Krayenberg community
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ' N , 10 ° 5' E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Wartburg district | |
| Height : | 250 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 31.63 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 5105 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 161 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 36460 | |
| Primaries : | 036963, 036969 (Kambachsmühle) | |
| License plate : | WAK, SLZ | |
| Community key : | 16 0 63 101 | |
| Community structure: | 6 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Bahnhofstrasse 11 OT Dorndorf 36460 Krayenberg community |
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| Mayor : | Ingo Jendrusiak | |
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The Krayenberggemeinde is a municipality in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The administrative seat is the district of Dorndorf . A good 5000 people live in the community. It is the only German municipality that has the term municipality in its name. The community is named after the Krayenberg .
geography
The community is located in the west of the Wartburg district. In the east of the municipality rises the conical Krayenberg with the ruins of the Krayenburg castle on the summit, but the summit is in the area of the neighboring town of Tiefenort . The northern hinterland is part of the Frauenseer Forest , the also wooded southern edge of the Werra Valley near Merkers and Dorndorf borders the northern foothills of the Rhön . The Felda flows into the Werra at Dorndorf . This natural access was used in the 19th century when the Feldabahn was built .
Due to the high groundwater level in the floodplains of the Werra, with frequent floods during the year, the agricultural areas are mainly spread along the moderately steep valley slopes. Pasture farming predominates. The previously used arable land on the heights was abandoned after 1900 by afforestation with spruce and beech. Considerable parts of the meadow landscape were placed under nature protection.
Neighboring communities
The Krayenberg municipality has the following neighboring municipalities: The district town of Bad Salzungen in the north and east, the municipality of Leimbach in the southeast, the district Stadtlengsfeld of the municipality of Dermbach in the south and the city of Vacha in the west.
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Community structure
The Krayenberg community consists of the districts Dorndorf (with the settlement Kirstingshof ), Dietlas , Merkers and Kieselbach (with the settlement Kambachsmühle ).
| District | Residents | |
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| Dietlas | 550 | |
| Dorndorf | 1800 | |
| Kambachsmühle | 30th | |
| Kieselbach | 1700 | |
| Kirstingshof | 30th | |
| Marker | 1500 |
history
The districts of today's Krayenberg community were first mentioned in a document between the 12th and 14th centuries. Dorndorf was already 786 as Thoranthorpf of Charlemagne the monastery Hersfeld been paid.
In the late 19th century the industrialization of the until then rural region began. In 1878 the region was initially connected to the railway network with narrow gauges, from 1899 potash shafts were sunk at Dietlas, Merkers and Dorndorf. In the 20th century, the municipality developed as part of the Werra potash district into a center of potash mining with shafts and factories in Dorndorf and Merkers; the former winding towers and spoil heaps still characterize the landscape in the vicinity of Merkers.
In 1994 Dorndorf and Dietlas united to form a single community, as did Merkers and Kieselbach.
On December 31, 2013, the Krayenberg community was formed from the merger of the communities of Dorndorf and Merkers-Kieselbach .
politics
Municipal council
After the local elections in Thuringia in 2019, the local council of the Krayenberg community consists of 20 councilors.
- CDU : 7 seats
- SPD : 3 seats
- DIE LINKE : 3 seats
- FDP : 2 seats
- Free community of voters : 5 seats
(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )
mayor
The non-party full-time mayor Ingo Jendrusiak was elected on May 25, 2014.
Parish partnership
In 1990 a partnership agreement was signed between the communities of Philippsthal in Hesse and the former community of Dorndorf, now part of the Krayenberg community.
Attractions
- Merkers adventure mine in the Merkers district
- Andreas-Fack-Haus , birthplace of the Rhönlied poet Andreas Fack in the Merkers district, today a museum
- Feldeck Castle in the Dietlas district
- Kieselbacher Church
Adventure mine
Andreas Fack House
Feldeck Castle
Kieselbacher Church
Natural monuments
Several trees in the district are designated as natural monuments :
- Hanging oak at the Upper Kirstingshof
- Kirsting oak in the cherry base
- Lutherlinde in Kieselbach
- Court oak at the colony in Dorndorf
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The municipal area was once a focus of the potash industry in the Werra potash district . Shafts have been in the communities of Dietlas, Dorndorf and Merkers since the beginning of the 20th century. The potash works in Dorndorf and Merkers were among the largest potash works of their time. At the location of the Dietlas potash mine, which was shut down before the Second World War, a factory for mining machines was built, which gained great importance during the GDR as VEB Bergwerksmaschinen Dietlas . The potash shafts and works in Dorndorf and Merkers were shut down until 1993 and then largely demolished. Only part of the Merkers factory has been preserved as the Merkers adventure mine .
Today there is an industrial area on the former Merkers potash works. A recycling company has set up shop on a former potash heap on the eastern outskirts of Dorndorf and a wood processing company is located on the western outskirts of Dorndorf. The former mining machine factory in the Dietlas district was completely demolished in 2013 to make room for a solar system.
traffic
The high volume of traffic on federal highway 62 , which is seen as a burden, especially in the historical locations of Merkers and Dorndorf, is seen as a disadvantage for the community today . In addition, the federal road 84, which runs from Eisenach through Kieselbach, joins the village of Dorndorf and runs together with the B62 in the direction of Vacha and Geisa . An earlier section of the federal road 285 runs as a state road from Dorndorf via Dietlas into the southern Wartburg district towards Stadtlengsfeld , Dermbach and Kaltennordheim .
Dorndorf was once a railway junction of the Feldabahn , which branched off from the Bad Salzungen – Vacha railway at Dorndorf (Rhön) station. In addition to the Dorndorf train station, there were stops for passenger traffic in the districts of Dietlas and Merkers. Today there is still freight traffic on a section of the former works railway to the Merkers industrial park. The former route to Vacha is used by the wood processing company on the western outskirts of Dorndorf.
Personalities
- Otto Herbig (1889–1971), painter and lithographer, born in Dorndorf
- Andreas Fack (1863–1931), poet, born in Merkers
- Martin Iffarth (* 1957), soccer player, born in Merkers
- Günther Deilmann (1904–2002), doctor and obstetrician, born in Dortmund, honorary citizen of Merkers and died there
literature
- Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. Nature and landscape . In: Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . tape 7 . Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 24-30 .
- District Office Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Wartburgkreis - Thuringia . LieDesign Suhl, Bad Salzungen 2008, p. 120 .
- Merkers-Kieselbach municipality (ed.): Commemorative publication for the local jubilee 850 years Kieselbach . Merkers-Kieselbach 2005, p. 62 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ^ Administration in Dorndorf
- ↑ Until 2012 there was still the Wachsenburg community , but it was merged into the newly founded community of Amt Wachsenburg .
- ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the communities Dietlas and Dorndorf of March 17, 1994 (GVBl. P. 387)
- ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Kieselbach and Merkers of January 20, 1994 (GVBl p. 234), a) § 5 amended by ordinance of April 6, 1994 (GVBl. P. 410)
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 12/2013 p. 354 , accessed on October 16, 2016
- ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 25, 2014. Mayoral elections. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 26, 2014 .
- ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 50 ff.
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