Kettmannshausen

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Kettmannshausen
City of Arnstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 412 m
Area : 2.01 km²
Residents : 95  (2004)
Population density : 47 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 25, 1994
Incorporated into: Wipfratal
Postal code : 99310
Area code : 036207
Village church
Village church

Kettmannshausen is a district of the city of Arnstadt in the Ilm district ( Thuringia ).

location

The district road 7 runs through the village. Kettmannshausen is about 1 km north of Wipfra .

The striking Gottlobsberg near Kettmannshausen is a reminder of the cultic significance in this area.

history

Kettmannshausen is first mentioned in a document in 1450. W. Kahl proves that Kettmannshausen was first mentioned in documents from 1360-1366.

The Vicarie Chapel of St. Nicolaus was built in 1180. The lower wall of the church and the apse date from the Romanesque period. In the roof turret, which was built in 1768, there is a small bell with the year 1491.

The place Kettmannshausen, which was an exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha in the Blackburg suzerainty , originally belonged to the Lords of Witzleben zu Liebenstein . Around 1726 he came to the privy council director Johann Friedrich II. Bachoff von Echt . Chamberlain and Colonel August von Berbisdorf bought it from his heirs . From 1858 the place belonged to the district office of Ohrdruf in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha . Since 1920 the place belongs to the state of Thuringia .

economy

In 1997 the “Solardorf Kettmannshausen” initiative was launched in Kettmannshausen. Numerous houses in the village were equipped with solar cells; In addition, there are educational and information events on the subject of renewable energies .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Jenzig-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 140.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad-Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 140.
  3. ↑ Johann Friedrich II. Bachoff von Echt on p. Xxiii below

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