Graba

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Graba
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 20 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 31 ″  E
Incorporation : 1922
Postal code : 07318
Area code : 03671
Graba (Thuringia)
Graba

Location of Graba in Thuringia

Graba is a district of Saalfeld in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia . It is close to the city center in a northerly direction and is important for the medieval regional history.

geography

The Graba district is located north of the city center and has merged with Saalfeld. The core of the former street village lies along Grabaer Straße, which leads from Saalfeld through the village to Remschütz . This trade route used to be the connection to Rudolstadt and on to Erfurt . Like the old town of Saalfeld, Graba lies on the flood-protected left bank of the Saale valley , into which the Siechenbach valley south of the village church has dug itself deep. At the mouth of the stream, protected mountain spurs are formed on the right and left, on which the Peterskloster (today's location of the Saalfeld Castle ) is to the south and the village church of Graba, which was once the seat of an original parish , to the north . This means that the area, together with the Alter Markt to the south and the village of Altsaalfeld east of the Saale, was a central settlement in the newly developed areas of southeast Thuringia as early as the early Middle Ages. The high medieval town complex of today's Saalfeld further south was not built until some time later.

Graba - At the Gertrudiskirche
Graba - At the Vorwerk

history

In the 10th century Saalfeld was an imperial estate . The royal court is believed to be on the southern mountain spur on Siechenbach near Graba; where later the monastery and then the Saalfeld Castle were built.

The first documented mention of Graba was in December 1074. Saalfeld, on the other hand, was mentioned for the first time on March 11, 899 and is one of the oldest places in East Thuringia. This naming is closely related to the place Graba, because there was a Carolingian royal palace here, the chapel of which was the church of the district of Graba. In place of the chapel there is now the Gertrudiskirche Graba, but as an original parish Graba existed long before the city was founded and also in the time when the Benedictine monastery was founded in 1071. The Gertrude cult is of Franconian origin and was probably introduced with the Franconian royal court. For centuries, the village next to Saalfeld developed independently and independently of the city.

In 1922 Graba was incorporated into Saalfeld.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , p. 372.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. 243.
  4. ↑ NN: Saalfeld / Saale experience city history - Gertreudiskirche - Graba. Self-published by the city administration of Saalfeld, Saalfeld 2007, pp. 1 and 2.
  5. ↑ Land use plan of the city of Saalfeld, Section 3.2. History (PDF; 6.7 MB). Retrieved December 22, 2011.

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