Kirchworbis

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '  N , 10 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Eichsfeld-Wipperaue
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.45 km 2
Residents:	1308 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	240 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37339
Area code :	036074
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 058
Website :	www.kirchworbis.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Benisch ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Kirchworbis in the Eichsfeld district

Kirchworbis is a municipality in the Eichsfeld-Wipperaue administrative community in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

geography

Kirchworbis is located in the Eichsfeld basin south of the Langenberg ( 462.5  m above sea  level ), a foothill of the Ohmgebirge . The Wipper flows south in front of the village . The place is only two kilometers southeast of the former district town of Worbis and is closely connected with it. The former B 80 runs through Kirchworbis . In the neighboring village of Breitenworbis there is a slip road to the A 38 (Südharzautobahn) .

history

Kirchworbis is first mentioned in 1209 as Kirchworvece and is an old church village. The place reappears a second time almost thirty years later, this time under the names Kirchworbeze and Kirchworveze . It is considered certain that the second part of the name is of Slavic origin and can be derived from the word wrba (willow). Accordingly, the place was laid out by the Wends at the time of the Great Migration , after they had moved into the area abandoned by the Germanic tribes. Already in 1055 the Wends settled in the area of ​​today's Eichsfeld. To distinguish between the three places Worbis , Breitenworbis and the desert Hugenworbis , the village of Kirchworbis was named. It is assumed that Kirchworbis is of older origin or that the church occupied a higher rank. With the second mention in 1238, it then appears as a parish village, because the document speaks of a Hunoldus, vicarius in Kirchworveze , who appeared as a witness. In the jurisdiction book of the Martinus Foundation from 1675 it is mentioned that the provost of the Martinus Foundation in Heiligenstadt was the patron of the parish church of St. Martin. It is possible that Heiligenstadt had had sovereignty over the parish village since 1276, when Archbishop Ruthard awarded the provost of the monastery five parish churches, although Kirchworbis was not explicitly mentioned. It belonged to the secularization to Kurmainz and in 1802 Prussian. After brief membership of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Kirchworbis was part of the Prussian province of Saxony until 1945 . The parish church was rebuilt in 1913.

During the Second World War , more than 100 women and men from Poland and the Ukraine had to do forced labor in agriculture and in the Rhode knitting mill from 1940 .

1945 to 1949 the place came under the Soviet occupation zone and was part of the GDR from 1949 . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, the place was close to the inner-German border. In 2002 the Valentinus Chapel was restored.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 1,501 1995: 1,522 1996: 1,542 1997: 1,531 1998: 1,533 1999: 1,539

2000: 1,512 2001: 1,497 2002: 1,506 2003: 1,499 2004: 1,499 2005: 1,485

2006: 1,458 2007: 1,425 2008: 1,416 2009: 1,400 2010: 1,381 2011: 1,387

2012: 1,373 2013: 1,345 2014: 1,342 2015: 1,345 2016: 1,326 2017: 1,335

2018: 1,329 2019: 1,308

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The parish council of Kirchworbis is made up of 12 council women and councilors.

• CDU : 12 seats

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

mayor

The honorary mayor Wolfgang Benisch (CDU / citizens' movement) was re-elected on June 5, 2016.

Attractions

Interior view of the Church of St. Martin in Kirchworbis

• St. Martins Church
• The Valentine's Chapel is a former pilgrimage chapel.
• In the hallway there is a Marian grotto as a place of worship.

The listed half-timbered houses and mills of Kirchworbis include:

• The Obere Ippmühle is said to have existed since the 14th century. It was in operation until 1979, and has been rebuilt or renewed several times. The property is used commercially.
• The Lower Ippmühle in the immediate vicinity of the Upper Ippmühle was also called Huckemühle after an owner . It operated as a grinding mill until 1969.
• The Riethmühle is isolated from the village. It was mostly an oil and hammer mill. The mill began to be rebuilt around 1906, and an engineer wanted to use it to build an electrical power plant for generating electricity. The mill wheel was shut down in 1960.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Konrad Wilhelm Strecker (1690–1765), lawyer
• Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1830–1916), classical philologist
• Josef Ständer (1894–1976), doctor and politician (NSDAP, MdR)

literature

• Philipp Knieb: Chronicle of Kirchworbis . In: Association f. Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde eV, association "Goldene Mark" Untereichsfeld eV (Ed.): Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch . tape 7 . Mecke, Duderstadt 1999, p. 138-184 .
• Werner Fischer among others: Kirchworbis. A village in the mirror of time. A home book. Kirchworbis 2008, 497 pages

Web links

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

• www.eichsfeld-wipperaue.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Johann Wolf: Political history of the Eichsfeldes explained with documents, Volume 1 . Rosenbusch, Göttingen 1792, p. 33 .
3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 39 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
4. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 29, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Volker Große, Klaus Herzberg: Mills in the Obereichsfeld . In: Maik Pinkert (Ed.): A compendium . Eichsfeld-Verlag, Heiligenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-935782-13-5 , p. 218-225 .