Töttelstädt

Töttelstädt City of Erfurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	310  (290-330)  m
Area :	10.79 km²
Residents :	637  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 12, 1994
Postal code :	99090
Area code :	036208
Location of Töttelstädt in Erfurt
St. Nikolai Church

Töttelstädt is a district of the Thuringian capital Erfurt and is located in the north-west of the city in the direction of Gotha .

geography

Töttelstädt is located in the southern Thuringian Basin at the foot of the Fahnerschen Höhe between Witterda , Schaderode , Alach , Zimmersupra and Bienstädt (list starting in the north and listed clockwise). The Weißbach, which rises near Bienstädt and flows into the Gera in Kühnhausen, flows through the village .

history

In a deed of gift dated May 18, 874, Tullinestat, along with other 116 places in Thuringia, is mentioned as the Fulda Abbey. Archbishop Liubert zu Mainz and Abbot Sigehard zu Fulda asserted the right to raise the tithe for themselves. The dispute over this was decided by King Ludwig the German (840–876) at the court of Ingelheim in favor of the Fulda Abbey. The source of this document is the partly controversial, but no less important Codex Eberhardi , even if numerous forgeries and in places inadmissible as well as adaptations of place names to the spelling of Eberhard's time are attached to the two-volume compilation, which was created around 1160 by the monk Eberhard in Fulda Monastery.

A document from the year 1104, in which Archbishop Ruthard of Mainz confirms all of its goods to the St. Petrikloster in Erfurt , the place Tutilstete is mentioned - which could indicate an old place of execution. Another mention follows in a document from the year 1143. In the course of its history, the place is also mentioned under the names Tudelstedt and Tottelstedt .

Töttelstädt used to be a large town and at times had two churches, but the plague (1610), fire accidents (1696, 1804, 1824) and the chaos of war made the town much smaller. During the fire in 1824, the church, two schools and 79 residential buildings with farm buildings burned. Standing on the ruins of his church, Pastor Wilhelm Hey gave his congregation courage and hope for reconstruction.

In 1263 the Counts von Gleichen were bailiffs of the Erfurt Peterskloster and were court lords of Töttelstädt. This jurisdiction was withdrawn from them by Margrave Heinrich, but granted again by Landgrave Albrecht. Töttelstädt belonged to the main care of the Tonna dominion , which from 1677 belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg as "Amt Tonna" . On July 1, 1895, the state parliament decided that the towns of Töttelstädt and Bienstädt should be detached from the Tonna office and assigned to the Gotha district court. During the GDR times, Töttelstädt was part of the Erfurt-Land district . After the "Wende" the place was assigned to the district of Sömmerda for a short time until it was incorporated into the state capital Erfurt on October 12, 1994.

Population development

• 1843: 569
• 1910: 527
• 1939: 513
• 1990: 625
• 1995: 604
• 2000: 661
• 2005: 645
• 2010: 633
• 2012: 632
• 2014: 663

Culture and sights

• The Protestant branch church St. Nikolai is a choir tower church . The retracted tower and the southern arched curtain windows are remnants of the Gothic previous church from 1492. On October 26, 1725, a second church was inaugurated in the presence of Duke Friedrich II . She fell victim to a major fire on June 15, 1824. In 1825 the church was rebuilt with three bells from Apolda (Ulrich) and a five-axis nave with a mansard roof. The facades are structured by plaster strips . There are centrally arranged drilled portals on the long sides. In the uniform interior with a flat cleaning barrel is a circumferential double gallery and a pulpit altar from 1825. On July 12, 1984, the high and pointed church tower was lifted off by a devastating storm (see also: Church in Frienstedt ). The tower was rebuilt in 1986, but not as high as it used to be due to financial reasons and a lack of material. The organ comes from the Ratzmann workshop
• On the former rectory there is a memorial plaque for the poet Wilhelm Hey , who worked here from 1818 to 1827. A street in Töttelstedt was named after him.
• About 1,650 m east of the village in the valley of the Weißbach is the Grundmühle im Weißbachtal , a former monastery mill, today a popular destination with a small restaurant. See Orphal Monastery .

economy

Töttelstädt is predominantly characterized by agriculture. In addition to a large agricultural company, there are also a few smaller craft businesses, a grocery store and three restaurants in the village.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Johann Ludwig Böhner (1787–1860), composer

People connected to the place

• Ernst Heinrich Gebhard (1757–1813), pomological draftsman (fruit painter) for the "Teutsche Obstgärtner" and manufacturer of fruit models
• Wilhelm Hey (1789–1854), song and fables poet, was a pastor in Töttelstädt from 1818 to 1827. The village is one of the “hey places” in Thuringia, like Leina and Ichtershausen, where he lived and worked.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statistical information system of the Erfurt city administration
2. ↑ Guido Reinhardt: History of the Gräfentonna market ; Langensalza 1892.
3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian cities and villages ; Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl, 2010; P. 287
4. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian cities and villages ; Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl, 2010; P. 402
5. ↑ O.Dobenecker: Regesta Diplomatica Necnon Epistolaria Historiae Thuringiae , 1896, Volume I, 246, p 55
6. ↑ Johann Wolf: Political history of the Eichsfeldes explained with documents , 2 volumes; Göttingen: Rosenbusch, 1792–1793
7. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994
8. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843.
9. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
10. ↑ 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). 
11. ^ Thuringian State Office for Environment and Geology: Environment regional.
12. ↑ Population of the city districts
13. ↑ Population of the city districts
14. ↑ Georg Dehio , edited by Stephanie Eißing and others: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Thuringia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 1233. (referred to as St. Maria )

Web links

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

• Private website for Töttelstädt