Jützenbach
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Jützenbach
Rural community of Sonnenstein
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| Height : | 232 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 8.67 km² |
| Residents : | 544 (Dec. 31, 2010) |
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 1, 2011 |
| Postal code : | 37345 |
| Area code : | 036072 |
 Location of Jützenbach in Sonnenstein
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 Town center
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Jützenbach is a village in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld . Since December 1, 2011, the formerly independent municipality has been part of the rural municipality of Sonnenstein .
history
Jützenbach is mentioned for the first time in the Richardis document in 1124 and was one of the monastery villages of the Benedictine Abbey of Gerode Monastery . The sovereign was Kurmainz until the secularization . From 1815 to 1945 the place was then part of the Prussian province of Saxony .
From 1945 Jützenbach was part of the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 part of the GDR . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, the place was close to the inner-German border. Jützenbach has been part of the newly founded state of Thuringia since 1990.
On December 1, 2011, the community of Jützenbach merged with the seven other communities of the Eichsfeld-Südharz administrative community to form the rural community of Sonnenstein.
Population development
Development of the population (December 31) :
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- Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
mayor
The last honorary mayor before the incorporation of Bernward Brodhun (CDU) was re-elected on June 6, 2010.
coat of arms
Blazon : “In red diagonally left divided by a silver wave bar; in front a silver bishop's cap, behind a silver six-spoke wheel. "
Attractions
- Church “St. John the Baptist ”, built in 1907 as a basilica with a transept in neo-Gothic style, the tower, however, is from the beginning of the 14th century. Church with side altars, baroque altar and pieta (from the Gerode monastery church). The baroque altar was made after 1907 from the elements of the altar of the previous church. The angels, the columns and the Johanness bowl are elements of the altar, which was made around 1695. Further elements are located inside the church on the tower.
- Wayside shrines in Himmeltal, on Neue Strasse and on Hinterstrasse
- numerous listed half-timbered houses in the town center
traffic
Jützenbach is on the Bleicherode – Herzberg railway line . This has now been shut down.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Harry Böseke (1950–2015), writer
- Father Johannes Hotze (1886–?), Lazarist father, was among other things professor for church history and Christian social teaching at the seminary in San Jose in Costa Rica
literature
- Benno Baues, Helga Zinke, Martina Monecke, Daniel Gatzemeier: Jützenbach - Festschrift for the 875th anniversary 1124-1999 . Jützenbach community.
- Christoph Schmidt: The Catholic parish church “St. John the Baptist ”at Jützenbach . Mecke, Duderstadt 2007, p. 96 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1 to December 31, 2011
- ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 6, 2010. Elections for community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 6, 2010 .