Troistedt

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Troistedt
Troistedt coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 20 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 354 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.27 km²
Residents : 188  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2019
Postal code : 99438
Area code : 03643
Troistedt (Thuringia)
Troistedt

Location of Troistedt in Thuringia

Troistedt is a district of the rural community Grammetal in the west of the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .

(Pronunciation of the place name: Tr oo stedt)

location

Troistedt is located south of the federal motorway 4 and the village of Nohra on the northern roof of the hills between Eichelborn and the village. Surrounding places are: Starting clockwise from the north: Nohra , Obergrunstedt , Holzdorf , Schoppendorf , Gutendorf , Isseroda .

history

Finds from the Neolithic period show that the area around Troistedt was settled early. One kilometer from the village, in the wood of God, there is a large burial ground with 34 burial mounds from the Bronze Age . The area was colonized by Germanic people until the Great Migration , then Slavs moved up from the east across the Saale. A mixed population emerged, which then became German. The local system of Troistedt still suggests a Slavic Rundling.

In 1241 Heinrich von Drastete was first mentioned in a document, and in 1250 the place itself was first mentioned as Dratsted in a document from the Counts of Berka for the Oberweimar monastery . From 1422 Drostet is securitized, and since 1790 the place was called Troystedt . The place name means "settlement of the wire". The pronunciation of the current name Troistedt is Tr oo stedt, the i is just an expansion symbol.

The majority landowner was the Oberweimar Monastery , which kept increasing its holdings. In 1253 three hooves belonged to the monastery, in 1272 ten hooves were counted as monastery property. In 1290 the Troistedter Forest with 393 hectares came into the monastery property. In the 16th century Troistedt was also in the farming village Waid grown.

Until 1920 Troistedt belonged to Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , then to the state of Thuringia . Eight Troistedter soldiers did not return from the First World War and 24 from the Second World War.

On April 11, 1945, under the fire of American tank artillery in Kiekholz / Nohrholz between Troistedt and Nohra on the other side of the Autobahn, 19 German soldiers aged between 17 and 60 who had belonged to the Nohra airfield crew were killed. Before that, the Reichsautobahnbrücke over the road from Nohra to Troistedt had been blown up in order to hinder the American advance towards Weimar.

In the final phase of the Second World War , Troistedt was of particular importance for the history of the city of Weimar . American units took up position near Troistedt on April 11, 1945 and threatened the already heavily bombed city of Weimar with artillery shelling. On April 12, 1945, the mayor of Troistedt, Richard Weyde, rode a bicycle to Weimar. On behalf of the American Colonel Costello, he delivered the ultimatum to surrender the city of Weimar. Since all other decision-makers could not be reached, the Mayor of Weimar Otto Koch handed over the city of Weimar to the American troops in Troistedt without a fight. Troistedt itself had also been occupied by US troops. Many local residents had to vacate their houses as quarters. Some of them then lived in the church and school. After their return, many valuables were missing from the households.

From the beginning of July 1945 Troistedt belonged to the Soviet occupation zone , which was founded in 1949 to the GDR . So the place went along with all the corresponding social changes. Since there were no large estates in Troistedt and no war criminals to be expropriated, it was hardly affected by the land reform . In 1953 a type 1 LPG called "Florian Geyer" was founded, which in 1954 fell apart again at times. By 1960, under appropriate pressure, “full cooperative status” had been achieved. The LPG Troistedt was not considered particularly successful, as the local chronicle noted. In 1972 the merger with LPG Isseroda to form LPG "Ernst Thälmann" based in Troistedt.

In was Troistedt turn of the first village in the district of Weimar, the freely elected Norbert Klein (CDU) in October 1989 a new mayor.

In 2000 Troistedt celebrated the 750th anniversary of its first documentary mention. This included a visit in October 2000 by veterans of the US 80th Infantry Division, which had occupied the area in April 1945. After a service, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the village, commemorating the handover of the city of Weimar by its mayor in Troistedt. Then the gravesite of the 19 German soldiers shot dead on April 11, 1945 in Kiekholz / Nohrholz was visited.

