Langenorla

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Orla district
Management Community :	Oppurg
Height :	185 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.58 km 2
Residents:	1241 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07381
Area code :	03647
License plate :	SOK, LBS, PN, SCZ
Community key :	16 0 75 054
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Am Türkenhof 5 07381 Oppurg
Website :	www.gemeinde-langenorla.de
Mayor :	Lars Fröhlich
Location of the municipality of Langenorla in the Saale-Orla district

Langenorla is a municipality in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . It consists of the districts Langendembach , Kleindembach and Langenorla with a total of about 1,500 inhabitants on an area of ​​22.71 km². The northern border of the municipality also forms part of the border with the Saale-Holzland district .

geography

The community is located in the Orlatal in the southern foothills of the northern red sandstone foreland of the Thuringian Slate Mountains . The districts of Langenorla and Kleindembach are located in the Orla valley itself, while Langendembach lies a little further to the east in the narrow valley of the Floßbach, which flows into the Orla in Kleindembach . At an average height of 265 m, Langendembach is about 80 m above the remaining districts. The community is surrounded by mountains up to 400 m high.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (in the Saale-Holzland district) Freienorla , Hummelshain , Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf and (in the Saale-Orla district) Neustadt an der Orla , Lausnitz , Oppurg , the town of Pößneck and Krölpa .

history

Langenorla was first mentioned on June 18, 1123, Kleindembach 1366 and Langendembach on November 11, 1299. From 1572 the municipality belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar due to the division of Erfurt . 31 years later, in 1603, it fell to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . From 1672 to 1826 it was the territory of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . From 1826 until the founding of Thuringia in 1920, Langenorla was again part of Saxony-Altenburg. With the territorial reform in 1922, the municipality was added to the Saalfeld district.

Church in Langenorla with a war memorial

Neo-Romanesque village church in Langendembach

Church in Kleindembach

Memorial to the victims of the Second World War in Langenorla

In April 1945 the area was occupied by the US Army , which was replaced by the Red Army in early July . It went along with all social changes in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR , including expropriations and collectivization of agriculture.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Kleindembach and Langendembach were incorporated.

In 1952 the state of Thuringia was dissolved and divided into the districts of Gera , Erfurt and Suhl , and a new regional reform was carried out. From this point on, the community area belonged to the Pößneck district , which in 1994 became part of the Saale-Orla district .

Due to the abundance of forests in the municipality, the processing of wood has a long tradition. Until the middle of the 20th century, wood was felled in the forest east of Langendembach, among other things, and rafted to the sawmill in Langenorla using the raft brook, which was named after it .

In the 1980s, the bed of the raft brook was partly framed with concrete and widened for the purpose of flood protection , as it runs in parts in the middle of the settlement area.

Population development

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

1994: 1645 1995: 1720 1996: 1706 1997: 1661 1998: 1669 1999: 1525

2000: 1527 2001: 1513 2002: 1497 2003: 1494 2004: 1492 2005: 1501

2006: 1474 2007: 1478 2008: 1481 2009: 1469 2010: 1470 2011: 1347

2012: 1319 2013: 1303 2014: 1279 2015: 1278 2016: 1257 2017: 1244

2018: 1246

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

mayor

In September 2014, Lars Fröhlich (SPD / Open Citizens List) was elected mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on October 12, 1993.

Blazon : “Split and split behind; in front in silver a half black eagle with red feet and tongues with a golden wolf's head at the gap, in the back above red and silver split by three points, in the back below in blue an oblique left golden wavy bar. "

The eagle with a wolf's head was the heraldic animal of the town's founders, the lords of Orla, who were robber barons in the Middle Ages. The three points represent both the coat of arms of the noble family von Boes (Raven / Beust), as well as the three districts. The lower field symbolizes the abundance of water as a symbol of bubbling life and the wave bar as the embodiment of the orla.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Michael Zapfe .

Culture and sights

Attractions

• Church of St. Blaise with monuments to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars and churchyard
• Langendembach village church
• Kleindembach village church, in need of restoration (2011)
• War memorial for the fallen of both world wars in Kleindembach

Historical monuments

Since 1960, a memorial stone in the cemetery in the Kleindembach district has been commemorating 152 Slovak victims of forced labor known by name , who died of abuse and catastrophic living conditions while working in the armaments company REIMAHG . A total of 450 workers were probably housed in the disused porcelain factory. In the cemetery of the Langenorla district, grave monuments commemorate three Italian prisoners on a death march from the Buchenwald concentration camp , who were murdered by SS men in April 1945.

Museums

From 1999 to 2018, the Orla Railway Museum was located in the entrance building of the Langenorla Ost train station in the Kleindembach district , where you could go back to the heyday of the Orla Railway , which was particularly important as a freight transport route in the 19th century.

In the district of Langendembach there is a local history museum with restored rooms from farmhouses, which illustrate the life of the simple population in the region until the middle of the 20th century.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
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 , pp. 157, 144, 157.
3. ↑ http://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wJahr=0000&zeigeErg=GEM&auswertung=1&wknr=075&gemnr=75054&terrKrs=&gemteil=000&buchstabe=&Langname=&wahlvorschlag=&sort=&druck=&XLS=&anzahlH=- 8 & Non_existing = & x_vollbildDatteil = & optik = & aktuell = & ShowLand = & ShowWK = & ShowPart = & w_date = 14.09.2014 /
4. ↑ Hartmut Ulle: New Thuringian Wappenbuch. Volume 2: Ilmkreis, Jena, Kyffhäuserkreis, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt (district), Schmalkalden-Meiningen (district), Suhl. 2nd, changed, revised edition. Working Group Genealogy Thuringia, Erfurt 1997, ISBN 3-9804487-2-X , p. 38.
5. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , 223.
6. ↑ Homepage Orlabahnmuseum ( Memento from October 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Community Langenorla: Heimatstube Langenorla. Reopening of the Heimatstube on May 12th, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .