Frankenroda

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Frankenroda
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 10 ° 17 ′  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Wartburg district
Management Community : Hainich-Werra Valley
Height : 184 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.07 km 2
Residents: 318 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99826
Area code : 036924
License plate : WAK, SLZ
Community key : 16 0 63 028
Association administration address: Michael-Praetorius-Platz 2
99831 Creuzburg
Website : www.vg-hainich-werratal.de
Mayoress : Erika Helbig (independent)
Location of the community of Frankenroda in the Wartburg district
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Frankenroda is a municipality in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The community belongs to the administrative community Hainich-Werratal .

geography

Geographical location

Frankenroda is located in the conservation area of the Werra Valley . The Mönchsberg, a northern side summit of the majority to towers over the city falcons belonging widths mountain with a small observation tower. The Probsteizella north of the village belongs to Frankenroda .

history

Frankenroda was first mentioned in a document on July 10, 1229. Ludwig der Eiserne is mentioned when he increased his property in St. Peter's Abbey in Erfurt by adding some land on the Werra between Falken and Frankenroda. At that time the residents were parish in Probsteizella , as the place did not yet have its own church. Around 1715 the population of Frankenroda was about 240 people.

Haineck Castle near Nazza was built by Landgrave Balthasar in 1392 , and the neighboring places under his rule: Hallungen, Nazza, Lauterbach, Neukirchen, Frankenroda and Ebenshausen were combined to form the Haineck Castle District , they later formed the Haineck Office . After 1500 the lords of Hopffgarten received the castle and the Haineck office as a pledge and from 1513 it was transferred as a hereditary fiefdom by the sovereign, Duke Friedrich the Wise . In the following subdivisions of the Wettin areas, the Haineck office and thus also Frankenroda were always counted as part of the Ernestine part because they belonged to the Hopffgarten court . The Hopffgarten communities formed an exclave of the Gotha Duchy until 1920 .

On the evening of November 22, 1944, Frankenroda was the target of an air raid during the Second World War . Around 10:30 p.m., an aerial bomb detonated next to the school building, which was completely destroyed.

In 1976 the footbridge over the Werra, which for years connected the town with the parts of the district west of the Werra and the neighboring town of Scherbda and was regularly dismantled during floods and over winter, was replaced by a massive bridge structure. The last construction of the footbridge took place in the spring of 1977, then the timber was offered for sale. At that time, today's concrete bridge already existed as a secure connection to the other bank. The bridge, a reinforced concrete structure, was designed so massive that it also allows tanks to cross the river - a measure for the purposes of national defense of the GDR. In the summer of 2019, a thorough renovation of the bridge began with the renewal of the superstructure. It was completed in December 2019; 700,000 euros were invested.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality of Frankenroda consists of six councilors and councilors.

  • CDU : 2 seats
  • Community of voters: 4 seats

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Erika Helbig was re-elected on June 5, 2016.

Culture and sights

Frankenroda Church

Buildings

  • The village church of St. Katharinen dates from the 18th century.
  • The Itzentürmchen is located high above the town , an observation tower built in 1895/96 by the Frankenroda master painter Heinrich Möller. The building, which was completely renovated in 2019, is a landmark of the village and offers a view of the Werra arch near Frankenroda.

Natural monuments

The Probsteizella nature reserve is located north of the village and has a size of 26.9 hectares. It was expelled on March 23, 1961.

Economy and Infrastructure

Rail transport

From 1902 to 1945 Frankenroda had a train station on the Schwebda – Wartha railway line , which connected the place with Eisenach , Mihla , Creuzburg , Treffurt , Wanfried and Eschwege . On April 3, 1945, the Werra bridges of the railway line at Mihla, Ebenshausen , Frankenroda and Falken were blown up as part of the fighting during the Second World War . The rail traffic between Mihla and Treffurt was not resumed.

Roads and bike paths

For road traffic, Frankenroda can be reached via a district road branching off from Landstrasse 1016 (Eisenach-Mihla-Mühlhausen). The Werratal cycle path runs through the village . Frankenroda is served by various bus routes operated by the Wartburgmobil transport company.

power supply

In the 1920s, Werrakraftwerke Aktiengesellschaft , of which the state of Thuringia was the main shareholder , intended to build a hydropower plant near Frankenroda. It was planned to build a roller weir near Buchenau , similar to the one at the Spichra hydropower plant , and to channel water from this through an approximately 1.8 km long pressure tunnel to Frankenroda. The project would have resulted in a height of fall of 11 meters and would have enabled a generator output of around 5000 HP / 3680 kW. The planning was not implemented, probably for cost reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 77
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zella.de
  4. ↑ Eberhard Hälbig, Rainer Lämmerhirt : Air War in the Eisenach-Gotha-Hainich-Werratal-Thuringian Forest 1943-1945, Rockstuhl Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86777-348-5 , page 177f.
  5. ↑ NN: The uninterrupted times are now finally history . In: The people . Erfurt July 9, 1977.
  6. ↑ Birgit Schellbach: Green Cover for the Werra Bridge , Thüringer Allgemeine / Eisenacher Allgemeine, July 31, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Jensen Zlotowicz: Suffering chapter of the Werra bridge is over, Thüringer Allgemeine / Eisenacher Allgemeine, May 18, 2020
  8. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019 - Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016 - Mayoral elections, preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  10. ^ Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. Nature and landscape . In: Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . tape 7 . Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 87 .
  11. ^ Siegmar Neuhaus: The Spichra hydropower plant on the Werra, Thüringer Energie AG, 1998, page 14

literature

  • Community administration Frankenroda (ed.): 900 years of Frankenroda 1104–2004 , Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2004.

Web links

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