Krombach (Eichsfeld)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '  N , 10 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Ershausen / Geismar
Height :	350 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.19 km 2
Residents:	163 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37308
Area code :	036082
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 062
Association administration address:	Kreisstrasse 4 37308 Schimberg
Website :	www.ershausen-geismar.de
Mayor :	Guido King
Location of the municipality of Krombach in the Eichsfeld district

The Krombach Church

Krombach is a municipality in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative community Ershausen / Geismar .

location

View of Krombach with the Hühneberg

Krombach is located about nine kilometers south of the district town of Heilbad Heiligenstadt in the Südeichsfeld at the foot of the Obereichsfelder Höhe . The location is framed by the Höheberg (521 m) in the north-west, the Hopfgarten (480 m) in the north-east and the Hühneberg (452 m) in the south-west. The Krombach rises in the village and flows south into the Rosoppe in Ershausen . In terms of traffic, Krombach is connected to the surrounding villages of Bernterode and armaments via the L 2026 state road .

history

Krombach was first mentioned in a document in 1318. It belonged to the villages of the office of Bischofstein, which passed into Kurmainzer possession around 1400 . The first church building in Krombach is mentioned around 1450. The place belonged to Kurmainz until the secularization, from 1802 to 1945 it was part of the Prussian province of Saxony. 1945 to 1949 the place came under the Soviet occupation zone and was part of the GDR from 1949 . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, Krombach was affected by the closure of the nearby inner-German border. Since 1990 the place belongs to Thuringia.

From 1914 to 1947 Krombach was connected to the Heiligenstadt – Schwebda railway with its own train station.

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

1994: 215 1995: 222 1996: 219 1997: 222 1998: 223 1999: 225

2000: 227 2001: 225 2002: 217 2003: 228 2004: 218 2005: 214

2006: 210 2007: 202 2008: 202 2009: 205 2010: 206 2011: 192

2012: 188 2013: 188 2014: 189 2015: 179 2016: 172 2017: 169

2018: 162 2019: 163

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The Krombach local council consists of six council members.

• FFw voter community: 6 seats

(As of: local elections on June 7, 2009)

The 2014 local elections did not result in any change in the distribution of seats.

mayor

• The honorary mayor Guido König was elected on November 12, 2006. On January 6, 2013 the re-election took place with 93.6% of the votes.

Worth seeing

• St. Bartholomew's Church from 1873
• Lourdes grotto
• various hiking trails, including to the Dieteröder cliffs

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 7th, 2009. Elections for community and city council members. Preliminary results. (PDF; 1.9 MB) The State Returning Officer, accessed on March 7, 2010 . 
3. ↑ http://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=GW&wjahr=2014&habenErg=GEM&wknr=061&gemnr=61062
4. ↑ http://eichsfeld.tlz.de/web/eichsfeld/startseite/detail/-/specific/Guido-Koenig-erneut-zu-Krombachs-Buergermeister-gewaehlt-1904390282

Web links

Commons : Krombach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Krombach in the Ershausen-Geismar administrative community