Freienbessingen

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Kyffhäuserkreis
Fulfilling municipality :	Life
Height :	289 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.91 km 2
Residents:	227 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99713
Area code :	036370
License plate :	KYF, ART, SDH
Community key :	16 0 65 018
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Rathausstrasse 2 ; 99713 Ebeleben
Website :	www.freibessingen.net
Mayor :	Helmut Penzler
Location of the community of Freienbessingen in the Kyffhäuserkreis

Freienbessingen is a municipality in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . The fulfilling community is the city of Ebeleben .

location

Freienbessingen is located in the fertile Thuringian Basin northeast on the edge of the Heilinger Heights .

history

A barrow of the Baalberg culture lies in the bump between mid-summer, Blankenburg and Freienbessingen. The gallows later stood in this place. The first documentary mention of the place was in the year 731. In Freienbessingen a deed of donation from the year 979 is considered as the first mention, in which also some surrounding places (eg Wolferschwenda) are mentioned. Accordingly, the 1025th anniversary was celebrated in 2004.

The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Langensalza until 1815 and after its cession to Prussia from 1816 to 1944 to the district of Langensalza in the province of Saxony . The large manor of Freienbessingen was owned by the Erfurt factory owner and Rittmeister a. D. Fritz Wolff (malt factory in Erfurt). He generously expanded the estate. After the occupation by the Red Army , the property was expropriated without compensation. The good became VEG . Today (2012) it is a monastery property.

During fighting with the Americans on April 10, 1945, a German tank burned down in the village. The crew of three are found among the four unknown German soldiers in the cemetery in a communal grave.

An NVA missile base was located in the Heilinger Heights south of Freienbessingen . It was taken over by the German Armed Forces at short notice in the autumn of 1990; the former NVA soldiers were still dismantling the military equipment. Then the "Waldsiedlung" became an asylum seekers' home , which was closed in 2007 and then torn down.