Rustenfelde

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '  N , 10 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Hanstein-Rusteberg
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.15 km 2
Residents:	505 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37318
Area code :	036081
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 082
Association administration address:	Steingraben 49 37318 Hohengandern
Website :	www.vg-hanstein-rusteberg.de
Mayor :	Ulrich Hesse ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Rustenfelde in the Eichsfeld district

Church of St. Peter and Paul

Rustenfelde mt the Rusteberg

Rustenfelde is a municipality in the Hanstein-Rusteberg administrative community in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

geography

Rustenfelde is located on the Rustebach east of the Rohrberg. North of Rustenfelde, the A38 motorway leads from Leipzig to Göttingen . The Arenshausen junction is easily accessible.

history

Rusteberg Castle on an engraving by Merian 1646

The place arose at the foot of the Mainz castle ruin Rusteberg , which was mentioned in a document in 1123 and belonged to Kurmainz until the secularization in 1802 . In 1743 the brothers Wilhelm and Lorenz Osburg founded a hospital for the poor in Rustenfelde. From 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 to 1945 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony .

American low-flying bombs and shelling in April 1945 caused considerable damage to residential buildings and outbuildings in the final phase of World War II . At the beginning of July 1945 the place came under the Soviet occupation zone and was part of the GDR from 1949 . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, Rustenfelde was affected by the closure of the nearby inner-German border . Since 1990 the place belongs to the re-established state of Thuringia.

On August 17, 2015, a devastating storm flooded more than half the local area. One person died and several houses became uninhabitable.

Population development

Population development of Rustenfelde from 1933 to 2018

Development of the population (December 31) :

1933: 503 1939: 500 1945: 650 1946: 675 1950: 636 1961: 584 1970: 565 1984: 497

1994: 512 1995: 509 1996: 507 1997: 501 1998: 502 1999: 502 2000: 493 2001: 489

2002: 504 2003: 504 2004: 498 2005: 503 2006: 502 2007: 506 2008: 510 2009: 513

2010: 501 2011: 504 2012: 504 2013: 498 2014: 483 2015: 482 2016: 483 2017: 494

2018: 504 2019: 505

Data sources: Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  and from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The council of Rustenfelde consists of eight council members.

• CDU : 5 seats
• Nomination for FFw Rustenfelde: 1 seat
• Election proposal TSV 09 eV: 2 seats

(As of: local elections on June 7, 2009)

Local election 2014:

• CDU: 5th
• TSV: 1
• Fire Brigade Association: 1
• Forest cooperative: 1

mayor

The honorary mayor Ulrich Hesse (CDU) was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold above kreuzbesteckter, to the head of the shield-reaching, Green Mountain ., Is a left oblique, overthrown, golden sword over silver wave beams, crossed with a golden key with four ring Ride"

Declaration of coat of arms: The green mountain, which fills a large part of the coat of arms, points to the Rusteberg, while the cross placed in the middle of the symbolic mountain refers to the castle, which has only survived as a ruin. The two patron saints of the village church , Peter and Paul , find their correspondence in the key and the sword, while the wavy bar in the base of the shield indicates the Rustebach.

Attractions

• Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul
• Rusteberg castle ruins
• Cheese stone at the Abendtalmühle

View from Rusteberg to Rustenfelde and the Rohrberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Eichsfeld in a state of emergency , Thüringer Allgemeine , August 17, 2015, accessed on June 8, 2017
3. ↑ Great willingness to help after storms in Rustenfelde , Thüringische Landeszeitung , August 19, 2015, accessed on June 8, 2017
4. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 7th, 2009. Elections for community and city council members. Preliminary results. (PDF; 1.9 MB) The State Returning Officer, accessed on March 10, 2010 . 
5. ↑ http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=GW&wjahr=2014&habenErg=GEM&wknr=061&gemnr=61082
6. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 6, 2010. Elections for community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 6, 2010 . 

Web links

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