On December 31, 2019, Troistedt merged with other communities to form the rural community of Grammetal. The Grammetal administrative community , to which all municipalities previously belonged, was dissolved at the same time.

politics

Former councilor

The local council in Troistedt consisted of six council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014 in a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice CDU WG Troistedt FF Troistedt total
2014 2 2 2 6 seats

Former mayor

The last mayor of Troistedt was Andreas Nickel, who was elected on March 8, 2015.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden, rooted linden tree in green, the trunk of which is covered with a red shield and inside a silver deer head.

On June 5, 1996 the coat of arms and the flag of the former municipality were approved by the Thuringian state administration office.

Attractions

The following objects were included in the monuments list of the Weimarer Land district :

During the renovation of the organ, the church burned down in 1823. The rectangular hall and the indented choir with a three-sided end were rebuilt from 1824 to 1826 in romanised forms according to plans by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray . In the tower preserved from the previous building there is a room with a groin vault. In the east of the nave there is an elevated pulpit altar designed by Coudray. On the upper floor in a gallery of columns on both sides of the pulpit, late Gothic apostle figures (around 1500) were inserted in arcades. According to a legend, these figures were made available by Johann Wolfgang Goethe . The church's medieval carvings can be seen today in the Weimar Castle Museum .
The organ was built in 1823 by Johann Christian Adam Gerhard (1035 pipes, one glockenspiel).
  • Homestead (rectory)
  • former forest and hunting lodge, No. 35

  • Troistedt Church

  • Troistedt Church

  • Troistedt rectory

  • Parish door in Troistedt

  • Old school Troistedt

  • Memorial plaque in Troistedt for the handover from Weimar in 1945

  • Waidmühlstein in Troistedt

  • Forsthaus Troistedt

In addition, the buildings in Dorfstrasse 7, 12–15, 31, 32, 37–39 and 42–50 are protected as a monument ensemble.

  • War cemetery : In the Nohrholz / Kiekholz / Osterholz forest north of Troistedt, adjacent to the Nohra motorway junction, there is an inconspicuous communal grave with 18 German air force soldiers who were killed by American tank bombardment on April 11, 1945. The memorial stone between the grave crosses bears the inscription: "IN MEMORY OF 19 PEOPLE RESTING HERE. FALLEN ON 04/11/1945. ERECTED BY THE YOUTH TROISTEDTS". A soldier was exhumed for burial in his home cemetery. There is no way to the tomb, and there is no sign of it either on the road or in the forest. The facility was built in the 1950s on private ownership. Until the fall of the Wall, it consisted of the memorial stone and a low hedge. Around 1994, after consultation and with the support of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, six metal crosses (each with several names) were placed for the fallen. The tomb, which is now surrounded by a higher hedge, has been tended by the Troistedt community since 1990.

  • Common grave with 19 German soldiers

  • Row of grave crosses for the fallen

  • Memorial stone of the "Youth of Troistedts" for the fallen

In the Troistedter Forst there is a newly planted beech instead of the no longer existing Prince's beech. Together with Grand Duke Carl August, the Prussian Prince Wilhelm (later German Emperor Wilhelm I) took part in a deer hunt here in the 19th century and scratched his name on the beech.

religion

The Protestant community in Troistedt is part of the Nohra parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . Services in the local church take place approximately monthly.

On the Catholic side, Troistedt belongs to the area of ​​the parish Bad Berka in the diocese of Erfurt .

traffic

The federal motorway 4 Erfurt - Dresden with the junction Nohra runs on the northern edge of the municipality . The next train station, Holzdorf (Weimar) on the Ilmtalbahn Weimar - Kranichfeld , is two kilometers east of the center of Troistedt.

Personalities

literature

  • Max Wachter: Chronicle of the Troistedt community. Manuscript 1970–1972.
  • Holger Wetzel: American veterans in Weimar and Troistedt. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , from October 9, 2000.

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. 139.
  2. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on January 8, 2020
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Thuringia: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections .
  4. ↑ Six crosses for the dead. Care of the graves from the Second World War . Thuringian newspaper, October 27, 1995

Web links

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