Mechterstädt
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Mechterstädt
Rural community of Hörsel
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| Height : | 274 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 12.42 km² |
| Residents : | 1044 (December 31, 2014) |
| Population density : | 84 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 1, 2011 |
| Postal code : | 99880 |
| Area code : | 03622 |
 Mechterstädt within the rural community of Hörsel
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Mechterstädt is a district of the rural community Hörsel in the north-west of the Thuringian district of Gotha .
geography
Geographical location
Mechterstädt is on the western border of the Gotha district. The Hörsel River flows through the village .
Expansion of the area
The total area of the Mechterstädt district is 1242 hectares.
history
Beginnings up to the Thirty Years War
Mechterstädt was first mentioned in the year 775. The Frankish King Karl gave the Hersfeld monastery a Hufe Land in “villa Mehderstede” (Dorbencker 1 / n70) . This emerges from the Breviarium sancti Lulli, panel 1, a Hersfeld list of goods. This is the list of the goods of the Hersfeld Monastery built by Archbishop Lullus († 786) of Mainz. The place was also mentioned as Mehtrichesstat .
From the 8th to the 14th century, the monastic feudal rule lasted under the monasteries of Hersfeld, Fulda , Reinhardsbrunn and the Katharinenkloster in Eisenach. Then several noble families followed. Around 1508 the manor and part of the village belonged to the Lords of Reckrodt , and another part to those of Hopfgarten . In 1525, farmers from Mechterstadt, and only the Hopfgartian subjects, took part in the storming of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery. These were sentenced by the elector 14 days after the riot to an extraordinarily high fine of 800 guilders. “At that time there were 27 Hopfgartian subjects, so that each individual received an average of 30 guilders. But 30 guilders represented the value of 10 cows ”. In old documents around 1531 the lords of Reckrodt, namely Jobst von Reckrodt, are named as the sole liege lord over the noble knightly seat, the inheritance and higher courts as well as the jure patronatus . After 1592 Herrmann von Reckrodt sold the estate along with all affiliations and all rights to the Lords of Hopfgarten, who owned it for over 40 years.
In 1642 the estate with most of the subjects, courts and the jure patronatus from Ernst Sittig von Hopfgarten to Colonel Sergeant Wolf Conrad von Gräfendorff. Von Hopfgarten reserved the other subjects for himself, so the village always had two court lords and two mayors. In the Thirty Years' War , 1631 to 1648, Mechterstädt was also plundered by imperial and Swedish troops , as it was located on streets that were important and heavily frequented at the time ( Via regia ). Countless times the residents had to flee and abandon their village. According to the soul register from 1642, the number of inhabitants had decreased to only two fifths. Most of them were old people, women and children. From 1642 Mechterstädt was a border village of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha and an escort. At that time the place belonged to the Hopffgarten court .
1655 to 1763
Another severe blow of fate struck the village in 1655 when a major fire destroyed 87 of 120 houses. Just three years later, according to M. Füldner's register of souls, 96 houses were inhabited again, and in 1713 Mechterstädt again had 118 houses and 568 inhabitants.
On the road from Frankfurt to Leipzig ( via regia ) were also the two old carter inns, the “Zum golden Löwen” under the Hopfgarten court and fiefdom and the Graefendorffische “Zum Weißen Roß”. Here the carters changed their horses.
In 1673 the old malting and brewing rights were confirmed again to the landlord and customs officer Jacob Reinhardt by Duke Ernst the Pious , as these smaller places were often disputed. In 1716/17, today's Marienkirche was built in place of an old small church . It is a special attraction of the place. In 1731 the Hörsellauf was regulated, the big loop below the Stiede or the Stierenhögkes, which was constantly responsible for the flooding of the lower village, was removed. In the Seven Years War 1756–1763 there was again great hardship in the place due to looting and the chaos of war.
1838 to 1913
In the years 1838/39, Duke Ernst bought the Gräfendorff manor along with the Hopfgarten share, and the place now became an official village of the Tenneberg ducal justice office .
In 1842/43 the manor was dissolved, the estates sporadically and mostly left for sale to the local residents. All subsequent taxes were collected by the Ducal Rent Office Tenneberg on set dates. In 1843 the Ducal Chamber also sold the forest to the "92 Corporation".
