Ring life (near Gebesee)

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 10 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Sömmerda
Management Community :	Gera-Aue
Height :	153 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.56 km 2
Residents:	497 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	76 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99189
Area code :	036201
License plate :	SÖM
Community key :	16 0 68 045
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 13 99189 Gebesee
Website :	www.ringleben.net
Mayor :	Jürgen Vollrath ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Ringleben in the district of Sömmerda

Village church

Ringleben is a municipality in the Thuringian district of Sömmerda . Ringleben has been a member of the Gera-Aue administrative community since April 9, 1994 .

geography

The municipality of Ringleben is located on the Gera , about 15 kilometers northwest of the state capital Erfurt in the immediate vicinity of the city of Gebesee .

history

At the beginning of the 9th century, Ringleben was first mentioned as Ringelebo in a list of the goods lent by Archbishop Lullus († 786) of Mainz to the monastery of Hersfeld von Free . The castle in Ringleben was destroyed by King Rudolf I in 1290 , and in 1309 the place was devastated by Landgrave Johann von Hessen . Landgrave Friedrich of Thuringia handed over the place Ringleben including jurisdiction to the Carthusian monastery of Erfurt in 1433 . Ring life came to the Electorate of Saxony during the partition of Leipzig in 1485 of the Ernestines .

In 1542 the " Amt Ringleben " was formed , to which the three places Ringleben, Mittelhausen and Riethnordhausen belonged. After the Wittenberg surrender in 1547, the Ringleben office remained in the possession of the Ernestines. It came in Erfurt division in 1572 to the duchy of Saxe-Weimar . After the death of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar , the Ringleben office came to the newly created Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach in 1662 . In 1672 the Ringleben office was incorporated into the Großrudestedt office. From 1741 it belonged to Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach .

Due to the effects of the Congress of Vienna , the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach was elevated to a Grand Duchy in 1815 . In return for numerous territorial gains, the place Ringleben was given over by the Grand Duchy to Prussia and incorporated into the district of Erfurt in the province of Saxony , to which Ringleben belonged until 1944.

During the Second World War , Polish forced laborers arrived in Ringleben in the spring of 1940. Women and men abducted from Ukraine followed . After the bars on the windows of a house in Dorfstrasse 64a, it served as accommodation for French prisoners of war in 1942 and in 1943 for Russian prisoners of war who came from Stalag IX C Bad Sulza . This command had a strength of 25 to 45 men who had to work for local farmers.

traffic

The Ringleben-Gebesee station is on the Wolkramshausen – Erfurt railway line . The regional express from Nordhausen to Erfurt stops here every hour . The state capital can be reached in 17 minutes.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ History of the community of Ringleben near Gebesee
3. ^ Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia. Issue 16: Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. District court districts Grossrudestedt and Vieselbach. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1892, p. 1 .
4. ^ History of Ring Life
5. ↑ Locations of the Prussian district of Erfurt in the municipal directory 1900
6. ↑ 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 - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 274 .

Web links

Commons : Ringleben  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• thueringenfotos.de - Photos from the village from 1988
• Official website of the municipality of Ringleben