Hochstedt (Erfurt)

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Hochstedt
State capital Erfurt
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 220  (216-227)  m
Area : 2.97 km²
Residents : 272  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density : 92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 14, 1974
Incorporated into: Vieselbach
Postal code : 99098
Area code : 0361
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Location of Hochstedt in Erfurt
Church of St. Pankratius in 2018
Church of St. Pankratius in 2018

Hochstedt is a district of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt .

geography

Hochstedt is about ten kilometers east of Erfurt city center in the valley of the Vieselbach , which feeds the Vieselbach dam in the area around the district . The village is located in the agricultural area of ​​the Thuringian Basin . Neighboring places are Vieselbach in the north, Utzberg in the east, Mönchenholzhausen in the south and Linderbach and Azmannsdorf in the west.

history

Hochstedt was first mentioned in 1104. At that time it appeared under the name Hockestett in a property register of the Erfurt Peterskloster , to which the village and its goods belonged. Archbishop Ruthard of Mainz took the Petri et Pauli Abbey in Erfurt under his protection and confirmed her possessions in Hochstedt, among other places. The Benedictines of the monastery grew wine in the area around Hochstedt ; the field name "vineyard" testifies to this time. In the course of the conflict with the Counts of Gleichen , Hochstedt was destroyed by Erfurt citizens in 1272. Albrecht and Ernst, Counts von Gleichenstein , gave the Erfurt Peterskloster their rights to land and a farm in Hochstedt. Over forty years later, in 1316, Count Hermann von Gleichen sold the Peterskloster land in Hochstedt and granted him a right of first refusal to the blood court in this village. Eleven years later - in 1327 - the count transferred the County of Vieselbach , which also included Hochstedt, to the city ​​of Erfurt . In 1343 he sold the county to the city.

In the Middle Ages, the place was one of the 300 forest villages around Erfurt. Almost 50 fields of woad were grown in Hochstedt around 1500 . During this time, 11 woad farmers can be traced back to the village, who pulled their carts to the woad in the nearby town and sold their harvests there.

In 1616 it was decided to build a new church and it was implemented in the following years. In 1690 the church became a branch of the church of Azmannsdorf . With the reorganization of the Erfurt rural area, Hochstedt finally came to the Azmannsdorf office in 1706. In 1726 Hochstedt was granted brewing rights. In 1802, Hochstedt, together with Erfurt, became Prussian and in the following year the farmyard of the Peterskloster in Hochstedt was secularized by the Prussian government. 1806 came Erfurt with Hochstedt under French rule ( Principality of Erfurt ). In connection with the Congress of Vienna , large parts of the eastern Erfurt land area, including Hochstedt, were ceded to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1815/16 . Until 1850, Hochheim belonged to the Vieselbach office , then to the Weimar administrative district .

In 1842 the former monastery property was demolished and divided into individual parcels that were sold. After a reallocation of the districts in 1922, Hochstedt belonged to the district of Weimar . After the Second World War , Hochstedt was assigned to the Erfurt district in 1950 .

On March 14, 1974, Hochstedt became part of the municipality of Vieselbach. On July 1, 1994 the incorporation took place together with Vieselbach in Erfurt . There it was run separately from Vieselbach as the 43rd district.

In 1978 the church of St. Pankratius burned down for unknown reasons and was rebuilt in a simplified form by 1984.

In 2004 the place celebrated the anniversary of the first mention 900 years ago.

Population development

  • 1843: 175
  • 1910: 273
  • 1939: 348
  • 1995: 320
  • 2000: 307
  • 2005: 289
  • 2010: 285
  • 2015: 275

Economy and Transport

Solar power plant on arable land southwest of the village

The most important business enterprise in Hochstedt is the goods traffic center Vieselbach , which is located west of the village.

In December 2009, Bosch Solar Energy AG put a large solar power plant into operation on a field on the GVZ site .

Via the state road 1056, Hochstedt is connected with Vieselbach and Sömmerda in the north and with Mönchenholzhausen ( federal road 7 ) in the south.

The Vieselbach station on the Thuringian Railway from Erfurt to Weimar is about 700 meters north of the town.

Culture and sights

Hochstedt local history and woad museum
  • The Hochstedt local history museum was opened in the summer of 2003 . The former farm building of the Hochstedter School could be converted into a museum with the help of the village renewal and since then it also houses the functional historical fire engine, which the company Sorge from Vieselbach manufactured in 1884. The Heimatverein von Hochstedt has shown an annual special exhibition on a local topic in the museum since 2006. As more and more exhibits related to woad cultivation, trade and processing enriched the exhibition, the museum was renamed the Heimat- und Woidmuseum in autumn 2010.
  • Hochstedt has been celebrating an annual woad festival since 2005 in memory of the great importance of the dye plant for the place in the past.
  • On September 5, 2009, a woad memorial was unveiled in Hochstedt. It consists of a replica of a woad millstone with a stainless steel plate that records the names of the Hochstedter woad farmers from 1492 to 1510 from the "Erfurter Waid booklet".
  • Memorial to the fallen of both world wars on the central square. From 1953 until the political "turning point" there was a Karl Marx monument on "Karl-Marx-Platz". The boulder belonging to it was parked at the gate of the former estate in the lower village and "stolen" in May 2011.
  • The village church of St. Pankratius ( location → ). It was rebuilt after the previous church was destroyed by fire (arson) and consecrated on November 13, 1984. Valuable art treasures (altar, pulpit, baptismal font) were lost at that time. Today, among other things, a winged altar from Nottleben and a pulpit decorate the church.
See also list of cultural monuments in Hochstedt (Erfurt)

societies

  • Heimatverein Hochstedt eV
  • SV Blau Weiß 90 Hochstedt eV

literature

  • Dagmar and Walter Blaha : Hochstedt. A local history . Association for the history and tradition of Hochstedt. 2nd, expanded edition. Hochstedt 2005.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843.
  3. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ Population of the city districts