Petersberg (Saale-Holzland district)

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Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′  N , 11 ° 50 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Fulfilling municipality :	Eisenberg
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.37 km 2
Residents:	286 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07616
Area code :	036691
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 067
Association administration address:	Market 27 07607 Eisenberg
Website :	www.stadt-eisenberg.de
Mayoress :	Wilma Kunze
Location of the community Petersberg in the Saale-Holzland district

View of Petersberg

Petersberg is a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district . The fulfilling municipality is the district town of Eisenberg . The districts Petersberg, Aubitz and Kischlitz belong to the community .

location

Petersberg lies in the valley of the Wethau , which rises on the eastern edge of the Tautenburger forest and a spring next to the inn to the three billy goats . In terms of traffic, the village is covered by district road 138, which has a connection to federal road 7 and state road 201. Immediately after the Wachhügel , the federal motorway 9 leads east with a connection at Eisenberg.

history

The village of Petersberg in the valley of the Wethau owes its foundation to the Cistercian convent Petersberg in the middle of the 13th century. The monastery is said to have existed as early as 1148. The village was first mentioned on September 8, 1259. It belonged to the Wettin district office of Eisenberg , which was under the sovereignty of various Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of its existence . In 1826 the place came with the southern part of the Eisenberg district office and the city of Eisenberg from the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . From 1920 he belonged to the Free State of Thuringia.

Aubitz was incorporated at the beginning of 1976 and Kischlitz at the beginning of 1974.

Attractions

• The current church of St. Peter and Paul ( location → ) is the second at this point, the third in the history of the place. In 1893 the old church was not renovated and instead the new church was built in the neo-Gothic style - bricks.
• On the south exposed high edge of the ridge north of the B7 on the parcels "Rosenhain" and "Beuche" one found many flint tools and tees from the Mesolithic. Now you can hardly find any traces, as the cultivation by the farmers has been intensified. In the eastern part of these properties in 1219 the desert village "Pichene" was located.

literature

• Elke-Ursel Hammer: Cistercian convents in Thuringia. Using the example of Petersberg near Eisenberg, (city) Roda and Jena. In: Yearbook for Central German Church and Order History. Vol. 7, 2011, ISSN  1861-7662 , pp. 173-189.
• Friedhelm Jürgensmeier , Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia (= Germania Benedictina . 4: Hesse and Thuringia. Vol. 2). Volume 2. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 , pp. 1269-1287.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ 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. 47
3. ↑ Church of St. Peter and Paul Petersberg on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Eisenberg ( Memento of the original of February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 2, 2012 
4. ↑ Sven Ostritz (Ed.): Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Ost (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia. H. 9). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 48.

Web links

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