Riethgen

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Sömmerda
Management Community :	Kindelbrück
Height :	131 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.81 km 2
Residents:	235 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99638
Area code :	036375
License plate :	SÖM
Community key :	16 0 68 043
Association administration address:	Puschkinplatz 1 ; 99638 Kindelbrück
Website :	www.vg-kindelbrueck.de
Mayor :	Manuel Höwner (FWG)
Location of the municipality of Riethgen in the district of Sömmerda

Riethgen is a municipality in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative community Kindelbrück , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Kindelbrück .

geography

Riethgen is located southeast of Kindelbrück in the Thuringian Basin .

history

The place was first mentioned in the year 786 in the list of goods of the Hersfeld Abbey . The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Weißensee until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Weissensee in the administrative district of Erfurt the province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

At the end of 1940, 12 Polish forced laborers were working in Riethgen. In 1942, people abducted from the Ukraine were added. Thus, the number of people involved in forced agricultural labor was 29.

On June 6, 1943, two forced laborers, Semon Kalig (born 1919) and Iwan Loritzki (born 1926), tried to escape. The gendarmerie post in Kindelbrück was alerted and a manhunt started. The fate of the two forced laborers is not known.

Today the area of the former Teutonic Order Commende Griefstedt belongs to Riethgen (history and the demolition of castle and church see Griefstedt ).

politics

Municipal council

The local council from Riethgen consists of six members of a free voter group.

mayor

The honorary mayor Manuel Höwner was elected on July 26, 2015.

Evangelical Church 2012

Culture and sights

Evangelical village church
Game reserve close to the community.

Others

During the Second World War , 29 women and men from Poland and Ukraine had to do forced labor in agriculture . Two forced laborers escaped.

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
^ The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900
↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Thuringia . tape 8 . VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 273 .
↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 273.

Web links

Commons : Riethgen - collection of images, videos and audio files

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900

[3] Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Thuringia . tape 8 . VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 273 .

[4] Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 273.