Leinefelde

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Leinefelde
Coat of arms of Leinefelde
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 335  (330-350)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 9434  (Feb 29, 2016)
Incorporation : March 16, 2004
Postal code : 37327
Area code : 03605
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Location of Leinefelde in Leinefelde-Worbis

Leinefelde is the southern district of Leinefelde-Worbis in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

Geographical location

View from Scharfenstein Castle to Leinefelde
The ring source of the leash

Leinefelde is the largest district in terms of population in the twin town of Leinefelde-Worbis and essentially consists of the old town area and the adjacent area of ​​the prefabricated housing estate to the south. The district is located about four kilometers southwest of Worbis and 12 kilometers east of the district town of Heilbad Heiligenstadt . The neighboring towns are Beuren in the west, Breitenbach in the north, Breitenholz in the east, Bektiven in the southeast and Kallmerode in the south. The urban area of ​​Leinefelde lies on the Elbe-Weser watershed with the Leinequelle , shortly below the source the line that rises on the Zehnsberg flows . The Dün extends south of Leinefelde and further to the northeast the Ohm Mountains .

history

The location and name of the place suggest that it existed as early as the 9th century. Leinefelde was first mentioned in 1227 as Leukenfeld. For centuries Leinefelde was only a small village with a few hundred inhabitants.

From 1772 to 1867 Leinefeld was a branch of the parish of Bektiven . Pastor Phillipp Meysing worked in Bektiven and Leinefelde from 1815 to 1864. The first Leinefeld pastor was introduced to the community in 1868.

With the construction of the large Reichsstraße Cologne – Berlin in 1826 (today Bundesstraße 80 ) and the Reichsstraße from Mühlhausen to Duderstadt in 1834 (today Bundesstraße 247 ), Leinefeld began to develop into a traffic junction. This was continued with the construction of the Halle – Nordhausen – Leinefelde – Eichenberg – Hann railway line. Münden in 1867. When the place received a second main line a little later (1870) with the Gotha – Leinefelde railway line , the station became the central station of the Eichsfeld and the place grew rapidly. The Kanonenbahn through Leinefelde was completed in 1880 with a rail connection from Leinefelde to Eschwege in Hesse (closed in 1998). The Leinefelde – Wulften line followed in 1897, although operations were discontinued from Teistungen after 1945 due to the division of Germany.

The approximately 2,500 inhabitants, the village should after Eichsfeld plan of the SED as the industrial hub of the Upper Eichsfeld be expanded. The aim was also to destroy the existing structures of agriculture, small crafts and the Catholic faith . By settling workers from other parts of the GDR , society was supposed to become more “socialist”. Thus the decision to develop Leinefelde into an industrial center was made not only for economic but also for political reasons. On April 10, 1961, construction of the cotton mill began. Up to 4,500 people worked here in the heyday. In the period that followed, many prefabricated building areas were laid out in Leinefelde , and the number of inhabitants rose within 15 years from 6,658 at the end of 1970 to 15,526 at the end of 1985. On October 7, 1969, Leinefelde received city ​​rights .

At the time of the reunification of Germany , Leinefelde was the largest town in Obereichsfeld with 16,500 inhabitants.

Leinefelde was integrated into the new town of Leinefelde-Worbis on March 16, 2004.

Origin of name

Leinefelde was first mentioned in 1227 as Leukenfelt . One assumption about the origin of the name relates to the leash as the name giver, but recent research suggests a derivation from the personal name Liuko (Luidger).

Incorporations

Breitenholz was incorporated into the city of Leinefelde on January 1, 1992. Effects followed on September 23, 1995. Beuren was incorporated on June 6, 2000 .

politics

Leinefeld town hall

Town twinning

Leinefelde maintains the following city partnerships:

Culture and sights

Church of St. Maria Magdalena
Memorial to Johann Carl Fuhlrott

societies

Ringaufreunde eV

SC Leinefelde from 1912 (soccer)

ESV Lok Leinefelde (multi-disciplinary sports club)

Martial Arts Association Leinefelde eV

Schützenverein Leinefelde 1991 eV

Attractions

The sights of Leinefelde include:

Neo-Nazi "Eichsfeldtag"

Leinefelde is one of the centers of right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi activity in Thuringia. In particular, the NPD has organized the so-called "Eichsfeldtag" there since 2011, founded by the convicted neo-Nazi and NPD politician Thorsten Heise . In 2017, the right-wing rock festival organized by the NPD took place for the seventh time with around 500 neo-Nazis. At the anti-racist counter-demonstration with around 130 people, it was criticized that the city had created a “feel-good zone” for the neo-Nazis. Local civil society is also too little involved against the neo-Nazis.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

The domestic economy is characterized by manufacturing and craft businesses. The formerly largest operations in Leinefelde, the cotton spinning and twisting mill and the dairy, had stopped their production. With the development of new industrial areas, new companies have settled. The most important companies today are active in timber construction as well as hall and plant construction.

Rail transport

Leinefelde train station
North Thuringia Road Construction Office in Leinefelde

Leinefelde is the hub of the nationally important Halle – Hann railway line. Münden (Halle-Kassel Railway) and the Göttingen - Erfurt line ( Gotha – Leinefelde railway ). The regional express lines 1 (Göttingen – Leinefelde – Erfurt – Gera-Glauchau) and 9 (Kassel – Leinefelde – Nordhausen – Halle) as well as various regional trains stop here.

The Halle – Hann. Münden was expanded to two tracks and electrified until 1994 as a German Unity transport project . To this end, an electronic signal box was set up in Leinefelde station as one of the first in Thuringia, which also controls the Heilbad Heiligenstadt - Gernrode and Leinefelde - Bad Langensalza sections .

Until 2014, an InterCity of the DB stopped in Leinefelde every Friday and ran from Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof . On Sundays it stopped from the other direction. This was the only long-distance train stopping here every week .

The Leinefelde – Wulften and Leinefelde-Treysa railway lines have now been closed.

Autobahn and federal highways

The federal road 247 ( Duderstadt - Mühlhausen ) and the state road 3080 (the former B 80 ) cross in Leinefelde. The federal motorway 38 ( Halle (Saale) - Göttingen ), also a German unity transport project , borders directly on the city of Leinefelde.

Personalities

literature

  • Ulrich Hussong: Seal and coat of arms of the cities of Leinefelde and Leinefelde-Worbis. In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 22 (2014), pp. 337–344
  • Karl-Heinz Kabisch: Leinefelde. Around the Leinequellen. Publishing house Geiger Horb 1992
  • Wolfgang Kil: The miracle of Leinefelde: A city reinvents itself. Published by Sandstein Kommunikation 2008
  • Alice von Plato: Celebrating in the double diaspora. Leinefelde in the cath. Eichsfeld - a "socialist city". In: Adelheid von Saldern: Staged Unity. Representations of power in GDR cities. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2003, pp. 235-274

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leinefelde , website of the city of Leinefelde-Worbis
  2. ^ Helmut Godehard: Fair customs on the Eichsfeld. From the childhood memories of Konrad Hentrich IV from Leinefelde . In: Kulturbund Worbis (Hrsg.): Eichsfelder Heimathefte . Issue 3. Heiligenstadt 1988, p. 267-272 .
  3. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2004
  4. ↑ Erhard Müller: Leine was not named after. in: Thüringer Tageblatt September 1984
  5. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics
  6. ^ Bouncy castle, hatred and Hitler salute - malfunction alarms. In: zeit.de . Retrieved May 8, 2017 .

Web links

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