Goeringen

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Goeringen
City of Eisenach
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 204  (200-220)  m
Area : 2.68 km²
Residents : 180  (2008)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : June 1, 1973
Incorporated into: Wartha-Göringen
Postal code : 99817
Area code : 036928
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Location of Göringen in Eisenach

Göringen is a district of the independent city of Eisenach in Thuringia .

geography

Göringen is located about 12 km (as the crow flies) west of Eisenach on the right bank of the Werra , the location is between 200 and 220 m above sea level, directly on the state border with Hesse . In terms of nature, Göringen is located in the central Werra Valley on the southwestern edge of the Thuringian Forest. The Kentelsgraben flows through the village and flows into the Werra. Göringen borders the Eisenach districts of Wartha in the north and Neuenhof in the east and south, the places Lauchröden ( Gerstungen municipality , Wartburg district ) in the west and Herleshausen ( Werra-Meißner district / Hessen) in the northwest.

The highest point of the district is on the Göringer Stein (317 m). The geographic height of the place is 204  m above sea level. NN , the total area of ​​the district is 2.68 km².

history

View from the southwest

The settlement known as "Miter" or "Geruvienstein" was created in a protected location on the banks of the Werra at the foot of the Göringer Stone. As early as the Carolingian era, this mountain, which sloped steeply to the bank, formed a border marker - here, three Franconian district counties met with Lupnitzgau , Ringgau and Gerstengau .

In the Middle Ages the village served to supply the nearby Brandenburg and was protected by it. The oldest verifiable building findings on the site of today's church in the center of the village are dendrochronologically dated to the period 1058-1072, the oldest masonry found 1180-1240. In the 15th century the church was renovated or rebuilt, inside a series of pictures with religious motifs was painted on the plaster, after the iconoclasm in the 16th century these frescoes were whitewashed. The place was owned by the gentlemen von Herda and von Reckrodt , who were also resident in the neighboring towns.

The discovery of copper ore on the northern slope of the Göringer Stone made it possible to construct a mining shaft. The ore obtained was probably processed in the nearby Neuenhofer smelter. It was not until 1840 that today's shoreline connecting roads to Neuenhof and Lauchröden were built, before you always had to take considerable detours or the not harmless crossing of the Werra. In 1870 there were 30 houses and 162 inhabitants.

On April 1, 1945, the advancing US Army shelled the place, many buildings and the church tower were hit. The use of the fire brigade and residents who remained in the village prevented worse things from happening.

With the division of Germany , the place was largely isolated from the outside world due to its location directly on the inner-German border. The Göringen river barrage , which was used as a pedestrian bridge - built in 1980/1981 as a barrage in the river - and a commemorative plaque on the outskirts are a reminder of the former border fortifications . A piece of border fence and GDR border column that had been preserved next to the bridge was removed in 2015. On June 1, 1973 the communities of Wartha and Göringen merged to form the community of Wartha-Göringen.

With the administrative reform of July 1, 1994 , Wartha, Göringen and other places were incorporated into Eisenach. The village church was in danger of collapsing in 1990; it was renovated by the parish in the 1990s, whereby a color version from the Rococo period was discovered and applied when the interior decoration was renewed.

politics

The district has a common district constitution with the neighboring village of Wartha . In the election on May 25, 2014 , Dirk Schmietendorf was elected mayor of both towns.

Culture and sights

Attractions

Events

In the 1930s and from 1982 to 1987 a fair was celebrated in the village . This tradition was revived in 2017.

Personalities

  • Walter Reppe (1892–1969), chemist, a representative of modern process engineering, he made major developments in acetylene chemistry.

Impressions

  • church

  • Town center

  • Village with half-timbered houses

  • Historic village smithy from 1913

traffic

The district road 505 leads through the village from Eisenach via Lauchröden to Gerstungen . The nearest junction ( Herleshausen ) of the A4 is in Herleshausen, three kilometers away. A section of the Thuringian Railway Eisenach - Bebra has stops in Hörschel and Herleshausen.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ^ C. Kronfeld: Regional studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879, p. 62.
  3. ^ Rainer Lämmerhirt: The fight for the Werra line in April 1945. Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2005. ISBN 3-937135-64-2 . P. 65.
  4. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  5. ↑ Kabus, Klaudius: Göringen . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. City journal with information from the Wartburg district. January issue. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1995, p. 13 .
  6. ↑ Göringen parish , accessed on June 25, 2014.
  7. ↑ § 3 Paragraph 1 of the main statute of the city of Eisenach of March 4, 1997.
  8. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics , accessed on May 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Norman Meißner: Göringen grabs Neuenhöfer fair date in Thüringer Allgemeine , Eisenacher Allgemeine, edition of September 22, 2017, page 14