Madelungen

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Madelungen
City of Eisenach
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 245 m
Area : 5.81 km²
Residents : 336  (2018)
Population density : 58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 10, 1991
Incorporated into: Lerchenberg
Postal code : 99817
Area code : 03691
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Location of Madelungen in Eisenach
View into Max-Kürschner-Strasse
View into Max-Kürschner-Strasse

Madelungen has been part of Eisenach in Thuringia (Germany) since 1994 . It has belonged to the Neukirchen parish office since 1999.

geography

The place Madelungen is about four kilometers (as the crow flies) northwest of Eisenach .

Neighboring places
Ütteroda
Krauthausen Neighboring communities Neukirchen
Eisenach Stregda

The original, late medieval settlement extends, still clearly recognizable today, as a street village along the main street - today Max-Kürschner-Straße - north of the Madel . This brook rises about 3500 meters to the east in the district of the neighboring town of Neukirchen am Gramberg and, after having passed the neighboring town of Krauthausen and the former Gut Lengröden , flows into Creuzburg in the Werra . In the local area, the girl feeds the castle pond . The highest elevations are the wooded Moseberg in the south ( 364  m above sea level ), the Lerchenberg ( 342  m above sea level ) in the northeast on the boundary with Ütteroda and the wooded Eichelberg ( 349  m above sea level ) immediately north of the village. The geographic height of the place is 245  m above sea level. NN .

history

The first documentary mention of the place Madelungen took place in 1076:

" During the reign of Heinrich IV. And at the time when Ruthard was the abbot of the monastery in Fulda, Voigt Gerhardt and his wife Hacecha gave this monastery some (not belonging) goods, but it stipulates that, if he fathered sons and died, his widow would be allowed to use several goods left to the monastery for the duration of their lifetime, of which only the following were allowed ... Madelungen ..., but the monastery should remember her.

Acta est traditio in monasterio Fuldensi Schannat Tradit. Fuld. Pag. 257. no. 615. "

- LA Schultes : DIRECTORIUM DIPLOMATICUM. P. 199.

The church
At the former estate
The rectory
The Madelunger Park

Next to the monastery of Fulda and was Hersfeld Abbey wealthy southern district. The Lords of Madelungen have been in the village since 1307, and Rothe reported in the same year that they were known to be sympathizers of the Thuringian landgraves and were therefore forcibly expelled from Eisenach. The Madelung knights built a permanent house in a pond on the south-eastern edge of the village in close proximity to the Fulda monastery courtyard. They initially served as respected castle men of the landgraves, but quickly degenerated into robber knights and feudal riders. A knight Caspar von Madelungen gained notoriety in the process. The protection of this moated castle did not prevent the neighboring settlement known as “Altmadelungen”, located barely 1000 m east along the Madel, from being destroyed in one of the countless feuds and the residents now having to resettle on the western edge of today's Madelungen.

The administrative and court seat of the place was in the neighboring Creuzburg . After a robbery and murder in the Mosewald in 1565, the controversial border between the offices of Wartburg (city of Eisenach) and Creuzburg (Madelungen) was redefined and marked with a boundary stone, the so-called "Poststein". Around 1598 the renaissance castle was built on the site of the castle ; it was connected to the village by two drawbridges .

It is known about the ecclesiastical conditions of the founding time that the place belonged to the Creuzburg parish, but initially there was only a prayer chapel, which was consecrated to St. Ulrich. The Ulrichskirche in the center of the local situation was built in 1516; it was replaced in 1767 by the Trinity Church in the same place.

The church contains the remains of the last baron Wilhelm Christoph Diede zum Fürstenstein († 1807) in a vault in front of the altar . The noble family of Diede zum Fürstenstein from Albungen acquired the dilapidated moated castle in 1598 and built a castle on its foundation walls. For their economic interests, they also acquired the former monastery property and modernized it.

The place suffered heavily in the Thirty Years' War , the chroniclers also report of the plague and the persecution of witches. The economic conditions in the village were still depressing for the farmers around 1850. The object of the Separation (land consolidation) was in almost thousand plots divided district rearrange.

For his Eisenach worsted spinning mill, the Eisenach textile manufacturer Julius von Eichel-Streiber needed the Madelunger Gut with the aim of producing cheap wool on a large scale. He therefore pushed sheep farming in the region north of Eisenach. The family owned the estate until it was expropriated in 1945.

At the end of March 1945, German troops holed up in the nearby Mosewald. On April 1, 1945, American armored units broke through the defensive section known as the "Werra Line" after short but fierce fighting. The following day, the massive advance towards Gotha and Erfurt took place via Madelungen and Neukirchen.

Culture and sights

church

In the center of the village is the restored Trinity Church . It was built in 1767 in the baroque style. During the construction work inside the church, previously unknown tombstone slabs of Madelung knights were discovered.

The castle park

The former palace park has numerous old trees and shrubs and a gondola pond. The traditional park festival takes place here in summer.

Nature reserve "Runder- and Langer Enspel"

The "Runder- und Langer Enspel" nature reserve is located about one kilometer east of Madelungen. It was designated as worthy of protection because of the juniper grass here. In addition to the flora worthy of protection, 28 bird species, 18 butterfly species (butterflies) and the fire salamander have been identified in the area . Some animal and plant species are already on the Red List of Endangered Species in Thuringia . The BUND , district association Wartburgkreis and the city of Eisenach designated the area as Biotope of the Month May 2001 .

traffic

The local connection road Krauthausen - Madelungen - Stregda runs through the village. Another local connecting road leads to Ütteroda. The federal motorway 4 passes about 500 m south of the town. The closest junction is Eisenach-West .

The following bus lines run by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Wartburgkreis mbH run to Madelungen :

line Driving distance
L-77 Eisenach - Stregda - Madelungen - Krauthausen - Creuzburg - Ifta - Wolfmannsgehau
L-78 Eisenach - Stregda - Madelungen - Krauthausen - Creuzburg - Treffurt - Eschwege
L-90 Eisenach - Stregda - Madelungen - Krauthausen - Spichra - horse village

politics

In the election on May 25, 2014 , Roland Meinhardt was elected mayor of the district.

Landscape impressions

  • View from the south

  • Western outskirts

  • View from the east

Personalities

literature

  • Max Kürschner: Madelungen. Local history of a village . Ed .: Otfried Madelung . Self-published, Marburg / Lahn 2002, p. 560 .
  • Max Kürschner: From the moated castle to the MTS . In: Heimatkundl. Series of publications . Issue 4. Eisenach 1957.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ↑ Ludwig August Schultes: DIRECTORIUM DIPLOMATICUM or chronologically ordered excerpts from all existing documents on the history of Upper Saxony. First volume. Altenburg, 1822, p. 199.
  3. ↑ Kabus, Klaudius: Madelungen . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. City journal with information from the Wartburg district . May issue. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1995, p. 53 .
  4. ↑ The Church on eisenach.ekmd-online.de.Retrieved on September 26, 2014
  5. ^ Klaus Fink: "Runder- und Langer Enspel" nature reserve. Biotope of the month May 2001 . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. June issue, 2001, p. 14-15 .
  6. ↑ Verkehrsgesellschaft Wartburgkreis mbH - timetable
  7. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics , accessed on September 26, 2014