Trotha (hall)

Trotha district of Halle (Saale)
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Coordinates	51 ° 30 '40 "  N , 11 ° 57' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '40 "  N , 11 ° 57' 49"  E.
Residents	6908 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1900
prefix	0345
Sub-municipality code	2 21
Transport links
Highway
Federal road
Train	S 3
tram	3 8 12 95
bus	25 35 97

Coat of arms of the Lords of Trotha

The location Trotha is next to the industrial area north and the Gottfried-Keller-Siedlung another city quarter in the district Trotha of the city district north of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt . It is named after the old village of Trotha , which was incorporated into Halle at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2016, 6,908 citizens lived in the district.

history

Before 1100

The area on the Saale was already inhabited by Slavs and Teutons in the distant past , as is shown by rich prehistoric finds. Around the time between 600 and 800 AD, a village was built on the edge of the Saale under the protection of a Sorbian fort .

However, it was first mentioned in a document in 952 by Otto I under the name Tarata, when he offered his vassal Billing several districts for exchange. In 966 this exchange was reversed and the entire property was given to the monastery of St. Moritz in Magdeburg . In the same year, a new one was built on the site of the old fort, which served to monitor the Heerstraße and as a customs post.

1100 to 1400

A water mill was built around 1100 and a stone church ( St. Briccius ) around 16 years later . In 1121 the entire property - the village of Trotha along with the mill, quarry and vineyard - was given away by Archbishop Rüdiger to the monastery of the New Works .

1371 marks the year in which a mansion with the name of Trotha was first mentioned in a document . In this document, the river island of Forstwerder was confirmed to the Lords of Trotha as a fief by Archbishop Peter von Magdeburg . After a long dispute between the archbishops of Magdeburg and the city of Halle, the entire village was destroyed in March 1427 by an attack by the city troops from Halle and the castle of Trotha was overwhelmed and robbed.

St. Briccius Hall , from the cemetery side

1500 to 1700

In the years from 1560 to 1600 the number of inhabitants of the village rose from 70 to 150, until the plague did not stop at Trotha. It continued, intermittently, into the late 17th century. At this time Trotha belonged to the Giebichenstein office in the hall circle of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . In 1680 the place came with the Saalkreis to the Duchy of Magdeburg under Brandenburg-Prussian rule.

In July 1694, Elector Friedrich III, who later became King Friedrich I of Prussia , stayed at Friedrich Madeweis's house and laid the foundation stone for the first stone lock in Trotha, which was completed in 1698. It gained great importance for shipping on the Saale, which it has kept to this day.

18th century

In the early 18th century, Trotha became more and more important as a suburb of Halle due to its favorable traffic situation. In 1730 the church was expanded with financial support from Friedrich Wilhelm I; the inscription "FW 1730" on the archway of the church reminds of this.

On the orders of Frederick II , mulberry tree plantations were set up in the Trotha cemetery in 1749 to promote the breeding of silkworms , but these were not supposed to exist beyond the 19th century. By 1785 the place below the mill had grown to a total of 269 inhabitants; the so-called Unterdorf arose. The traffic through Brachwitz-Wettiner Strasse, which ended here, had contributed to this, among other things. At the end of the 18th century, gymnastics father Jahn found refuge from his numerous enemies in a cave named after him in the Klausberg mountains near Trotha. In 1799 there was the worst flood on the Saale in living memory, as a result of which many houses in Trotha were destroyed or had to be demolished.

19th century

Forstwerder Bridge (1928)

"Formula K" Miniature Racing Car on Saalwerder Strasse (April 4, 1962)

On October 20, 1806, Marshal Bernadotte held a huge troop display on the field between Trotha and Sennewitz, the Herrenbreite . This led to looting by the French troops in Trotha as well. During the French occupation (1807-1813) Trotha belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia and was assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. The place was in the canton of Neumarkt . On July 13, 1813, Emperor Napoleon I traveled through Trotha on his way to Halle.

During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Trotha was attached to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816 and assigned to the Saalkreis.

In 1830 Trotha had grown to a size of 400 citizens and a new school was built. From the middle of the 19th century, the previous agricultural village of Trotha developed into an industrial suburb of Halle; In the area, among other things, lignite was mined and potatoes, grain and sugar beet were grown in the surrounding fields.

