Hellingen (Heldburg)

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Hellingen
City of Heldburg
Hellingen coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 299 m
Area : 44.55 km²
Residents : 991  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 22 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 98663
Area code : 036871
Evangelical Church of St. Michael in Hellingen

Hellingen is a district of the city of Heldburg in the Heldburger Land in the Hildburghausen district in the Franconian south of Thuringia.

Neighboring communities

Before it was dissolved, the community bordered the city of Bad Colberg-Heldburg and the communities Schweickershausen and Gompertshausen in Thuringia, Trappstadt , Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke and Maroldsweisach in Lower Franconia and the city of Seßlach in Upper Franconia .

history

Barrows and archaeological finds indicate the earliest settlement of the place. After the Franconian conquest of the land , numerous places in the Grabfeldgau are named for the first time in Codex Eberhardi , a collection of documents from the Fulda Monastery from the reign of Charlemagne, copies of which have survived around 1140. Including helleidum , our current Hellingen (document 507 of October 17, 837 and document 520 of October 2, 838). This makes Hellingen the second oldest settlement in the Heldburger Land next to Westhausen (776 uuesthus).

The wealthy lords of Hellingen are known from 1151. They were in the service of the von Hennebergs . It is not known where they resided. Later, the Lords of Schott are named, who built the four-tower and four-wing moated castle in the west of the village in 1515. In 1562 Konrad von Grumbach, son of Wilhelm von Grumbach , acquired the moated castle, which in 1601 passed to the von Rußwurm family. At the end of the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle was converted into a palace. In 1873 parts of the complex were demolished in order to get to the oak foundation underneath and to sell it. The east and south wings in need of repair were preserved. The formerly fortified churchyard is located in the south of the village.

In 1970 a monument to the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was erected in the village . In addition to a relief sculpture of his portrait, it contains a quote from Lenin as an inscription: “Learn, learn and learn again”. After the municipal council had passed a resolution to preserve this monument in 1999, the CDU mayor initiated an application to the municipal council in 2015 to replace the Lenin monument with a Schiller monument. However, the citizens of the municipality collected so many signatures to receive the Lenin monument that the municipal council decided on June 9, 2015 to uphold the 1999 decision.

On January 1, 2019 the community of Hellingen merged with the city of Bad Colberg-Heldburg and the community of Gompertshausen to form the new city of Heldburg . The community Hellingen belonged to the administrative community Heldburger Unterland . Districts of the community were Hellingen, Rieth , Albingshausen , Käßlitz , Poppenhausen and Volkmannshausen . Hellingen was the southernmost municipality in Thuringia.

politics

The council of the community of Hellingen last consisted of twelve councilors and councilors and the mayor Christopher Other (CDU). Other prevailed on May 25, 2014 with 367 votes (57.3%) against Axel Beyer (SPD), who lost with 273 votes (42.7%).

  • CDU 4 seats
  • SPD 2 seats
  • Free voters 4 seats
  • FFw 2 seats

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

Personalities

Culture

At Schillerplatz there is one of the last memorials dedicated to Lenin in Germany: a memorial stone with a side portrait of Lenin and his motto: "Learn, learn, learn again".

Trivia

For the 1225th anniversary of the town in 2008, a local museum was set up in the old school by the church with over a thousand hours of work.

literature

  • Max-Rainer Uhrig: The Heldburger Land. In: Frankenland, magazine for Franconian regional studies and culture. Issue 6, Würzburg, June 1990. Available online on the Würzburg University Library website at: http://frankenland.franconica.uni-wuerzburg.de/login/data/1990_137.pdf#view=FitBV
  • Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide; Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
  • P. Lehfeld: Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXXI, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, District Court Districts Heldburg and Römhild, 1904, reprint, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, ISBN 978-3-86777-378-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 134 u. 135.
  2. ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. Wartberg Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 108.
  3. ↑ Fortifications
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lenin prefers Schiller to Hellingen @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  5. ↑ The results of the mayoral election on the website of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics
  6. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2016/05/01/schiller-vs-lenin/

Web links

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