Kirchheilingen

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′  N , 10 ° 42 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Unstrut-Hainich district
Management Community :	Bad Tennstedt
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.67 km 2
Residents:	800 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99947
Area code :	036043
License plate :	UH, LSZ, MHL
Community key :	16 0 64 033
Address of the municipal administration:	Brühl 130 e 99947 Kirchheilingen
Website :	www.kirchheilingen.de
Mayor :	Jan Behner
Location of the municipality of Kirchheilingen in the Unstrut-Hainich district

Kirchheilingen is a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia ( Germany ).

geography

Kirchheilingen is located ten kilometers northeast of Bad Langensalza , in a valley basin in the Heilinger Heights . The community belongs to the Bad Tennstedt administrative community . The administrative seat is in the city of Bad Tennstedt .

St. Bonifatii Church (2011)

history

The first record comes from the year 833. The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Langensalza until 1815 and after its cession to Prussia from 1816 to 1944 to the district of Langensalza in the province of Saxony .

In 1913 a private Langensalza small railway was built by house summer residents to Langensalza via Kirchheilingen. This was completely dismantled in 1967 from Haussummer to Kirchheilingen and in 1969.

politics

Municipal council

2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result

District 064 Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Municipality 64033 Kirchheilingen

Eligible voters 683
voters 415
Turnout 60.76%
Invalid votes 8
Valid votes 407
Valid votes 2584
Seats to be allocated 8

No.	Nomination	be right	Seats	%
1	Alliger, Ronny (Free Voting Authority Kirchheilingen)	337	1	13.0
2	Steger, Carsten (Free Voting Authority Kirchheilingen)	286	1	11.1
3	Bergfeld, Guntram (Free Voting Authority Kirchheilingen)	280	1	10.8
4th	Weber, Axel (Free Voting Association Kirchheilingen)	281	1	10.9
5	Giese, Stephan (Free Voters, Kirchheilingen)	221	1	08.6
6th	Kühnhold, Rainer (Free Voting Association Kirchheilingen)	253	1	09.8
7th	Reinländer, Stefan (Free Voting Authority Kirchheilingen)	256	1	09.9
8th	Köhler, Andre (Free Voting Authority Kirchheilingen)	221	1	08.6
9	other	449	-	17.4

Source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

mayor

The honorary mayor Jan Behner was elected on June 5, 2016.

economy

22 wind turbines were built on the Heilinger Heights in the vicinity of the village . The community participates in the profits of the owners of the facilities.

In Kirchheilingen is located in a former gas field in 900 m depth , a natural gas underground storage facilities of VNG Gas Storage GmbH with an available working gas volume of 190 million cubic meters.

Culture and sights

West of the village border behind the gorge is a Bronze Age burial mound with subsequent burials.

Museums

• Village museum,
• Small Railway Museum

Churches

• Boniface Church

Personalities

• Johann Anton Wilhelm Geßner (1771–1830), philosopher

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result . Thuringian State Office for Statistics. Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
3. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016. Accessed July 7, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Underground gas storage in Germany . In: ERDÖL NATURAL GAS COAL . tape 134 , no. 11 , 2018, p. 410-417 ( PDF ).
5. ↑ 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 , p. 188.
6. ^ Carl von Prantl :  Geßner, Johann Anton Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 106 f.

Web links

Commons : Kirchheilingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Website of the Bad Tennstedt administrative association