Hechendorf (Roßleben-Wiehe)

Hechendorf City and rural community of Roßleben-Wiehe Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 37 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 33 ″ E
Height :	139 (130-150) m
Residents :	600
Postal code :	06571
Area code :	034672

Hechendorf is a district of the city and rural community of Roßleben-Wiehe in Thuringia .

location

The location of Hechendorf is about 40 kilometers (as the crow flies ) east of the district town of Sondershausen and two kilometers north of the core town of Wiehe on the east side of the Hohe Schrecke ridge . In addition to the oldest farm in Thuringia, Hechendorf consists of the foundation estate (large house), the farm outbuildings and farm buildings for cattle and vehicle storage. There are also some residential buildings. The soil indexes of the district show average soil numbers.

history

At the beginning of the 9th century Hechendorf was mentioned in a document in a list of the goods of the Hersfeld Monastery built by Archbishop Lullus († 786) of Mainz . From 1144 the place gradually came into the possession of the Pforta monastery . After its secularization in 1540, Hechendorf belonged as an exclave to the Electoral Saxon Office of Pforta from 1543 to 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place to Prussia came only in 1816 the district Eckartsberga in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th The two leasehold farms of the Vorwerk Hechendorf were combined in 1830 and managed as an estate. After the Second World War , the estate was converted into public property and managed by the Memleben estate. In the course of the district reform of the GDR on July 25, 1952, Hechendorf came to the Artern district , with which it became the Free State of Thuringia in 1990 and was merged into the Kyffhäuserkreis in 1994.

Culture and sights

Hechendorf is a foundation property and belongs to the traditional school " Schulpforte " near Bad Kösen in Saxony-Anhalt.
In the hallway towards Wiehe there is an obelisk as a memorial stone for the historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), who was born here.