Herda (Werra-Suhl Valley)

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Herda
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 213  (210–225)  m above sea level NN
Incorporation : March 18, 1994
Incorporated into: Berka / Werra
Postal code : 99837
Area code : 036922
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Location of Herda in Werra-Suhl-Tal
In the local situation
In the local situation
St. Margarethen Church in Herda

Herda is a district of the city of Werra-Suhl-Tal in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Herda is 2 km east of the Berka / Werra administrative headquarters on the lower reaches of the Suhl on the edge of the flood-prone Werraaue .

history

Archaeological finds on the northern edge of the village and not far from the Werraaue attest to the prehistoric settlement of the corridor. In the 19th century, "the forest" formed a riparian forest in the Werraaue and supplied the building material for the numerous half-timbered buildings in the village. The Lords of Herda were one of the most important families of the landed gentry in the central Werra Valley. They were landlords of the village of Herda in the office of Hausbreitenbach and at times lords of the Brandenburg castle . Her castle , a richly decorated half-timbered building, was located not far from the church on the northern outskirts; it was viewed by the SED political officials as a disruptive relic of the feudal era and demolished around 1950.

In the 16th century the region around Herda was a center of the Anabaptist movement . As the leader of this movement, the free farmer Fritz Erbe was captured and transferred to Eisenach , where he was imprisoned in the Storchenturm for several years. Erbe later died in the Wartburg dungeon after 15 years in prison .

C. Kronfeld published geographic and statistical information about the place in 1879: Herda is a village with 149 houses and 736 inhabitants. The total area of ​​the village is 880.03 hectares, of which farms and gardens account for 21.37 hectares, meadows 127.2 hectares, arable land 585.21 hectares, ponds, streams and rivers 5.7 hectares, paths, drifts and fruit trees 140, 42 ha. The livestock includes 25 horses, 515 cattle, 1019 sheep, 187 pigs, 44 goats and 27 bee colonies.

On April 4, 1945, the US Army occupied Herda without a fight. Twelve German soldiers were killed nearby, were rescued by the population and buried in a communal grave in the cemetery.

The Thuringian Ordinance of February 16, 1994 dissolved the communities of Fernbreitenbach, Gospenroda, Herda, Horschlitt and Vitzeroda and incorporated them into the city of Berka / Werra with effect from March 18, 1994. This went into the city on January 1, 2019 Werra-Suhl-Tal.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ↑ Mirjam Petermann: The Anabaptist in the Stork Tower . In: Glaube und Heimat , March 17, 2013. Accessed December 27, 2016.
  3. ^ Constantin Kronfeld: Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Part 2: Topography of the Land. Böhlau, Weimar 1879, pp. 363–364 .
  4. ^ Rainer Lämmerhirt : The fight for the Werra line in April 1945 between Gerstungen and Treffurt. “The Americans are coming!” (= West Thuringian Heimatschriften. 13). Changed and supplemented reprint, 2nd edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2005, ISBN 3-937135-64-2 , p. 76.
  5. ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution of the communities Fernbreitenbach, Gospenroda, Herda, Horschlitt and Vitzeroda and their incorporation into the town of Berka / Werra of February 16, 1994 (GVBl p. 288).
  6. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 2, 2019

Web links

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