Auerstedt

Auerstedt Rural community of Bad Sulza Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	150 m above sea level NN
Area :	8.48 km²
Residents :	445  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2012
Postal code :	99518
Area code :	036461
Location of the district in the rural community Bad Sulza
St. Vitus Church

Auerstedt is a district of the rural community of town Bad Sulza in the northeast of the county Weimar area ( Thuringia ). Auerstedt is about 20 kilometers from Naumburg (Saale) and just under 30 km from Jena and Weimar.

location

Auerstedt is located south of the town of Eckartsberga and northwest of the core town of Bad Sulza on the eastern edge of the Thuringian Basin in an arable farming area east of the town of Apolda in a trough-shaped valley of the Emsenbach .

World earth altar of the Friedenskirche

history

Legend has it that the name Auerstedt as "Awartostete" comes from the leader of a clan called Awarto. Auerstedt is mentioned for the first time as "Awartesstete" in a document from the Fulda Tithe Register during the term of office of Abbot Hrabanus Maurus of the Fulda Monastery (and later Archbishop of Mainz ) from 822 to 842 AD (in the Eberhardi Codex ); Another document states that in 1073 King Heinrich IV. (HRR) handed over the entire Villa Owerestetten (Auerstedt) and other places in the exchange of goods to his vassal Boto from Baden during his stay at the Eckartsburg . In older documents Auerstedt was also written Auerstädt . In the middle of the former Auerstedt manor there is a bower that has the character of a self-fortification. It was the seat of the noble family who owned it.

Auerstedt was one of two scenes in the double battle near Jena and Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 between Napoleon's troops and the Prussians and has since gained national fame. Today, among other things, a sandstone memorial plaque on the manor building, numerous battle-related paths and two of the four formerly four (planted around that time) so-called “Napoleon linden trees” remind of this event.

In the war of 1870/71 Auerstedt suffered two war deaths. Together with the war participants from 1866 and 1870/71 as well as a soldier from the colonial wars, you will be commemorated with a war memorial on the square next to the local history museum. The battle of 1806 is also referred to on this monument.

The fallen of the two world wars is commemorated on a memorial in front of the local church. From the First World War, according to the inscriptions on the memorial, 28 local residents did not return, and 44 men died or went missing in the Second World War.

Already from 1992 to 2012 the municipality was administratively part of the fulfilling municipality of Bad Sulza, before it lost its independence as a municipality on December 31, 2012 and, together with other municipalities, was incorporated into Bad Sulza and Bad Sulza thus became the legal successor to the dissolved municipalities.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31st each) :

1994: 505 1995: 508 1996: 507 1997: 498 1998: 497 1999: 504

2000: 510 2001: 500 2002: 504 2003: 498 2004: 492 2005: 480

2006: 482 2007: 478 2008: 471 2009: 464 2010: 458 2011: 455

2013: 445

Data source 1994 to 2011: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
Data source from 2013: Website of the city of Bad Sulza

mayor

The last mayor of the community was Dirk Böhme (Free Voters). Due to the integration into the community, he automatically became the local mayor for the transition period until the new elections in spring 2014 .

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Christian Friedrich von Milkau (probably 1683–1763), manor owner
• Franziskus Justus Frenzel (1740–1823), pastor and botanist
• Hieronymus Müller (1785–1861), philologist
• Ernst Friedrich Nauck (1819–1875), teacher, scientist, school founder and director
• August Nauck (1822-1892), philologist.

People connected to the place

• Johann Adam Kriependorf (from 1802 Krippendorf), (1764–1835), professional soldier, farmer, butcher, author of the description of the battle of 1806
• Johannes Wolter (1892–1964), Protestant pastor of the Confessing Church, reprimanded several times

Attractions

• The Schloss Auerstedt , the Prussian headquarters during the Battle of Auerstedt was, is obtained and is used among other things as a museum. The Förderverein Auerstedt e. V. is dedicated to regional development through international cultural activities in and around Auerstedt. The association's motto is Auerworld is Auerstedt .

The Carriage Museum of the Weimar Classic Foundation is located in Auerstedt Castle . Among other things, the state car, the running bike of the Baden Drais and the wedding carriage of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna are exhibited there.

• The tower of the St. Vitus Church dates from the 12th century. The church itself was rebuilt from 1718 to 1722. The bell in the church tower bears the inscription: "In Auerstedt I hang - I give my sound - I call all Christians - Melchior Moering in Erfurt, poured me in 1588" (Note: Melchior Möring belonged to the Möring family of bell-founders. He was between 1577 and in 1641 mainly active as a piece and bell caster in Erfurt.). In 2006 the church was rededicated to the "Friedenskirche St. Veit" because of its proximity to the area of ​​the battle of Jena and Auerstedt. In the glass containers that are attached under the altar plate, various layers of earth from all over the world come together to create a harmonious overall picture.

