Oberroßla

Oberroßla City of Apolda Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 15 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 52 ″ E
Height :	218 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	4th February 1994
Postal code :	99510
Area code :	03644
Location of Oberroßla in Thuringia
	Village church

Oberroßla is part of Oberroßla / Rödigsdorf , a district of the city of Apolda in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .

location

Oberroßla is located on the western edge of the core town of Apolda and on the federal road 87 as well as on the southeast edge of the Thuringian Basin . The district is on the best arable land with a high level of yield. The Ilm flows along the northern edge of the corridor . Green erosion channels loosen up the landscape. The place is on the Ilmtal cycle path .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1242. In the district one goes from 1297. The place belonged since the middle of the 15th century to the Ernestine Office Roßla , which in 1572 to Saxe-Weimar , 1603 to Saxe-Altenburg , 1672 again to Saxe-Weimar and 1741 to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach . During the administrative reform of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, the place came to the administrative district Weimar II ( administrative district Apolda ) in 1850 .

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe owned an estate in Oberroßla from 1798 to 1803, which was later destroyed by fire. In 1858 the inn "Zum Schlosshof" was built on the foundation walls of the manor house. The cellar vaults (vegetable cellar and milk vault) are still preserved today.

On March 14, 1974 Rödigsdorf was incorporated into Oberroßla. On February 4, 1994, this community was incorporated into Apolda. The village was dominated by agriculture and is increasingly becoming a town with a rural character.

Attractions

Goethe source and Goethe Birnbaum (an old Margaret Birnbaum) in the former Gutsgarten
Village church from the 18th century
Memorial to the Fallen of the Battle of Sedan
Memorial stone for the victims of the First World War

Personalities

Johann Gottlieb Preller (1727–1786), cantor , composer and surveyor
Carl Ludwig Reimann (1802–1878), medic and physician
Annerose Neumann (1935–2016), first female newscaster on German television

literature

Adolph Doebber Goethe and his estate in Ober-Roßla. According to the files in the Goethe and Schiller Archives a. in walking Main and State Archives in Weimar . In: Yearbook of the Goethe Society 6, 1919, pp. 195–239 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

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. 209.

[1] 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. 209.