Tonndorf (Thuringia)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '  N , 11 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Management Community :	Crane field
Height :	318 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.12 km 2
Residents:	638 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99438
Area code :	036450
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 087
Address of the municipal administration:	Schenkenstrasse 150 99438 Tonndorf
Website :	www.gemeinde-tonndorf.de
Mayor :	Karsten Mentzel ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Tonndorf in the Weimarer Land district

Tonndorf is a municipality in the south of the Weimarer Land district and part of the Kranichfeld administrative community .

geography

Tonndorf is located in the valley of the Tonndorfbach about two kilometers southeast of Nauendorf , a little off the main road L 1052 between Erfurt and Kranichfeld . A district road leads from the village to Tiefengruben in the east and to the Hohenfelden reservoir in the south-west of the municipality.

Village church

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Stone crosses on the road to Tiefengruben

history

Tonndorf was first mentioned in a document in 706 as Tunecdorf . The place name goes back to mhd. Tunc = recessed hut. The rule of Tonndorf can be documented from 1248 as a fiefdom of the diocese of Mainz to the counts of Weimar-Orlamünde . In the Middle Ages, Tonndorf was the center of various mansions, later the official seat in the area of ​​the city of Erfurt . Most of Erfurt's monasteries ( St. Peter , Neuwerk , Augustiner , Severi-Stift , Großes Hospital ) and the Bad Berka monastery held the manorial power in the village . Through the possession of the citizens of Erfurt and the trade between Erfurt and Bohemia going through Tonndorf due to the trade route from Erfurt to Saalfeld , the place was given the character of a small town early on. It developed into a resting place. An inn is mentioned as early as 1563.

Medium and small farmers operated agriculture as the predominant branch of the economy. In 1597 there were four free goods . The upper or malt mill and the lower mill, driven by the Tonndorfbach, worked as early as the 16th century. Due to its convenient location, Tonndorf was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . In the years 1756 and 1762, 51 and 31 houses respectively fell victim to major fires. In the 18th and 19th centuries, pottery and linen weaving dominated the craft activities, basket weaving was added in the 19th century. The quarries in the parish corridor were also of economic importance. A brick factory was operated on the way to Kranichfeld in the 19th century.

In 1802 Tonndorf came with the Erfurt area to Prussia and between 1807 and 1813 to the French Principality of Erfurt . With the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the place came with the entire Tonndorf office to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , to whose administrative district Weimar it belonged from 1850.

Even before the beginning of the Second World War, there was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Tonndorf in the direction of Tiefengruben , in which between 30 and 100 prisoners had to do forced labor building a water pipe to the concentration camp. No commemorative signs remind of this event.

Attractions

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Tonndorf (Thuringia)

The following objects in Tonndorf are under monument protection:

• Church with a churchyard
• Bridge on the Mühlgraben
• Residential building, Breitenstrasse 101
• Homestead, Breitenstrasse 123
• Homestead, Brauhausstrasse 9
• Homestead, Brauhausstrasse 14
• Homestead, Brauhausstrasse 16
• Homestead, Brauhausstrasse 18
• Pavilion, Im Weidenbach
• Homestead (vicarage), Kirchstrasse 21
• Well at Palmanger 60
• Homestead, Palmanger 51
• Homestead, Palmanger 64
• former school (now residential building), Schenkenstrasse 144
• Gasthaus, Schenkenstrasse 149
• former estate, Schenkenstrasse 150
• two stone crosses in Schenkenstrasse on the eastern outskirts
• former rifle house, Schwederich 91
• Grave site for a Soviet prisoner of war in the cemetery
• The location with the properties Brauhausstrasse 7–18 and 129–143, Breitenstrasse 92–102 and 113–125, Kirchstrasse 19–21 and 77–82, Schenkenstrasse 1, 3–6 and 144–152, Schwederich 83, 84, 86– 90, 90 a, 91 a, 91 b and 126–128 as well as Töpferstrasse 103–112 are protected as a monument ensemble.
• The Rauchsche Blumentopf-Presserei, built around 1830, was moved to the neighboring Thuringian Open-Air Museum Hohenfelden in 2001 and can be viewed there as it was around 1970. Plant pots were made with machine support until the 1970s. As a testimony to a branch of industry typical for Tonndorf, the building is of great cultural and historical value.

Tonndorf Castle

The castle was built on a hill north of the village, probably to protect the old trade route to Bohemia, in the 12th century. In 1248 Tonndorf Castle was attested, which is located on a hill about 0.6 km north of the village and is visible from afar through the striking keep. It was probably built in the previous century to protect the old Erfurt-Saalfeld trade route. It was initially the Mainz fiefdom of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde , but was pledged to the Burgraves of Kirchberg in 1235 .

From 1277 to 1287 the castle was administered by the Archbishopric of Mainz itself. Once again given to the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde as fiefdom, the city ​​of Erfurt conquered the complex in the Thuringian Count War in 1346. Since 1351, the castle has been a permanent property of the city of Erfurt. It represented their outpost against the Saale. In the Peasants' War of 1525, peasants stormed the castle complex , which then shared the changeful fate of the Tonndorf office. The castle served a wide variety of purposes, including as a lace making factory. In 1938 it was sold to the Barmer Ersatzkasse, which after renovations set up an exemplary children's rest home in the castle. Then the NSV set up a training home in it. In May 1945 a staff of the US Army took up quarters, followed by displaced persons and the Red Army with a hospital. The property was run down and expropriated. In 1950, Adolf Tegtmeier , the chief physician at the Bad Berka lung spa , set up a hospital for tuberculosis patients in the castle. From 1968 it was then a municipal retirement and nursing home, from 1993 to 1998 DRK senior citizens and nursing home.

Then the castle stood empty for seven years, until in 2005 the newly founded cooperative "auf Schloss Tonndorf eG" took care of it. She bought it and moved in with 35 adults and 30 children to revitalize the grounds. There are workshops, studios, gardens, a kindergarten, beekeeping and a castle café.

The oldest parts of the complex are the outer wall ring with the moat, the 44 m high keep, the wall of which is 3.70 m thick at the base, and the outer castle.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Tonndorf consists of eight council members, who were elected by proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	Citizen for Tonndorf	FWG Tonndorf	total
2019	4th	3	1	8 seats

mayor

Mayor of Tonndorf is Karsten Mentzel (CDU) who was last re-elected on May 7, 2017.

traffic

The nearest train station is in the Bad Berka district of Munich on the Weimar – Kranichfeld line , around four kilometers east of Tonndorf.

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literature

• Volker Klimpel : Medical from Tonndorf Castle. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. Vol. 23, No. 1, 2012, ISSN  0863-5412 , pp. 42-43 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ History of the community of Tonndorf .
3. ↑ See Axel Stefek: Tonkuckuck and Roter Hahn. On the construction and operating history of the Rauch flower pot press. In: Home Thuringia. Cultural landscape, environment, living space. Vol. 8, Issue 2/3, 2001, ISSN  0946-4697 , pp. 66-71.
4. ^ Homepage of Tonndorf Castle .
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Thuringia: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections .
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Thuringia: Mayoral election 2017

Web links

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

• VG Kranichfeld
• Location Tonndorf
• Website of the cooperative at Tonndorf Castle