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View of the Helderbachtal, Kleintöpfer was in the center of the picture

The former village of Kleintöpfer was a small settlement on the Hessian-Thuringian border and belonged to the town of Treffurt in the Wartburg district until it was forced to give up in 1964 . The named place Großtöpfer is located barely 10 kilometers (as the crow flies) northwest near Geismar in Obereichsfeld .

location

The creek called Heldrabach in its lower course , but otherwise known on the maps as Haselbach, flows into the Werra at Heldra . On its lower reaches, this small river created a breakthrough valley barely three hundred meters wide between the Mainzer Köpf ( 447  m above sea level ), the Töpferberg (Treffurt) ( 290.3  m above sea level ) and the Adolfsburg ( 378.7  m above sea level) ) at Treffurt. In the center of this side valley, only 300 meters from the national border, was the Kleintöpfer estate and the brickworks of the same name . Downstream was the Kleintöpfer mill, followed on the Hessian side, only a few steps away the field mill - the last remnant of the Helderbach desert - both were grinding mills . At Kleintöpfer the Walsbach flows into the Heldrabach. The places mentioned belonged to the same national territories until the founding of the GDR : Ganerbschaft Treffurt, Kingdom of Westphalia , Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire.

history

At the former "Haltpunkt Normannstein" (2008)
Boundary stone between Kleintöpfer and Heldra

The town of Kleintöpfer was first mentioned on December 20, 1195 (see: Dobecker Vol. II No. 989).

The village of Kleintöpfer fell in 1333 when the Treffurt property was distributed to the feudal lord Landgrave Heinrich II (the Iron) of Hesse. Its owner at the time was a Ludolf von Gerterode , who sold small potters in 1340 to a knight from Baumbach . After the Thirty Years War , the destroyed village was continued as a manor. Not until 1723 was the General Office of the Ganerbschaft, Treffurt, instructed to unite the district of the village of Kleintöpfer with the town of Treffurt . Since that time, this Baumbach estate has been one of the seven noble estates located in the city of Treffurt. The earliest cartographic representation of Kleintöpfer can be found on the overview map made in 1615 to describe the office of the outline of the whole common Ganerbschaff Trefurt, including the neck and the adjacent Chur and Princely Gränitzen in 1615 . Since 1888 the estate belonged to the family of a Baron von Scharfenberg .

The railway line Mühlhausen – Treffurt operated from 1911 to 1952 enabled the commercial use of the clay deposits stored at Kleintöpfer by building a brick factory. The Normannstein stop, required for the removal, was only about 1500 meters away. The Wendehausen-Feldmühle-Treffurt section, which crossed the inner-German border twice, was dismantled by around 1960. Today the Unstrut-Werra cycle path is on the former railway line .

Kleintöpfer fell victim to the GDR's border policy in 1964 ; the brickworks, the estate and the Vorwerk Karnberg on the Karnberg were demolished. With effect from June 3, 1964, the Erfurt District Assembly approved the incorporation of the Kleintöpfer district, city of Treffurt, with an area of ​​599.86 hectares into the Wendehausen community, Mühlhausen district .

In the meantime, the nearby field mill on the Hessian side no longer exists; she was burned down while filming the film The Willi Busch Report .

literature

  • Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989. A documentation . Ed .: Episcopal Commissariat Heiligenstadt. Heiligenstadt 2006, ISBN 3-935782-09-8 , Kleintöpfer (Gut, Ziegelei, Mühle), p. 256 .
  • Wilhelm Knabe, Helmut Grimm: Treffurt - Walk through history and present . Ed .: City administration Treffurt. Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach, S. 6-16, 53, 61-63 ([n.d.]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Große, Klaus Herzberg: Treffurt, Mühle Kleintöpfer . In: Maik Pinkert (Ed.): Mühlen im Obereichsfeld. A compendium . Eichsfeld-Verlag, Heiligenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-935782-13-5 , p. 323 .
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian cities and villages up to 1300. A manual . Ed .: Thr. State center for political education. Erfurt 1996, ISBN 3-931426-09-2 , p. 125 .
  3. ^ Walter Heinemeyer : The history of Hesse and Thuringia in the 16th century ... In: Historical Commission for Hesse (Hrsg.): Hesse and Thuringia - from the beginnings to the Reformation. An exhibition by the state of Hesse . Catalog. Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-89258-018-9 , pp. 256-257 .
  4. ^ Paul Lauerwald: The railway in the Eichsfeld. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1988, p. 57.
  5. ^ Gerhard Günther: On the territorial development of the Mühlhausen district . In: Mühlhausen museums (ed.): Mühlhäuser contributions . Volume 2, 1979, pp. 64-70, 127-128 .
  6. ↑ HO: We remember: "Gut Kleintöpfer" . In: Courier from Heldrastein to Inselsberg . March 12, 1993, p. 1 .

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