Tunzenhausen

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Tunzenhausen
City of Sömmerda
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 28 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 142 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.69 km²
Residents : 479  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 72 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Postal code : 99610
Area code : 03634
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Location of Tunzenhausen in Sömmerda
Church of St. Peter and Paul in Tunzenhausen (2016)
Manor house in Tunzenhausen (2012)
Memorial to the nine victims of the Kapp Putsch on March 24, 1920
Name plaque of those who were shot

Tunzenhausen is a district of the district town of Sömmerda in Thuringia .

geography

Tunzenhausen is on federal highway 176 between Sömmerda and Straussfurt . The surroundings of the place are characterized by the agricultural use common in the Thuringian Basin . About 1.5 kilometers to the north there is a rocky elevation formed by a geological fault , which is designated as the FFH area Kahler Berg und Drachenschwanz near Tunzenhausen . The main concern here is to maintain the dry grass there .

history

The place name goes back to the proper name Tunzo and the Franconian "hausen". Tunzenhausen was first mentioned in a document on March 20, 1145, whereby the concentration of older fortifications in the district and in the village indicates a longer settlement history.

A castle stood on the area north of the Feldmark. Layers of ash, ceramic shards, bones and iron remains were found there. The finds indicate that the castle was built in prehistoric times. It was first mentioned in 1211 in connection with the siege of the nearby Runneburg in Weissensee . It was destroyed in the process and rebuilt in 1248. Three trenches far in front of the main wall can still be seen on an aerial photo. Arched ramparts secured the castle grounds to the north.

The large Tunzenhausen Castle was in the south-west corner of the village in the Unstrutaue . It was a facility from the early Middle Ages in a Germanic settlement area. Slavic pottery was also found. The complex also included an additional fortification on the western edge of the large castle, also known as the "small castle". Remains of a sanded moat from the great castle are still there.

Two kilometers northeast of the village there was another castle on a small hill called "Funkenburg". The findings suggest that there was a prehistoric and later settlement. It was believed to be a less fortified mansion. There are no remains of the system.

A moated castle was on the southwest corner of the village. It was probably a high medieval complex in the form of a stone building ( kemenate ), which was surrounded by a moat. In 1229 lords of Tunzenhausen were named who were perhaps the owners of the fortifications, then those of Bortfeld . Today the area is modernly built over.

Tunzenhausen belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Weißensee until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna led to Prussia and in 1816 the district Weissensee in the administrative district of Erfurt the province of Saxony assigned to which it belonged until the 1944th Most of the residents of Tunzenhausen worked on the large manor with 765 acres of agricultural land until 1945 .

Tunzenhausen was occupied by US troops in April 1945 and passed on to the Red Army in early July . This made it part of the Soviet Zone and, from 1949, of the GDR . The manor was expropriated without compensation and distributed to poor farmers and factory workers. In the 1950s, the forced collectivization of agriculture followed.

On June 17, 1953 , 100 residents of the community gathered and demanded, among other things, a reduction in the tax rate, increases in pensions, the release of all prisoners of war and the unification of Germany.

Since 2007, Sömmerda has been renovating the manor's former manor house, accompanied by an “old manor house” association.

Attractions

Personalities

  • Theodor Christoph Ursinus (* 1702 in Tunzenhausen, † 1748 in Halle ), philosopher and physician
  • Johann Philipp Hagen (* 1734 in Tunzenhausen, † 1792 in Berlin ), surgeon, obstetrician and university professor
  • Johann Jakob Leitzmann (* 1798 in Erfurt ; † 1877 in Tunzenhausen), pastor and numismatist , lived most of his life in Tunzenhausen
  • Carl Schleusing (* 1865 in Tunzenhausen, † 1953 in Montabaur ): very well-known portrait and landscape painter, court painter, professor. Emigrated to the USA after the First World War, but often stayed in Germany, including Tunzenhausen, where a street was named after him.
  • Paul Schuster (* 1894 in Tunzenhausen; † after 1958) was a German former political prisoner in the Bad Sulza and Buchenwald concentration camps , after 1945 leader of visitor groups in the Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial Site and City Councilor for Housing in Weimar .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance on the establishment of natural habitats and species of community interest as well as of European bird species according to § 26 Paragraph 3a and § 26a Paragraph 2 of the Thuringian Law for Nature and Landscape.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. juris.de, accessed on January 29, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / th.juris.de  
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 290.
  3. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 270-271, 117, 252, 105-106.
  4. ^ The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900 .
  5. ^ Secret report of the district authorities of the People's Police in Erfurt from June 29, 1953 on June 17 .