Elxleben (Sömmerda district)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′  N , 10 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Sömmerda
Fulfilling municipality :	for Witterda
Height :	164 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.21 km 2
Residents:	2257 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	185 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99189
Area code :	036201
License plate :	SÖM
Community key :	16 0 68 009
Address of the municipal administration:	Thomas-Müntzer-Str. 69 99189 Elxleben
Mayor :	Heiko Koch ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Elxleben in the district of Sömmerda

Elxleben (also called Elxleben an der Gera , to differentiate it from Elxleben am Steiger ) is a municipality in the district of Sömmerda in Thuringia . It is a fulfilling community for the neighboring community of Witterda .

geography

Elxleben is located north of the state capital Erfurt on federal highway 4 .

history

A burial mound in the Elxleben district indicates an early settlement of the area. It was covered with a well-preserved skeleton. It was probably a neolithic , corded ceramic core burial with a spiral ring. Subsequent burials speak in favor of reviving burial traditions. This place also indicates cult motifs.

A legend from the time of Charlemagne mentions a place Ebbesschleben in connection with the division of Thuringia after the subjugation of the Wends , which is interpreted as today's Elxleben. In any case, the name is of Germanic origin, as is the place. A verifiable documentary mention falls on October 22nd, 973 as part of an exchange of goods between the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and the Fulda Monastery .

From 1370 Elxleben belonged to the area of ​​the city of Erfurt . At the end of the 15th century, the place belonged to the Vogtei Walschleben and since the administrative reform of 1706 to the office of Gispersleben. In 1802 the place came with the Erfurt area to Prussia and between 1807 and 1813 to the French Principality of Erfurt . With the Congress of Vienna Elxleben came back to Prussia in 1815 and in 1816 was incorporated into the Erfurt district in the Prussian province of Saxony .

During the reign of National Socialism , the worker Oskar Elle and the bricklayer Hugo Henning, both members of the Communist Party of Germany , were able to distribute leaflets until May 1934 . They were arrested and sentenced on November 9, 1934 by the Higher Regional Court of Kassel to prison terms of 21 and 18 months respectively. At the end of March 1940 the first Polish forced laborers came to Elxleben. In 1944, an unknown number of Eastern workers were housed on the railway station premises in Kühnhausen . The barracks were demolished a few years ago due to new buildings. Karl John (born 1900), Hugo Köhler (born 1894), Emil Striegnitz (born in 1900), Emil Striegnitz (born in 1900), were arrested by the Nazi state against former MPs, functionaries and members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , the Communist Party of Germany and the Center as part of the action grid , a wave of arrests 1869) and August Carl (1896) arrested. On August 22, they were transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp and released again by mid-September.

Elxleben was occupied by the US Army around April 10, 1945 , relieved by the Red Army at the beginning of July . So the place became part of the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) and from 1949 the GDR , he took part - including expropriations and collectivization - all associated social developments.

Population development

1994: 2,218 1995: 2,339 1996: 2,329 1997: 2,375 1998: 2,417 1999: 2,429

2000: 2,466 2001: 2,456 2002: 2,430 2003: 2,418 2004: 2,371 2005: 2,373

2006: 2,366 2007: 2,340 2008: 2,346 2009: 2,332 2010: 2,300 2011: 2,251

2012: 2,243 2013: 2,235 2014: 2,255 2015: 2,245 2016: 2,278 2017: 2,271

2018: 2.243

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The local council from Elxleben is made up of 14 councilors. The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following result and the resulting distribution of seats:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	+/-
CDU	50.6%	8th	± 0
The left	12.2%	2	+ 1
SPD	4.9%	0	- 1
Citizens for Elxleben	32.4%	4th	± 0

mayor

In the mayoral election on April 22, 2012, Heiko Koch (CDU) prevailed against two competitors in the first ballot. He has been in office since July 1, 2012.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 7, 1995 by the Thuringian State Administration Office.

