Eschenbergen

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 10 ° 46 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Gotha
Management Community :	Nesseaue
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.68 km 2
Residents:	733 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99869
Area code :	036258
License plate :	GTH
Community key :	16 0 67 016
Association administration address:	Dr.-Külz-Str. 4 99869 Friemar
Website :	www.vg-nesseaue.de
Mayoress :	Ines Laufer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Eschenbergen in the district of Gotha

Eschenbergen is a municipality in the district of Gotha in Thuringia . She belongs to the administrative community Nesseaue .

geography

Eschenbergen is located directly on the southern slope of the Fahner Höhe , about 9 km northeast of the district town of Gotha , in a flat valley between 413 m above sea level. NN high Abtsberg the Fahner heights and the 300.6 m above sea level. NN high Eschenberger Höhe in the south. The district covers 12.66 km², of which about 4 km² are forest areas. The highest point of the municipality is the Abtsberg , the lowest point is 275 m above sea level. NN at the crossing of the Nesse in the Ballstadt area. The town center (road bridge of Molschleber Straße over the Wingferborn brook) has a height of 300 m above sea level. NN on.

The place and its municipality are traversed by brooks that drain the Fahner Heights to the south: Wingferborn, Goldklingengraben, Wolfsgraben, Molschtal. However, the Eschenberger Bach in the south of the municipality is in the area of ​​Molschleben. All streams flow into the Nesse.

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran parish has formed a joint parish with that of Molschleben for around 100 years.

history

St. Margarethen village church

In the year 1005 Eschenbergen was mentioned for the first time in a document of the monastery Göllingen as "Hessenberh". In the 13th century Eschenbergen was called a small "town". There was a large monastery "St. Nicholas" in the village. Growing of woad and grain as well as brewing beer were of particular importance. During the Thirty Years' War Eschenbergen was almost “razed to the ground” and only had 106 inhabitants. In 1683 the plague raged and killed 70 people. Until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the place was divided into an Obergleichische district, which comprised 38 houses including the St. Margaret Church, and the lower district, which was under Saxon administration ( Gotha office ). The Obergleichische district belonged to this after the acquisition of the same rule Tonna in 1677 by Duke Friedrich I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg .

Eighteen Eschenbergen residents did not return from the First World War . In the 1930s, a military training area was set up near the place, mainly for the Air Force. During the Second World War, the women and the elderly took over the work of the drafted men, as well as French and Polish prisoners of war. The place took in many evacuees from the bomb war-prone West German cities. In April 1945 the place was occupied by US troops and at the beginning of July it was incorporated into the Soviet Zone . The population of Eschenbergen grew from 711 in 1939 to 1,056 in 1948 by taking in many expellees from the eastern regions. In the following years agriculture was collectivized. After 1990 Eschenbergen was included in the funding program for village renewal of the state of Thuringia. In addition, two new development areas were created.

mayor

Surname	Political party	Term of office
Reinhardt Wirth	SED	1970-1999
Karl-Heinz Lerp	FDP	1999-2010
Ines Laufer	CDU	since 2010

Attractions

Relief stone "Sancta Margareta 1584" (year of construction)

Foundation stone of the tower: Waidmühlstein

• The construction of the Lutheran church “St. Margareten ”in the place then called Eschenberga took place in 1584. This is also attested by a relief stone in the church wall. Even older fragments go back to the Romanesque period. In 1618 the church received "170 fl. 12 gl. 3 pf." an organ from the workshop of Peter Völ (c) ker, which was renewed in 1753 by Johann Christian Hofmann. In 1841 a new church tower was built. A curiosity is the fact that a woad millstone was used as the foundation stone for the northwest corner of the tower. In 1842 the old church was demolished in order to erect a larger building in its place, whereby the old church tower was incorporated into the new church. The parish succeeded in completely renovating the tower in 2008, so that now a new hood and a golden star with a new weather vane shine over Eschenbergen, visible from afar.
• The Seven Graves: On April 9, 1945 , young Wehrmacht soldiers dug foxholes for a defensive position on the Abtsberg of the Fahner Heights north of Eschenbergen on the boundary with Döllstädt . They were taken under fire by an American reconnaissance vehicle. Seven 17- and 18-year-olds died, the rest of the troop surrendered and were taken to the Bad Kreuznach prison camp . A seriously wounded man died on the transport. "Because of the condition of the body" the pastor decided that the fallen were not buried in the cemetery of Eschenbergen, but on the Abtsberg. Until 1953 there were seven crosses with the names of the soldiers, which were then replaced by a memorial. The stone bears a name plaque, entitled "FALLEN ON April 9, 1945".

traffic

The nearest train station is Ballstädt (Kr Gotha) on the Gotha – Leinefelde railway line , about five kilometers west of Eschenbergen. The bus lines 890 and 892 of the regional transport association Gotha connect Eschenbergen with the district town Gotha on weekdays .

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  Church spire

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  West wall of the fortified church

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  Courtyard gate in front of the community courtyard and the headquarters of the fire department

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  Half-timbered house

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  "Seven Graves" on the Abtsberg

Personalities

• Friedrich Albrecht Augusti (1691–1782), Protestant clergyman and theologian as well as a former rabbi, was pastor of Eschenbergen
• Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti (1771–1841), Protestant theologian, born in Eschenbergen
• Christian Friedrich August Frank (* 1793 in Eschenbergen) was a co-founder of the Jena fraternity in 1815 as a law student

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ 7 graves - what happened there? . Project presentation by the Democratic Youth Foundation. Ed. VG Nesseaue Friemar, 2006. pp. 12–15

Web links

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

• http://www.eschenbergen.eu/
• Website of the administrative association Nesseaue