Schwansee (Großrudestedt)

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Schwansee
community Großrudestedt
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 50 ″  N , 11 ° 5 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 163 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : March 14, 1974
Postal code : 99195
Area code : 036204
Schwansee (Thuringia)
Schwansee

Location of Schwansee in Thuringia

Schwansee is a small village in Central Thuringia, which was incorporated into the neighboring Großrudestedt to the north .

history

To the east of the town was a prehistoric hill fort, of which no remains can be seen today. A Helwich von Schwansee is mentioned in the second half of the 13th century. The Weißfrauenkloster and the foundation of the Great Hospital Erfurt owned Schwansee in the 13th and 14th centuries.

From 1480 on, the swan lake was created on marshy terrain south of the village by damming a body of water and used as a fish pond and for catching birds. In 1545 the fish house was built. The Weimar dukes loved visiting the lake. In 1694, a duck catch was created based on the model of Weißensee and a pleasure house was built in the middle of the lake.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Schwansee bailiwick included the towns of Großrudestedt, Kleinrudestedt and Großmölsen in addition to Schwansee . In the Thirty Years' War Schwansee suffered greatly under billeting, looting and pestilential plagues like the other villages in the area. The surviving population fled to fortified cities, especially Erfurt. In 1642 Schwansee was depopulated except for seven residents , the buildings desolate , the church ruined, the corridor deserted. In 1664 Schwansee lost the official seat with the district court to Großrudestedt. Since 1672 the place with the office Großrudestedt belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach and from 1741 to Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . In 1675/76 a village church was built again.

The lake was drained and reclaimed in 1710, but drained in the late 19th century. A hunting lodge should then be built on the south side. In 1746 the foundation stone was laid for a hunting lodge on the site of the previous administrative office by Duke Ernst August I of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (district forester during the GDR era, now restored in private ownership). The population of swan lake and the other official villages had doing compulsory service to be paid. From 1790 to 1800, the reed-up and partially silted up Schwansee was drained and the land that was gained was planted with trees. This is how the Schwansee Forest grew .

After the fall of the Wall, a new residential area was built in the northwest of Schwansee . In the Schwansee Forest, two renatured ponds were created after 2000 as a compensatory measure for the construction of the federal motorway 71 (southeast of the forest).

In Schwansee there is a quarantine station of the Central German Pig Breeding Association.

Attractions

  • The small village church
  • The listed large pigeon tower
  • The former hunting lodge at the eastern end of the village
  • The nature reserve " Schwanseer Forst " southeast of the village is a hardwood alluvial forest on nutrient-rich soil, which is a refuge for animals from the surrounding agricultural areas. The forest has two renatured ponds and a rich population of wild garlic and greater celandine .

traffic

Country road 2141 (Erfurter Straße) runs through Schwansee from Großrudestedt to Stotternheim . There is a railway connection via Großrudestedt.

literature

  • F. Spieß: History of the village of Großrudestedt in the Grand Duchy of Saxony. With consideration of the area and in the context of the national history. Buchdruckerei Wackes in commission among others, Großrudestedt among others 1912, (Reprint: Möbius, Artern 1997).

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-910141-56-0 , p. 349.
  2. Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure castles. Art and culture of two sovereign building tasks. Shown on Thuringian buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , p. 434, (also: Aachen, Technische Hochschule, dissertation, 2004).

Web links

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