The Preisssche Coffee Garden in Trotha was very popular with the residents, but also with the students from Halle as an excursion destination. In the late 1830s, Christian students met here to discuss and celebrate. From this several mergers developed, finally on July 5, 1844, the Hallenser Wingolf was founded in the coffee garden ; one of the oldest Christian student associations in Germany.

Signs of the increasing industrialization of the area were the establishment of a large sugar factory by the Nagel brothers in 1849 and the opening up of the area for further factories, commercial facilities and ancillary trades such as distilleries or brickworks . In the years 1865/66 Trotha had a population of 1000, the majority of whom were workers in the surrounding industrial plants. On October 1, 1872, Trotha was connected to the Halberstädter Bahn line , and the station building was built with yellow bricks. From 1873 to 1875 the lock was renewed and widened. On March 1, 1884, the chain shipping was opened on the Saale (107 km long), which was discontinued from 1921.

In 1885 Trotha had 2865 inhabitants. The increase in the 100 years between 1785 and 1885 was 965%. The rectory was built in yellow brick and significant finds were made on the Sachsenburg site. In 1892 the Trotha volunteer fire brigade was founded. Towards the end of the same year, the Halle tram went to the Trotha monument square, and from December 1901 to the Trotha train station. Due to the threat of cholera , Trotha got a water pipe in 1893, and a new pumping station was put into operation in December of the same year.

20th century

On April 1, 1900, the Trotha settlement with 3850 inhabitants, 642  hectares and 36 ares in size, was incorporated into the city of Halle (Saale). The first Heine monument in Prussia was unveiled on August 11, 1912 in the garden of the Trothaer Schlößchen.

The industrialization of the area continued when the port of Trotha and a new power station went into operation in 1926 . In 1927 a new public swimming pool opened at Forstwerder, but its operation was stopped only ten years later.

On April 17, 1945 American troops entered hall, resulting German soldiers were in Trothaer movie theater housed. School operations were relocated to the former coffee garden after the Second World War . Only a short time later, in July of the same year, the American troops evacuated the eastern part of Germany, which was supposed to belong to the Soviet occupation zone , including the city of Halle with Trotha as a district. As a result, several properties and private houses for housing Russian commissioners and soldiers were requisitioned. In 1951, the excavation of the north bath began, the inauguration of which took place on August 1st, 1954.

In December 1964, a new school was completed, which was inaugurated as the Hanns Eisler School in 1965 . In the same year the construction of the residential town north (2,484 residential units) and the expansion of the industrial site in the north of Trotha began. In 1969, Trotha was finally connected to the new S-Bahn hall , which initially ran on diesel, and from 1972 onwards, electric.

Buildings

The notable buildings in Trotha include the Church of St. Briccius , the Forstwerder Bridge and the war memorial .

traffic

The Halle-Trotha train station , located in the industrial area north , is on a branch of the Halle – Vienenburg railway line and on the Halle-Trotha port railway . The S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland and regional trains run by Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland .

Trivia

The place is named for the Trotha hawkweed .

literature

• Matthias J. Maurer: Trotha and von Trotha - centuries in words and pictures. Projects Verlag, Halle 2002; ISBN 3-931950-76-X .
• Peter Findeisen , Dirk Höhne: The village churches in Halle (monument sites - monument values ​​vol. 3). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum of Prehistory, Halle 2006, pp. 222–233. ISBN 3-939414-00-X .
• Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra : Walks through the Saalkreis. Reprint of the edition from 1913, Fly Head Verlag, Halle 2006, ISBN 978-3-930195-81-7 ; Volume 1, pp. 13-26.

Web links

Commons : Trotha (Halle / Saale)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Halle (Saale): The district of Trotha with a map
• The Trotha district
• The von Trotha family

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Halle: overview of districts / districts
2. ↑ Halle in Numbers 2016 , 21st edition. February 2017, leaflet / PDF file (accessed December 29, 2017)
3. ↑ Mention of the place in the book "Geography for All Stands", p. 126
4. ^ Description of the Saale Department
5. ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900
6. ^ History of the Hallenser Wingolf. Hallenser Wingolf, February 15, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2012 .