Hopfgarten (Grammetal)

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Hopfgarten
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 11 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 235 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.11 km²
Residents : 673  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 74 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2019
Postal code : 99428
Area code : 03643
Hopfgarten (Thuringia)
Hopfgarten

Location of Hopfgarten in Thuringia

Hopfgarten is a district of the rural community Grammetal in the west of the Weimarer Land district . It is also the place of origin of the Thuringian noble family of the Lords of Hopffgarten .

geography

The place is in the Grammetal at the foot of the Wartberg and has a stop of the Thuringian Railway (Erfurt – Weimar). The agricultural reservoir of the Hopfgarten dam is located in the municipality.

history

Evangelical village church, 2010

Hopfgarten was first mentioned in a document in 842 as "Hophgarto" in the registers of the imperial abbey of Fulda . In 1226 the place appears as a Hoefgarten. Today it is assumed that the name is derived from Hoppegartyn (= mare enclosure).

A castle site is located in the lowlands of the Gramme and is considered the ancestral seat of the Lords of Hopffgarten , named from 1247 , the castle is said to have been destroyed as early as 1303. Originally, the village was under the rule of the County of Vieselbach , but in 1286 it passed to the city ​​of Erfurt conditionally and finally after the Thuringian Count War in 1343 . They built a solid round tower there as a watch tower . The parish can be traced for the first time in 1329. The first Protestant pastor came to Hopfgarten in 1579. The classical Hopfgarten village church was built in 1834.

From 1815 the place was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ( Amt Vieselbach ) and after 1945 with the state of Thuringia it became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Since 1990 the place belongs to the newly founded state of Thuringia.

On December 31, 2019, the community of Hopfgarten merged with other communities to form the rural community of Grammetal. The administrative community Grammetal , to which all municipalities belonged, was dissolved at the same time.

politics

Former councilor

The local council in Hopfgarten consisted of eight council members, who were elected by proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The last distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice CDU SPD Riding breeding and driving club Fire Brigade Association Hopfgarten eV total
2019 1 2 3 2 8 seats

Former mayor

The last mayor of Hopfgarten was Roland Bodechtel, who was first elected on June 6, 2010. In the mayoral election on June 5, 2016, his office was confirmed.

coat of arms

Hopfgarten's coat of arms shows a linden tree surrounded by two hop poles.

Attractions

  • The watch tower on a small hill is a solid, 20 meter high round tower. The lower part dates from the 14th, the upper part from the 16th century. The tower has a round arched entrance with the Erfurt coat of arms. The tower was part of the system of observation towers that the city of Erfurt built around itself.

memorial

Family coat of arms

Personalities

Others

Hopfgarten is part of a series of pictures by Lyonel Feininger , who painted parts of the site during his stay at the Bauhaus Weimar. Among other things, he created the picture Hopfgarten, 1920 .

Hopfgarten stop (2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 142 .
  2. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on January 7, 2020
  3. ↑ State Returning Officer : Elections in Thuringia May 26th, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Hopfgarten (Thuringia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files