-Platte . The shell limestone soils are mostly dissolved and therefore very fertile. A cut valley, at the beginning of which is the village, leads east to the Saale . Southeast of Eckolstädt is the Lohholz nature reserve , with the Hirschrodaer Grund that also leads to the Saale.

The state road 1059 coming from Apolda to Camburg leads through the village. Landesstraße 2160 branches off via Kösnitz towards Dornburg / Saale .

history

Church in Eckolstädt (2012)

Eckolstädt ( Eggoluestat ) is first mentioned in 976 in a document from Emperor Otto II. The village with two centers was and is characterized by agriculture . The place belonged to the Wettin office of Camburg , which was under the sovereignty of various Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of its existence . In 1826 Eckolstädt came as part of the Camburg exclave from the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . From 1922 to 1939 the place belonged to the Camburg district department .

The desert Obergosserstädt lies within the corridor . As a result of the Thirty Years' War , the inhabitants of this village relocated to Eckolstädt, so that the two town centers of Ober- and Niedereckolstädt were connected to one another by development. At the very edge of the plateau, towards Hirschroda, there is also the Warsenrode desert .

Like all of Thuringia, Eckolstädt was occupied by the US Army in the first half of April 1945 and handed over to the Red Army at the beginning of July according to the contract . So it became part of the Soviet Zone and in 1949 the GDR. Agriculture was collectivized from 1952 .

June 17, 1953 : There were numerous large farmers in the village, on whom considerable economic and political pressure was exerted. Arrests were made at the beginning of June 1953. The parish priest, Edgar Mitzenheim (brother of the regional bishop Moritz Mitzenheim ), convened a residents' meeting on June 13, 1953, which passed a resolution. After returning from West Berlin , the peasants who fled there - for fear of arrest - were to regain their farms, the mayor was to be deposed, the community council was to be re-elected and the unmanageable delivery rate was to be reduced. On June 14, Mitzenheim drove to the emergency reception center in West Berlin to persuade the peasants who had fled to return. On June 17, there were clashes with SED officials from Apolda . On the night of June 18, Mitzenheim and three farmers were arrested by heavily armed security forces. In the meantime, the occupying power had declared a state of emergency in the Apolda district . After protests against the arrests, the People's Police reappeared, accompanied by Soviet tanks , which surrounded the village for weeks. In July 1953 the pastor was sentenced to 6 years in prison in a show trial in Erfurt , three of which he had to serve. He had to undertake not to return to Eckolstädt. He got a pastor's position in Bienstädt . In 1959 he left for West Germany.

A 120 hectare former anti-aircraft missile base of the NVA from 1985 was converted into an industrial park for 12 companies after the fall of the Berlin Wall . At the Eckolstädter Höhe, 294 meters above sea level, 20 wind turbines have been erected which dominate the landscape for a long time. More recently, a new residential area has been developed and built on.

Attractions

  • Village church : Parts of the church date from the 11th / 12th centuries. Century. During renovation work in 1994/95, the old entrance and two Romanesque arched windows were found on the north side. Around 1348 the church was extended to the east with the Gothic choir. In 1736 the west tower with a curved dome was built. There were always fires. The classical furnishings come from the reconstruction between 1808 and 1810. The interior is from 1905 and was renewed from 1994–1997. The three-storey galleries reach under the wooden barrel vault. the organ dates from 1817. A wooden memorial plaque for the soldiers who fell in World War II was donated by a former Eckolstadt resident. The church has been renovated (2012), except for the plaster on the nave.
  • Bell house : built in the 19th century because the bells in the church tower were repeatedly destroyed in the numerous fires.
  • War memorial in front of the south side of the church for those who died in the First World War. The names are no longer recognizable, the monument is in need of renovation as a whole.
  • Rectory : no longer used as such
  • Stately homesteads of formerly wealthy farmers

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Dobencker : Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae. Volume 1: (approx. 500 - 1152). Gustav Fischer, Jena 1896, p. 108 f., No. 485 .
  2. ^ Pfarramt Eckolstädt: Church book of the parish Eckolstädt. Part 1.
  3. ^ A. Zahn: Early history of the places around Dornburg / Saale. Unpublished manuscript.
  4. ^ The cry for freedom - June 17, 1953 in Thuringia. Exhibition by the Ettersberg Foundation in the Thuringian Parliament in Erfurt in June 2012.
  5. Eckolstädt on the official website of the municipality of Saaleplatte. Retrieved June 20, 2012.

Web links

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