Jüchsen

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Jüchsen
Municipality grave field
Coat of arms of Jüchsen
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 340 m above sea level NN
Area : 27.53 km²
Residents : 1523  (April 2, 2015)
Population density : 55 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 1, 2007
Postal code : 98631
Area code : 036947
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Location of Jüchsen in Grabfeld

Jüchsen is a village in the southern district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia . Since December 1, 2007, the formerly politically independent municipality has been part of the Grabfeld municipality . The Jüchse flows through the village .

history

On the Rittersrain, there are ten burial mounds on a west-facing peak near the Wachenbrunn and the Widderstatt settlement. They are graves from the Middle Bronze Age. From 1966 to 1981 excavations were carried out on an area of ​​1.2 hectares on the important settlement “Widderstatt” near Jüchsen. A settlement from the Hallstatt and Latène times, which dates from around 550 BC, was established. Ch. To 50 BC Ch. Was systematically examined.

The churchyard, located on a small hill, used to have a fortification, which was probably built to control the Jüchsetal and the Jüchse crossing, to monitor the road running from Themar to Mellrichstadt . Lords of Jüchsen were named as Ministerials of the Henneberger in 1150 and 1182 . The defensive wall of the church grounds was torn down in 1877.

The place was first mentioned under the name Gohhusia in 758 . The place originally belonged to the Zent Themar of the county of Henneberg . In the Henneberg main division in 1274, the two places Jüchsen and Neubrunn came from the Zent Themar to the Henneberg-Schleusingen line and were assigned to the Bailiwick of Henneberg, from which the Amt Maßfeld was later formed. In 1680 the place became part of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen .

Jüchsen was affected by extensive witch persecutions from 1607 to 1675. 24 women and five men were caught in witch trials , five women were burned and two women were beheaded. The outcome of ten trials is unknown. Barbara Krell died under torture. In their torture protocol it says: "Neck turned in torture by the evil enemy".

In the Topographia Franconiae published in Frankfurt am Main in 1648 it says about Jüchsen: How this place is called in a Frankfurt relation / and is set for a rich Henneberg area / so in the year 1621. almost completely burned down.

politics

District Council

The district council of Jüchsen consists of 8 other members in addition to the district mayor.

  • CDU 2 seats
  • SPD 1 seat
  • FW / SV / PG Jüchsen 5 seats

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

District Mayor

The honorary mayor of the Jüchsen district is Beate Heßler (FW / SV / PG Jüchsen). She was elected on June 7, 2009 and confirmed in office on May 25, 2014.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Jüchsen

Blazon : “In green with a golden heart shield with a red armored black hen on a black three-mountain, a golden bar, covered with a blue wave bar; above two golden rafters and below a golden rafter. The three triangles symbolize the three flour mills in the village that still exist today. The river “Jüchse” flows in the middle of the coat of arms. The hen, the heraldic animal, symbolizes the association with the Grafschaft Henneberg. "

Culture and sights

Views of Jüchsen

Juechsen Museum 2007-04-22 14.06.42.JPG
Museum, formerly a school
Juechsen Peter and Paul Church 1497-1638.jpg
Church of Peter and Paul
Half-timbered Juechsen 1.jpg
Half-timbered house
Half-timbered Juechsen 2.JPG
Half-timbered house
Juechsen parish hall.jpg
Parish hall

Museums

  • Local history museum in the former school
  • Celtic settlement Widderstadt

Personalities

  • Ernst Dahinten teacher, city archivist and museum director in Eisfeld , author of the book “History of Homeland. (Stadt und Amt Eisfeld) “Part 1 - 4, Eisfeld 1932–1938

Web links

Commons : Jüchsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Topographia Franconiae: Jüchsen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2007
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler : Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , pp. 228-229.
  3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 149.
  4. ↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , pp. 170 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Jüchsen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244 and p. 247, (at the same time: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
  5. ↑ Internet pages of the municipality of Grabfeld.