Holzhausen (Wachsenburg Office)
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Holzhausen
Municipality of Wachsenburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 7 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 51 ″ E
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| Height : | 299 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 619 (2010) |
| Incorporation : | June 30, 1994 |
| Incorporated into: | Wachsenburg community |
| Postal code : | 99334 |
| Area code : | 03628 |
Holzhausen is a district of the municipality of Wachsenburg in the Thuringian Ilm district . It is located directly at the eastern foot of the fortress Wachsenburg , with whose history the place is closely connected. The village is 299 m above sea level. NHN . 619 inhabitants live in the village.
geography
Holzhausen is located in Central Thuringia on the southern edge of the Thuringian Basin in the area of the Drei Gleichen about four kilometers west of Arnstadt . From a geological point of view, the place lies in the so-called Wachsenburggraben between the two hills of the Eichenberg – Gotha – Saalfeld fault zone . While the area to the north and east of the village is unforested and used for agriculture, the Ohrdrufer Platte rises to the south and west , a plateau 450 meters high on average in the northern foreland of the Thuringian Forest . Here you will find a mixture of fields and forests.
history
Like the neighboring towns of Haarhausen and Bittstädt , Holzhausen was first mentioned in a document at the beginning of the 9th century in a list of the goods lent by Archbishop Lullus († 786) of Mainz for the monastery of Hersfeld von Freien.
In 1441 the place came together with the Wachsenburg , to whose office Wachsenburg the place belonged, under the rule of Apel von Vitzthum the Younger , who achieved notoriety as Thuringia's fire chief . In 1447 the village, called "Holtzhuszen" at that time, was plundered and burned by troops of the Saxon Elector Friedrich II , but then rebuilt.
Like many villages in Germany, Holzhausen was badly affected by the Thirty Years War . In 1641 troops of the Hatzfeld noble family camped in the village for seven weeks and almost destroyed it with the demolition of around 100 buildings. After the end of the war in 1648, building activity began. Many of the houses in the old town center date from this time. The village itself was then dominated by agriculture for many centuries, although there were no large estates. There sat the Protestantism by the predominant religion in the village. From 1697 to 1920 the village belonged to the duchies of Saxe-Gotha or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , then to the Arnstadt district of the newly created state of Thuringia , from 1952 to the smaller Arnstadt district in the Erfurt district .
After the fall of the Wall in 1989, building activity began on the northern edge of the village, new residential areas were created in the northwest and east, where mainly residents of the nearby towns built their homes on the " green meadow ". At the same time, numerous half-timbered houses in the village center were restored.
In the course of the community reform in Thuringia, the village lost its status of an independent community on June 30, 1994 and became one of five districts of the Wachsenburg community . The seat of the community was also here. A day later it became part of the Ilm district. With the dissolution of the municipality on December 31, 2012, the place came to the municipality of Wachsenburg .
traffic
Holzhausen is located on the main road from Arnstadt to Gotha , on the eastern edge of the village a road branches off to Neudietendorf . The nearest motorway junctions are Wandersleben on the A 4 and Arnstadt Nord on the A 71 , which are each about six kilometers away.
The nearest train station is about two kilometers away in Haarhausen on the Erfurt – Ilmenau railway line .
economy
The economy of Holzhausen was shaped by agriculture for centuries. However, this increasingly lost importance at the end of the 20th century. Today, most of the residents find employment in the business locations in the area, primarily in Arnstadt and Erfurt . In addition to a number of gastronomic facilities, which are mainly used for excursions, the Wachsenburg-Massiv-Haus-AG, a regionally important architecture and construction office , has settled in the village .
Culture and sights
Otto Knöpfer
Otto Knöpfer (1911–1993), one of the most famous painters in Thuringia, grew up in Holzhausen . In many of his pictures motifs from the area around his home town can be seen. In his honor, a 20 kilometer long hiking trail from Arnstadt to Wandersleben was named Otto Knöpfer hiking trail , which is part of the main hiking trail from Jena to Eisenach . In order to save Otto Knöpfer's parental home from deterioration, the Otto Knöpfer Freundeskreis e. V. founded. The house is now a museum with changing exhibitions, in which portraits of the painter and well-known landscapes are shown. A courtyard festival is held every year in honor of the artist.
Bratwurst Museum
After an Arnstadt local researcher found the earliest mention of the Thuringian grilled sausage with a certificate from 1404 in 2000 , the owners of the wooden houses restaurant Partyscheune felt called to build a museum in honor of the bratwurst. After a year of construction, the 1st German Bratwurst Museum was opened on May 28, 2006 on the western edge of Holzhausen . It is the first and only museum in the world that is explicitly dedicated to the subject of bratwurst. There is a permanent exhibition on the history of the bratwurst, its tradition and its cultural significance in social life in general and in particular with regard to the Thuringian bratwurst. There is also a pig family tree in the museum, which shows the development from the original wild boar to today's domestic pig breeds. At the initiative of the operators of the Bratwurst Museum, a two-meter-high and four-meter-long wooden sausage sculpture was inaugurated on November 17, 2006 with the completion of the conversion of the entrance to the town from the direction of Arnstadt. The newly created roundabout was popularly known as the Bratwurstkreisel .
Trinity Church
Holzhausen once had two churches, one of which, the Annenkirche, no longer existed before 1780. Today's Evangelical Trinity Church is the village church of Holzhausen.
Personalities
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Müffling (born May 14, 1742 in Holzhausen, Thuringia, † December 9, 1808 in Neisse) was a Prussian officer, most recently Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 49.
Web links
- Holzhausen page on a private homepage about the Wachsenburg community
- Information about Holzhausen on the municipality's website
- Website of the Bratwurst Museum
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Galletti: History and Description of the Duchy of Gotha , Gotha 1780, p. 322
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Holzhausen, municipality of Wachsenburg, Thuringia. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
- ^ Museums in the Wachsenburg Office in Thuringia. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .