Stadtroda

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 11 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Fulfilling municipality :	for Möckern for Ruttersdorf-Lotschen
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.07 km 2
Residents:	6646 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	276 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07646
Area code :	036428
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 094
City structure:	6 districts
City administration address :	Straße des Friedens 17 07646 Stadtroda
Website :	www.stadtroda.de
Mayor :	Klaus Hempel
Location of the city of Stadtroda in the Saale-Holzland district

The Roda in the town center

Stadtroda (until 1925 Roda ) is a small town in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia .

geography

location

Stadtroda is located at an altitude between 200 m and 280 m in the Thuringian woodland on the Roda , a tributary of the Saale . The Zeitzbach , which flows through the Zeitzgrund recreational area, flows into the Roda at the northern edge of the city .

City structure

The districts of Hainbücht (first documented evidence 1457), Gernewitz (March 20, 1252) and Podelsatz (December 1, 1433) belong to Stadtroda .

Since January 1, 2019, Quirla , Dorna and Bollberg are also districts of Stadtroda.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities, clockwise, are Schlöben , Ruttersdorf-Lotschen and Bobeck in the north, Schleifreisen , Mörsdorf and Möckern in the west, Lippersdorf-Erdmannsdorf , Tissa , Tröbnitz , Geisenhain and Gneus in the south and Großbockedra , Rausdorf and Laasdorf in the west.

Stadtroda is the fulfilling municipality for the communities Möckern and Ruttersdorf-Lotschen .

history

Stadtroda goes back to a settlement on the Roda river from the 9th to 10th centuries and began as a market town on a mountain, where the "Alter Markt" district is today. There has been a defense tower there since 1013, first made of wood and later of stone. For hundreds of years this has been the tower of the Holy Cross Church , which is now over 1000 years old.

The place was first mentioned in 1210. In 1247 Stadtroda was mentioned in connection with a Cistercian monastery . The monastery served as a burial place for the Lords of Lobdeburg, who were performing in East Thuringia at that time . The place received city ​​rights from the Counts of Schwarzburg in 1310 . The council was named in 1403 and the mayor in 1434. The Reformation led to the abolition of the monastery in 1531.

The last Ernestine: Ernst II (1915)

The city changed several times in its history to a newly created state rule, but was always under Ernestine rule until 1918 .

In the Treaty of Leipzig in Saxony in 1485, the Elector of Saxony received Landgraf Ernst of Thuringia , the city and after the Erfurt division in 1572 was Ernestine duchy of Saxe-Weimar , the Roda and Monastery Roda from the beginning belonged.

In 1603 Sachsen-Altenburg , with Roda and Roda Abbey, was separated from Sachsen-Weimar. Sachsen-Altenburg was dissolved in 1672 and Roda and Roda Abbey became part of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg .

The city fell to Sachsen-Eisenberg in 1680 . Roda and Roda Abbey returned to Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1707. Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg was dissolved in 1826 and Roda and Roda Monastery formed part of the newly founded Duchy of Sachsen-Altenburg.

In 1852 the communities of Roda and Roda Monastery were merged. In 1876 the town was connected to the railroad and a year later a wood goods factory was built. The monarchy ended on November 13, 1918, after Ernst II of Saxony-Altenburg resigned his rule and a Saxony-Altenburg free state was founded in the same area.

On May 1, 1920, the Thuringian Free States merged to form the State of Thuringia . Roda has been called Stadtroda since July 1, 1925 . Stadtroda was the district town of the district of Stadtroda and from 1952 of the district of Stadtroda .

time of the nationalsocialism

During the time of National Socialism , the opponents of the Nazi regime were persecuted, among them political ones as well as war-weary ones like the roofer Max Nutzer, who was shot in April 1945 by an SS commando in the sand pit in the Grüntal for "degrading military strength " . His grave and the grave of two concentration camp victims are located as a memorial for the victims of fascism in the St. Jacob's cemetery .

