Graefendorf (Krölpa)

Graefendorf Krölpa municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 32 ″ N , 11 ° 31 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	294 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 1997
Postal code :	07387
Area code :	03647
Location of Graefendorf in Thuringia
	View of Gräfendorf from the south

Gräfendorf is a district of the municipality of Krölpa in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

location

Gräfendorf is located about two kilometers southwest of the locality of Krölpa and it is located at the foot of the northern roof of the Thuringian Slate Mountains in the transition to the locations of the Orlasenke west of the city of Ranis and east of Unterwellenborn . The federal road 281 leads through the valley to the north and is reached via the county road 202.

history

Graefendorf was first mentioned in a document in December 1074. The place belonged to the electoral office of Arnshaugk until 1815 and after its assignment, decided at the Congress of Vienna , came to the Prussian district of Ziegenrück , to which the place belonged until 1945. The village church has stood in its current form since 1752 .

Church in Graefendorf

There was a medieval moated castle on the site of the property. A pond and a moat are still remnants of the fortification.

On July 1, 1950, the municipality of Dobian and on February 1, 1974 the municipality of Oelsen was incorporated. Graefendorf was incorporated into Krölpa on January 1, 1997.

Gräfendorf village center

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

1933: 170
1939: 234
1994: 415

1995: 409
1996: 401

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 96.
↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 112-113.
^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ziegenrück district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 96.

[2] Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 112-113.

[3] StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997

[Deutsche_Verwaltungsgeschichte_Provinz_Sachsen,_Kreis_Ziegenrück-4] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ziegenrück district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).