Mackenrode (Eichsfeld district)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 10 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Uder
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.8 km 2
Residents:	320 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	84 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37318
Area code :	036087
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 068
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Settlement 14 37318 Uder
Website :	www.mackenro.de
Mayor :	Helmut Bode ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Mackenrode in the Eichsfeld district

Mackenrode is a municipality in the Uder administrative community in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld .

in the town

Geographical location

Mackenrode is located within the Upper Eichsfeld in the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park . It is traversed by the eastern Werra tributary Walse .

Community structure

In addition to the village of Mackenrode itself, the districts of Hennigerode and Weidenbach also belong to the municipality of Mackenrode . The district of Mackenrode is part of the historic Eichsfeld , the districts of Hennigerode and Weidenbach, today part of the district of Eichsfeld, came from Hesse to Thuringia in 1945 through an area swap as part of the Wanfrieder Agreement and do not belong to the historic Eichsfeld (see: Schifflersgrund ).

history

View of Mackenrode

Church of St. Martin in Mackenrode, rare, symmetrical architecture

The district of Mackenrode was first mentioned in a document on January 1st, 1236. In the 47 × 33 cm document that is kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg, Archbishop Siegfried III. the tithes of Witzenhausen and Karmannshausen to the Cistercian monastery Marienfeld in Münsterland , with which the brothers Dietrich Vitztum von Rusteberg and Heidenreich von Hanstein were enfeoffed . As compensation, he transfers the village of Eichstruth, the tithe to Mackenrode and interest crops to Nesselröden and Langenhagen to the brothers . The place belonged to Kurmainz until the secularization , in 1802 it became Prussian and in 1807 it became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 to 1945 it was part of the Prussian province of Saxony . 1945 to 1949 the place came to the Soviet occupation zone.

The current districts of Hennigerode and Weidenbach also came to the SBZ in the Wanfried Agreement and, like Mackenrode, became part of the GDR from 1949 . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, Mackenrode was affected by the closure of the nearby inner-German border. In 1974 Weidenbach was incorporated with Hennigerode. Since 1990 the community has belonged to the newly established state of Thuringia.

coat of arms

Blazon : "On a blue background with a golden shield base, an elongated silver building with two half-timbered gables and a black roof, in the middle a silver tower with a curved hood, the shield base is covered with two green oak leaves crossed on the stems, and two green acorns floating above."

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 542 1995: 553 1996: 564 1997: 537 1998: 491 1999: 521

2000: 530 2001: 517 2002: 505 2003: 472 2004: 511 2005: 434

2006: 382 2007: 366 2008: 364 2009: 354 2010: 344 2011: 303

2012: 301 2013: 301 2014: 308 2015: 308 2016: 318 2017: 305

2018: 313 2019: 320

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Mackenrode consists of six council members.

• CDU : 3 seats
• FWG Weidenbach : 1 seat
• FFW Mackenrode: 2 seats

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

mayor

The honorary mayor Helmut Bode (CDU) was elected on June 5, 2016.

Culture and sights

• On August 15, 2009, the Mackenrode fairy tale park was opened as a section of the German Fairy Tale Route.
• St. Martin village church
• Way of the Cross with St. Mary's Grotto
• Thomasquelle on the road to Eichstruht

literature

• Torsten W. Müller : Mackenrode in Eichsfeld - contributions to local history . Duderstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86944-035-4 , pp. 432 .

Web links

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

• Mackenrode in the Uder administrative community
• Mackenro.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Torsten W. Müller: Mackenrode in Eichsfeld. Contributions to the history of the village . Mecke, Duderstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86944-035-4 , p. 22 ( PDF ). PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 30, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on June 30, 2017 .