Hohenstein (Thuringia)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '  N , 10 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Nordhausen
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	61.09 km 2
Residents:	2100 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99755
Area code :	036336
License plate :	NDH
Community key :	16 0 62 062
Address of the municipal administration:	Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 62 99755 Hohenstein OT Klettenberg
Website :	www.gemeindehohenstein-harz.de
Mayor :	Andreas Gerbothe ( CDU )
Location of the community Hohenstein in the district of Nordhausen

Church in Hohenstein-Branderode

Hohenstein is a municipality in the district of Nordhausen , Thuringia , which was named after the former county of Hohenstein .

structure

The community of Hohenstein consists of the following districts:

• Branderode
• Holbach
• Klettenberg , founded with the construction of Klettenberg Castle in 1087, seat of the municipal administration
• Liebenrode (with the hamlet of Steinsee , which was incorporated on July 1, 1950 )
• Limlingerode
• Mackenrode , first mentioned in a document in 977
• Upper ax throwing
• Schiedungen , with the Pfaffenstock homestead
• Trebra

history

The community of Hohenstein emerged on October 18, 1996 from the Grenzland administrative community , which was founded in 1991 and whose nine former member communities are now districts of the community of Hohenstein.

During the Second World War , at least 100 prisoners of war as well as women and men from Poland , France and the Soviet Union had to do forced labor : in Klettenberg on Gut Hickethier and in Börgardt's gypsum factory as well as in the agriculture of Liebenrode-Steinsee, Limlingerode, Schiedungen and Mackenrode. Since 1944, 300 prisoners had to work in a Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp external unit to build the Helmetalbahn .

Population development

Development of the population:

1996-3202 1997 - 3267 1998 - 3154 1999-3086 2000-3095 2001-2979

2002-2949 2003 - 2903 2004 - 2784 2005 - 2788 2006 - 2757 2007-2694

2008 - 2646 2009-2633 2010 - 2606 2011 - 2382 2012 - 2331 2013 - 2311

2014 - 2243 2015 - 2200 2016 - 2210 2017 - 2182 2018 - 2167 2019 - 2100

Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values ​​from December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hohenstein has consisted of 14 council members since the local elections on May 26, 2019 . The table below shows the proportion of votes and the number of seats of the parties represented in the municipal council.

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU / farmers' association	52.2%	8th
DIE LINKE / Friends of the Left	12.2%	1
SPD / Citizens' Initiative SPD	12.6%	2
FDP	23.0%	3
Turnout: 73.5%

Wind turbines

Approximately 1,000 m west of Limlingerode (early 2011) five wind turbines (“light wind systems”) with a hub height of 100 m and a total height of 150 m are planned. A “Citizens' Initiative for Landscape Protection” has been formed against their establishment. She justifies her protest with the preservation of the aesthetics of the landscape and bird protection.

Parish partnership

The partner community of Hohenstein is Offenberg in Bavaria.

Personalities

• Ernst von Hohnstein (1562–1593), last male representative of the Harz counts of Ho (h) nstein, born in the Klettenberg district
• Johann Heinrich Michaelis (1668–1738), Protestant theologian and oriental philologist, born in the Klettenberg district
• August Gottlieb Spangenberg (1704–1792), theologian and missionary, born in the Klettenberg district
• Fritz Voigt (1882–1945), trade unionist and resistance fighter, born in the Trebra district
• Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013), poet and Büchner Prize winner , born in the Limlingerode district

See also

• Thun and Hohenstein

literature

• Michael Stampniok: 1000 years of Mackenrode . In: Meyenburg Museum (ed.): Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen . Issue 4. Nordhausen 1979, p. 86-89 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Topographia Superioris Saxoniae: Hohenstein  - Sources and full texts

• Community website
• Private homepage about Mackenrode

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ 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
3. ↑ MGH DD OII / O III, No. 162
4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
5. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisten und Studienkreis deutscher Resistance 1933-1945 (Ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser zu places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 188 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
6. ↑ City council election 2019 in Thuringia - final result of the Hohenstein community
7. ↑ Kristin Müller: Stiff breeze against wind turbines near Limlingerode . Thuringian General, January 12, 2011
8. ↑ eichsfeld.thueringer-allgemeine.de: "Everything is boiled up", January 21, 2011