In the Landesheilanstalt Stadtroda victims were from 1934 to 1943 1,272 people from forced sterilization . More than 4,000 patients died between 1939 and 1945 as a result of “racial hygiene measures”, that is, deliberately caused death from medication that caused illness and deportation as part of the “euthanasia” killing program Action T4 . The KPD - Reichstag deputy Helene Fleischer was one of the victims. A memorial was erected to them in 1988 in today's Asklepios Fachklinikum GmbH.

During the Second World War , prisoners of war and forced laborers from several European countries were used in the city and the surrounding area: among others in the furniture factory Gebr. Glaser and in the jam factory . A total of 1,582 people were housed in 13 " Eastern worker camps". The memorial for numerous victims of prisoner-of-war and forced labor has been located in the Sankt-Jakobs-Friedhof since 1999. A place in the park of the clinic has been commemorating the victims of a death march by prisoners of the Oberndorf concentration camp external command since 1985 .

On November 21, 1944, Stadtroda was the target of a US air raid . The town hall was destroyed and nine people died.

Incorporations

Podelsatz was incorporated into Gernewitz on July 1, 1950 . Gernewitz in turn was incorporated into the city of Stadtroda together with Podelsatz on October 12, 1994. Hainbücht was incorporated into Stadtroda on March 18, 1994. On January 1, 2019, Bollberg and Quirla followed .

Population development

The locals refer to themselves in the Thuringian idiom as "Rodscher".

Development of the population:

1837 to 1960 1837: 2679 1890: 3662 1925: 4469 1933: 4572 1938: 4811 1960: 5480

1994 to 1999 1994: 6356 1995: 6401 1996: 6445 1997: 6574 1998: 6594 1999: 6592

2000 to 2005 2000: 6586 2001: 6521 2002: 6524 2003: 6611 2004: 6380 2005: 6387

2006 to 2011 2006: 6320 2007: 6288 2008: 6277 2009: 6093 2010: 6057 2011: 5961

2012 to 2017 2012: 5910 2013: 5838 2014: 5849 2015: 5892 2016: 5893 2017: 5862

from 2018 2018: 5893 2019: 6646

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics.

Religions

The city church

In addition to the Protestant and Catholic parishes, there is also an Adventist parish .

In 1928 the first Catholic service since the Reformation was held in Stadtroda. Due to the evacuation of the Rhineland in 1944 as well as the streams of refugees from Silesia , Warmia and Sudetenland , many Catholics came to Thuringia after the Second World War , so that in 1954 the parish of St. Spirit was established in Stadtroda and a religious establishment of the St. Catherine sisters was founded. The parish church is St. Jacob's Church, built in 1730. The parish is in the area of ​​the Dresden-Meißen diocese and is organizationally assigned to the Gera deanery .

The over 1000 year old Protestant Holy Cross Church is the oldest church in the city.

politics

The town hall

City council

Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the city ​​council has been composed as follows:

Party / list	CDU	The left	SPD / OL *	FDP	FWG	FWG Q / D **	total
Seats	4th	2	3	1	8th	2	20th
Share of votes	20.3%	9.6%	16.6%	6.4%	37.0%	10.2	100% ***
Turnout : 65.3%

^* SPD / Open List     ^** Free Community of Voters Quirla / Dorna     ^*** after elimination of rounding inaccuracies

mayor

In the mayor elections on April 22, 2012, Klaus Hempel (FWG) prevailed against the long-time mayor Harald Kramer ( CDU ) with 53.5% of the vote .

On November 30, 2012, the local authority of the district declared the election of the mayor invalid and removed Klaus Hempel from his office with immediate effect. On December 20, 2012, the administrative court of Gera overturned the impeachment due to an urgent motion by the mayor and on February 20, 2013 ruled in favor of Hempel.

