Meckfeld (Bad Berka)
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Meckfeld
City of Bad Berka
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 22 ″ E
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| Height : | 440 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 134 (Dec 31, 2010) |
| Incorporation : | April 9, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 99438 |
| Area code : | 036209 |
 Location of Meckfeld in Bad Berka
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Meckfeld is a district of the city of Bad Berka in the Weimarer Land district , Thuringia .
geography
Meckfeld is located east of Klettbach on a plateau between two wooded hills on the state road 2166, which leads from Bad Berka to Klettbach on the state road 1052 to the federal highway 4 and the junction Erfurt Ost. The soils of the plateau are mostly made of weathered shell limestone and are also remote from the groundwater. The closest localities are Klettbach in the west and Gutendorf in the east. The Rüttelsberg rises between Gutendorf and Meckfeld at an altitude of 470.4 m above sea level. NN , on which there is a transmission mast.
Meckfeld is a place in the landscape protection area Middle Ilm Valley .
history
In 1219 the first written mention of the place in the county of Berka was registered. The name Meckfeld is derived from goat . In the Middle Ages, a noble family with the same name appeared in the village. Later the possessions belonged to the von Witzleben family . Everything in this village was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War.
Meckfeld, which was originally a Mainz fiefdom, belonged as an archaeological village to the rule or to the Tonndorf office and shared its history. In 1802 he came with the Erfurt area to Prussia and between 1807 and 1813 to the French principality of Erfurt . With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Tonndorf office became part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , to whose Weimar administrative district it belonged from 1850.
From 1621 there were lessons in the village school. From 1929 the children had to go to school in Gutendorf (1.7 km) and from 1960 to Bad Berka (8 km). In the 16th century, woad was also grown here .
Bernd Schedlinski has been the mayor of the district since 2014.
Culture and sights
- The Protestant parish of Meckfeld belongs to the parish of Klettbach. The church of St. Martin , located in the center of the village at the central intersection, contains an organ from 1885 from the workshop of Karl Hickmann & Son from Dachwig . The village church has a baroque onion dome. It was added to the existing medieval chancel in 1767.
- The village became known nationwide through the pottery workshop in the center of the village opposite the church, where visual artists and those interested in art regularly meet to exchange ideas. In addition to the pottery workshop, the neat half-timbered house includes exhibition rooms for permanent and changing expositions as well as an inn with a guesthouse.
- Another attraction is known in the Erfurt-Kranichfeld-Bad Berka area: the Waldgasthaus and Hotel Stiefelburg . The inn is, however, in the district of Nauendorf (for details see there) .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 177.
- ↑ Jakob Dominikus: Erfurt and the Erfurt area. According to geographical, physical, statistical, political and historical conditions. An award typeface co-crowned by the Academy of Useful Sciences in Erfurt. Part 2. Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, Gotha 1793, p. 220 .
- ^ Locations of the administrative district Weimar in the municipality register 1900 .
- ↑ Meckfeld on the website of the city of Bad Berka. Queryed on September 26, 2011.
- ↑ Website Orgelsite.nl .
- ↑ a b Ulrich Völkel : Hospitable Thuringia. Central Thuringia. History, stories, landscape. Verlag Kleine Arche, Arnstadt 1993, ISBN 3-929662-00-0 .
