Köttendorf
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Köttendorf
Mellingen municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 22 ′ 8 ″ E
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| Height : | 290 m | |
| Postal code : | 99441 | |
| Area code : | 036453 | |
Location of Köttendorf in Thuringia |
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 Town view from the south
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Köttendorf is a district of Mellingen in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . Since parts of the place have fallen in desolation, Köttendorf is to be regarded as partial desertification .
location
The hamlet of Köttendorf is located south of Federal Motorway 4 and is connected to Mellingen, which is north of the Federal Motorway, by a local road. The hamlet is in the middle of the Feldmark. It was and is characterized by agriculture.
history
The village was first mentioned in a document on April 4, 1253. On the north-western edge of the partial desert Köttendorf are the remains of a high medieval castle (Burg Köttendorf). It is a former high moth ( tower hill castle ). The heavily disturbed castle hill has a rounded-square shape, only 2 m high, and approx. 20 m in diameter. It is surrounded by a ditch with an exposed wall, especially in the east that has been removed, with the remains of another ditch. A bastion with connecting walls to the castle hill is said to have been built in 1683. In the aforementioned documentary first mention in 1253 an "R. Hermann von Cotendorf ”and in 1395“ Hof und Dorf Kotendorf ”mentioned. With the court the aristocratic seat should have been meant.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Archaeological hiking trail: Das Mittlere Ilmtal , 1997, Thuringian State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation, Weimar.
- ^ 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. 152.
- ^ Archaeological hiking trail: Das Mittlere Ilmtal , 1997, Thuringian State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation, Weimar.