Elsa (Bad Rodach)

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Elsa
City of Bad Rodach
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 315 m above sea level NN
Residents : 276  (2005)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 96476
Area code : 09564
Village pond
Village pond

Elsa is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Bad Rodach in the Coburg district .

geography

Elsa is located about 14 kilometers northwest of Coburg and three kilometers east of Bad Rodach in a hollow in front of the Long Mountains . The Unterdorfgraben, a source brook of the Rodach , flows through the village from north to south. In the center of the village there is a pond called Wieth, the remainder of a former lake. The heap village- like settlement still has the remains of a block corridor in a strip corridor.

history

The probably much older Franconian foundation was first mentioned in writing in 1317 as Eylse. The area's abundance of water and the resulting alder trees gave it its name. The place was the seat of a noble family von Elsa, who had built a castle complex that was owned by the Lords of Heßberg in the 14th century. In 1343 they raised Elsa to a parish and furnished it with goods.

In 1353 Elsa came to the Wettins by inheritance with the Coburg Land and was thus part of the Electorate of Saxony from 1485 , from which the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg later emerged. 1424 the Hussites destroyed Elsa. The Lords of Heßberg were followed by those of Redwitz, after whose extinction the property fell to Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg at the end of the 16th century . Gave the school in Coburg two courtyards to fief . Elsa also suffered from the Thirty Years' War , and a new beginning followed in 1660.

On June 16, 1834, a storm with heavy hail caused great damage, especially in the fields. In 1857 353 people lived in 62 houses in Elsa. There was a brewery, a community bake house and a fire station. Because of the cultivation of flax in the 18th and 19th centuries, linen weavers settled in the village.

In a referendum on November 30, 1919, 15 citizens of Elsa voted for the Free State of Coburg to join the Thuringian state and 57 against. From July 1, 1920, Elsa also belonged to the Free State of Bavaria .

On April 1, 1928, Schweighof was incorporated into Elsa. On May 1, 1978 Elsa Rodacher became a district.

Due to the good soil around the place, Elsa was a rich and large farming village. Today most of them commute to work in Bad Rodach or Coburg.

Population development

year population
1675 174
1857 353
1910 309
1933 329
1939 324
1970 310
2005 276

church

Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church

Elsa probably became a parish in the first half of the 14th century. The branch has been Heldritt since 1875 and the parishes of Grattstadt and Oettingshausen have also been part of the Elsa parish since 1977 .

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church stands on a small hill and was fortified with a defensive wall that was still partially in place. The church tower is late Gothic and comes from a church building from 1483. The neo-Gothic nave was built in 1866.

Natural monuments

In Elsa, there are three natural monuments, a Linde Group with eleven trees hundred meters south of the town at the well riser, two Linden at the fork in the road Elsa / Oettingshausen / Großwalbur and a lime tree south of the road Rodach-Elsa, one kilometer west of Elsa.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Irmhild Tschischka: scrolled through the chronicle of the Bad Rodach districts; A piece of Bad Rodach's city history . Writings of the Rückertkreis Bad Rodach eV, issue 29, Bad Rodach 2005, ISBN 978-3-943009-29-3 , pp. 29-34
  2. ^ A b Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 54
  3. ^ Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXVIII, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Landrathsamt Coburg, district court districts Neustadt, Rodach, Sonnefeld and Königsberg in Franconia . 1902, reprint, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, ISBN 978-3-86777-375-1 , p. 34
  4. ^ Ortwin Großmann: Grattstadt 1175 years; 815 - 1990. Coburg 1990.
  5. ^ Coburger Zeitung, issue no.280 from December 1, 1919
  6. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 442 .
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 679 f .
  8. ↑ a b Michael Höchstädter: Elsa . In: Eckhart Kollmer (ed.): Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 98
  9. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  10. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).