• The Maloca Auerworld is a Thuringian-Brazilian joint project based on an Indian Maloca - a tribal building of the Surui Indians in the Amazon-Brazilian rainforest - and is intended to be a community center for children and young people. The inauguration was in April 2006. In the Brazilian province of Rondônia five years earlier (2001) an oval building of the same structure (but not in appearance) was built as a learning house for environmental creativity and a center for global communication. The sponsors of the project are the Auerstedt Association, the international children's aid organization Ourchild and other associations.

• In front of the gates of Auerstedt in the direction of Reisdorf (in a floodplain near the local sports field) is the " Auerworldpalast ", a rooted willow rod construction woven from local willow branches with a diameter of around 25 m, which the Swiss architect Marcel Kalberer designed in 1997/98 with the help of around 300 volunteers from all over the world planted and built. The plant is said to be the world's largest living willow tree. In and around the palace, the Auerworld Festival has been taking place every July since 1999 with many musicians from the region, Germany and all over the world. In the summer months there are also full moon festivals.

On the homepage of the city of Bad Sulza, the Auerstedt architectural monuments are named as follows:

1. Church with equipment
2. Manor house (including memorial plaque Battle of Auerstedt)
3. Dorfplatz 3 - inn and sheepfold
4. Obergasse - rectory
5. Ziegeleistraße 38 - homestead (former brick factory)
6. House No. 114 - former sheep farm with residential house, sheepfold, courtyard wall including gate and gate

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  Auerstedt Castle

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  Old post

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  Maloca in the castle garden

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  Victory and sacrificial column in the village center

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  Station building

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  Willow Rod Palace

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The area around the village consists almost exclusively of agricultural land, which is mainly managed by the Rannstedt agricultural cooperative . In addition to the hotel in the castle, there is another guest house, two restaurants and small businesses in the village. The community also runs a day care center.

traffic

Auerstedt stop (2017)

Auerstedt is on the local traffic thoroughfare L2158 between Reisdorf and Bad Sulza . There are two regular bus connections of the Personenverkehrsgesellschaft mbH Apolda (line 286: Apolda - Eckartsberga and line 288: Apolda - Bad Sulza).

Immediately on the northern outskirts is the station of the Pfefferminzbahn , which has been made barrier-free. Most recently, regional trains ran every two hours on the RB 43 line (route 594) in the direction of Sömmerda via Buttstädt and to Großheringen via Bad Sulza. In December 2017 the train service was stopped. A food and drinks market has opened in the station building.

In Auerstedt, opposite the train station, the Emsenbach cycle path , which is only a few kilometers long and begins in Bad Sulza at the "Louise" graduation house , ends . The path with little incline leads through the Emsenbachtal, a side valley of the Ilm , past the largest vineyard in Thuringia and runs through part of the " Triasland Nature Park " on the border between Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, passing wetlands.

literature

• Ruth-Barbara Schlenker: "Ponapart, a right iron eater and our enemy too" - The battle of Auerstedt and other catastrophes (= PS08 ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Original Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg , Sign. K426 Bl.87r.
2. ↑ On the local history of Auerstedt.
3. ^ Original in the General State Archives Karlsruhe , Sign. A102.
4. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 61-62.
5. ↑ Memorial plaque on the manor building and Vier Napoleonslinden .
6. ↑ To the war memorial for the dead of the two world wars on www.denkmalprojekt.org .
7. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012
8. ↑ Legal successor to the dissolved municipalities .
9. ↑ Carriage Museum  ( 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. .  
10. ↑ Homepage of the Bad Sulza city administration regarding Auerstedt ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
11. ↑ Paul Bellendorf: Metal grave slabs from Franconia and Thuringia from the 15th to 18th centuries - an interdisciplinary study of the existing monuments and their exposure to environmental influences. sn, sl 2007, (Bamberg, University, dissertation, 2007; digitized version of the text part (PDF; 11.6 MB) ).
12. ↑ ^{a b} Tourist Association Weimarer Land e. V., Apolda office, to the Auerworldpalast and to Maloca .
13. ^ Auerstedt on the homepage of the city of Bad Sulza .
14. ^ Personenverkehrsgesellschaft mbH Apolda .
15. ↑ Emsbach-Radwanderweg  ( 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. .  
16. ↑ Emsbach-Radwanderweg course and data ( memento of the original from May 19, 2010 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. .  

Web links

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

• Page about Auerstedt on the homepage of the city of Bad Sulza
• Homepage of the Friends of Auerstedt e. V.