Mayor since 1886

1886–1892: Dr. phil Gottfried Knoch 1892–1898: Friedrich Goedel 1898–1906: Hermann Loeser 1906–1908: Wilhelm Dieterici 1908–1928: Rudolf Goedecke 1928–1934: Ernst Paul Schönherr 1935–1938: Franz Degen 1938–1941: Gerhard Wunderling 1941–1942: Max Oswald (officiating) 1942–1945:? horn 1945: Max Oswald (officiating) 1945–1946: Wilhelm Meier 1946–1950: Otto Seifarth 1950–1953: Ernst Klinger 1953–1954: Theo Wurlitzer

1954–1955: Rudolf Pabst (officiating) 1955: Georg's father 1955–1958: Walter Hilbert 1959–1961: Kurt Krüger 1961–1965: Günter Hoppe 1965–1972: Kurt Neugebauer 1972: Volkmar Ernst 1972–1984: Heinz Rosenkranz 1984–1986: Kurt Halbauer 1986–1990: Rainer Haufe 1990–1992: Karl-Heinz Herrmann 1992: Dr. Harald Reuter (acting) 1992–2012: Harald Kramer ( CDU ) since 2012: Klaus Hempel (FWG)

Town twinning

• Tachov , Czech Republic
• Homberg (Ohm) , Hessen , since 1990

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Stadtroda

Buildings worth seeing are the baroque castle from the 17th century, the town church St. Salvator from the late 16th century and the Romanesque- Gothic- Baroque Holy Cross Church , construction of which began around 1040. The ruins of the Roda monastery are also one of the sights.

The following tradition from 1450 is associated with the listed Red Gate made of red sandstone, the only one of five city ​​gates that have survived into modern times :

There was a dispute between the Roda Monastery (at that time still independent) and the Rodas City Council over beer brewing rights. The provost of the monastery called Count Heinrich von Gera for help. Roda closed the city gates from the advancing troops. A bolt for the “Red Gate” could not be found and was replaced by a carrot . The following night this carrot was eaten by a tailor's goat and the enemy was able to enter the city. So Roda lost this war .

The nickname Rodsche carrot scraper stuck to the citizens of Roda . The city's coat of arms, which today contains three red towers, is said to have originally consisted of three carrots. The Red Gate was completely destroyed on April 14, 2010 by a rear-end collision of a garbage truck after it was restored on May 28, 2010 for more than 100,000 euros on the occasion of the celebrations for the 700-year history of the city on May 28, 2010. The gate was rebuilt in 2011, partly using the old bricks. After a fundraising campaign was started for this, the truck was insured for the reconstruction.

The half-timbered ensemble Hammermühle is located at the mouth of the Zeitzbach in the Roda.

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  The castle seen from the courtyard

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  Ruins of the Roda monastery

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  The Holy Cross Church on the Alter Markt (2010, meanwhile newly plastered)

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  City museum in the old superintendent's office

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  The red gate

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  Hammer mill

Economy and Infrastructure

Stadtroda is a state-approved resort .

Public facilities

The city is the seat of the local court Stadtroda , which belongs to the district of the regional court Gera .

traffic

Stadtroda station (2017)

The double-track Stadtroda stop is on the Weimar – Gera railway line - part of the Central-Germany connection - and is connected to the supra-regional local transport network with three Deutsche Bahn lines . It is a calculated 40-minute clock Erfurt Hauptbahnhof- Jena West Jena Göschwitz -Stadtroda- Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz - Gera Hauptbahnhof available, the connection Goettingen -Erfurt Hauptbahnhof-Jena-Göschwitz-Stadtroda Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz-Gera Hauptbahnhof- Glauchau is served every two hours.

Stadtroda is connected to the motorway network via the federal motorway 4 (Erfurt– Hermsdorfer Kreuz ). State roads lead to Gera (L 1076), Jena , Neustadt an der Orla (both L 1077) and Ruttersdorf-Lotschen (L 2315).

education

• State high school “J.-H. Pestalozzi “Stadtroda, built in 1907
• State school "Auf der Schönen Aussicht" Stadtroda, built in 1981
• State primary school " Milo Barus " Stadtroda
• College of Agriculture and Home Economics, since October 1, 1920

Sports

The club with the largest number of members in the city is the FSV Grün-Weiß Stadtroda . The first men's football team plays in the national class of the Thuringian Football Association . The women's team plays in the regional league of Thuringia. Since the opening of the new stadium in 2000, the club has also had an athletics department. The best-known member of the FSV is the former president of the German Football Association , Theo Zwanziger , who has belonged to it since 1992 and was made an honorary member in 2005.

