Orlamünde

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Orlamünde (definition of terms ) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 11 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Southern Saale Valley
Height :	207 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.47 km 2
Residents:	1107 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	148 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07768
Area code :	036423
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 065
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 23 07768 Kahla
Website :	www.vg-suedliches-saaletal.de
Mayor :	Uwe Nitsche
Location of the city of Orlamünde in the Saale-Holzland district

The country town of Orlamünde is located in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia at the confluence of the Orla and the Saale between the cities of Jena and Rudolstadt. With an area of ​​758 ha and its 1,140 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015), it is one of the smallest towns in Thuringia and, together with other municipalities, belongs to the administrative community of the southern Saale valley .

View of the upper town of Orlamünde

geography

The upper town of Orlamünde is narrow and elongated on a steep mountain ridge, almost 100 m above the Saale. Other districts are Winzerla and Naschhausen . Orlamü (n) de is shown between the Sala and Main rivers on the Ebstorf world map from the 13th century .

history

Bower

The origin of the city was the border castle Orlamünde, which was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Orlamünde . The Orlamünde castle was built in the 11th century and abandoned in the 15th century. Today only the bower of the castle exists as the former core structure of the Orlamünde castle complex.

Orlamünde was first mentioned in a document in 1039. The Orlamünder already used the water power around 1100, because since 1194 the oldest mill in the middle Saale, the Saalemühle, in Orlamünde is attested. From 1112-1365, the counts were from Orlamünde of the family of Askanier ; Albrecht the Bear was among them . In 1181, his grandson Count Siegfried married Sophie in Schleswig , the daughter of the Danish King Waldemar I. The counts maintained a mint in the village around 1200. In 1523 the reformer Andreas Karlstadt came to Orlamünde from Wittenberg. In 1718 a violation of the beer mile between the citizens of Kahla and Orlamünde led to a beer battle with wounds.

Between the world wars , Orlamünde had over 1,700 inhabitants.

politics

Local elections 2019 Turnout: 68.2% (2014: 62.0%)  % 80 70 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 77.9% 22.1% FWG CDU

Town hall ( location → )

City council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 68.%:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	22.1%	3
FWG Orlamünde	77.9%	9

mayor

Uwe Nitsche (FWG) has been the mayor of Orlamünde since 1999. He was last confirmed in office on June 5, 2016 with 92.2% of the votes cast.

coat of arms

Today's city coat of arms is the historic coat of arms of the former county of Weimar-Orlamünde . The coat of arms description : "In gold with ten red hearts accompanies a black erect lion with a red tongue and similarly colored reinforcement ."

Culture and sights

City Church ( Location → )

The historical landmarks of the city include the bower, the St. Marien church , the late Gothic town hall and the former Wilhelmitenkloster .

The Bielerturm, a 14-meter-high observation tower, was built in 1895 on the Buchberg north-west of Orlamünde .

The Rieseneck hunting grounds are located about five kilometers to the east .

The social life in Orlamünde is characterized by numerous associations, such as the castle association, the radio association, the homeland association, the choral association, the fire brigade association, the Orlamünder youth club, the rabbit breeder association, the sports association, the association for culture and tradition, the rifle association and the carnival association OCV.

For decades, on Shrove Tuesday, winter has been driven out by the “ straw bear parade”.

Memorials

A stele has been used since 1985 to commemorate the concentration camp prisoners who were driven through the village in the spring of 1945 on a death march by the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Legends, sagas and trivia

Orlamünde is known in German sagas for the legend about the White Woman of Orlamünde . This is mentioned in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest , among others . Effi reads from the saga and is terrified. In the legend, Kunigunde von Orlamünde drowns her two children in the so-called Kindelsbrunnen, because her lover Albrecht said that he could not marry her because of two pairs of eyes. Kunigunde thought that meant her children. This, however, was not the case. After her death she is now haunted restlessly by the full moon on the bower in Orlamünde and has already frightened many a visitor. The Kindelsbrunnen can still be found today. It is a little below the bower and has long since stopped running water. Agnes in the form of the white woman as the messenger of death of the Hohenzollern, from whose line Albrecht comes, is a kind of wandering ghost that has inevitably heralded death in various castles over the centuries. Other genders also have their “white women”, but as Theodor Fontane has one of the protagonists say in his novel “Before the Storm”: […] and everything that […] has been written about white women, I read that . Lo and behold, it is and remains the Orlamünderin.

In the opera “Ariane et Barbe-Bleue” by Paul Dukas , the song “The seven girls from Orlamünde” plays a role, the text of which comes from Maurice Maeterlinck .

In the novel The Derailment by Inge von Wangenheim , Orlamünde was the model for the fictional setting of Groß-Naschhausen (quote: “Naschhausen is actually the bottleneck on the huge route Stockholm - Rome”).

Orlamünde Railway Station (2017)

traffic

The lower town on the B 88 as well as on the Saalbahn is named Naschhausen after the former catering house of the Counts of Orlamünde. The branch line to Pößneck , which led to Oppurg until 1946 , branches off at the station there .

Personalities

• Andreas Bodenstein (* around 1482, † 1541), theologian, pastor in Orlamünde
• Paul Crusius (* around 1525 in Coburg, † 1572 in Orlamünde), German Protestant theologian, mathematician and historian
• Andreas Ellinger (* 1526 in Orlamünde, † 1582 in Jena), medic and poet
• Kaspar Glatz (* in Rieden am Forggensee; † 1551 at the Siedelhof near Naschhausen). German Lutheran theologian, pastor in Orlamünde
• Christian Löber (1683–1747), general superintendent in Altenburg
• Martin voter (* 1889 in Orlamünde, † 1953 in Berlin), folklorist and educator
• Dietrich Mania (* 1938 in Orlamünde), archaeologist, geologist and paleontologist
• Winfried Patzer (* 1941), soccer player in the GDR, started his soccer career in Orlamünde
• Reiner Blumentritt (1943 in Orlamünde, † 2019 in Ehingen), local politician and archaeologist
• Andreas Schröder (* 1960) went to school in Orlamünde

literature

• Dietrich Mania : Orlamünde and the surrounding area. An outline of the settlement history from the beginnings to the Middle Ages . With a contribution by Walter Mania. Beier & Beran, Langenweissbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-937517-92-6 , pp. 109 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Werner Mägdefrau , Rainer Lämmerhirt , Dana Lämmerhirt: Thuringian castles and fortifications in the Middle Ages. A trip to the Middle Ages. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2001, ISBN 3-934748-43-0 , p. 33.
3. ↑ Castle complex.
4. ^ 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. 214.
5. ↑ Olaf Klose (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 1: Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 271). 3rd, improved edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-27103-6 , p. 230.
6. ^ Werner Mägdefrau: Thuringian cities and city federations in the Middle Ages. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2002, ISBN 3-936030-34-0 , pp. 43 and 47.
7. ↑ Elbe-Saale-Hopfen gives a good drop. 10th Elbe-Saale Hop Day. Thuringian State Agency for Agriculture, Jena 2010, p. 16.
8. ↑ Beer Mile.
9. ↑ Municipal council election 2019 in Thuringia - Orlamünde
10. ↑ Heike Hentschel: True stories about the Luther Trail in Thuringia . 1st edition. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2017, ISBN 3-89772-293-3 , p. 59/60 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Orlamund in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Orlamünde website
• Orlamünde at Urlaubsland-Thueringen.de