Ifta
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Ifta
City of Treffurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '50 " N , 10 ° 10' 47" E
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| Height : | 235 m |
| Area : | 17.69 km² |
| Residents : | 1106 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 99830 |
| Area code : | 036926 |
 Location of Ifta in the urban area of Treffurt
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Ifta is a district of Treffurt in the Wartburg district in Thuringia ( Germany ). The small settlement Wolfmannsgehau belongs to Ifta .
geography
The location of Ifta is a street village , the place is just under two kilometers east of the border with Hesse . The community today consists of the two districts of Ifta and Wolfmannsgehau , a small settlement two kilometers northwest in a side valley. The main town of Ifta is about five kilometers west of Creuzburg and about fifteen kilometers northwest of Eisenach . Neighboring communities are Creuzburg in the east, Herleshausen in the south, Ringgau in the west and Treffurt in the northeast.
Ifta is already part of the Ringgau , the eastern foothills of which can be found near Creuzburg (Blaue Stirn) and Pferdsdorf ( Kielforst ). Ifta is embedded in a gentle hilly area of the Ifta valley , which is a western tributary of the Werra , and lies at about 235 m above sea level. NN . The highest peaks are the Dreiherrenstein ( 488.5 m above sea level ), the Hagenberg ( 414.6 m above sea level ), the Kehrberg ( 413.3 m above sea level ) and the Entenberg ( 375 m above sea level ). The Heldrastein ( 503.8 m above sea level ) is a landmark that can be seen from afar not far from the northern boundary of the district. The valleys Mertelstal , Melmental and Ölbachtal is used for agriculture (farming and dairy farming).
The former border strip at Ifta has a total length of around ten kilometers and is part of the German Green Belt Biotope Group .
history
The place Yfide was first mentioned in the summer of 1260 in a document from the Frauensee monastery . However, the place is much older, which can be proven by archaeological finds on the Ifta. The history of Ifta is closely interwoven with the neighboring town of Creuzburg and the office of Creuzburg , the residents of Ifta performed labor in the Creuzburg monastery courtyard in Ifta and on the Creuzburg. In the Middle Ages, Ifta was located on the busy avenue Lange Hessen , in Ifta it was also known as Heerweg . Above Ifta there was probably a watchtower on the waiting hill - it was used to monitor the road that had been used for centuries. During the Thirty Years War , Croats camped below the Entenberg in the Croatian Trench ; around 1637 they spread fear and terror on their raids in the Ringgau . Ifta's population also had to flee into the woods several times in order to survive. It was similar in the district of Wolfmannsgehau, a forest workers' settlement below the Heldrastein , still hidden in a side valley today. In 1640 there were 30 abandoned (desert) farms in Ifta, only one twelfth of the agricultural land was still usable; In Wolfmannsgehau the 4 farms had burned down, all the men were dead and the widows moved to the neighboring towns.
In the Middle Ages, the place had several mills, they were powered by the Klingborn , a strong bubbling spring in the bottom of the hole . Another source stream enabled the operation of the oil mill located on the Archfeld border. About 200 m east of Ifta, the Mühlbach for the Creuzburg mills was branched off at the weir corner , the ground monument is still visible over its entire length (about 5 km) in the area. Ifta's population was mainly active in agriculture, there were workshops and hostels in the village for the carters and traders who passed through. In the 19th century, tobacco growing and processing became indigenous to Ifta, and a small cigar factory was opened for this purpose.
In 1879, based on the 1875 census , statistical information on the town of Ifta was published for the first time. Ifta had 160 houses with 811 inhabitants that year. The size of the Iftaer Flur was 1247.4 ha of which farms and gardens 18.9 ha, meadows 102.6 ha, arable land 707.1 ha. Forest 345.7 ha, ponds, streams and rivers 2.0 ha, on paths, Trifte, wasteland and fruit plantations accounted for 70.9 hectares. The farms of the small settlement Wolfmannsgehau , which at that time did not belong to Ifta, were shown separately. The size of the Wolfmannsgehauer corridor was 222.9 ha of which courtyards and gardens 2.7 ha, meadows 4.1 ha, arable land 124.9 ha. Forest 87.0 ha, ponds, streams and rivers 0.0 ha, on paths, Trifte, wasteland and orchards accounted for 3.9 hectares. The livestock in the towns was also remarkable: Ifta had 68 horses, 383 cattle, 1039 sheep, 269 pigs and 74 goats; In Wolfmannsgehau there were 7 horses, 53 cattle, 94 sheep, 19 pigs and 4 goats. Ifta was identified as a wealthy place in this overview .
