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City and rural community An der Schmücke
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| Height : | 128 m |
| Area : | 23.27 km² |
| Residents : | 2207 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 95 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 06577 |
| Area code : | 034673 |
Heldrungen is a district of the city and rural community An der Schmücke in the Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis . The city is dominated by the Heldrungen Fortress , a fortress with a moat and four bastions .
history
- Heldrungen was first mentioned in a document in 777 .
- During the Peasants' War after the Battle of Bad Frankenhausen in 1525, Thomas Müntzer was captured and imprisoned in Heldrungen. Here he wrote his last writings.
- The city charter was granted by Emperor Charles V on August 10, 1530.
- In 1841 Heldrungen received its magistrate constitution.
- During the Second World War , prisoners of war from France , Poland and the Soviet Union had to do forced labor in local agriculture.
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Braunsroda b. Heroes incorporated.
On January 1, 2019, the rural town of Heldrungen and the communities of Bretleben , Gorsleben , Hauteroda , Hemleben and Oldisleben merged to form the new town and community of An der Schmücke. The country town of Heldrungen was the seat of the administrative community An der Schmücke . The two districts of Am Bahnhof and Braunsroda belonged to the country town of Heldrungen .
Population development
Development of the population (December 31) :
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Data source: statistik.thueringen.de (until 2005), stadt-heldrungen.de (from 2006)
politics
City council
The 2014 local elections for the last city council resulted in this distribution of seats:
- Citizens for Heldrungen: 5 seats
- CDU: 4 seats
- SPD: 3 seats
- THE LEFT: 2 seats
mayor
In June 2016, Norbert Enke was confirmed in office in the second ballot. He was in office until the city was dissolved.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In a Blue doppelschwänziger winning golden lion, covered by a red and silver geschachten oblique right bar."
There are two variants of the Heldrungen city coat of arms in the literature: 1. Otto Hupp, Deutsche Ortswappen, shows a black, red-armored lion on a golden background, covered by a silver-red slanting left bar. Hupp explains that it is the coat of arms of the old gentlemen from Heldrungen. 2. C. Sagittarius, History of the Thuringian Rule Heldrungen, describes the coat of arms of the Lords of Heldrungen as follows: "... a yellow, upright lion looking in front of it, above which a cross or leaning bar across the corner with red and white, changed chess wise, drawn in the blue field,…. The Counts of Mansfeld also used it in this form in the third field of their coat of arms. They came into the possession of the Heldrungen rulership in 1479. "
Culture and sights
Buildings
Fortress Heldrungen
The history of the Heldrungen castle and fortress goes back to 1217; the actual moated castle was built between 1512 and 1519. After almost complete destruction in the years 1664 to 1668 it was provided with a weir system. After his defeat near Bad Frankenhausen , Thomas Müntzer was held and tortured in the so-called Müntzer Tower inside the fortress . A memorial has been located there since 1975 and was removed after 1990. From 1997, parts of the historic ramparts were restored. There has been a youth hostel and a café on the grounds of the Wasserburg since the 1970s. In 2010, the Thuringian Ministry of Construction provided EUR 3.75 million in funding for the maintenance and modernization of the castle complex. The DJH Landesverband Thüringen eV invested a good 1.6 million in the renovation and modernization of the youth hostel with 130 beds. After completion, it will be one of the most modern youth hostels in Germany.
town hall
The town hall was built between 1900 and 1901. The builder was the architect Friedrich Fahro from Halle (Saale) .
Churches
The town church of St. Wigbert dates from the late 17th century.
The Golgotha Church at the entrance to the fortress belongs to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) .
traffic
Trunk roads
Since December 2008 Heldrungen has been connected to the federal highway 71 . The A 71 (fully approved in September 2015) then leads south through the Schmücketunnel via Erfurt and Suhl to Schweinfurt and north to Sangerhausen .
Furthermore, the federal highway 86 ran from Hettstedt via Sangerhausen in the direction of Straußfurt through the city area, this was stepped in 2013 in a southern direction and in 2015 in a northerly direction to the state road. The federal highway 85 (Berga - Passau) runs south of the city through the Thuringian Gate . A bypass road has been relieving the city since 2010; it begins north at the junction to Brausnroda, circumnavigates the city to the northwest and joins the existing route, the former B 86, to the west between the core city and the district "Am Bahnhof".
train
In 1881 Heldrungen was connected to the Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway line . The station is located about 2 km west of the city in the district "Am Bahnhof", which was built in the 1960s and 1970s. In today's passenger traffic, the regional express 10 (Magdeburg – Erfurt) and the regional train 59 (Sangerhausen – Erfurt) travel the route. Both run every 120 minutes, so that in total there is an hourly service.
Personalities
- Hartmann von Heldrungen (around 1210–1282), crusader, from 1274 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761–1833), philosopher
- Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld (1517–1604), Field Marshal of the Spanish Army
- Johann Anton Wilhelm Geßner (1771–1830), philosopher, private tutor in Heldrungen
- Amalie Marschner (1794–1883), women's rights activist and educator
- Eduard von Broizem (1798–1872), ministerial official in Saxony
- Gustav Hofmeier (1826–1893), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
- Werner Elert (1885–1954), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- Rudolf Große (1924–2017), linguist
literature
- Helge Wittmann; Heimatverein Schloss Heldrungen; Heldrungen: Commemorative publication on the occasion of the 475th anniversary of the city law Heldrungen Petersberg Imhof 2005, ISBN 978-3-86568-075-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 171 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
- ^ Community: Heldrungen, city . Thuringian State Office for Statistics. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ↑ Population statistics (as of December 31) . City administration Heldrungen. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.stadt-heldrungen.de/stadtrat.html
- ↑ http://artern.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/politik/detail/-/specific/Norbert-Enke-und-Susann-Weber-gewinnen-Stichwahlen-in-Heldrungen-und-Oberheldrun-503300435
- ^ New Thuringian Wappenbuch Volume 2, page 27; Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen e. V. 1998 ISBN 3-9804487-2-X
- ↑ Heldrungen Youth Hostel
- ^ Course book of the DB AG