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	Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′  N , 10 ° 20 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Wartburg district
Management Community :	Hainich-Werra Valley
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.98 km 2
Residents:	197 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99826
Area code :	036924
License plate :	WAK, SLZ
Community key :	16 0 63 037
Association administration address:	Michael-Praetorius-Platz 2 99831 Creuzburg
Website :	www.vg-hainich-werratal.de
Mayor :	Gerd Mähler (FWV Hallungen 1991 e.V.)
Location of the municipality of Hallungen in the Wartburg district

Hallungen is the northernmost municipality in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative community Hainich-Werratal .

geography

location

Hallungen is on the western edge of the Hainich , about 16 kilometers (as the crow flies) north of Eisenach . The location of Hallungen is a street village , the place is located in a narrow section of the valley of the Lämpertsbach.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns in the Wartburg district are Nazza in the south and west and the Treffurt district of Falken in the west. Neighboring towns belonging to the Unstrut-Hainich district are Heyerode in the north, Langula in the east and a forest belonging to the Vogteier district of Niederdorla .

mountains

The highest elevation is on the legendary Dudelberg ( 435.1  m above sea level ), the Ruppertsberg ( 371.6  m above sea level ) as the northernmost elevation in the Wartburg district, the Engstenberg ( 432.5  m above sea level ) is also worth mentioning . , the Mühlberg ( 430  m above sea level ) - a mountain tongue tapering to the west of the Winterstein belonging to Langula ( 467.7  m above sea level ) and the Rohrbachskopf ( 347.7  m above sea level ).

Waters

The Lempertsbach , a right tributary of the Werra, flows through Hallungen .

Geology and mining

The rock above ground in the Hallung area belongs to the shell limestone and was used economically in small quarries and lime kilns. A mine shaft commissioned by the Burg Haineck magistrate in the 16th century was unsuccessful in the beginning.

history

Southern district

church

Local government

Thomas-Münzer-Strasse

Lämpertsbach valley south of Hallungen

First mention

Hallungen is 1345 Haldungin called, 1359 Haldungen . The identity of the name with Holungen in the lower area, which also appears as Haldungen in 1266, is striking . In the place name, the Old High German noun formation »hal-da« = mountain slope is present. The name thus refers to the conspicuous geormorphological conditions that surround the settlement.

Prehistory and early history

The community is located on a thoroughfare that was important in prehistoric times . The Sommerstein hill fort about two kilometers to the north was built to control it. The Dudelsberg is associated through legends and local tradition with a sanctuary for the Germanic god Donar .

middle Ages

Since the 13th century, the area around Hallungen has belonged partly to the Treffurt estate and partly to the Haineck office in the Landgraviate of Thuringia . The deserted areas of Berenfeld and Ritzenhausen, which are part of the district today, were located in narrow side valleys north of the locality. Hallungen has been in a border location since the Middle Ages, on the northern edge of the district a series of imposing heraldic stones mark the former border with Eichsfeld - symbolized by the Mainz wheel . For centuries this border situation had a negative effect on the place, the chroniclers report numerous feuds and attacks.

To protect against robber barons , the Thuringian Landgrave Balthasar had the Haineck border castle built about 3 kilometers south of Hallungen in 1392 and also initiated the construction of further fortifications: from the Heyerode border house a Landwehr or Gebück led along the Hainichkamm in the direction of Nazza ; Below the Altenburg , which blocked access to the Lämpertsbachtal and is located on the old road from Nazza to Hallungen, another Landwehr train joined.

Hallungen initially remained an important place for regional trade. At the Ritzenhausen loading point on the Hainichkamm, the roads from the Vogtei Dorla , from Mühlhausen and Bad Langensalza crossed with the roads from the Werra valley around Creuzburg , Treffurt , Wanfried , Lengenfeld unterm Stein and the southern Eichsfeld. This only changed when the shorter connecting road from Nazza to Langula , today's first order road (L 1016), was expanded over the Struppeiche .

Up until the middle of the 19th century there was a castle complex in the locality, which had emerged from a small moated castle and which from 1404 belonged to the judges of Hallungen, the von Zenge family. These belonged to the service aristocracy of the Counts von Gleichen and had their main estates in the area northeast around Gotha and Sömmerda .

