Langenfeld (Bad Salzungen)

Langenfeld City of Bad Salzungen Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 36 ″ E
Height :	301 (297-314) m
Postal code :	36433
Area code :	03695
	Langenfeld in the south of the urban area
	The church in Langenfeld

Langenfeld is a district of the city of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Langenfeld is located immediately southwest of Bad Salzungen. The federal road 285 , which connects Bad Salzungen in a southerly direction with Dermbach , Kaltennordheim and Mellrichstadt , runs through the village . Geographically, the district is located at the foot of the north-eastern slope of the Rhön at 300 m above sea level. NN .

history

The place name has changed over the centuries. For a long time the village was also called Lengsfeld. Langenfeld was first mentioned in a document on February 13, 1297. The church was built in the 14th century. From this time on, the Thuringian landgraves had feudal rights in Salzungen. They promoted the intensification of the economy and thus also agriculture through further land development and the registration of settlements. The proximity to the city of Bad Salzungen and the Werra river, as well as the forests, had a decisive influence on the life of the rural population.

Trivia

Facebook users came across Langenfeld in 2015 when they entered the search term “Germany” and then clicked on “Deutschland (Germany)”. Due to an algorithm error, Germany was mistakenly linked as Langenfeld. Suddenly the Cologne Cathedral , Frankfurt Airport and Berlin's KaDeWe were located in Langenfeld . Almost everyone of their own Facebook friends had apparently already visited the place, which had already received 2.5 million likes . Facebook made a similar mistake in 2017 with the city of Bielefeld .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
^ 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. 157.
↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 218.
↑ Curious Langenfeld error confused on Facebook at welt.de on May 6, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2019.

[TK10-2-1] Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.

[2] 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. 157.

[3] Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 218.

[4] Curious Langenfeld error confused on Facebook at welt.de on May 6, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2019.