Middle courtyard

Middle courtyard City of Eisenach Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 57 ″  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 11 ″  E
Height :	305 m
Postal code :	99817
Area code :	03691
The middle courtyard in the Eisenach district of Hötzelsroda

Overview plan to the middle courtyard

Mittelhof is a settlement and a former estate in the Hötzelsroda district of the independent city of Eisenach .

location

The Mittelhof is located three kilometers (as the crow flies) northeast of Eisenach city center. The geographic height of the place is 300  m above sea level. NN . The former farms Landstreit , Dürrerhof and the deserted Frohnishof are within a radius of around one kilometer . Large parts of the corridor of Mittelhof, which was once used for agriculture, have now been converted into industrial and commercial areas, traffic structures and housing estates, the location and extent of which is shown in the graphic below.

• As early as the 1930s, the so-called BMW settlement was built on the east side of Eisenacher Strasse between the historic location of Hötzelsroda and Dürrerhof, today the southern part of Hötzelsroda with the striking water tower. This settlement for the former BMW aircraft engine plant at Dürrerhof extends to the immediate north of the PEP wholesale market.
• Since the 1990s, around 100 residential buildings have also been built along the west side of Eisenacher Strasse in several expansion phases.
• In the corridor between Dürrerhof and Mittelhof, the industrial park on Dürrerhofer Allee was built in the mid-1990s ; it is the location of several forwarding and logistics companies.
• On the eastern edge of the middle courtyard, the PEP was also built as an Eisenach wholesale market in the mid-1990s. PEP is the abbreviation for Prima Shopping Park Hötzelsroda. In addition to the shopping center, there is already a gas station, a car dealership and various service companies. Which belongs to the PEP bus stop PEP of Eisenacher urban transport (public transport) also serves the residents of the settlement Mittelshof. There are direct road connections to the Eisenach districts of Stregda (2 km in the west), Stockhausen (2 km in the east), Hötzelsroda (1.5 km in the north).
• The Eisenach branch of Robert BOSCH AG, which is located on Robert-Bosch-Allee , barely 500 m north on Wartenberg and Landgrafenberg , was built in the early 1990s.
• The next motorway exit is at Großenlupnitz (Eisenach Ost exit) on federal motorway 4 . As an access road to the aforementioned industrial areas and the northern parts of the city, district road 2A was built in the mid-1990s immediately south of the Mittelhof estate; the western section (Stregda to the roundabout at PEP) was later upgraded to state road 1021.

history

The Mittelhof manor in its heyday (around 1880)

Mittelhof (also known as Metzelsroda ) was first mentioned in 1542, the settlement indicates the actual time of origin of the place Metzelsroda, accordingly Metzelsroda with the neighboring places Hötzelsroda, Berteroda, Bolleroda and Ütteroda belongs to the group of clearing sites that were part of the late Middle Ages of the state development funded by the Thuringian Landgraves. In the past, i.e. before it was first mentioned, the estate was temporarily owned by the Lords of Creutzburg . The place and the neighboring Dürrerhof belonged to the village of Stockhausen until the late 19th century .

As a result of the economic boom of the Eisenach worsted yarn spinning mill, the Eisenach family of manufacturers from Eichel came into possession of most of the manors north of Eisenach around 1840 in order to operate sheep farming as the raw material base for their spinning mill itself. The neighboring Dürrerhof was converted into a stately country house while the central courtyard was rebuilt in a central location as a manor. Around the lavishly designed inner courtyard are stables and barns, outbuildings and the main house of the estate manager. A small park with a pond was created on the west side. Only a few buildings of the building complex remained, most of the outbuildings were only demolished in a ruinous state after the fall of the Wall, as their renovation seemed uneconomical.

In 1879, based on the 1875 census , statistical information on the location was published for the first time. In the place, which was still called Metzelsroda, lived 20 inhabitants. The size of the field was 87.1 ha, of which farms and gardens 0.8 ha, meadows 3.1 ha and arable land 59.4 ha, forest 4.1 ha, ponds, streams and rivers 0.5 ha, on paths, Trifte, wasteland and orchards accounted for 6.2 ha.

Web links

Commons : Mittelhof  - 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. ↑ www.creutzburg-germany.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2015 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. Retrieved August 15, 2012 
3. ^ C. Kronfeld, Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879.