Teichel

Teichel City of Rudolstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 12 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 43"  E
Height :	317 m above sea level NN
Area :	9 km²
Residents :	510
Population density :	57 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1997
Incorporated into:	Remda Teichel
Postal code :	07407
Area code :	036743
View of Teichel from the southeast

Teichel is a former town and today a district of the town of Rudolstadt in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia . Teichel, along with Ummerstadt and Neumark, was one of the smallest towns in the GDR.

geography

Town hall of Teichel

Teichel Church

Surrounded by steep limestone mountains, the small town of Teichel occupies the upper part of the Gornitzbach valley, which drains to the Remdaer Rinne. The town hall is 314 m above sea level. NN high.

Heat-favored shell limestone slopes in the area, on which wine was grown in the past, now often have cherry plantations. The valleys coming down from Haufeld and Neckeroda and the Wolfstal meet at Teichel . These divide the shell limestone sub-stage into individual mountains that surround Teichel in a semicircle: Kretzberg, Eichberg, Steinberg and Roter Berg. North of the city on the road to Neckeroda is a former quarry on the east side of the Eichberg, in which the sedimentary structures of the lower wave limestone are well exposed. Tidal creeks, corrugation ribs and current marks on the layer surfaces as well as trace fossils prove that the shell limestone was deposited in a shallow sea with tides.

history

Teichel is one of the oldest settlements in the northern part of the former Rudolstadt district. Finds on the northern outskirts show a settlement as early as the late Hallstatt period (5th century BC). The mention of Tucheldi in a Fulda document dated 1076 is generally related to Teichel. This place name goes back to tiuchel = tube and describes a place whose well is fed from tubes (Rosenkranz 1982).

In 1417 Teichel is referred to as a city. Until the 16th century, the place was a rest and post-tensioning station on the copper road leading from Nuremberg via Graefenthal and Saalfeld northwards to Mansfeld and Eisleben. However, the pre-tensioning services brought no further economic impetus, so that Teichel remained a downright agricultural town.

Until 1918 Teichel belonged to the sovereignty of the county or the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , with this came in 1920 to the newly formed state of Thuringia and in 1952 as a city in the Rudolstadt district of the newly formed Gera district . At the border with Neckeroda there is a monument with a sculptural lion, which is both a Schwarzburg and Teichel heraldic animal.

The relatively large city corridor of 900 hectares in size demonstrates the historical position that it stands out against the neighboring villages. In the 18th century, Teichel still owned a complete city fortification with a city wall, a ditch in front and two gates. Remnants of this former facility can still be seen here and there. A large part of the stones once contained in the city fortifications were used to build houses after city fires and can now be found in the foundations of buildings.

Since January 1, 1997, the city formed the new city of Remda-Teichel together with Remda and ten other places . On January 1, 2019, Teichel became a district of Rudolstadt as part of the incorporation of Remda-Teichel.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green a looking double-tailed, crowned golden lion."

The lion is heraldically a leopard, a leoparding lion. He points to the past rulers: in gold on the Schwarzburgish and the double tail for Bohemia .

Buildings

town hall

The building was built from 1863 to 1867 based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Adolph von Bamberg . The town hall with the small market square forms the center of Teichel. The house made of sandstone blocks is an example of eclecticism from the second half of the 19th century: half Italian palazzo, half English castle with many small round towers, with window shapes borrowed from the German Romanesque.

City Church

The neo-Gothic town church was built in 1848 and today still has a tower preserved from 1438.

→ Main article : Stadtkirche Teichel

Floor plan and cityscape

The layout of the city is based on a street network that has existed for centuries. The determining factor is today's federal highway 85 from Rudolstadt to Weimar , from which some side streets branch off in a westerly direction. To the east of the main road, the side roads lead into a narrow alley that runs parallel to it. In the areas in between, small farmsteads are crowded together.

economy

In Teichel there are restaurants, some craftsmen and traders as well as a doctor, a kindergarten and a sports field with the SG Tractor Teichel association and a bowling alley as supply offers for the population of the city and the surrounding areas.

Personalities

• Johann Hoffmann (1644–1718), Protestant hymn poet and teacher
• Albert Robert Brömel (1815–1885), Lutheran theologian

Web links

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

• Brief portrait of Teichel on the website of the former city of Remda-Teichel

Individual evidence

1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
2. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 20, 2019