Rittersdorf (Thuringia)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Management Community :	Crane field
Height :	458 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.78 km 2
Residents:	273 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99448
Area code :	036450
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 079
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Mittlere Gasse 41 99448 Rittersdorf
Website :	www.rittersdorf.info
Mayor :	Johannes Rokosch
Location of the municipality of Rittersdorf in the Weimarer Land district

Rittersdorf is a municipality in the south of the Weimarer Land district and part of the Kranichfeld administrative community .

Geography and geology

The village lies on a trough-shaped high plateau of the Ilm-Saale-Kalkplatte and can be reached via the state road 87 from Stadtilm to Kranichfeld via a steadily ascending local road that runs through a forest. Another connection exists via the provincial road 1060 from Bad Berka to Tannroda . Geologically, the district of Rittersdorf is on the edge of the Thuringian Basin. The geological origin is shell limestone remote from the groundwater . The Mohrenthal settlement is part of Rittersdorf.

History and present

St. Georg Church in Rittersdorf (2012)

The place is a Franconian foundation around 1150. The first documented mention of the place was on August 25, 1311. Rittersdorf was and is an agricultural place.

The dominant feature (in 2012) is the cultivation of rape in the surrounding fields ("energy crops"). The energy cooperative Rittersdorf eG supplies solar power for the first Thuringian green power tariff with regionally generated solar power.

There are beautifully renovated half-timbered residential and farm buildings in the townscape, mostly earlier farmhouses, but partly overlaid with insulation panels. The church of St. George has been restored.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Rittersdorf consists of six council members, who were elected by proportional representation in the local elections on May 25, 2014 , and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	FDP	Association of Rittersdorf	total
2014	2	4th	6 seats

mayor

Mayor of Rittersdorf is Johannes Rokosch, who was elected on June 6, 2010.

Awards

In November 2015, Rittersdorf was named an "Energy Commune". The decisive factor was the local production of renewable energies by a community energy cooperative , among other things with the help of a solar park on a former garbage dump and supported by a regional green electricity tariff.

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. 233.
3. ↑ first-oekostromtarif-mit-regionally-generated-solar-power-share  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Rittersdorf eG energy cooperative
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Thuringia: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ AEE: Rittersdorf energy cooperative produces and consumes green electricity on site. Press release, November 30, 2015

Web links

Commons : Rittersdorf (Thuringia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• VG Kranichfeld
• Place Rittersdorf
• Info portal of the Middle Ilm Valley