Schafstädt

Schafstädt City of Bad Lauchstädt
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 55 "  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 34"  E
Height :	147 m above sea level NN
Area :	22.94 km²
Residents :	2015  (March 31, 2015)
Population density :	88 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2008
Postal code :	06246
Area code :	034636
Location of Schafstädt in Bad Lauchstädt

Schafstädt is a district of the city of Bad Lauchstädt in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).

location

Schafstädt is located in the Laucha valley , in an agriculturally intensively used loess loam area .

history

City church St. Johannis with Ladegast organ

Schafstädt manor house

Menhir

In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery , created between 881 and 899, Schafstädt is mentioned for the first time in a document as the place of Scabstedi im Friesenfeld, which is subject to a tithing obligation . In 1558 Schafstädt was granted town charter and accordingly celebrated 450 years town charter in 2008. On November 6, 1747 around 1 a.m., lightning struck the church tower in Schafstädt and set it on fire. The tower burned down and the church bells melted.

Until 1815, Schafstädt belonged to the Lauchstädt district of Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place to Prussia came and was Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which he belonged until 1,952th Since 1952 Schafstädt has belonged to the Merseburg district , which was added to the Merseburg-Querfurt district in 1994 and the Saale district in 2007.

In 1962 a menhir from the Neolithic Age was found in Schafstädt , which is now located in Halle in the State Museum for Prehistory .

On January 1, 2008, the formerly independent town of Schafstädt was incorporated into Bad Lauchstädt.

politics

The local mayor of the Schafstädt district is Klaus Andres (CDU).

Memorials

• Significant graves in the local cemetery :
  • Grave site for two Soviet citizens known by name , two women who were abducted to Germany during the Second World War and were victims of forced labor .
  • Crypt of the von Weidlich family

traffic

Former station building (2007)

The Schafstädt station was the end point of the Merseburg – Schafstädt railway line , which via Bad Lauchstädt established a connection to the Merseburg station on the Thuringian Railway . This route was supposed to be closed on December 31, 2007, but was temporarily extended by the Ministry of the Interior LSA . Since the station building is no longer in use, the line has been shortened by 250 m. Since then, the trains have stopped at the old beet washing facility on a new platform on the side opposite the station building. The route was discontinued when the timetable changed in December 2014. Schafstädt can now be reached by the PlusBus 728 of the Merseburg-Querfurt local public transport company , which is part of the Saxony-Anhalt state network .

On December 5, 2008 the A38 motorway in the area north of Schafstädt was completed and relieves the local passage of the L 172. A departure is named after Schafstädt.

sports clubs

• SG Schafstädt 99 (tennis and volleyball)
• SV Germania Schafstädt (soccer, bowling, table tennis)

Personalities

• Christoph Weidlich (1713–1794), lawyer and author of biographical works
• Julius von Kirchmann (1802–1884), lawyer and politician
• Karl Wilhelm Penzler (1816–1873), pastor in Stüdenitz
• Christina Bührmann (* 1945), politician
• Hanka Rackwitz (* 1969), reality TV actress

Web links

Commons : Schafstädt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
3. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008
4. ↑ Local transport: In the future, buses instead of trains will travel on three routes ( memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Bus 728 will connect Merseburg with Bad Lauchstädt and Schafstädt as a regional line in the future ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Timetable 2015: The most important innovations in the regional rail-bus network ( memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.