Mechelroda

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Management Community :	Mellingen
Height :	345 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.36 km 2
Residents:	282 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99441
Area code :	036453
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 055
Association administration address:	Karl-Alexander-Str. 134a ; 99441 Mellingen
Website :	www.mechelroda.de
Mayor :	Falk Oesterheld (CDU)
Location of the community of Mechelroda in the Weimarer Land district

Mechelroda is a municipality in the south of the Weimarer Land district and part of the Mellingen administrative community . Districts are Mechelroda and Linda .

history

Mechelroda is first mentioned in a document in 1319 as "Mechtylderode". In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the area of Weimar Castle, the von Schweinsberg (1328), the Marshals von Tiefurt (1332), the Oberweimar Abbey and in the 16th century the von Meusebach family also had landed property .

In the village is the "Gleichensche Hof", a Freihof that belonged to the Blankenhain rule, while the manor with the rest of the village was incorporated into the Weimar Office as the seat of a patrimonial court .

From the beginning of the 19th century, the place was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and after 1945 with the state of Thuringia became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Since 1990 the place belongs to the newly founded state of Thuringia.

The district of Linda is first mentioned in 1338 in connection with the De Linde family and was abandoned as a settlement after 1450. In the 16th century, a sheep farm of the Blankenhain rulership was built here. Linda has been incorporated into Mechelroda since 1850.

traffic

Mechelroda is two kilometers south of the federal highway 87 . It is hardly further to the motorway junction Apolda of the federal motorway 4 .

Bus line 229 operated by the Sömmerda und Weimar public transport company opens up the town on weekdays, with the timetable geared towards school traffic. The nearest train station is Mellingen an der Holzlandbahn , about four kilometers north of Mechelroda.

Culture and sights

Village church Mechelroda , photo from 2012

The Protestant church is a small, massive and originally plastered hall church with an eastern roof tower. It was built in 1707 instead of a predecessor (1580). Renovations took place in 1888 and 1965. Inside there is a vaulted wooden ceiling and two-story galleries . A baroque pulpit altar stands in the west. The font with an octagonal limestone basin dates from the 15th century. In front of the altar strip is the tombstone for Anna von Nesselrot from 1581.

Personalities

Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg (1827–1908), cantor, organist and composer (plaque on the village church)

Place view

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ Stephanie Eißing and others: Thuringia (= Handbook of German Art Monuments . ). Revision. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 786.

Web links

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

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] Stephanie Eißing and others: Thuringia (= Handbook of German Art Monuments . ). Revision. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 786.