Jecha (Sondershausen)

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Jecha
District town Sondershausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 187 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 99706
Area code : 03632
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Location of the Jecha district
in Sondershausen
Jecha
Jecha
Church of St. Matthäi in Jecha (2014)

Jecha is a district of Sondershausen in the Kyffhäuserkreis , was first mentioned in a document on June 20, 1282 and was incorporated in 1950.

Geographical location

The village is located southeast of Sondershausen an der Wipper .

history

Documented names of the village are: Gicha, Giche, Jicha, Jiche. The place name was probably derived from the pagan deity Jecha , who had its main sanctuary on the nearby Frauenberg.

The highlight of the village is the small village church of St. Matthäi from the 13th century, which at times had not only Matthew , but also John as patron saint . The church itself is considered to be the oldest building still in use in Sondershausen. The church consists of a Romanesque tower choir, to which a late Gothic nave was added in 1476 . The dome of the tower has a pointed roof with four pointed roof bays . A gift from Prince Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was made in 1724 when he gave the community the altar table from the chapel of the Sondershäuser Castle . This is an alabaster sculpture decorated with figures and ornaments . This enriched the church, which already shone with a block altar and a baptismal font from the high Middle Ages . The church of Jecha was a branch of Sondershausen until 1653 .

There must once have been two devastation in the corridor of Jecha . One was the Alte Vorwerk, the other was handed down as an anchor code. By 1900, however, there were no more traces of either.

The Wipper, which flows past Jecha, was regulated in 1860. In the course of economic development in the 19th century, the Kyffhäuserbahn was opened in 1898 , which connected Sondershausen with Frankenhausen . Today, however, this route is idle, and after the rails were removed, a national cycle path was set up on its subgrade. At the same time, a porcelain factory was established, in which numerous residents found work. As a result, the population rose to around 1200 people. Until 1918 the place belonged to the rule of the principality Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Since the end of the 19th century, the village has grown steadily, approached the city of Sondershausen and was finally incorporated on July 1, 1950. Soon the cemetery, once located on the outskirts of the village, was in the middle of the village and was leveled in 1976. Only a memorial stone and a park-like area reminds of him.

literature

  • Friedrich Apfelstedt : Architectural and art monuments of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. First booklet: The subordination . Sondershausen: Bertram, 1886. Reprint: Arnstadt: Donhof, 1993; ISBN 3-86162-013-8 .
  • Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages up to 1300 . Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl, 2001; ISBN 3-934748-58-9 .
  • H. Röttig, W. Diez: Declaration of love to a city - Sondershausen. Pictures and stories . Sondershausen: Röttig picture archive, 2000.

Web links

Commons : Jecha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .