Schlotheim

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Schlotheim
Rural community town of Nottertal-Heilinger Heights
Coat of arms of Schlotheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 243 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.4 km²
Residents : 3559  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 159 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2019
Postal code : 99994
Area code : 036021
Schlotheim (Thuringia)
Schlotheim

Location of Schlotheim in Thuringia

Schlotheim is a district of the city and rural community of Nottertal-Heilinger Heights in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia (Germany).

geography

Geographical location

Schlotheim is located in the middle of Germany in a hilly landscape in the northwest of the Thuringian Basin . It is the namesake of the Hercynian , that is from northwest to southeast, running Schlotheimer Graben , whose course merges here from the valley of the Notter to the Marolteroder Bach , which flows into the local area and is flanked in the second section by the Heilinger Heights .

Notter in Schlotheim

To the north, the urban area extends into the southeastern slope of the Dün .

Local division

In addition to the core town, the districts of Mehrstedt and Hohenbergen belong to Schlotheim.

Neighboring places Schlotheim are Bothenheilingen , Issersheilingen , Kleinwelsbach , Körner , Marolterode , Neunheilingen and Obermehler .

history

The Kirchberg, also known as the Alte Schanze, was occupied by a hill fort south of the current city on the Notter lowland on an area of ​​five hectares as early as the Neolithic. Traces of settlement and flint tools as well as Roman coins were found. The Wallburg was probably a place of escape, cult and meeting place. Remnants of the wall can still be seen in addition to elevations in the area.

In the 10th century Schlotheim was a royal court with a castle. Schlotheim Castle was first mentioned in 974, while Wolfgang Kahl documents the first mention of the place in the period from 802 to 817. Under the Landgrave Ludwig III. is called a Günther von Schlotheim , who is also called under Herrmann I. am Hof. This Schlotheim accompanied Ludwig to Otranto and died like his master of typhus . The people of Schlotheim also owned a castle, but lost ownership and influence in the turmoil of the Wettins. In 1277 Schlotheim was granted city rights . The city came to the County of Hohnstein in 1323 and became part of Schwarzburg in 1340 . In 1425 Friedrich von Hopffgarten bought the town and castle from Count Heinrich von Schwarzburg. From 1571 it belonged to Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and from 1599 to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . Since then, Schlotheim was an exclave of the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt subordinate rule . In 1768 the Hopffgarten had the castle demolished and today's Schlotheim Palace built in its place .

The cultivation of hemp and flax has been a tradition since the Middle Ages and formed the basis of line weaving and rope making. The earliest mention of a Schlotheim rope maker can be found in a document from the former Schlotheim monastery from the year 1387. However, it was not until 1624 that the branch of industry started up again with the settlement of the non-local rope master Peters . The ropes of Gottfried Heinrich Angermann and that of his descendants (Martini family) represent the transition to belt weaving, with which the city's first manufacturing operations emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Erfurt textile wholesaler Krakrügge initiated the construction of the first factory in 1836. Around 1850 more than 50 craft and industrial companies were producing ropes, belts and belts in Schlotheim. Here, the transmission belts for the steam engines operated in large numbers at that time were of economic importance. The Schlotheim resident August Reuschel founded the drive belt rope factory through further technical improvements and thus became one of the wealthiest residents of the city. At the turn of the century, the Schlotheim trade directory listed nineteen industrial companies in the Seiler branch. By 1989 Schlotheim had built up to 2,500 jobs in the weaving and rope making. The parent company of VEB Kombinat SPONETA, which specializes in sporting goods, was located in Schlotheim. This company was founded in 1953 and successfully privatized in 1993.

From 1836 a rope making tradition developed. Schlotheim was connected to the railway network in 1897 and taken off the network 100 years later. In July 1997 the ceremonial opening of the airfield took place.

In 2006, the city of Schlotheim's various investments increased its debt to over € 13.114 million. This makes a per capita debt of 3,804 euros, if you add the debt of the company's own businesses, the per capita debt increases to 5,604 euros (as of 2007).

From 2015, around 700 refugees assigned to the Unstrut-Hainich district were housed in collective accommodation in the vacant settlement next to the airfield. This concentrated accommodation was criticized both by the city and by the refugee council, as it is seen as an obstacle to integration and exceeds the possibilities of the small town. The district administration justified its approach with limited financial resources and a lack of capacities in other places, so that the community accommodation should continue to be operated on this size until 2020. The result of the dissatisfaction was a high election result of 39.9% for the alternative for Germany in the 2017 federal election .

On December 31, 2019, the city of Schlotheim merged with other communities to form the city and rural community of Nottertal-Heilinger Höhen. The communities were previously united in the Schlotheim administrative community, which was dissolved at the same time.

politics

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 56.2% (2014: 48.4%)
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50
40
30th
20th
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43.5%
(-5.6  % p )
23.7%
(-6.2  % p )
23.0%
( n.k. )
9.7%
(-6.1  % p )
BSO c
2014

2019

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Remarks:
c Citizens' Alliance Schlotheim - Obermehler eV
town hall

Former city council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / list Seats +/-
CDU 7th - 1
SPD 4th - 1
The left 1 - 1
Citizens' Alliance Schlotheim - Obermehler eV (BSO) 4th ± 0

Former mayor

Hans-Joachim Roth (CDU) was elected mayor in September 2012 and held this office until Schlotheim was dissolved.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green a silver drudenefoot ."

Old coat of arms

During the GDR era , the pentagram was accompanied by six silver stars . A padlock in the coat of arms was the beginning around the 16th century and the current coat of arms has been known since 1505.

Culture and sights

  • The town church of St. Servator , originally a Romanesque church building, was rebuilt in a simplified manner after a fire in 1547. After the "Wende", the necessary renovation was also carried out with funds from the German Foundation for Monument Protection. On the south side of the church you can find tombstones of former pastors in Schlotheim.
  • In the churchyard there is an impressive memorial for the fallen and missing soldiers from both world wars
  • Several town houses (half-timbered) and a historic windmill have been preserved in Schlotheim . There is a memorial for Thomas Müntzer .
  • In the past, Schlotheim Castle was the residence of the Hopffgarten family , who have determined the history of the town since 1425. In 1768 the old castle was torn down and a stately baroque palace was built. The castle, the sheep farm and the forester's house still exist from the former castle complex. After the Second World War, the castle served as a restaurant, library and senior citizens' club and is now home to a therapeutic and therapeutic facility for children and young people.
  • Of the former four windmills and two water mills in the city, only the "Linkemühle", built in 1861 as an Erdholländer and now a listed building, has been preserved. The stone tower was enlarged in 1922 by reconstruction to a height of 13 meters. The mill was in operation until 1948 and was supported by an electric auxiliary motor when there was no wind. In the GDR era, the mill was used as a material store for the Sponeta company. In 1992 the city acquired the mill complex, which also includes a larger half-timbered building, from the Treuhand Foundation in order to save the building from demolition. Since 2007, the local homeland and history association and the Thuringian mill association have been trying to save the technical monument .
  • The rope museum is located next to the windmill in a two-storey half-timbered building, which was originally built in 1896 on the company premises of Friedrich August Müller in Talstraße. As a result of a necessary renovation, the completely dismantled building was moved to Bahnhofstrasse in 1957 and was rebuilt on the premises of VEB Sponeta; it served as a production building until 1989.
  • Since 2011, takes place every year on the airfield Obermehler-Schlotheim the north-west of Schlotheim Extreme Metal - Festival Party.San instead.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

In addition to the industrial rope making, sports and camping items, school furniture and chairs and leather goods are also manufactured in Schlotheim. There is also an automotive supplier and a plastics processing facility.

Educational institutions

In addition to primary and regular schools, there is also a grammar school in Schlotheim.

traffic

Schlotheim station , 1996

The station Schlotheim was on the railway line Ebeleben Mulhouse . Freight traffic was discontinued at the end of 1994 and passenger traffic on May 31, 1997. The line has been closed since August 15, 1998 .

Schlotheim is connected to the regional line 131 and the regional line 130 ( Mühlhausen - Sondershausen ).

Schlotheim can be reached via federal highway 249 ( Eschwege –Sondershausen) .

Personalities

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 158.
  2. Werner Mägdefrau : Thuringia in the Middle Ages 1130-1310. From the Ludowingers to the Wettins (= Thuringia in the Middle Ages. Vol. 3). Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-152-8 , p. 136.
  3. ^ 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. 158.
  4. Wilfried Warsitzka: The Thuringian Landgrave. Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena 2004, ISBN 3-932906-22-5 , p. 203.
  5. a b N.N .: The Schlotheim rope museum . In: hainichlandaktiv . No. 7, 2007, p. 3-4 .
  6. Gudrun Schnetter: Debt of the public budgets and their publicly determined funds, institutions and economic enterprises end of 2007. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, March 2009. (PDF; 956 kB).
  7. Citizens' alliance makes its voice heard: Refugees in the Schlotheim City Council Topic , in: Thüringer Allgemeine from April 12, 2017
  8. ^ Debate about the accommodation of refugees in the Unstrut-Hainich district , in: Thüringer Allgemeine from May 20, 2017
  9. 800 refugees per 3,600 inhabitants: “They need a memorandum” , in: Aargauer Zeitung of September 6, 2017
  10. Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on January 14, 2020
  11. a b City council election 2019 in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  12. http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=GW&wjahr=2014&habenErg=GEM&wknr=064&gemnr=64057
  13. http://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wJahr=0000&zeigeErg=GEM&auswertung=1&wknr=064&gemnr=64057&terrKrs=&gemteil=000&buchstabe=&Langname=&wahlvorschlag=&sort=&druck=&XLS=&anzahlH=- 6 & Non_existing = & x_vollbildDatteil = & optik = & aktuell = & ShowLand = & ShowWK = & ShowPart = & w_date = 30.09.2012
  14. Schlotheim. In: Karlheinz Blaschke , Gerhard Kehrer, Heinz Machatscheck: Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the German Democratic Republic. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1979.
  15. ^ City administration Schlotheim: Schlotheim - Seilerstadt . In: moment. The culture magazine from the middle of Germany . No. 6, 2008, ZDB -ID 2192647-5 , p. 23-24 .
  16. Frank Blaß: The Schlotheimer windmill . In: moment. The culture magazine from the middle of Germany . No. 6, 2008, p. 25-26 .

Web links

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