Kleinwerther

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Kleinwerther
municipality Werther
Kleinwerther coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 47 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 20"  E
Height : 187 m
Incorporation : January 1, 1997
Postal code : 99735
Area code : 03631
Kleinwerther (Thuringia)
Kleinwerther

Location of Kleinwerther in Thuringia
Gutsschloss Klein-Werther (19th century)
Castle in Kleinwerther (2013)
Evangelical Church of St. Philip in Kleinwerther

Kleinwerther is a district of the municipality Werther in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

geography

The district of Kleinwerther is located in the valley of the Helme and borders on the Goldene Aue in the southeast . The district town of Nordhausen is about two kilometers to the east. The country road 3080 (formerly the Kassel street) runs northwards through the district and right on the district over. Now it is relieved by the roughly parallel federal motorway 38 . To the east of the village, the Wolkramshausen - Nordhausen railway line cuts through the district.

history

On 25/26 July 1184 was classified worthy first mentioned. But a documentary mention of Werther from 1093 also refers to Kleinwerther.

The name Werther means island in North Germany and can be explained in connection with the drainage of the surrounding land by monks from the Walkenried monastery in the 12th century.

In Kleinwerther, on the site of the preserved castle of the former manor, there was a moated castle , which was built in the 11th century and destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. Three barrel cellars under the still existing manor house and remains of the moat still bear witness to the facility. The Lords of Werthern were mentioned in a document in 1209. The comments on Werther provide information about events during the Third Reich .

There are still a few grave monuments in the old cemetery Kleinwerther, such as that of the Nebelung family. A memorial for those who fell in World War I was erected by the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . A memorial from the time after the fall of the Wall commemorates the victims of the Second World War .

Kleinwerther today

In addition to agriculture, handicrafts were and are decisive in the town. On January 1st, 1997, the places Großwechselungen , Günzerode , Haferungen , Immenrode , Kleinwechselungen , Mauderode and Pützlingen were incorporated into Werther. The community also includes Flarichsmühle , Schern , Schate and, since 2015, Fronderode .

The seat of the community is Großwerther .

Attractions

  • Church of St. Philip : Evangelical parish church. The tower with its 35 meters height by far towers over all other buildings of Kleinwerther. Its top is completed by a Welsche hood from the 18th century. Inside the church is the tomb of Philipp von Werther, the builder of the church, and his wife Anna († 1577).
  • Castle of the former manor (former ancestral seat of the von Werthern family )
  • Old graveyard

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 148
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 273

Web links

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