Münchengosserstädt

Münchengosserstädt City and rural community Bad Sulza Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 35 "  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 39"  E
Height :	238 m above sea level NN
Residents :	262  (2009)
Incorporation :	March 15, 1996
Incorporated into:	Saaleplatte
Postal code :	99518
Area code :	036421
Location of Münchengosserstädt in Thuringia

Münchengosserstädt is a district of the city and rural community Bad Sulza in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .

location

Münchengosserstädt lies on the eastern edge of the Ilm-Saale-Platte in the erosion channel of a former brook that flowed into the Saale . The state road 1059 to Camburg also partially runs in this small valley . At the edge are the wooded and steep hills of the left slope of the Saale.

history

Church in Münchengosserstädt

As early as 865, a place called “Gozarstatt” - probably founded by a Gozard (Gotthard) - appears in a document from the Fulda monastery in the Hussitingen Gau . After Kahl, Gozarstat was first mentioned in a document on December 2, 958. In the museum in the parsonage, the community is showing a copy of a certificate from King Otto I , first mentioned in 957. Münchengosserstädt, for example, celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its certain documentary mention in 1957 and the 1050th anniversary in 2007. A plaque on the old school shows accordingly the inscription: “1050 ​​years Münchengosserstädt. 957 - 2007 ".

From 1200 to 1849 there was a manor in the village . In 1239 Conrad von Gozerstede was named as the landlord, the von Münch family owned the manor from 1421 to 1799, when it was converted into a lease. From 1368 onwards, the village was demarcated as "Nedirngosserstädt" from the neighboring (and later deserted ) Obergosserstädt. In 1632 the place was called after the owner of the village and estate: Mönchen-, then Münchengosserstädt. Whether there is a deserted area near the village of Sorau or Serau is controversial. In 1634, during the Thirty Years' War , part of the village and the church burned down. From 1787 to 1800 Karl Christoph Förster was pastor in Münchengosserstädt. His two famous sons were born in 1791 and 1800.

In the village, various justice systems belonged to the Wettin office of Camburg , which was under the sovereignty of various Albertine and Ernestine duchies due to several divisions during its existence . In 1826 Münchengosserstädt came as part of the Camburg exclave from the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg to the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen . From 1922 to 1939 the place belonged to the Camburg district department .

During the Second World War , most of the men were drafted into the Wehrmacht. Their work had to be done by women, the elderly, “foreign workers” and prisoners of war. The latter (French) lived in the hall of the inn, the civil workers on the farms. In 1939/40 the village had to take in evacuees from the Saarland, later "bombed out" from the air war zones in West Germany. From autumn 1944 the influx of refugees from the eastern regions began. Among them were Transylvanian Saxons from Draas who came in their traditional costume in early 1945. The villagers increasingly had to see and hear Anglo-American bomber groups in the sky, and since the beginning of 1945 they had been unsettled by low-flying aircraft. On February 13th and the following nights the sky towards Dresden was colored red. The population went about their daily chores until US troops reached the area on April 11th . First a group of 12 tanks drove through the village, and then fired at Camburg from the heights . A tank fired at a surprised Wehrmacht car in the village , although it had stopped. Four soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously. Residents took them into the houses and took care of them. A captain died from his injuries that night. The others were taken to a hospital in Camburg by the Americans, where another died. A German plane attacked an American military camp near the town. A bomb that was only found in the parish garden in 1957 is said to have originated from this attack. Billed US soldiers banished the residents to the cellars and used the supplies in the houses. Valuables, cameras, watches and sports weapons were confiscated. At the end of June / beginning of July, the Red Army replaced the US soldiers.

So Münchengosserstädt became part of the SBZ and from 1949 the GDR . Accordingly, it had to go along with all the social changes that occurred during this period, including the collectivization of agriculture. The Black Sea Germans among the refugees met a particularly bitter fate . They had to go to a collection camp in Erfurt to be deported permanently to the Soviet Union . When a dud was rendered harmless in the parish garden in 1957, all the villagers were evacuated. During the GDR era, people worked in the LPG in Eckolstädt , as a craftsman in town and in companies in Apolda and Jena . In the 1970s, a new building area was built on the Sperlingsberg.

In the Turning Point 1990, a new mayor and a new municipal council were elected. There were reprivatisations, renovations of the houses, renewal of the infrastructure and the creation of a new building area on Lindenweg. In 1996, Münchengosserstädt was included in the new single municipality of Saaleplatte , with its administrative headquarters in Wormstedt . In 2007, Münchengosserstädt celebrated its 1050th anniversary.

Attractions

Former manor

Former rectory, now a museum, in Münchengosserstädt

Memorial stone for Friedrich Förster

Soldiers' Grave in the Kirchgarten in Münchengosserstädt (April 11, 1945)

• Dorfkirche Münchengosserstädt : It was mentioned in writing as early as 1219. The oldest parts date from the 12th century. The Romanesque hall church with choir and apse was partially rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1634 in the years 1643–1646 and only fully rebuilt in 1713/14. The choir was provided with a tower tower. The manor owner von Münch contributed the church tower roof, bell and tower clock. Windows, doorways, and pillars on the tower are younger. The furnishings come from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century. The wooden barrel vault lies above a three-sided, two-storey gallery. The pulpit altar shows folk carved figures. The organ is from 1852. In September 1990 the outer wall of the west gable collapsed, but was rebuilt by November.
• War memorial in front of the church for the fallen and missing of the First World War, expanded by a memorial plaque from 1993 for the victims of the Second World War and the post-war period
• Soldier grave in the Kirchgarten for a German captain who died on April 11, 1945
• Rectory that has housed a museum for the pastor sons Friedrich Christoph and Ernst Förster, who were born here, since 2000 . A small local history museum is also under construction. A room that shows the environment of the Transylvanian Saxons including their costumes is particularly interesting.
• Memorial stone on the village square from 1991 for Friedrich Christoph Förster, on the occasion of his 200th birthday
• Former manor

societies

• Boys' and homeland association from the 19th century. It existed until 1945 when its flag "disappeared" after the end of the war.
• Culture and local history association: (re) founded in 1993
• History Society from 2003
• Fire Brigade Association

Festivals

• Traditional Whitsun festival: has been celebrated for centuries over 2–3 days
• Fair in November

Personalities

• Karl Christoph Förster , born in Altenburg in 1751 , pastor in Münchengosserstädt, poet of sacred songs, father of the two following sons
• Friedrich Christoph Förster , poet and participant in the wars of liberation, was on 24 September 1791 at the rectory to Münchengosserstädt the son of the local pastor Karl Christoph Förster born
• Ernst Förster , German painter and art historical writer, brother of Friedrich Christoph Förster, was born on April 8, 1800 in Münchengosserstädt
• Rudolf Scheller , entrepreneur and first manufacturer of dry soups , spent his retirement in Münchengosserstädt and died here

literature

• Beate Meißner, Peter Mader and the local history association: history and stories. Festschrift 1050 years Münchengosserstädt. (957-2007). Municipality of Saaleplatte - OT Münchengosserstädt, Münchengosserstädt 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl Hölzer: Historical Description of the County of Camburg. Schreyer'sche Buchhandlung, Camburg 1876. Quoted from Festschrift Münchengosserstädt from 2006, p. 23
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. 187.

Web links

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