Rockhausen
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Rockhausen
Municipality of Wachsenburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '7 " N , 11 ° 2' 26" E
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| Height : | 300 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 4.01 km² | |
| Residents : | 276 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 69 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 2019 | |
| Postal code : | 99102 | |
| Area code : | 0361 | |
Location of Rockhausen in Thuringia |
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Rockhausen is a district of the municipality of Amt Wachsenburg in the Ilm district in Thuringia in Germany and the geographical center of Thuringia.
geography
Rockhausen is twelve kilometers northeast of Arnstadt and 10 km south of Erfurt .
The village is sheltered between the surrounding hills.
The geographical center of the state of Thuringia (intersection of the diagonals of the imaginary rectangle around Thuringia) is located in the local area at the coordinates 50 ° 54 '12 " N , 11 ° 1' 35" O. A marking stone inaugurated here on August 17, 2008 indicates this. Neighboring villages are: starting in the northwest: Waltersleben , Egstedt , Bechstedt-Wagd , Werningsleben , Kirchheim , Eischleben .
history
The origin of the place name Rockhausen is not certain. The place was first mentioned on January 16, 1194 and October 16, 1194 in the Mainz document book 2/588 under the name Rockhusen and is therefore just as old as that of the noble families of Rockhausen . 1257 the place was then called Rockhusen , 1259 Rochhusin , 1277 then Rogehusen , from 1302 Ruchhusen , 1309 Rochusin , later Rockhusin and around 1506 it is mentioned as Roghusen . The place was probably a settlement built by the Franks , which belonged to a system of guard stations. According to the oldest documented form, the name could be derived from the Rugians . According to its name ending “-hausen”, Rughusen would have been an old Franconian royal estate, which indicates that the Franks have established East Germanic rugians here. The place name probably later became the name of the von Rockhausen family . The main part of today's area of the Ilm district originally belonged to the Counts of Kevernburg and later, as an enclave of the Counts of Schwarzburg , belonged to the Arnstadt office in the Schwarzburg special houses suzerainty .
The aristocratic von Rockhausen family sat on a moated castle built before 1240, today's "Liberut", which is still on the northwest side of the village. At that time, the spatial extension of the complex could only have offered space for a family, if one estimates the circular space within the surrounding moat with a diameter of around 15 meters. It should be noted that in addition to the living space, stables and utility rooms were required. In 1851 the property was rebuilt. It still has traces of an irrigated protective ditch, which is fed by a stream flowing past and which washes around half of the property. From the moated castle, the successor building of which is now used as a private house, only small, low wall remains have remained.
There are still stately courtyards in the village, including the rectory - today the Evangelical Church Center. Today's church is a new building from 1690, whose patron was the House of Schwarzburg zu Arnstadt. It is a listed building.
In 1994 Rockhausen came to the Ilm district. From 1997 it belonged to the administrative community Riechheimer Berg . On January 1, 2019, the community left the administrative community together with Kirchheim . Amt Wachsenburg has been a fulfilling community for Rockhausen since then, before it was incorporated into it on December 31, 2019.
Rockhausen has become a residential and private home location.
Population development
Development of the population:
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Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values from December 31st
politics
Former councilor
Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, the Rockhausen community council consisted of 6 councilors, all of whom belonged to the CDU / SPD list.
Former mayor
Uwe Zschetzsche was elected as the last honorary mayor of Rockhausen on January 11, 2015.
Sons and daughters of the church
The noble family von Rockhausen had their ancestral seat here.
Rockhausen Inn
Rockhausen center of Thuringia
Rockhausen middle of Thuringia
Rockhausen: View from the hill to the Inselsberg
Rockhausen coming from Bechstedt-Wagd
Rockhausen the heart of Thuringia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 3, 2019
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on January 1, 2020
- ^ Source for Schwarzburgische and Saxon places: Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843. Available online from Google Books . Source for Prussian places: Handbook of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population figures. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Population development since 1989 (TLUG) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 18 kB)
- ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Elections in Thuringia, municipal council election 2019 in Thuringia, Rockhausen. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
- ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Elections in Thuringia, Mayoral elections in Thuringia, Rockhausen. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
