Kleinballhausen

Kleinballhausen Community Ballhausen Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 35 ″ E
Height :	162 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	99955
Area code :	036041
Location of Kleinballhausen in Thuringia

Kleinballhausen is a district of the municipality of Ballhausen in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .

geography

Kleinballhausen is located on the northern edge of the Unstrut lowland in the middle of the Thuringian Basin east of Bad Tennstedt . Both Kleinballhausen and Großballhausen are located close to each other on Landesstraße 3176 as neighboring districts.

history

Kleinballhausen was first mentioned in a document on July 7th, 1128. There was a castle with the same name near the manor house . 1258 another Eckhard von Kleinballhausen was named. Both the castle of Kleinballhausen and that of Großballhausen were pledged to the Archdiocese of Mainz in 1297 . At the end of the 19th century there were still remains of the castle. Now only trenches are visible. Klein- and Großballhausenen were located on an important old trade route that led through the valley of the Gera river from Arnstadt to here and further over the Hainleite .

Until 1815 Kleinballhausen belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Weißensee . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Weissensee in the administrative district of Erfurt the province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th The local estate, Schloss Kleinballhausen , was expropriated after 1945 in the course of the land reform and the land was divided between resettlers and poor farmers.

On July 1, 1950, Klein Ballhausen was combined with the neighboring Groß Ballhausen (each in the spelling at the time) to form the new municipality of Ballhausen .

traffic

The Kleinballhausen stop was on the Ballstädt – Straussfurt railway line . This has been shut down since 1999.

St. Aegidius Church
Relief in the church wall
Former lock
Coat of arms in the castle wall
Farm building of the former estate
Waidstein in Kleinballhausen

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 143.
↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 143.
^ The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900 .

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 143.

[2] Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 143.

[3] The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900 .