Taubach (Weimar)

Taubach City of Weimar Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 3 ″  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 56 ″  E
Height :	235 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.2 km²
Residents :	1141  (Dec. 31, 2003)
Population density :	219 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1994
Postal code :	99425
Area code :	036453
Location of Taubach in Weimar

View of Taubach from Belvedere

Taubach is a district of the city of Weimar in the state of Thuringia .

location

Taubach is located southeast of the city ​​center , within sight of the Belvedere Palace , and very close to the municipality of Mellingen .

history

The area around Taubach was settled very early on. Already about 100,000 years ago, hunters and gatherers hunted from a Paleolithic camp site. Animal bones found show that forest elephants, rhinos, bears, cave lions, deer, roe deer, bison, wild boars, beavers and other animals were hunted down. These are assigned to the temperate climate of the Eem warm period . The animals were cut up and taken to the nearby camp site for consumption. This is indicated by a campfire with remains of the hunt. The bones were processed into devices. In 1887 and 1992, respectively, two molars from a fourteen-year-old and the lower left milk molar from a nine-year-old child were found. They agree with those of other Neanderthals . In addition, a skull burial from the older Neolithic was discovered in Taubach. It is seen with a sacrificial burial in connection with a fertility cult. It is the skull of a nearly two-year-old child without a lower jaw, over which the lower part of a ceramic clay pot has been placed. Taubach became an internationally important site, especially between 1870 and 1900. In 1876, the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory , u. a. in the presence of Rudolf Virchow on an excursion to Taubach. The foundations in the travertines of Weimar, Ehringsdorf and Taubach led to the founding of the current Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia in Weimar in 1889 .

Ilm weir at the watermill in Taubach

Taubach was first mentioned in 1120 as Thovbeche with its mill in a deed of donation, making it the oldest documented mill location in Thuringia. The place belonged to the rulership of Weimar Castle. In the years 1278/79, 1½ hooves and land in Taubach were assigned to the Oberweimar monastery by Count Otto von Orlamünde, which the knight Herrmann Zacernei had abandoned. In the 16th century, the population fed by Waid -Anbau and worked until the 18th century also Rebkulturen . In 1727 Taubach had the largest cultivation area with 47 vineyards. The cultivation of grapes declined completely due to unfavorable climatic conditions. Today only the field names "In front of the vineyards" and "In the vineyards" indicate this. During the Weimar Classic period, Taubach gardeners were largely responsible for the maintenance of various city gardens. In the garden of the “ Kirms-Krackow-Haus ”, the young Taubach gardener's boy, Tobias Fritsch, took care of garden art for 50 years under Hofrat Franz Kirms. Goethe's house gardener was Johann Heinrich Schmidt from Taubach from 1793 to 1815. The Taubach gardener Andreas Köhler worked for Goethe from 1817. He was permanently employed for the upper garden, and worked the lower garden on a daily wage. Since the 19th century, more and more residents have been working as craftsmen or in the emerging industry of the city of Weimar. In 1907 the place received electric light and in 1912 the water pipe.

An agricultural production cooperative (LPG) had existed in the village since 1957 . Since then several stables and a chicken farm have been built. Since 1960, the Taubach cooperative farmers have joined the Oberweimar LPG "Edwin Hoernle", which cultivated vegetables. Since the end of the 1960s there was a cooperation with the LPGs in Kromsdorf and Umpferstedt , which produced a total of 3,000 hectares of land.

In 1959, a production cooperative for handicrafts (PGH) was founded to manufacture living room furniture. When the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereschkowa was the first woman in the world to orbit the earth in her spaceship, the furniture makers dedicated a new two-part living room format to her by giving her the name "Valentina". Some time afterwards Tereschkowa visited the GDR together with the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin . On this occasion, the members of the cooperative gave her a copy of the living room as a gift.

Evangelical Church of St. Ursula, 2010

The first reference to a church building in Taubach can be found in 1462, a newly installed organ was checked by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach in 1710 . The church of St. Ursula got its current appearance in 1848/49 according to plans by the Weimar builder Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray , who had already died in 1845 , although this was planned as early as 1820. One of their pastors was the Thuringian dialect poet August Ludwig .

Population and economy

The district has 1,141 inhabitants who are economically and culturally active in a variety of ways. Around 20 businesses and companies are located here. In 1990 a land use plan was drawn up which, taking into account nature and environmental protection, favored Taubach's development into a residential area. In 1994, by resolution of the municipal council, Taubach was incorporated into the city of Weimar.

people

• Johann Sebastian Gottschalg (1722–1793), theologian, Saxon-Weimar civil servant, he was the first court deacon to be confirmed a. a. Weimar Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, from 1768 assessor in the senior consistory, from 1776 senior consistorial councilor
• Karl Friedrich Weber (1794–1861), professor of classical philology in Marburg , spent a large part of his childhood in Taubach from 1801 to 1808 in the care of Pastor Wilhelm Christian August Rentsch
• August Ludwig (1867–1951), Protestant pastor, bee researcher and dialect poet, from 1892 to 1898 pastor in the village
• Paul Papenbroock (1894–1945), elementary school teacher and politician of the NSDAP , from 1919 elementary school teacher in Taubach, later member of the state parliament, member of the Reichstag
• Josef Candels (1903–1992), German painter, lived with his family in Taubach from 1945 to 1950, presumably due to the war
• Wolfgang Tautenhahn (1930–1994), author of fishing books, lived in Taubach
• Peter Franz (* 1941), pastor and author suspended after broadcasting a WDR program in 1992 about his IM activity , lives in Taubach and runs a bookstore here.
• Dieter-Lebrecht Koch (* 1953), politician and since 1994 Thuringian MEP (CDU, European People's Party)

Educational institutions

• Since 1947 a kindergarten on Kirchplatz has taken care of the preschool children. In 1959 a day nursery was founded. In 1991 the kindergarten and crèche were merged to form a day-care center on Ilmtalstrasse.
• Since 1859 the school children have been taught in a newly built elementary school on the church square. Because of the increased number of children, a second school building was built next to it in 1919. During the Second World War , the lower school students had to go to school in neighboring Mellingen . Thereafter, in October 1945, teaching was resumed at the Taubach School, which has since been known as the "Karl Marx School". This school remained as an after-school care center until 1986. Since 1984 the Taubach schoolchildren have also been attending the new ten-class polytechnic high school in Mellingen , which has been called "Lionel Feininger" since 1991.

Culture

• GDR bookstore

Since 2006, a free book loan has made it possible to use GDR and international literature. For this purpose, 7,500 books were collected from the Apolda district library , from the Oßmannstedt community library and from private collections, including books of all genres and for all reading ages and interests.

Sports

• Fishing

Due to its location on the Ilm, the place offers good conditions for fishing. In addition to brown trout and rainbow trout, grayling and char can also be found in the river. Around 60 members are organized in the fishing club Mittleres Ilmtal eV. Wheelchair users and other anglers with restricted mobility can go fishing at a barrier-free fishing spot right on the running water. Fly fishing was established in Taubach as early as the 19th century by the Englishman John Horrocks , the founder of modern fly fishing in Europe.

Web links

Commons : Taubach  - Collection of Images

• Maps of Taubach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 239.
2. ^ Taubach 900 years young. Life in Taubach Part I. History and Stories, p. 61
3. ^ Website of the GDR bookstore.