Grossfurra

Grossfurra District town Sondershausen Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 37 ″ N , 10 ° 47 ′ 58 ″ E
Height :	210 m
Residents :	1338 (Oct 2009)
Incorporation :	December 31, 1997
Postal code :	99706
Area code :	03632
	Location of the district of Großfurra ; in the city of Sondershausen
	The piles of potash mining shape the landscape of the area

Großfurra is a village in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia and part of the city of Sondershausen .

On December 31, 1997, the formerly independent community was dissolved and incorporated into the city of Sondershausen.

Geographical location

Großfurra is located south of the Harz Mountains and west of the Kyffhäuser Mountains . In a valley between the Windleite and Hainleite mountain ranges , through which the Wipper River flows in an easterly direction. Five kilometers east of Großfurra is Sondershausen, the district town of the Kyffhäuserkreis.

history

At the edge of the Hainleite there was a rampart just southwest of the village of Großfurra on the Holy Mountain . It was used to control and secure the Wipper transition. Ceramic recovered from the mountain suggests a prehistoric site. Großfurra was first mentioned in a document in the 9th century. In 1198 a landgrave ministerial was named by Großfurra.

In 1322, Landgrave Friedrich von Thuringia transferred the church patronage to the Cistercian Sisters of the Großballhausen Monastery , who then moved here and founded the Großfurra Monastery . As part of the Reformation , the monastery was closed in November 1536. Großfurra belonged to 1815 an exclave of the Saxon Office Weissensee and came as a result of the Vienna Congress to sub rule the principality Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , which the place belonged to the 1918th

Großfurra palace and manor were expropriated without compensation in 1945.

The place Großfurra experienced in autumn 1945 with Neuheide the foundation of the first new farmer settlement in Germany after the Second World War . A monument with the propaganda slogan “Junkerland in peasant hands” was erected in 1965 in the center of the Neuheide settlement. The district leadership of Erfurt of the SED was instructed to preserve the place as a monument ensemble for the socialist new beginning in Germany. This had fatal consequences for the residents of the 30 new farmhouses at the time , because the renovation of these houses or technical improvements were always rejected. The settlement complex, which was essentially built from demolition material and remnants, was designed according to a plan drawn up by Hermann Henselmann , at that time the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar. The house type "Thuringia" designed by Henselmann in 1945 was used for the construction. In the traditional half-timbered building, the apartment, stable and barn are all under one roof. The living area is on the street front, the ground floor has the eat-in kitchen, the main living room and a hallway with a staircase to the bedrooms in the attic. The stable can be reached through a feed kitchen, it offered a maximum of space for four cattle, young cattle and two pigs. The barn wing has a large gate on the front.

traffic

In Großfurra there is a stop on the Wolkramshausen – Erfurt railway line .

Culture and sights

Großfurra Castle

The St. Bonifatius Church dates from the Romanesque period, i.e. from the 11th to the 13th century. Of the buildings of the Großfurra monastery at the church, only the Bonifatius fountain remains.

The castle with its massive tower is located in the middle of the village. The former residential and farm building, also known as the castle, consists of two wings, the southern and smaller of which was built by General Ludwig Heinrich von Wurmb about 270–280 years ago.

Sons and daughters of the place

Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676), musician
Emil Künoldt (1850–1920), teacher and seminar director

literature

Council of the community of Großfurra (ed.): Großfurra 874–1974 . S. 61 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1997
↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag 2001, p. 132, ISBN 3-910141-43-9
^ Werner Mägdefrau: Thuringia in the Middle Ages 1130-1310 , Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2010, p. 83, ISBN 978-3-86777-152-8
^ Monika Lücke: Ballhausen / Grossfurra . In: Historical section of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy (ed.): The monasteries and nunneries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia . Friedhelm Jürgenmeister, Regina Elisabeth Schertfeger (= Germania Benedictina ). tape IV , no. 1 . EOS Verlag Archabbey St. Ottilien , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 , p. 197-215 .
↑ Karin Bühner: Life under the bell jar of a political monument . In the new farmer settlement Großfurra-Neuheide one is looking for ways into the future. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . August 9, 1990.

[1] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1997

[2] Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag 2001, p. 132, ISBN 3-910141-43-9

[3] Werner Mägdefrau: Thuringia in the Middle Ages 1130-1310 , Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2010, p. 83, ISBN 978-3-86777-152-8

[4] Monika Lücke: Ballhausen / Grossfurra . In: Historical section of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy (ed.): The monasteries and nunneries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia . Friedhelm Jürgenmeister, Regina Elisabeth Schertfeger (= Germania Benedictina ). tape IV , no. 1 . EOS Verlag Archabbey St. Ottilien , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 , p. 197-215 .

[5] Karin Bühner: Life under the bell jar of a political monument . In the new farmer settlement Großfurra-Neuheide one is looking for ways into the future. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . August 9, 1990.