Schwerstedt (near Straussfurt)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′  N , 10 ° 55 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Sömmerda
Management Community :	Straussfurt
Height :	155 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.64 km 2
Residents:	608 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99634
Area code :	036376
License plate :	SÖM
Community key :	16 0 68 049
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 13 99634 Straussfurt
Website :	www.vgstraussfurt.de
Mayor :	Thomas Wagner
Location of the municipality Schwerstedt in the district of Sömmerda

Village church

Schwerstedt is a municipality in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative community of Straussfurt , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Straussfurt .

geography

Schwerstedt lies between Bad Tennstedt and Straussfurt. The distance to both places is about 5 km. The brook Öde flows through the village and flows southeast of the village into the Mittelgraben , which in turn joins the Unstrut after around 2 km in the Straussfurt retention basin .

The border to the Unstrut-Hainich district with the village of Ballhausen runs west of the village .

history

At the beginning of the 9th century Schwerstedt is in a directory of the Patrimony of the Archbishop Lull († 786), built by Mainz monastery Hersfeld as Suegerstede mentioned. The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Weißensee until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Weissensee in the administrative district of Erfurt the province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

The manor Stödten was located southeast of Schwerstedt . It existed as an independent manor district until 1928 and was merged with the municipality of Schwerstedt in the course of the dissolution of the manor districts in Prussia. The manor was completely removed during the GDR era in the 1950s, and its lands were flooded by the Straussfurt flood retention basin .

politics

Municipal council

After the last election on May 25, 2014, the municipal council from Schwerstedt was composed of 8 councilors (7 × FDP and 1 × Die Linke).

Municipal election 2014

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mayor

The honorary mayor Thomas Wagner was elected on June 19, 2016.

Culture and sights

The church of St. Trinitatis von Schwerstedt was built at the beginning of the 18th century and is very spacious with a large choir room. The inside of the nave is plastered or painted white and decorated with gilded Rococo ornaments. The pulpit construction dates from around 1793 and the baptismal font from around 1600. The parish belongs to the Eisleben-Sömmerda parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

traffic

The Schwerstedt (Unstrut) stop was on the Ballstädt – Straussfurt railway line . The line has been closed since 1999.

Via the L 2165 , Schwerstedt is connected to the B 4 , which runs in the south between Straussfurt and Gebesee . In the north of the town, the L 2165 joins the L 3176, which runs between Bad Tennstedt and Straußfurt.

Personalities

• Gustav Lange (1830–1889), composer

Others

Polish slave laborers were used in Schwerstedt during the Second World War . The exact number is not yet known.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900
3. ↑ http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/wahlseite.asp?aktiv=KW01&startbei=kommunalwahlen/KW_wahlresult.asp
4. ↑ Information about the church at kirchenkreis-eisleben-soemmerda.de. Retrieved February 13, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Thuringia . tape 8 . VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 280 .

Web links

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

• Schwerstedt on the website of the administrative association. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .