Hetschburg

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 11 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Management Community :	Mellingen
Height :	260 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.72 km 2
Residents:	243 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99438
Area code :	036458
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 031
Association administration address:	Karl-Alexander-Str. 134a 99441 Mellingen
Website :	www.hetschburg.de
Mayor :	Alexander Loss
Location of the community of Hetschburg in the Weimarer Land district

Hetschburg is a municipality in the south of the Weimarer Land district and part of the Mellingen administrative community .

geography

The narrow Ilm Valley and the surrounding plateaus such as Adelsberg, Böhmer Wäldchen, Knottenberg and Röhmberg offer little space for the town to expand. In terms of traffic, Hetschburg is located between the B 87, which runs directly past the town, and the B 85, ​​which is just north of the town.

history

Village church

"Heitungsburg" is the original name of an early historical fortification, below which a settlement on the Ilm took place. Its name indicates a foundation by members of the Thuringian-Franconian Duke Heden II , who ruled at the beginning of the 8th century, who secured the transition between the Thuringian old settlements and the state development area between Ilm and Saale. All that remained of the castle was a chapel, probably built by the Christian dukes, and dedicated to St. Martin. Archaeologists Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel examined the castle wall, which is now called “Martinskirche”. It is mentioned in a deed of donation from Count Wichmann from May 1119 and initially belonged to the county of Berka . The von Heidingsburg family can be documented from 1252 to 1486. In the Thirty Years War the place was almost completely destroyed. The church was rebuilt in the baroque style between 1700 and 1730. The church records do not begin until 1702, the final name “Hetschburg” appears for the first time in 1775. From the beginning of the 19th century, the place was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and after 1945 with the state of Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Since 1990 the place belongs to the newly founded state of Thuringia.

See also : Martinskirche (Hetschburg)

Economy and Transport

Due to its location in the "Mittleres Ilmtal" nature reserve and recreation area, tourism is becoming increasingly important.

Hetschburg has a train stop on the Weimar - Kranichfeld line (Ilmtalbahn) and is served hourly by the EB 26 line ( Erfurter Bahn ). The next stops are Bad Berka Zeughausplatz in the south and Legefeld in the north.

Hetschburg stop (2017)

Attractions

• church
• Wallburg with Martinskirche

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Volker Schimpff : The Heden places in Thuringia. With a contribution by Claudia Theune , Vienna. ( Digitized version (PDF; 3.5 MB) ).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Timpel, Paul Grimm : The prehistoric and early historical soil monuments of the Weimar district. Museum for Pre- and Early History of Thuringia, Weimar 1975.
4. ↑ Manfred Stimming: The documents up to the death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) (= Mainzer Urkundenbuch. Vol. 1). Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1932, No. 482; Otto Dobencker : Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae. Volume 1: (approx. 500 - 1152). Gustav Fischer, Jena 1896, p. 238, no. 1138 .

Web links

Commons : Hetschburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hetschburg.de
• Hetschburg on the website of VG Mellingen