Aspenfield

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Aspenfield
City of Arnstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 380 m above sea level NN
Residents : 141  (March 31, 2013)
Incorporation : January 24, 1974
Incorporated into: Siegelbach
Postal code : 99310
Area code : 03628
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Espenfeld is a district of Arnstadt in the Ilm district ( Thuringia ).

geography

Espenfeld is located in a depression on the plateau between Geratal in the east and Jonastal in the west at an altitude of about 380 meters. To the southwest of the village, the Ebanotte rises up to 517.8 meters above sea level. NN . The Gottesholz nature reserve is located about 100 meters southeast of the village . The place is a typical rural village . The on the Anger standing Chestnut was 28 February 2012 by a German oak replaced. Espenfeld is the smallest district of the city of Arnstadt with around 150 inhabitants.

history

A favorable transport connection once ran through Espenfeld from the direction of Arnstadt via the Thuringian Forest near Oberhof . Therefore, in early historical times, the location was important for cross-mountain traffic. An archaeologically researched Slavic burial ground from the 10th to 12th centuries confirms this.

Fortified church of St. Crucis

Espenfeld was first mentioned in 1273 as "Espenveld". Other mentions are 1412 as "Espenfeild", 1417 as "Espenfeylt" and 1453 as "Espenfelt". The church of the place is a fortified church in the Romanesque choir tower church style. It was built in the middle of the 13th century. From 1599 to 1920 Espenfeld belonged to Schwarzburg-Arnstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ( suzerainty ).

At the end of the Second World War there was a branch of the Ohrdruf forced labor camp near Espenfeld , where the prisoners were housed in tents, possibly also in barracks, and were used for the construction work in the Jonastal . After Thuringia was captured by US troops, around 200 NSDAP members arrested in Arnstadt had to transfer 96 murdered prisoners from a mass grave to individual graves on May 13, 1945. This resulted in a cemetery of honor for concentration camp prisoners that still exists today. From 1970 to 1990 there were in the former school of the village an exhibition on the satellite camp Jonastal of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

On January 24, 1974 Espenfeld was incorporated into the community of Siegelbach . This in turn was incorporated into the city of Arnstadt together with Espenfeld on April 14, 1994.

Population development

  • 1887: 211
  • 2007: 154
  • 2008: 151
  • 2009: 155
  • 2010: 150
  • 2011: 145

politics

Local mayor is Rüdiger Carnarius ( FWG Pro Arnstadt ). He heads a local council of four other members. The local mayor and the local council are also responsible for Dosdorf .

Economy and Transport

Espenfeld is characterized by agriculture. There are also some smaller limestone quarries nearby.

Roads connect the place with Siegelbach , Arnstadt and Gossel / Crawinkel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical surveys . Passport, registration / statistics, city administration Arnstadt. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 96/97.
  3. ↑ a b Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Second Booklet: Die Oberherrschaft, p. 61, Ed .: Fürstl. Schwarzburg. Antiquities Association, 1887
  4. ↑ Monument-protected cemeteries in Thuringia on mdr.de, see under Siegelbach / OT Espenfeld ( Memento from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

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