Blazon : “Split in a wave cut of silver and red; in front an upright black, five-ended deer pole with grind, behind a silver flaming sword pointed upwards with the tip. "

The stag bar refers to an interpretation of the place name, the previous spelling of which was elk body and could indicate elk or deer forest. The earlier municipal seal also showed a corresponding picture. The silver flaming sword is the attribute of St. Michael and thus stands for the church patron or the St. Michaeliskirche. Finally, the wave division symbolizes the river Gera .

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Jung .

Culture and sights

Elxlebener Turnverein, coat of arms on a sports building

Sports

There are numerous opportunities for sporting activities in Elxleben. The football club TV 1901 Elxleben plays its home games in the 1st district class on the local sports field. In addition, various other sports clubs are located, such as B. a rifle club (SV Geratal Elxleben), two martial arts clubs and a racing bike club. In addition to these voluntary sports facilities, there is a commercial facility in the town's industrial park.

Regular events

Every year in September there is a fair in Elxleben.

St. Michaelis village church

St. Michaelis village church ( location → )

The late Gothic church was built on the site of the earlier St. John's Church. The current nave dates from 1576. In 1864 the church was last rebuilt. The high altar with the depiction of the Last Supper was created by Hans Friedemann the Elder. J. 1629. The four apostles stand above the pedestal , flanked by Moses and John the Baptist . The chandeliers and baptismal fonts, as well as the organ prospectus and the church box, date from the 19th century . The tower was built on August 2, 1587 ( topping-out ceremony ) on the west side of the nave and is 15½ Prussian rods (58.37 m) high from the “button to the ground” (1 Prussian rod = 3.766 m). The tower clock from the 16th century was replaced by a radio-controlled system in 1990. In the tower hang bells from different years of origin: the 150 kg heavy c ² bell is from 1908, the a ¹ bell is from 1675 and weighs 400 kg, while the f sharp ⁰ bell with 1250 kg dates from 1561. Since September 2011 the church has had a fourth bell weighing 215 kg, which is dedicated to the long-time pastor Herbert Voss. She is supposed to announce the birth of a child in the village. On the west side of the tower hangs the striking bell from the second half of the 18th century, which calls at this point over the old village with the three "Anger" streets.

A tape with the initials "VDMIAE" from the well-known Latin phrase Verbum dei manet in aeternum decorates the lintel of the second window. This saying (“Word of God remains in eternity”) is often found in Protestant churches, as a bell inscription or as a motto of parishes.

Plaster stoves

Sparkling lime ovens

The four former Sparkalk kilns or gypsum firing kilns (founded in 1854) in Elxleben are a technical monument. They supplied material for stucco facades and stucco ceilings, for the region and far beyond.

Economy and Infrastructure

Elxleben is an agricultural place. There are also larger industrial parks to the west of the village where various companies are located. The good transport connections and the proximity to the state capital Erfurt have a positive effect here.

Elxleben is on federal highway 4 , which runs west of the town and is developed as a four-lane expressway. It connects Elxleben with Erfurt and the federal highway 71 in the south and Nordhausen in the north. Other roads lead to Witterda , Kühnhausen and Walschleben . In Elxleben there is a train station on the Kühnhausen – Bad Langensalza railway line with train connections to Erfurt in the south and Mühlhausen and Kassel in the northwest. There are also two bus routes to and from Erfurt and Sömmerda.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 131.
3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Thuringia . tape 8 . VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 268 .
4. ↑ Thuringian State Office for Statistics, municipal council election 2019 in Thuringia - final result for Elxleben (SÖM) , accessed on October 30, 2019.
5. ↑ wahlen.thueringen.de
6. ↑ Hartmut Ulle: New Thuringian Wappenbuch. Volume 3: Eisenach, Gera, Greiz (district), Hildburghausen (district), Saale-Holzland district, Sömmerda (district), Sonneberg (district), Unstrut-Hainich district, Wartburg district. Working group Genealogy Thuringia, Erfurt 1998, ISBN 3-9804487-3-8 , p. 58.
7. ↑ Website of the parish ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Steffen Reiche: Experience, see and taste how gracious the Lord is. In: Central German Church Newspapers. February 20, 2011.
9. ↑ Kathrin Urban: Rejection or acceptance of stucco. In: City and History. Magazine for Erfurt. No. 54, 02/13, p. 3.

Web links

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