Sundhausen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Sundhausen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Unstrut-Hainich district
Management Community :	Bad Tennstedt
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.1 km 2
Residents:	355 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99947
Area code :	036043
License plate :	UH, LSZ, MHL
Community key :	16 0 64 061
Address of the municipal administration:	Anger 99947 Sundhausen
Website :	www.sundhausen.net
Mayor :	Christopher Kaufmann (interim) (free voters)
Location of the municipality of Sundhausen in the Unstrut-Hainich district

Sundhausen is a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . It belongs to the Bad Tennstedt administrative community based in the city of Bad Tennstedt .

location

Sundhausen and its district are located in the Thuringian Basin northeast of Bad Langensalza in the arable farming area of ​​the Unstrut Plain .

history

The first documentary mention of Sundhausen can be found in a deed of donation for land in Sundhausen to the Fulda monastery from the year 860.

Church of St. Boniface

Church of St. Boniface

From 1242 to 1356 Sundhausen was the ancestral seat of the noble family of the same name, the von Sundhausen family . In 1312 the Marienkirche was first mentioned in the place. 1346 Sundhausen was subordinated to the office of Langensalza . Up until this point in time, the Thamsbrück Regional Court exercised jurisdiction.

In 1582 and 1625, the plague raged in Sundhausen, killing more than 300 residents. 1604 was Waidmühle in built. In 1712 the community received brewing rights . In 1714 the first school in town was built. In 1818 the place had a total of 400 inhabitants. After the cession of the electoral office of Langensalza to Prussia, Sundhausen belonged to the district of Langensalza in the province of Saxony from 1816 to 1944 .

In 1823 the Sundhauser lake dried up. The remains were still visible until 1840. In 1913, when the Langensalza-Kirchheilingen small railway went into operation, the neighboring village of Kirchheilingen was provided with a railway connection. In 1948 the place had 756 inhabitants due to resettlement and the war.

In 1950, after the Langensalza district was dissolved, Sundhausen became part of the Mühlhausen i. Th. , But already two years later in 1952 it was back in the Langensalza district . In 1991 Sundhausen joined the Bad Tennstedt administrative community .

religion

40% of the residents of Sundhausen are Protestant, only 4% Catholic. The local parish and its St. Bonifatius Church belong to the Mühlhausen parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The few Catholics are assigned to the parish of St. Josef , based in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ( Diocese of Erfurt ), whose next branch church is St. Marien (Bad Langensalza) .

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality Sundhausen consists of 6 councilors and councilors.

FWG Sundhausen

6 seats

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

mayor

On June 19, 2016, Christoph Kindervater (independent) was elected mayor in a runoff election. On February 5, 2020, he was nominated as a non-party candidate by the parliamentary group of the AfD Thuringia in the election of Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia , he was defeated in the third ballot, like the previous Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow , the winner Thomas Kemmerich . On February 6, 2020, he resigned from the office of mayor.

Attractions

• Evangelical Church of St. Boniface . In the churchyard is the tombstone of the manorial estate owner Johann Kaiser, who died in 1856.

Web links

Commons : Sundhausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Website of the Bad Tennstedt administrative association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ 2011 census
3. ↑ City council election 2019 in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on July 7, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on July 7, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Florian Naumann: Gigantic election bang in Thuringia: FDP overthrows Ramelow with AfD votes - horror in the state parliament . Mercury online , February 5, 2020
6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: AfD candidate child father gives up as mayor. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .