Schwerborn

Schwerborn State capital Erfurt Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 14 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 44"  E
Height :	188  (182-204)  m
Area :	6.91 km²
Residents :	595  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	86 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1994
Postal code :	99095
Area code :	036204
Location of Schwerborn in Erfurt

St. Lukas village church ( location → )

Schwerborn lake south of Stotternheim, looking to the southwest ( location → )

Schwerborn is a district of the Thuringian capital Erfurt .

geography

Schwerborn is located northeast of the Erfurt city center in the Thuringian Basin in a flat, forest-poor environment that is characterized by agriculture. North of the village is the Galgenhügel (221 m), southwest of the Fuchsberg (204 m), to the south of the Kleine Rote Berg, the Schindeberg (220 m) and the Schwabenberg (234 m), further away to the southeast the Große Katzenberg (235 m) and the Kleine Katzenberg (236). The Erfurt lakes west of the village are particularly characteristic of the landscape . These are flooded former gravel pits. The most important of the Erfurt lakes near Schwerborn are the Sulzer See , the Schwerborn See and the Stotternheimer See .

Neighboring villages are Stotternheim in the northwest, Udestedt in the northeast and Kleinmölsen , Töttleben and Kerspleben in the southeast.

history

The place name could be derived from Suebenborn (from Germanic Suebi who settled here at a spring). Schwerborn was first mentioned in a document in 876. Then the names Sueribrunno and Swerboran appeared. Since the 15th century Schwerborn has belonged to the approximately 85 villages of the city ​​of Erfurt , which in 1664 had to subordinate it to Kurmainz . At the Congress of Vienna Schwerborn and Stotternheim were added to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ( Amt Vieselbach ) in contrast to the city of Erfurt and the rest of the Gispersleben office, which became Prussian . So it remained in the district of Weimar until 1952 , before it came to the district of Erfurt-Land in the year that it remained until it was incorporated on July 1, 1994.

Population development

• 1843: 345
• 1910: 397
• 1939: 538
• 1990: 516
• 1995: 602
• 2000: 667
• 2005: 659
• 2010: 592
• 2015: 603

Economy and Transport

Schwerborn does not have its own commercial areas, but the large industrial and commercial areas in the north of Erfurt are only about three kilometers southwest.

The Erfurt-Schwerborn landfill is located north of the village . It has been in operation since 1976 and used to be known as a “stinking mountain of rubbish”. The 92 hectare landfill has been modernized since 1990. Twenty percent of the area has been renatured through various measures. Among other things, Scottish soay sheep graze on the green areas and thus maintain the vegetation. The recultivated so-called old body of the landfill is developing into a "natural idyll" with rich flora and fauna. Brown hares, deer, hedgehogs and red kites have settled here.

South of Schwerborn, on the Katzenberg area, there are over a dozen wind turbines (2015). Now the company Enercon wants to build eight more wind turbines there, which are closer to the place and of which three are to be 185 m high. If the planning is already advanced, the district advisory board and the district mayor position themselves against the project. They only found out about it by chance.

Schwerborn is located at the Erfurt-Nord triangle of the federal highway 71 with the Erfurt Osttangente. The A71 can be reached via the Erfurt-Stotternheim junction and the Osttangente via the Erfurt-Roter Berg junction. Schwerborn is connected to Erfurt via Schwerborner Straße , the northern continuation of Magdeburger Allee. Another road connects the village with Stotternheim. The nearest train stations are Stotternheim and Erfurt-Ost on the Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway line . The place is connected to the local public transport via a city bus.

St. Luke village church

The church, originally dedicated to St. Nicholas , is located in the middle of the village. The street Nicolausberg on the northern outskirts is probably named after this name . Not far from this street there used to be a small chapel on a vineyard belonging to the monks of the nearby Cistercian monastery Barkhausen, a daughter of the Georgenthal monastery . Due to the lively trade with Italy, where the worship of St. Luke comes from, the name St. Luke for church prevailed over the centuries.

In terms of its architectural history, the church can be dated to before 1540. On the west side of the nave it has a late-Gothic tower with a square floor plan and a slate-covered pyramid roof and a high octagonal tip, crowned by a tower button with a weather vane . The tower was built in the early 17th century. On the South and the west side of him dating wall inscriptions on 1614. The tower houses a ground floor as in the 1930s baptistry upgraded room with wooden cross vault . The large baptismal font in the tower room dates from the 16th century and was originally in the chancel.

The nave has a rectangular plan, its eastward with a hipped final gable roof has on each eaves two roof house with Okulifenstern. The interior is dominated by a large pulpit altar (built in 1753) in the east of the church. On the west side, across from him, there is a small ivory organ, without a prospectus. Another sacrament niche in the south wall is worth mentioning . The current interior design is essentially based on a renovation in the last third of the 19th century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843.
3. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
4. ↑ 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). 
5. ^ Thuringian State Office for Environment and Geology: Environment regional.
6. ↑ Population of the city districts
7. ↑ Julius Kasper Topp: Schwerborn against wind farm enlargement. Eight new wind turbines are to be built. Residents don't like that at all . Thuringian newspaper, January 23, 2015
8. ^ Website of the parish of Stotternheim at the Ev. Church of Central Germany

Web links

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

• Schwerborn on the website of the Erfurt city administration