Gerterode

Gerterode community Niederorschel
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	295 m
Area :	6.3 km²
Residents :	350  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	56 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 2019
Postal code :	37355
Area code :	036076

Gerterode is a district of the municipality Niederorschel in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld . Gerterode is one of the few villages in the Eichsfeld district that does not belong to the historic Eichsfeld .

location

Gerterode

Gerterode is located and with its district in the Eichsfelder Kessel at the northern foot of the Dün . Together with the Hainleite to the east, this forms the northern edge of the Thuringian Basin. The floodplain , which flows into the Wipper at the Schwarzburger Mühle, rises in the municipality . The place is surrounded by numerous mountains, such as the Herrenberg ( 273  m above sea  level ), Sandberg ( 350.8  m above sea  level ) and Dachsberg ( 341.2  m above sea  level ).

Neighboring towns are Bernterode in the north, Rehungen in the Nordhausen district in the east, Vollenborn in the south-south-east, Deuna in the south-south-west and Niederorschel in the west. The district road 211 covers the district in terms of traffic and leads to the transport connections by rail and road. The federal motorway 38 leads past the Breitenworbis junction to the north.

history

Gerterode is first mentioned in 1266 as "Gertarroth". This noble family is proven until 1397. The castle, which was protected by a moat in the lowland in the southwest of the village, was then sold by Eckhard von Guttern to the Count of Schwarzburg in 1444. On May 4, 1525, farmers stormed the building, which was mentioned as a castle, and destroyed it. It was later rebuilt for residential purposes, for which it is still used today. The place was founded between 800 and 1200. Gerterode belonged to Kurmainz until 1802 . Gerterode had been an independent municipality in the Worbis district since the beginning of the 19th century and belonged to the Prussian province of Saxony until 1945 . After the Second World War the church was to turn on the edge of the frontier closed area of the GDR and was part of the district of Erfurt . Since 1990 the community has belonged to the newly founded state of Thuringia.

On January 1, 2019, the previously independent municipality of Gerterode was incorporated into Niederorschel. The community of Gerterode belonged to the Eichsfelder Kessel administrative community .

Noble family of Gerterode

A noble family of Gerterode is known from the 13th to the 15th century. They lived in a castle in the village, of which nothing is preserved today. The following members of the family are proven:

• Cuno de Gertarroth (1266)
• Ludolf von Gerterode
  • 1307, 1313, 1333: sold the Teistungenburg monastery from its property in Teistungenburg
  • 1310: is taken prisoner in a dispute between Archbishop Peter and Duke Heinrich von Braunschweig near Rusteberg and afterwards becomes a beneficiary of a Vorwerk in Teistungenburg
  • 1311: sold to the provost of the monastery Anrode the villa Ridder Bach and Mittelberg for the new Cistercian monastery Worbis
  • 1317: granted 2 courtyards to the Anrode monastery in Dachrieden
  • 1333/40: Knight Baumbach receives from Ludolf Kleintöpfer as a fief
• Sidonia and Adelheid (1306, 1309) in the Anrode monastery
  • Adelheid (1346) Abbess in the Anrode Monastery
• Adelheid von Gerterode (1381) Abbess in the Anrode Monastery
• Ludolf von Gerterode
  • 1377: the Landgrave of Hesse transfers the village of Wendershausen to Ludolf
  • 1397: Magistrate on the Allerburg by the Hessian Landgrave
  • 1418: receives the offices of Rambach and Weißenborn
  • 1429: as a witness on the Hülfensberg
• Hermann von Gerterode (1402)

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 452 1995: 449 1996: 456 1997: 462 1998: 444

1999: 446 2000: 456 2001: 450 2002: 427 2003: 427

2004: 424 2005: 416 2006: 415 2007: 407 2008: 398

2009: 401 2010: 390 2011: 379 2012: 373 2013: 370

2014: 358 2015: 358 2016: 357 2017: 350

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on February 9, 1993.

Blazon : “In the Göpel cut divided by red, silver and blue; in front a silver oak branch, behind a blue goblet, below a silver mill wheel. "

The oak branch indicates the oak groves of the so-called ski oaks that are close to the village. The goblet is reminiscent of a glassworks near the village that existed in the 16th century. The mill wheel indicates the three former mills belonging to the village.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Karl-Heinz Fritze.

literature

• Gottfried Kunkel: Eichsfelder with boxes and boxes. Eichsfeld stories . Part 1. Mecke, Gerterode 1996, p. 143 .
• Gottfried Kunkel: Eichsfelder with boxes and boxes. Eichsfeld stories . Part 2. Mecke, Gerterode 1997, p. 160 .
• Christophe Duhamelle: Gerterode (Eichsfeld) in the Old Kingdom. Insecure boundaries, confident actors. In: Yearbook for Regional History Volume 29, Stuttgart 2011, pp. 63–74.
• Community of Gerterode (ed.): 750 years of Gerterode. 1266-2016. Festschrift for the 750th anniversary. Gerterode 2016, 66 pages, 107 mostly color photos

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia Wartberg Verlag 2000 ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 34 u. 35
2. ↑ mansion
3. ↑ [1] Historical information on dirk-neufing.de
4. ^ Johann Wolf: History and description of the city of Heiligenstadt with documents. Göttingen 1800, §12, pages 24
5. ↑ History of Kleintöpfer PDF Kleintöpfer
6. ↑ Wendershausen, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 19, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
7. ↑ Landgrave Regests online No. 2917. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Web links

Commons : Gerterode  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.gerterode.de
• Eichsfeld School Project ( Memento from October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )