Großbartloff

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Westerwald-Obereichsfeld
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.76 km 2
Residents:	900 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37359
Area code :	036027
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 041
Association administration address:	Neue Str. 16 37359 Küllstedt
Website :	www.grossbartloff.de
Mayor :	Winfried König ( CDU )
Location of the community Großbartloff in the district of Eichsfeld

View over Großbartloff to the Eichsfelder Westerwald

Großbartloff is a municipality in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld . It belongs to the administrative community of Westerwald-Obereichsfeld .

Geographical location

Großbartloff is located in the Obereichsfeld south of the Westerwald ridge in the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park, about 15 kilometers south of Heilbad Heiligenstadt . The location is surrounded by numerous mountains of the Obereichsfelder Muschelkalkplatte , such as the Eichberg in the southwest, the Schimberg (457.1 m) in the northwest, the Klusberg (443.2 m) in the north and the Heiligenberg (435.0 m) in the southeast. The Thuringian Basin lies further east in the direction of Mühlhausen . The village is traversed by the Lutter , a northern tributary of the Frieda .

history

Großbartloff was first mentioned in a document in 1306. The village was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1640. Today's church was built in 1740 . For centuries the village belonged to the administrative area of Kurmainz . From 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then came to the Kingdom of Westphalia ( Canton Großbartloff ). From 1815 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony .

In 1902 Großbartloff was the first place in the district to receive the first water pipe.

On April 7 and 9, 1945, Großbartloff received American artillery fire . The church got three direct hits, numerous residential buildings were destroyed. Four civilians died, including two children. On April 9th, the place was occupied without a fight.

In 1949 construction began on the first new school in the New District. It was closed in 1997.

From July 1945 to 1949 the place belonged to the Soviet occupation zone SBZ and from 1949 became part of the GDR . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, Großbartloff was affected by the closure of the nearby inner-German border. Since 1990 the place belongs to the re-established state of Thuringia. A flood on July 23, 2004 caused severe property damage.

At the end of the 19th century, Großbartloff received a railway stop as part of the construction of the cannon railway. It was shut down in the 1990s.

In 1994 the construction of the new multi-purpose hall was completed ("Klusberghalle"). It is one of the few halls in Eichsfeld that is owned and administered by the village and not the district.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by red over silver; above a floating covered silver archway with wall, in the archway a six-spoke silver wheel; below three stylized oblique and obliquely left green juniper leaves, covered with two and above a black juniper berry with three triangular petals each. "

Sports

The Großbartloff sports club was founded in 1922 and today has 280 members (as of December 31, 2015). The SVG is divided into five sections. These are: football, badminton, table tennis, women's sports and children's sports. The club is the largest club in town. The sports club is managed by a 12-member board. The sports facilities Klusberghalle and sports field are maintained by the community and through the work of the members.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 1,035 1995: 1.033 1996: 1,048 1997: 1,042 1998: 1,027 1999: 1,022

2000: 1,025 2001: 1.012 2002: 1,031 2003: 1,026 2004: 1,020 2005: 1.005

2006: 1,010 2007: 1.002 2008: 0980 2009: 0953 2010: 0943 2011: 0929

2012: 932 2013: 923 2014: 932 2015: 935 2016: 910 2017: 903

2018: 898 2019: 900

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Großbartloff consists of eight council members.

• CDU : 8 seats

(Status: local elections from 2019 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Winfried König (CDU) was re-elected on June 5, 2016.

Attractions

One of the sights of Großbartloff is the Lutter waterfall located on the eastern edge of the village and around 10 meters high . The historic town center was entered as a monument ensemble in the monuments book of the Free State of Thuringia in June 2018 .

literature

• Norbert Degenhard: Family book of the Catholic parish Großbartloff (Heiligenstadt district), 1683 - 1875. Leipzig: AMF 2010 (= Central German local family books of the AMF 6)
• Wolfgang Schwaneberg, Erich Schwaneberg, Werner Henning, Arno Heerwig: The history of the Eichsfelddorf Großbartloff in words and pictures. Self-published, Großbartloff 2005, 3rd edition, 214 pages, numerous illustrations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ http://www.grossbartloff.de/Pages/BodyHist.html
3. ^ Eduard Fritze: The last days of the war in Eichsfeld . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2002. ISBN 3-936030-06-5 . P. 190
4. ^ Elections in Thuringia. Retrieved July 27, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Thuringian State Gazette No. 25/2018, page 722

Web links

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

• Großbartloff chronicle from the 1920s