Remda Teichel

Remda-Teichel was a town and unified municipality in Thuringia in the northwest of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district on the border with the Ilm district and the Weimarer Land district . Remda-Teichel was at an altitude of 319 m above sea level. NHN and had 2898 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017) on an area of 79.76 km ² . The zip code was 07407 and the area codes were 036744 (Remda) and 036743 (Teichel).

The Remda-Teichel area is one of the oldest settlement areas north of the Thuringian Forest . In the Remda area, graves of Germanic tribes equipped with weapons were found from the beginning of our era. The earliest documentary mentions go back to 750 in connection with deeds of donation from the Fulda monastery . Remda was 1286, Teichelmann 1417 city law . With 543 residents (1994), Teichel was one of the smallest towns in Thuringia, alongside Neumark (Weimarer Land district) and Ummerstadt (Hildburghausen district). Remda-Teichel was created with the Thuringian municipal area reform on January 1, 1997, after the two cities and six other municipalities had already formed a community association since 1974 . The administrative communities Remda and Teichel took precedence over the city.

The municipality was incorporated into Rudolstadt on January 1, 2019 as part of the second round of regional reform in Thuringia in 2018 and 2019 .

City structure

Location of the former town of Remda-Teichel in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district

The municipal area of Remda-Teichel includes the cities and today's districts Remda (with the districts Alt- and Kirchremda ) and Teichel, as well as ten other districts that were independent municipalities until January 1, 1997 .

District	Residents	First mention	District constitution
Ammelstädt	148	1350	Yes
Breitenheerda	170	1294	Yes
Eschdorf	61	1372	Yes
Geitersdorf	86	1372	Yes
Heap field	107	802-817	Yes
Heilsberg	201	822-826	Yes
Milbitz	72	1350	Yes
Remda	873		No
Sundremda	234	750-779	Yes
Teichel	510	1076	Yes
Teichröda	344	1334	Yes
Treppendorf	130	874	Yes

politics

mayor

Horst Engelmann (CDU) has been the city's mayor since Remda-Teichel was founded in 1997. He did not run for the mayoral election in 2015 and ended his official duties at the age of 68 at the end of April. His successor in office is Peter Pabst (Free Voters Remda-Teichel) from Heilsberg .

mayor	Political party	Period
Horst Engelmann	CDU	1997-2015
Peter Pabst	Free voters Remda-Teichel	since 2015

Municipal council

The 2014 election resulted in this distribution of seats:

Citizens for the city of Remda-Teichel: 5 seats
CDU: 5 seats
FDP: 1 seat
Free voters: 2 seats
SPD open list: 1 seat

coat of arms


The coat of arms of Remda-Teichel emerged from the coat of arms of Teichel (left) and Remdas.

The coat of arms was approved on November 3, 2000. The lion in the green field stands for Teichel, the lion in the blue field for Remda. Both motifs refer to the long association with the Grafschaft Schwarzburg and the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

Blazon : “Split by a silver thread; in front, in green, a golden, double-tailed lion, a crowned, looking lion; behind in blue a left-facing golden, red armored, looking lion. "

Culture and sights

Historical monuments

Near the B 85, at the junction of the road to Remda , a large memorial stone commemorates 14 concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war who were tragically victims of a US low-flying attack in 1945 . They were buried in the honor cemetery for the soldiers of the First World War .

A grave monument in the old cemetery in Sundremda commemorates a prisoner of war from Serbia who was shot and who had to do forced labor in the village .

A memorial in the Sundremda New Cemetery commemorates four concentration camp prisoners from Poland who were murdered by SS men when a death march column from the Ohrdruf concentration camp external command passed the place.
Another memorial for Polish victims of fascism was erected on a mountain slope near Sundremda in 1971 .