Helba (Meiningen)
Helba
City of Meiningen
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 23 " N , 10 ° 25 ′ 53" E
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Height : | 312 m above sea level NN |
Area : | 5.82 km² |
Residents : | 273 (Dec. 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 47 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | October 16, 1923 |
Postal code : | 98617 |
Area code : | 03693 |
Church in Helba
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Helba is a district of the district town of Meiningen in the south of the Free State of Thuringia . The former Gut Johannisberg, three kilometers away, belongs to the village .
Helba is located around three kilometers northeast of the city center near the Dolmar on federal road 19 ( Eisenach- Meiningen), which is also the motorway slip road to the A 71 / AS Meiningen-Nord. The Helba river of the same name flows through the former village to the Werra .
history
Helba was first mentioned in a document on May 9, 1259 ( Helbe ). It initially consisted of a Niederhelba and an Oberhelba , the latter was deserted in 1444 . The place belonged to the Würzburg exclave Meiningen . In 1361 a chapel belonging to the parish of Meiningen was built, which was demolished in 1600. A new village church was built in 1601. From 1685 a separate parish existed together with Welkershausen . In 1619 a manor with a manor was built. This came into the possession of the Meiningen ducal house in 1811. With the Helba Plan in 1828, the pedagogue Friedrich Froebel intended to found an educational institution here. However, this plan failed.
From 1884 to 1885, today's Helba Church was built under court architect Albert Neumeister, which was consecrated on June 14, 1885. In 1905 the Helbaer Turnverein was founded. Until the 1920s, the Helba people grew wine, the so-called Debertshaus Hinterhand . It was incorporated into Meiningen on October 16, 1923. In 1949, Helba had 557 inhabitants, including 104 new citizens from the former German eastern regions. In 1958, 21 farmers founded an agricultural production cooperative . On December 31, 2018, there were 273 inhabitants in Helba.
Personalities
- Karl August Joseph Friedrich von Bose (1763–1826), Saxon major general, later Prussian lieutenant general
- Andreas Völler (1833-1859), mathematician
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Residents' registration office of the city of Meiningen
- ↑ froebelweb.de: Helba plan
- ↑ Meiningen City Archives
- ^ Moritz Cantor : Völler, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 247 f.