The construction of the railroad in the years 1845–1847 brought many changes for Mechterstädt. The northern part of the village received a completely new face with the construction of the railway, because the northern exits of the village were cut off by the railway line. In order to restore a village entrance, the Hopfgartische Schafhof, which was located on Schenkgasse, was completely demolished, the Fuhrmannsgasthof "Zum golden Löwen" was demolished except for a part of the guest building, and the remaining part served as a railway master's building. After the railway maintenance depot was relocated to Wutha , this part was also demolished, creating the new entrance in Schenkgasse. The stables and farm buildings of the inn "Zum Weisse Roß" also had to give way to the railway construction. The Schafgasse, which formerly flowed directly into the Hainfeld, could only be reached from the north via the level crossings at Schenkgasse and Hölzerne Gasse (today Schulstrasse). In 1866 the north-south road once again led the war into the village. During the German war, parts of the Hanoverian army came over the Hainberg. Rohlfs from Hanover was killed in a skirmish and buried in the old cemetery east of Schafgasse. The Mechterstädt-Sättelstädt train station followed in 1885.
Bridges over the Hörsel did not yet exist in the village at that time, and vehicle traffic was carried out through fords. The pedestrians used three wooden walkways , one under the smock to the so-called spike, the parish walkway across from the parish and at the exit of Haingasse the "walkway", which led to the then dead end in the bush. These were often torn away during floods, so that the southern part of the village was cut off from the rest. In 1857 the first new bridge was built by the mill, the pillars made of stone and the ceiling made of wood. This bridge was renewed in 1871. In 1891 the bridge to Vippacher Gasse was built.
In 1875 the new school building opposite the church was inaugurated, until then the school building was Hauptstrasse 8. On October 3, 1880, a new school building was consecrated in the so-called “Holzerne Gasse”, which was widened and prepared for the occasion and now named “Schulgasse” led, and in 1899 this house was added to. It is today's elementary school.
After the Gotha-Eisenach railway line was inaugurated on June 24, 1847, the Sättelstädt – Mechterstädt stop was located between the two towns, as the residents of both villages refused to build their own stop in town. As freight transport by rail became more and more important, work on building a freight shed began at the end of 1909. With the construction of the freight station and the overhaul tracks, the previous Sättelstädt-Mechterstädt railway station became the fourth class station. On May 1, 1911, the station was opened for freight traffic. Since the municipality of Mechterstädt had contributed a large part of the costs for the construction of the freight yard, the stop was renamed Mechterstädt – Sättelstädt on October 1, 1911 .
1914 to 1945
During the First World War , 139 men from Mechterstädt between the ages of 17 and 48 were drafted into military service. 24 of them fell and five are missing. Three more men died as a result of the war.
In 1920 Mechterstädt hit the headlines with the Mechterstädt murders during the Kapp Putsch . Fifteen workers from Thal, captured by students from Marburg , were shot dead in the Mechterstädt district along what is now Bundesstraße 7.
From 1930 on the development of the Au- and Weststraße began. In 1938 what was then the Reichsautobahn was built. Many foreign workers who were involved in the construction of the motorway lived in Mechterstädt, sometimes with their families.
In World War II there was no major damage, but 89 killed and missing are known in some records but is from 98 to over 100 the speech. The Americans moved into Mechterstädt on April 6, 1945 and remained as the occupying power until the beginning of July . On July 4, 1945, they were replaced by Soviet troops .
After 1945
Due to the influx of displaced people, the population grew to 1,430 in 1947/49. The 1946 census counted 1,607 inhabitants. In 1953 the Bodelschwingh-Hof was built, in 1974 a sports hall and new school. In 1958 an LPG was founded, in 1970 a KAP . In 1975 Mechterstädt was able to celebrate the 1,200th anniversary of its first mention. Peace services began in the church in October 1989 , and a round table influenced local politics.
On March 18, 1994, Mechterstädt was one of the seven founding communities of the Hörsel administrative association . By order of the Thuringian State Parliament on 16 November 2011, the administrative community Hörsel was dissolved on December 1, 2011, through a voluntary merger of ten previously independent municipalities Aspach , Ebenheim , Fröttstädt , Hörselgau , Laucha , Mechterstädt, Metebach , Teutleben , Trügleben and Weingarten the Rural community of Hörsel will be newly formed.
On April 18, 1994, Mechterstädt was hit by a devastating flood of the Hörsel .
Population development
Development of the population (December 31st each) :
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- Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
Former mayor
Dieter Specht has been honorary mayor of the community since 2002 . In the mayoral elections on June 27, 2004 and June 6, 2010 he was confirmed in his office. His term of office began on July 1, 2010. With the conversion to a rural community, he became mayor of the district on December 1, 2011 (with a term of office until 2016).
- 1990–2002: Evelin Groß ( CDU )
- 2002–2011: Dieter Specht ( SPD )
Culture and sights
Buildings
- The old stone house is in the main street, near the church. It is the structural remainder of the medieval noble court of Mechterstädt. The old stone house with vaulted cellar is connected to a half-timbered house by a passage and forms a listed ensemble. Both buildings were used for residential purposes in the recent past, but their substance is now heavily damaged.
