Rothenberga

Rothenberga City of Rastenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 1 ″ N , 11 ° 25 ′ 27 ″ E
Height :	266 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	March 25, 1994
Postal code :	99636
Area code :	036377
	Rothenberga Evangelical Church 2012

Rothenberga is a district of the town of Rastenberg in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia .

location

Rothenberga is located north of Rastenberg on state road 2157 and federal road 176 from Sömmerda to Freyburg . The corridor of the district is on the border to Saxony-Anhalt near the villages of Lossa and Billroda .

history

The place is first mentioned in a donation around 700; other sources put the first documentary mention of Rothenberga at 822–842. In 1575 Rothenberga owned 21 houses. In 1806, 1813 and 1814 French soldiers came to the place.

The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Eckartsberga until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Eckartsberga in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th In 1860, the forced labor was abolished for the place. On May 1, 1914, the place was connected to the Finnebahn . In 1924, several residents of the village moved after the potash mine in Rastenberg was closed. In 1929, the farmers gave up sheep farming that had been practiced for centuries and increased the cultivation of grain and potatoes.

At the beginning of April 1945, Rothenberga was shelled by American low-flying planes and tanks. Buildings caught fire. This also included the Rittergutscheune, which served as an emergency hospital and in which 25 German wounded burned or suffocated.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b City districts of Rastenberg on the city's website ( memento of the original from March 12, 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. Retrieved March 6, 2012 @1@ 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. 239.

↑ Places of the Prussian district Eckartsberga in the municipality register 1900 .

↑ Jürgen Möller: The fight for northern Thuringia in April 1945. The fighting in the area north of Mühlhausen-Langensalza and the advance of the V. US Corps from the Werra through the districts of Heiligenstadt, Worbis and Sondershausen to Unstrut and on to the Saale (= end of the war in Central Germany 1945. 1). 2nd, edited edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-212-9 , p. 135.

Web links

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

[Rastenberg-1] City districts of Rastenberg on the city's website ( memento of the original from March 12, 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. Retrieved March 6, 2012 @1@ 2

[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. 239.

[3] Places of the Prussian district Eckartsberga in the municipality register 1900 .

[4] Jürgen Möller: The fight for northern Thuringia in April 1945. The fighting in the area north of Mühlhausen-Langensalza and the advance of the V. US Corps from the Werra through the districts of Heiligenstadt, Worbis and Sondershausen to Unstrut and on to the Saale (= end of the war in Central Germany 1945. 1). 2nd, edited edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-212-9 , p. 135.