Leimbach (Nordhausen)

Leimbach City of Nordhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	199  (190-220)  m
Residents :	900
Incorporation :	July 1, 1994
Postal code :	99734
Area code :	03631
Location of Leimbach in Nordhausen
The old peasant road in Leimbach

Leimbach with the associated district of Himmelgarten is a district of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia .

location

Both places are located about three kilometers east of the city of Nordhausen in a rural area. The main road in 2076 affected the east district. To the south is the federal motorway 38 in the Goldenen Aue .

history

Church of St. Martin in Leimbach

The place Leimbach was first mentioned in 1214.

In its chronicle, the village goes from 1254. In 1395 the place belonged to the county of Hohnstein- Heringen. In 1700 it came to Hanover . 1790 was the church from the 14th century rebuilt.

→ Main article : St. Martin (Leimbach)

In 1921 a new era began with the first electric light. In 1932 the Ilfeld district was dissolved. In 1953/54 the sports field was built and a morgue was built. In 1958 the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) was founded. 1973–1975 the festival hall was built. Then the sewerage of the village is carried out. In 1983 the central water supply followed and in 1995 the connection to the natural gas supply. On July 1, 1994, the municipality was incorporated into Nordhausen by law of March 23, 1994.

The Himmelgarten monastery was located in the corridor of the Rossungen desert . Rossungen was first mentioned in a document on December 21st, 1140. The time of the foundation of the monastery falls in the period of the first mention on June 4th, 1295. After the secularization of the monastery, the business was continued as an estate. A large part of the land (258 hectares) was cultivated by the Prince of Stolberg-Stolberg since 1929. After 1945 the company was expropriated and continued as a state-owned property , later as an LPG.

Sons and daughters of Leimbach

• Walter Ködderitz (1898–1980), Protestant theologian
• Lothar König (* 1954), Protestant pastor

Web links

Commons : Leimbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Leimbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Himmelgarten (Nordhausen) in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Eichsfeldkreis, LK Nordhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis . In: Thüringer Landesvermessungsamt (Ed.): CD-ROM series Top 10 . CD 1. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , pp. 123 and 161.
3. ↑ Leimbach on the website of the city of Nordhausen ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 30, 2012. 
4. ^ Jürgen Gruhle: Land Reform Black Book. 2011, accessed on May 20, 2011 (overview of federal states and locations on expropriation measures after the end of World War II as part of the land reform).