Modern times

In 1503 the Lords of Hopffgarten received the Burg and Amt Haineck with Hallungen as a pledge and from 1513 as a hereditary fiefdom from the sovereign, Duke Friedrich the Wise . In the following subdivisions of the Wettin areas, the Haineck office and thus Hallungen were always counted as part of the Ernestine part because of their affiliation to the Hopffgarten court . The Hopffgarten communities formed an exclave of the Gotha Duchy until 1920 .

The Hallung Church , built in the Middle Ages, was rebuilt in 1725 and modernized again in 1772. The field name Am Schacht and a few traces in the area are reminiscent of an unsuccessful attempt to get a mine going west of the locality. The predominantly agricultural place had only a small area under cultivation and was disadvantaged for arable farming due to its exposed location on the edge of the Hainich . Sheep breeding and dairy farming were therefore preferred industries. When the Lords of Zenge sold their property in Hallungen, the village consisted of a castle with an estate, the church, the sheep farm, the village inn (Zur Linde) and around 30 houses. In the 18th century, Leich, a textile merchant from Langensalza, founded a weaving factory on the estate (Raschmacherei), which is said to have been bought up by the Eisenach worsted yarn spinning mill .

In the summer of 1852 a heavy storm destroyed the harvest, almost the entire flock of sheep on the estate drowned in the stable, and the last Hallung landowner, Zangemeister, was ruined. In June 1853, the Hallungen community acquired most of the property and raffled the parcels to the local farmers involved.

As a second seasonal trade, cigar production was established in the 19th century by north German tobacco traders, and the larger rooms of the village jug were prepared for this purpose. A stocking knitting factory had established itself as a home industry in the neighboring village of Diedorf . The quarries operated in Niederdorlaer Holz and elsewhere in Hainich also offered employment opportunities . Since the middle of the 19th century, increasing numbers of emigrants to the USA have also been recorded from Hallungen and Nazza .

Hallungen has belonged to the Eisenach district since 1922 . In the course of the district reform in the GDR , the place was assigned to the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. Assigned. In the second step of the GDR district reform, the place was removed from it again in 1952 and assigned to the Eisenach district. With this Hallungen went on in 1994 in the Wartburg district.

politics

Municipal council

The Hallungen municipal council is made up of six councilors.

• Fire Brigade Association Hallungen e. V .: 4 seats
• Heimatverein Hallungen e. V .: 2 seats

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Gerd Mähler was re-elected on June 5, 2016.

Coat of arms

The local coat of arms quotes the scepter used in the family coat of arms of the Lords of Zenge , also interpreted as a marshal's baton.

church

The Evangelical Lutheran parish, together with Frankenroda and Ebenshausen, belongs to the parish of the Christ Church in the neighboring town of Nazza.

schools

The Hallunger pupils attend the state primary school in Nazza, the regular schools in Mihla and Creuzburg and possibly a high school in Eisenach.

Culture and leisure

Attractions

Entrance

Forest pool

Signet of the Haineck cycle path

Playground at the entrance to the village

The previous church of today's Nikolaikirche is said to have been built in the 15th century and was rebuilt in 1725. The church has a footprint of 16 × 7 meters inside and has a wooden, colorfully painted barrel vault. The slender tower is a roof turret , its upper floor consists of half-timbering, the spire is designed as an octagonal tail dome , the copper sheet cladding was last renewed in 1988. Gravestones of the patron saints that still existed around 1915 and leaned against the outer wall have now disappeared. The font dates from the 16th century, the pulpit was probably acquired when the church was rebuilt in 1725. The gallery was originally reserved for the local nobility. The organ is located diagonally above the altar and the pulpit, and the previous church is said to have already had a church organ.

Hallungen also has a forest pool in the Ritzenhauser valley . There are extensive forests all around the village, which can be accessed by hiking and cycling trails. It is two kilometers as the crow flies from Hallungen to the Wallburg Sommerstein . On a narrow spur that sloped steeply to the west, two transverse ramparts and ditches were built in early historical times, which secured a sanctuary or a refuge in the upper part of the complex, at the western end of the mountain spur a small castle was created in the Middle Ages, probably by the local nobility a wall-trench system was built. On the way to and from the Wallburg you should pay attention to the striking border and coat of arms stones and the Heyerodaer Obermühle - today a technical monument . The location of Hallungen has been extensively renovated since 2004 as part of the village renewal process, and a playground and barbecue area have been created at the entrance to the village.

Events

The fair is celebrated in Hallungen on the first weekend in September , in June 2015 the district fair boy meeting took place in Hallungen.

societies

The Hallungen Fire Brigade Association e. V. was founded in 1991. In November 2009 the Heimatverein Hallungen e. V. founded. It is a branch association under whose roof the Kirmesverein, the Plattschwätzer , the Tratschweiber and the Hallunger History Association are united . There is no longer a special sports club, but the homeland club promotes and organizes tournaments for leisure teams.

traffic

Road traffic

The traffic connection is via the country road 2107 (Nazza - Hallungen - Heyerode) and the L 1016 between Mühlhausen and Eisenach . The former local connecting roads to Schierschwende and Diedorf have remained unpaved and are only used for agricultural purposes today.

Rail transport

From 1911 to 1969 Hallungen had in the neighboring Heyerode links to the more than Vogteier Bimmel known railway Mulhouse Treffurt which across the Mühlhäuser tanks, over the Hainich Werratal association. Today the connection takes place via the train stations in Eisenach and Mühlhausen.

Transportation

After Hallungen, the bus route 162 of the Wartburgmobil transport company runs on the Hallungen - Mihla - Creuzburg route. In addition to its importance for the transport of schoolchildren, bus transport is also important as a feeder to Eisenach train station and for the surrounding communities that are geared towards hiking tourism.

Bike paths

The Haineck cycle path, which is currently under construction, connects the villages around Hallungen with the cycle path networks of the Werra valley, the city of Mühlhausen and the southern Eichsfeld .

Personalities

• Otto Zangemeister (1836–1902), politician and farmer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Thuringian State Surveying Office TK25 - sheet 4827 Treffurt, Erfurt 1992, ISBN 3-86140-027-8
3. ^ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , p. 22, 28 .
4. ↑ Woldemar Lippert : The German feudal books. Contributions to registers and feudal law of the Middle Ages. Ed .: Hans Beschorner . Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511-00299-0 , p. 183, footnote 11 and 473 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Raymond Falk: The deserted Reichensachsen near Heyerode and the settlement of the Hainich low mountain range . In: Mihla community (ed.): Werratal news . Number 18. Wittich-Verlag, 1994, p. 6-8 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, p. 233-234 .
7. ^ Johann Georg August Galletti : History and description of the ducal offices, princely Kanzeleyen and aristocratic courts of the Duchy of Gotha . In: History and Description of the Duchy of Gotha . Third part. Gotha 1780, p. 176-177 .
8. ^ Ortschronist (Hallungen): America - destination of many German emigrants in the 19th century . In: Mihla community (ed.): Werratal news . Number 1. Wittich-Verlag, 1995, p. 20-21 .
9. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 29, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 3, 2019 . 
11. ^ Ortschronist (Hallungen): On the history of the church in Hallungen . In: Mihla community (ed.): Werratal news . Number 20. Wittich-Verlag, 1992, p. 20 .
12. ↑ Verkehrsgesellschaft Wartburgmobil - regional transport offers and current timetables from June 1, 2019
13. ↑ ARTIFEX-KARTEN (Ed.): RadTouren im Hainich . ARTIFEX Kartenverlag, Bad Langensalza 2003, ISBN 3-932071-12-3 .

literature

• Administrative community Mihla (Hrsg.): Administrative community Mihla. The gateway to the Hainich National Park . WEKA info verlag gmbh, Mering 2006, p. 26 .
• Rainer Lämmerhirt : 600 years of Haineck Castle. Historical overview and structural features of an almost forgotten Thuringian castle . Festschrift. Nazza parish, Nazza 1991.
• Hans-Jürgen Lehmann: From the history of the community Hallungen im Hainich . Hallungen, 2015. ISBN 978-3-95966-0297

Web links

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

• Castles and fortifications in Hainich - (private website)