The leading handball club is the Stadtrodaer TSV 1890 . The first men's team plays here in the Thuringia regional class. There are also volleyball players , table tennis players and gymnasts (for men and women) in the TSV .

With forward Stadtroda is a judo club , which has existed for many decades.

Personalities

According to the Faust legend , Johann Georg Faust was born in Roda in 1480. However, there is no historical evidence of this. His alleged birthplace was initially to be sold to Chicago as an attraction for the 1893 World's Fair in 1892 . After this project failed, the house was demolished in 1896.

sons and daughters of the town

• Wolfgang Werther Mühlpfordt (* 1575; † 1623), legal scholar
• Luise (* 1756; † 1808), Princess of Saxe-Gotha , Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , wife of the regent, ibid.
• Gustav Adolf Glaßer (* 1819; † 1877), lawyer and politician, member of the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
• Bernhard Liebold (* 1843; † 1916), architect, construction clerk, teacher, entrepreneur and politician
• Julius Kniese (* 1848; † 1905), director of the Bayreuth Festival
• Ernst Burger (* 1862; † after 1935), entrepreneur and local politician in Chemnitz
• Paul Leopold Friedrich (* 1864; † 1916), surgeon
• Gertrud Schäfer (* 1897; † 1987), pastor
• Gerhard Buchda (* 1901; † 1977), legal historian
• Horst Korber (* 1927; † 1981), SPD politician and senator in Berlin
• Joachim Erwin (* 1949; † 2008), lawyer and CDU politician, Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf 1999–2008

Other people associated with Roda or Stadtroda

• Louis Krause (1873–1961), wood sculptor and politician

• Margarete Hielscher (1899–1985), doctor at the Thuringian state sanatorium and at the hospital in Stadtroda, who was involved in Nazi crimes as part of the “child euthanasia” program

• Gerhard Kloos (1906–1988), a physician at the Thuringian state hospitals and at the hospital in Stadtroda, who was involved in Nazi crimes as part of “child euthanasia”

literature

• Ernst Löbe: Chronicle of the city of Roda in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . 2 volumes, Olbrich, Stadtroda 1892–1894, ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Stadtroda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Roda in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• City homepage
• On the history of Stadtroda
• Church records from Stadtroda
• Link catalog on the topic of Stadtroda at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Schott: Mayor of Stadtroda removed from office with immediate effect. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , November 30, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
3. ^ ^{A b} Frank Kalla: Mayor of Stadtroda back in office. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , December 22, 2012. Retrieved on December 22, 2012.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Frank Kalla: Stadtrodaer Mayor Klaus Hempel remains in office. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , February 20, 2013. Accessed March 1, 2013.
5. ^ 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 , pp. 108, 87 and 220.
6. ↑ City history.
7. ^ 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. 271.
8. ^ Saxony-Altenburg (1826-1914).
9. ↑ 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. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 216 ff.
10. ^ Günter Sagan: East Thuringia in the bombing war 1939-1945. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-636-7 , p. 184.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office: Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
12. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994.
13. ↑ City council election 2019 in Thuringia - final result Stadtroda , accessed on October 23, 2019
14. ↑ Frank Kalla: CDU loses Stadtroda: Harald Kramer leaves office after 20 years.  ( 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. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , April 22, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2012.  
15. ^ Utz Möbius: Chronicle of the city of Stadtroda. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-896-8 .
16. ↑ Stadtroda landmark destroyed in accident. ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2010 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. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , April 14, 2010. Accessed January 7, 2012. 
17. ↑ Andreas Schott: Red Gate in Stadtroda is coming back - insurer pays. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , April 21, 2010. Accessed January 7, 2012.
18. ^ Johann-Heinrich-Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Stadtroda
19. ↑ Regelschule Stadtroda ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2010 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. 
20. ↑ Stadtroda primary school
21. ^ Technical college for agriculture and home economics
22. ↑ FSV Grün-Weiß Stadtroda
23. ↑ FSV Grün-Weiß Stadtroda Frauen ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ^ Department of Athletics Department of the Grün-Weiß Stadtroda
25. ^ TSV Stadtroda
26. ↑ List of judo clubs in Thuringia with reference to the Stadtrodaer club