After 1945, the state forests on Entenberg and Heldrastein, which had previously been designated as state property, were added to the Ifta-Wolfmannsgehau corridor.
During the Second World War , 20 women and men, mostly Eastern workers , had to do forced labor in the agricultural sector in Ifta and Wolfmannsgehau . In August 1944, Georg Schwanz, a worker from Ifta, was executed as a looter in the Weimar Regional Court .
Between 1945 and 1989 Ifta was in the 5 km exclusion zone along the inner German border , a company of the border troops of the GDR , most recently the border regiment Mühlhausen - GR-1 " Eugen Leviné ", was stationed here. The district of Wolfmannsgehau was in the 500-meter protective strip and was accordingly specially guarded. Immediately on the state border on the Hessian side there was a US base (observation point) whose watchtower is currently still in place. In 1961, families who were considered politically unreliable were forcibly resettled in the GDR interior as part of the Kornblume campaign from the location only 2,000 m away from the border . Several families had been warned and were able to flee to Hessen.
From the 1990s Ifta belonged to the administrative community of Creuzburg , after its dissolution the administrative community of Hainich-Werratal . As part of the Thuringia regional reform in 2018 and 2019 , the municipality of Ifta and the city of Treffurt agreed to submit an application to the Free State of Thuringia to incorporate Iftas after Treffurt by January 1, 2019. The Thuringian state government included the project in the second law for the voluntary reorganization of municipalities belonging to the district, which was passed by the Thuringian state parliament on December 13, 2018 and came into force at the turn of the year 2018/19.
politics
Former councilor
The municipal council in Ifta finally consisted of twelve council members:
- FDP : 4 seats
- UWG Ifta: 5 seats
- FWG Ifta: 3 seats
(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )
Mayor 1990–2018
In the local elections on May 6, 1990 , Rüdiger Schwanz (FDP) was elected mayor of Ifta. In the local elections in 1999, Schwanz was replaced by his party friend Marko Wallstein. Wallstein resigned from office on December 31, 2013. Until the local elections in 2014, the official business was provisionally carried out by the previous councilor Wolfgang Uth. In the local elections on May 25, 2014 , Uth was elected honorary mayor. He received 63.1% of the votes and thus prevailed against the rider Rüdiger Schwanz. Uth led the community to Treffurt until it was incorporated.
District Mayor
After the incorporation, Uth acted as the district mayor . In the election on July 5, 2020, he was defeated by his competitor Michael Regenbogen, who received 76% of the votes and thus became the new local mayor.
Culture and sights
Action tree cross
The “ Tree Cross at Ifta ” was planted on November 16 and 17, 1990 with 140 trees on the former German-German border as a “start sculpture” for an avenue connecting West and East between Kassel and Eisenach . The tree cross consists of an avenue of ash trees on the former border strip, which crosses an avenue of lime trees along federal highway 7 , which connects Thuringia with Hesse. Between the three rows of ash trees is the border fence, one of the longest original parts in Germany. The “Tree Cross Action” tied in with Joseph Beuys's “ Extended Concept of Art ” , which he had linked to the “ 7000 Oaks ” project in Kassel. Every November since 1990, people from all over Germany have come to help promote the project. It has now grown to more than a thousand trees. Until 2014, the campaign was supported by the now deleted “Business and Art Enterprise - Enhanced”, then by the BUND Thuringia . The tree cross can be experienced and walked on at any time without major restrictions. There are also information boards here about the tree cross and the region.