- The Marienkirche from 1716/1717
- A memorial stone on the side of the road 50 meters east of the cemetery commemorates the dead in the events of March 25, 1920, which gained notoriety as the " Mechterstädt murders ".
Sports
The club with the largest number of members is the Victoria Sports Club. It combines the sports departments of soccer, athletics, table tennis, tennis and women's gymnastics. Footballers of all ages, track and field athletes and table tennis players are successful in competitions. The Mechterstädt bowling club was also founded in October 1994. The KSV is doing very good work with young talent and has already won quite a few cups and titles. Also worth mentioning are the sport fishing club and the sport pigeon breeders' club.
Soccer
In 1902 Mechterstädt started playing football. Since 1931 the association was called Gut Heil . The first test game was lost 6-1 against Ebenheim in 1932 . Five years later, those responsible tried to gain a foothold in youth games. After a few severe setbacks, the kickers reorganized themselves under the name Eintracht after the Second World War . A first friendly match against Mosbach was to lay the foundation for participation in the league game in 1946 (with Aschara , Bufleben , Döllstädt and Gräfentonna ). From 1951 the Mächterstädt machine and tractor station took over the sponsorship of the sport. A new beginning of the Eintracht took place under the name company sports community tractor . On April 29, 1961, the Hörsel flood destroyed the entire sports facility. In 1964, the club won the Golden Tractor District Cup against Bad Tennstedt 1-0. 1966 repeated the cup victory against Crawinkel with 2-1. In the same year the youth player Otto Wiegand was delegated to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt . In 1973 you could move up to the first district class and in 1978 the "old men" won the district championship title. On August 10, 1981, the entire sports field was flooded within a few hours. All damage could only be repaired after three years. The new sports home was opened on October 26, 1981. Now all Mechterstadt sports fans had a common meeting point. After the club was renamed in the early 1990s, the team was relegated to the second district class in 1993. In 1995, the old men took second place in the indoor circuit championship, while the first team was able to advance to the first class. In 1996 the old men won the indoor circuit championship unbeaten. The first team rose to the district league. In the same year, the second team narrowly missed the exit from the third district class. The E-Juniors were both district cup winners and district champions. Many successes followed in the years to come. In 2002, in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Mechterstadt sports club, the first team won all three titles to be awarded in the Gotha district and thus became indoor district champions and district cup winners. They won the championship and thus rose to the district league.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Mechterstädt has a train station on the Thuringian Railway from Erfurt to Eisenach.
The connection of road traffic is guaranteed via the federal road 7 ( Sättelstädt - Teutleben ) and the state road 1025 (to Laucha).
The re-routing of the federal motorway 4 for the northern bypass of the Hörselberge will take place between Mechterstädt and Sättelstädt. For this purpose, two new parallel valley bridges will be built and an improvement of the motorway connection will be created closer to the place through the construction of the Sättelstädt junction .
The village is located on the Thuringian chain of cities cycle route .
education
Mechterstädt has three different educational institutions. The regular school “Bertha von Suttner”, the elementary school “Hörseltal” and the day care center “Dreikäsehoch”.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Michael Bach (1687–1772), glazier, carpenter and organ builder, who did a great job maintaining the church and the organ.
- August Rudloff (1884–1966), trade unionist, local politician (SPD / USPD / KPD / SED) and honorary citizen of the city of Eisenach
literature
- Bruno W. Reimann: No end to the trauma in sight. Mechterstädt and the University of Marburg . In: Gothaer culture and tourism company (ed.): The Gothaer museum booklet on regional history . 1999, ISSN 0863-2421 , p. 86-97 .
Remarks
- ↑ From 1990 to 1994 she was full-time mayor and then from 1994 to 2002 honorary mayor.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hörselbote - Official Gazette of the Hörsel Administrative Association, 9th year, No. 10/2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 869 kB), ed. v. Administrative association "Hörsel", Hörselgau, November 25, 2011, p. 1
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
- ↑ Mayoral elections on June 12, 1994 in Thuringia - final result , Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Erfurt; Retrieved December 2, 2011
- ↑ Mayoral elections on June 13, 1999 in Thuringia - final result , Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Erfurt; Retrieved December 2, 2011
- ↑ Alexander Del Regno: Dieter Specht: "Administrative communities have had their day" . In: Thüringer Allgemeine from February 8, 2011
- ↑ Results of the mayoral elections , in: Local elections 2004 in Thuringia: Final results, elections of the mayors ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.3 MB), ed. v. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Erfurt, April 2008
- ↑ Mayoral elections on June 6, 2010 in Thuringia - final result , Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Erfurt; Retrieved December 2, 2011
Web links
- Website of the former municipality of Mechterstädt
- Mechterstädt on the side of the municipality of Hörsel