Horse village (Unterbreizbach)

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Horse village
Community of Unterbreizbach
Coat of arms of Pferdsdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : approx. 242 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.33 km²
Residents : 476  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1996
Postal code : 36414
Area code : 036962
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Location of Pferdsdorf in Unterbreizbach
In the center of Pferdsdorf / Rhön (2012)
In the center of Pferdsdorf / Rhön (2012)

Pferdsdorf ( also Pferdsdorf / Rhön to separate it from the district of Pferdsdorf , which is also located in the Wartburg district and belongs to Krauthausen ) is a district of the community of Unterbreizbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Horse village is located south of Unterbreizbach in the Ulster valley . The geographic height of the place is 242  m above sea level. NN . The stream Mosa flows through the village, coming from the village of Mosa via Hüttenroda and Mühlwärts to flow into the Ulster at Pferdsdorf.

Pferdsdorf is nestled between Eichberg and Kornberg in the west and the Ulsterberg in the east. Due to the large number of slopes, the fields in Pferdsdorf are used agriculturally, especially as pastures and grassland. Fertile arable land is mainly available in the Ulsteraue north of Pferdsdorf.

Pferdsdorf is located in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . The Ulsteraue nature reserve extends south of the village.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 912. From 1280 to 1450 a noble family named themselves after the place, their seat is presumed in the Herrengasse. The local evangelical church was built around 1600. The village green of Pferdsdorf was surrounded by a stone wall and preserved the prominent rank of the village school with its raised stone seat. Linden trees stood around the circular complex in the center of the village.

The place belonged for centuries to the Hessian office Vacha , which from 1815 was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .

Potash mining began in the vicinity of the village from 1905 , which led to an economic boom. In 1996, a unified community with Unterbreizbach was formed. Along the Hessian-Thuringian state border, horse village section, there was a small burial ground with Bronze Age barrows , it was described on the hillside between Meiselgraben and Winkelgraben and leveled on the Thuringian side during the expansion of the border barriers . Today designated as a border hiking trail in the " Green Belt " nature reserve, several historical heraldic stones can still be found here as border markings.

traffic

Until 1952, the place had a stop on the Ulstertal Railway, which ran through the district . The station building has been preserved and is used as a residential building.

Pferdsdorf is connected to the state road from Sünnabach Unterbreizbach via a district road. In addition, a municipal road leads south in Mühlwärts to federal road 84 . There are also road connections to Wenigentaft and the neighboring Hessian towns.

The Ulster Cycle Path now runs here, partly on the old railway line, as part of the Rhön Cycle Path and the Hesse Railway Cycle Path .

Half-timbered house in Pferdsdorf / Rhön (around 1910)

Personalities

Willi Vock (* 1952), lawyer and professor for traffic law in the department of economics

literature

  • Karlheinz Männecke: Pferdsdorf / Rhön - History in words and pictures (Festschrift for the 1100 year celebration in July 2012) . Ed .: Community administration Pferdsdorf / Rhön. Printing works Erb, Geisa 2012, p. 730 .

Web links

Commons : Pferdsdorf  - 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. ^ Georg Voss (ed.): Horse village. In: Thuringia's architectural and art monuments. Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Vacha District Court District. Booklet XXXVII. Publisher = Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena 1911 p. 59
  3. ^ Own research on site (1995).