Hochheim (Erfurt)

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Hochheim
State capital Erfurt
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 22 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 203-256 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.84 km²
Residents : 2799  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 986 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1938
Postal code : 99094
Area code : 0361
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Location of Hochheim in Erfurt
Catholic Church of St. Boniface ( Location → )
Evangelical Johannes Church ( Location → )

Hochheim is a district of Erfurt in Thuringia .

geography

The place is on the Gera southwest of the city center. The district is located in the Gera breakthrough valley between the Cyriaksburg citadel in the northwest and the Steigerwald in the southeast. It has already grown together with the city of Erfurt. In the north of the Hochheim area, among other things, the Erfurt exhibition center and large parts of the ega are located . Neighboring districts are the Brühlervorstadt in the northeast, Schmira in the west and Bischleben in the south. The center of the village is Hochheimer Platz, surrounded by the old village center of Hochheim with its homesteads and farmhouses. Around 1900 the place expanded to the east towards the railway line and a Wilhelminian style development with tenement houses was built on Poststrasse. In the 20th century, extensive single-family home areas followed in the entire north of the town hall along Wartburgstrasse with a seamless transition to the development of the Brühlervorstadt. This settlement, located on the south-facing slope, is one of the most expensive residential areas in Erfurt and has been densified to this day (e.g. by dividing up very large plots).

history

An extensive hill fort was one kilometer south of Hochheim on the western edge of the Steiger. The hill fort was secured with an arched rampart and ditch as well as with the steep slope. Finds of ceramics and stone utensils prove that people settled here in the Hallstatt to Latène times .

Hochheim was first mentioned in a document in 779. During the Thirty Years' War the village lost its independence and between 1632 and 1635 it was subordinate to the city ​​of Erfurt . In 1634, the fact that the Hochheim farmers did not want to convert to the Lutheran Church , but instead adhered to the Catholic faith, caused unrest . Thereupon the Erfurt city council wanted to tear down the village and the church, but this did not happen. Ultimately, the city of Erfurt accepted that the Hochheimers wanted to continue to be Catholics. In 1682/1683 plague and famine raged in Hochheim. Numerous people died in the process. The suffering could be alleviated somewhat by donations of food from the neighboring Bischleben farmers. A fire in 1710 destroyed 50 buildings in the village.

The inauguration of the new church followed in 1731. In 1774 the Marienkapelle was built in the southwest of the village. In 1802, Hochheim and Erfurt became Prussian . This also officially revoked the status of a kitchen village . The railway line through Hochheim (see Thuringian Railway ) was built in 1847, but the place did not have its own train station. The next train stations are Erfurt Hbf in the northeast and Bischleben in the southwest. However, there was a block section in the place that was of certain importance for train operations on the temporarily (between the world wars) four-track and since 2017 five-track (two new tracks for the high-speed line Nuremberg-Erfurt ). In 1852 the road to the Brühlertor in Erfurt was paved. In 1938 it was incorporated into Erfurt. Between 1951 and 1975, Hochheim was connected to the city ​​of Erfurt's trolleybus network .

Population development

  • 1843: 0505
  • 1910: 2109
  • 1925: 2332
  • 1990: 2590
  • 1995: 2639
  • 2000: 2694
  • 2005: 2704
  • 2010: 2649
  • 2015: 2752

Economy and Infrastructure

Today, Hochheim is an almost entirely residential area. To the northeast of the village is the Kressepark , where only fish are bred. Erfurt watercress is only grown by the Fischer family, as it finds good growing conditions here in the humid lowlands of the Gera . Ega-Park and the trade fair are located northeast of Ort. The Steigerwald and the Luisenpark with the Dreibrunnenbad and spring are also within easy walking distance and invite you to relax.

There is no direct tram line to Hochheim, so either line 2 running north of the town at Ega-Park / Messe or line 6 running east from Steigerstraße must be used. From the village center of Hochheim there are different bus routes: City bus 51 Hochheim – Erfurt Hbf– Linderbach - Windischholzhausen , city bus 60 Hochheim– Rhoda –Erfurt Hbf and city bus 70 Hochheim– Molsdorf as well as the regional bus 170 Erfurt – Hochheim– Neudietendorf - Mühlberg .

The Catholic youth center St. Sebastian of the Diocese of Erfurt is located in Hochheim .

Attractions

Churches

There are two churches in Hochheim. The Catholic village church is dedicated to St. Boniface and is located in the center of the village. It was built in its current form mainly between 1729 and 1731, in 1756 the tower was added.

The Protestant Johanneskirche is located on Angerberg in the west of the village. It was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1883, as many Protestant people had moved into the formerly Catholic Hochheim. Most of the furnishings date from the time this church was built.

additional

Also worth seeing are the villas in the north of Hochheim, which were built in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. At that time, Hochheim developed due to its attractive location on the southern slope of the Cyriaksburg, opposite the Geratal and Steigerwald, to the place of residence of the upper classes of Erfurt.

A monument to the Hochheimer Gymnastics Association is to the west of the town on the former sports field on Elsterberg : It is a four-pillar monument with the four big F for "Frisch-Fromm-Fröhlich-Frei" above it as a symbol of the German Gymnastics Association . It was inaugurated in 1932 as a memorial for the gymnasts from Hochheim, who fell in World War I , and whose name board was previously in the bottom area of ​​the memorial. It stands inconspicuously on a small artificial hill and - in a partially neglected region - is difficult to find.

  • Hochheimer Schlösschen in the town center

  • Half-timbered facing on a residential building

  • Cenotaph from 1932 for the dead of the Hochheimer gymnastics club

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 237.
  2. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843.
  3. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ^ Thuringian State Office for Environment and Geology: Environment regional.
  6. ↑ Population of the city districts
  7. ↑ Erfurt watercress
  8. ↑ Harald Hübner: The monument of the gymnastics club Hochheim . In: Stadt und Geschichte , No. 42, 2/2009, p. 27

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