Pegs / helmets

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Nordhausen
Fulfilling municipality :	for Görsbach; for Urbach
Height :	162 m above sea level NHN
Area :	66.91 km 2
Residents:	4720 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99765
Area code :	036333
License plate :	NDH
Community key :	16 0 62 064
LOCODE :	DE HRI
Rural community division:	5 districts
Address of the ; rural community administration:	Street of the unit 100 ; 99765 herrings / helmets
Website :	stadt-heringen.de
Mayor :	Maik Schröter ( CDU )
Location of the rural community Heringen / Helme in the district of Nordhausen

Heringen Castle

The city of Heringen / Helme is a rural community in the Thuringian district of Nordhausen .

location

Heringen is located on the southern edge of the Golden Aue , between the Südharz and Windleite . The district town of Nordhausen is about 15 km to the northwest . The helmets flow through the city . To the north-east of Heringen, the water-rich Zorge flows into the Helmets.

history

In 1155 the place Heringen was first mentioned in a document from the Fulda monastery , located on the old military road Merseburg – Nordhausen. The town had town charter at least since 1327, when it was mentioned as a town in that year. In 1406 and 1407 the city was besieged by an imperial army without success.

As Dietrich IX. Count zu Hohnstein (line Hohnstein-Kelbra-Heringen) died in 1417 without male descendants, the city and the office of Heringen fell in part to the Counts of Schwarzburg and the Counts of Stolberg after an inheritance dispute . As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the domain and Heringer Castle became royal Prussian property.

On June 27, 1590, the arable town of Heringen burned down almost completely. In 1590 the herring fire was so cruel that in three hours neither house nor barn or stables could be seen and everything was cleared away in such a way that not one car full of wood could be gathered. In addition to the parish churches, town hall, parish and school buildings, all the town's houses burned down except for six small Heusslein . And to lament that much more, fifteen people, eight of whom were choked to death in cellars and vaults, three were burned like fire burns, two even burned to ashes, but two of them died of great pain, soon afterwards.

In July 1626 the plague broke out in Windehausen, killing 283 people. In the same year 452 people died of the disease in Heringen. The town was largely spared from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War , which was largely due to the fact that Countess Clara von Schwarzburg held Heringen as a widow's residence from 1597 to 1658. Her energetic demeanor and the fact that her brother Georg was commander in chief of the Swedish troops in the Lower Saxony district secured her the support of the Saxon elector.

During the Second World War , 110 prisoners of war from France and 400 concentration camp inmates from Dora-Mittelbau , who were housed in their own Heringen concentration camp, had to do forced labor in agriculture and in the expansion of the Sangerhausen-Nordhausen railway line.

On December 1, 2010, the city of Heringen / Helme and the communities of Auleben , Hamma , Uthleben and Windehausen merged to form the new rural community of Heringen / Helme. As a result, the number of inhabitants more than doubled, and the urban area was more than three times as large. At the same time, the administrative community Goldene Aue was dissolved and Heringen became a fulfilling community for the communities Urbach and Görsbach .

Castle and herrings (1820)
Zwingerstrasse with a view of the palace complex around 1977
Manor house and pegs
St. Michaelis Church
Country ambulance
Townhouse of the Schneidewind
Humboldt Castle in Auleben

Population development
year	1994	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010 ^*	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Residents	2546	2511	2486	2487	2396	2390	2339	2283	5199 ^*	5063	5033	4936	4919	4869	4812	4787	4737	4720

^* New founding of the city of Heringen / Helme

At the end of 1800, 1680 souls lived in Heringen. Interesting numbers are: 12 marriages, 65 baptisms, 70 deaths and a breakdown of people into 13 categories.

politics

City council

The city council in Heringen / Helme has consisted of 16 council members since the local elections in Thuringia in 2019 . The table below shows the proportion of votes and the number of seats of the parties represented on the city council. The turnout was 62.6%.

Heringen town hall

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	36.7%	6th
SPD / FW-PL ¹	14.5%	2
LEFT	9.6%	2
BBGA ²	27.0%	4th
GWU ³	12.3%	2

¹ Free Voters-Pro rural community ² Citizens' Federation Goldene Aue ³ SV Grünweiß Uthleben eV

Town twinning

In 2007, partnership documents were signed with the cities of Heringen (Werra) in Hesse and Odolanów in Ostrowski Powiat (Poland).

Buildings

Heringen Castle is located on the northwest side of the old town . It was in decline during the GDR era, was supposed to be blown up in the 1960s and was extensively renovated from 2003 to 2014. The inner and outer city walls still close around the city . Other historical buildings in the city are the manor house, the St. Michaelis church and the new castle.

traffic

The country roads 2078 and 2079 connect the city to the federal highway 38 (junction 12), the federal highway 80 and the federal highway 4 .

In the city there is a train station on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden .

Personalities

Daniel Mönchmeier (1582–1635), educator and Protestant theologian, from 1612 archdeacon in Heringen
Johann Georg Leuckfeld (1668–1726), theologian, historian and numismatist
August Wilhelm Reinhart (1696–1770), pastor primarius in Heringen
Andreas Ludwig Christoph Kettembeil (1768–1840), lawyer and newspaper editor
Christian Gotthard Kettembeil (1773–1850), businessman and theater manager
Heinrich Arnold Wilhelm Winckler (1796–1848), teacher and writer
Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931), painter
Otto Prase (1874–1956), pioneer of color theory
Ernst-Rulo Welcker (1904–1971), surgeon in Greifswald and Cottbus
Ricarda Klein (1944–2011), care manager and association policeman
Kerstin Anding (* 1956), politician

literature

Hermann Hiller : History of the city of Heringen on the helmets . Self-published in 1927. Reprint published by the city of Heringen / Helme, the interest group Schloss Heringen 1327 eV and the Regionale-Verlag, 2005 Auleben near Nordhausen, ISBN 3-934780-13-X .