Buildings
Ifta has a large inventory of historic half-timbered houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, including the Zum Roten Hirsch inn . In the center of the village is the Evangelical Trinity Church , a baroque hall building from 1714 with colorful furnishings. Next to the church are the municipal administration and the village square with a redesigned court table and next to the bus stop a newly planted linden tree on the Anger. The Wolfmannsgehau district also has a village green and an intact townscape. Not far from Ifta, a watchtower (4x4m floor space and 10m high) from the GDR era has been preserved as a memorial (this is privately owned and is administered and looked after by the fire brigade association), as well as a piece of border fence .
On the western edge of Ifta, opposite the sports field, is the former barracks of the border company - a standardized military building from the GDR era. The mill at Klingborn was torn down. The home sports club is SV Eintracht Ifta.
Natural monument
The Iftaer Klingborn is one of the most impressive karst springs in the Wartburg district.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The trade route Lange Hessen , also called Heerstrasse , ran through Ifta since the Middle Ages . Today it is a section of the federal highway 7 , which connects Kassel in the northwest via Ringgau, Creuzburg and Krauthausen with Eisenach in the southeast. Junction 37 ( Eisenach-West ) of the A 4 is located ten kilometers southeast of this road . On Red head begins B 250 and leads to the neighboring town of Treffurt. Ifta is the last Thuringian place on federal highway 7 before the Hessian state border and was one of the most frequented border crossings to Hesse from November 1989 . The district road K 500 leads into the district of Wolfmannsgehau .
Industry
In Ifta, the residents mostly found employment in agriculture and forestry as well as in the local tobacco factory. In the 1980s, on the western edge of the town, there was a small production site for circuit board assembly by VEB Mikroelektronik "Wilhelm Pieck" Mühlhausen , which after privatization in 1990 first became the largest employer in the town as Berthold Kühn GmbH and then moved to neighboring Krauthausen .
Today the location of the company Brand-Fenstertechnik GmbH is in the industrial area In der Silbergrube . The sawmill and carpentry Frank Hermann GmbH and an agricultural company (dairy farming) are located on the southern edge of the village .
media
Ifta is one of the few villages that still has a village radio that broadcasts news, information and updates from the village. At the fair , the speeches of the pastor and mayor are broadcast on the village radio so that they can be heard everywhere. At the beginning of an announcement, the song “ Old Comrades ” is played so that the residents' attention is drawn.
The Thüringer Allgemeine and Thüringische Landeszeitung are daily newspapers with local editorial offices in Eisenach and report regularly on the place.
literature
- Karl Louis Hesse: Ifta in the past and present. A contribution to the homeland and local history for everyone, but first of all for the residents of Ifta . Jacobi, Eisenach 1867.
- Else Krapf: Ifta, a small village in the Wartburgland . Ed .: Municipal administration Ifta. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1996, p. 260 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office: TK25 - sheet 4927 Creuzburg , Erfurt 1992, ISBN 3-86140-202-5 .
- ↑ Border hiking trail in the Wartburg region - Wolfmannsgehau. In: Wartburgkreis-Online. Archived from the original on January 15, 2011 ; Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mentions of Thuringian cities and villages up to 1300 . 1st edition, Erfurt 1996, p. 38, ISBN 3-931426-09-2
- ^ C. Kronfeld, Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879.
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 324 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
- ↑ Hartmut Kaczmarek: Under constant surveillance. Iftaers remember life in the restricted area. Thuringian regional newspaper, October 2, 2010
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 2, 2019
- ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 25, 2014. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 26, 2014 .
- ^ FDP Wartburgkreis ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 26, 2014
- ↑ Local elections 1999 - Thuringian State Office for Statistics , accessed on May 26, 2014
- ↑ Mayor Wallstein leaves Ifta , accessed on January 5, 2014
- ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics , accessed on May 26, 2013
- ↑ Jensen Zlotowicz: Michael Regenbogen clearly beats the incumbent in Ifta , Thüringer Allgemeine / Eisenacher Allgemeine, edition of July 6, 2020
- ↑ BUND - Tree Cross ; accessed on June 2, 2020
- ^ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , p. 32-33 .
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