Ummerstadt

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Ummerstadt
Map of Germany, position of the city of Ummerstadt highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '  N , 10 ° 49'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Hildburghausen
Management Community : Heldburger Unterland
Height : 283 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.73 km 2
Residents: 463 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density : 29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 98663
Area code : 036871
License plate : HBN
Community key : 16 0 69 052
LOCODE : DE UST
Association administration address: Port market 164
98663 Bad Colberg-Heldburg
Website : www.ummerstadt.de
Mayoress : Christine Bardin (independent)
Location of the city of Ummerstadt in the Hildburghausen district
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Ummerstadt from the west

Ummerstadt is a town in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia and has been a member of the Heldburger Unterland administrative community since 1994 . With 461 inhabitants (December 31, 2018) it is the smallest city in Thuringia, the smallest in the Franconia region and the second smallest in Germany .

Geographical location

Ummerstadt is located in the Heldburger Land in the southernmost tip of the Free State of Thuringia. A large part of the district boundaries is also the state border between Thuringia and Bavaria, behind which the Coburg Land lies. The neighboring city in Thuringia is Heldburg , neighboring cities in Bavaria are Bad Rodach , Seßlach and Coburg . Due to its location on the Rodach river , which drains over the Itz into the Main , Ummerstadt belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Rhine .

history

In the Codex Eberhardi , a collection of documents from the Fulda Monastery , copies of which were made around 1140, numerous places in the Grabfeldgau were named for the first time. Ummerstadt probably has one of the two names that cannot be assigned with certainty: “Uundrungeuui” (document 507 of October 17, 837) or “Gubrahtestat” (document 520 of October 2, 838). Heldburg and Hellingen are also mentioned in both documents. A Würzburg document no. 5630 from February 1, 1223 again mentions Heldburg and “Umerstat” together. A Wettin copy book contains the copy of the lost town charter of December 2, 1394, which was issued in the "Dorf Heldburg". Heldburg received city rights on the same day. The Ummerstadt residents emphasized, however, that they had already received city rights under the Hennebergs (i.e. 1374 at the latest, the last year of the Henneberg rule ), but that the document had been lost. In fact, in connection with the transfer of the Hennebergischen care of Coburg as a dowry (to which Ummerstadt belonged) to the Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meißen, Friedrich III. (the severity) , Ummerstadt called a city. Ummerstadt thus has the city of Hennberg and Wettin.

There was a fortification on the Kirchberg of Ummerstadt. The wall, the gate and the gate tower as well as the remains of the moat still bear witness to this.

During the Thirty Years' War , 52 houses and all public buildings burned down in September 1632. In the following years the city only had about 100 inhabitants. Eleven years later there were only 26 inhabited houses.

From the 18th century, the pottery was the dominant industry in the small town.

Trabant on Karl-Marx-Strasse, immediately after the turn . Winter 1990

Due to its location in the border area of ​​the GDR , Ummerstadt was exposed to strong migration even before the fall of the Berlin Wall. As early as 1952/1953, citizens who were seen to be in political danger had to leave the city. Ummerstadt had almost a thousand inhabitants when the GDR was founded in 1949, but this number almost halved in the following decades. The Erlebach district was completely cleared by 1982. In the second half of the 1980s, Ummerstadt became the smallest town in the GDR. After 1990 the emigration trend continued unchanged. In 1992 the population voted in a referendum in favor of Ummerstadt's independence.

Development of the population of the city of Ummerstadt

Population development

Market with fountain
Street in the historic old town
Cemetery church, former town and fortified church
Rodach Bridge from 1565

Development of the population (December 31) :

  • 1861: 887
  • 1885: 825
  • 1949: 969
  • 1983: 600
  • 1987: 550
  • 1994: 539
  • 1995: 545
  • 1996: 540
  • 1997: 538
  • 1998: 541
  • 1999: 534
  • 2000: 539
  • 2001: 528
  • 2002: 526
  • 2003: 526
  • 2004: 526
  • 2005: 533
  • 2006: 530
  • 2007: 522
  • 2008: 507
  • 2009: 508
  • 2010: 500
  • 2011: 492
  • 2012: 487
  • 2013: 488
  • 2014: 487
  • 2015: 484
  • 2016: 474
  • 2017: 462
  • 2018: 461
  • 2019: 463
Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Ummerstadt consists of six council members who were elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014 in a majority vote and all belong to the free voters .

mayor

Christine Bardin has been the mayor since 2004.

coat of arms

Blazon : square of gold and blue, inside four lions facing each other: in the first and fourth fields black with a red tongue and armor, in the second and third divided seven times by silver and red.

The coat of arms of Ummerstadt shows on the one hand the Markmeißnischen and on the other hand the Thuringian lions , which confirms the former affiliation to the House of Wettin (when Balthasar von Meißen re-confirmed the old, lost city rights) and to the state of Thuringia. The four fields with the lions first appeared on a seal from 1400.

Buildings

The entire historical location of Ummerstadt is under monument protection, there are also numerous individual monuments.

  • The Rodach Bridge from 1565 is important as a monument to the history of the city and traffic.
  • The old town still has a closed half-timbered ensemble.
  • The market square with the historic town hall is particularly worth seeing; it is said to have been built in 1558 from a stone in the basement. It was renewed in 1682 after the "Swedish Fire". The house facade, which had previously been plastered and richly decorated for fear of further city fires, was only exposed again in 1929.
  • The market fountain from 1687 is on the market and the Protestant parish church of St. Bartholomew is nearby .
  • The mountain church of St. Andrew probably goes back to a chapel built by Scottish monks around the year 880 and is one of the oldest churches in the area. The fortifications that were added later and that still partially surround the Romanesque church are also impressive. The cemetery is located on the adjacent site, from where a footpath leads to the rectory.
  • The former brewery is also located in the middle of the village.
  • For the drinking water supply and for brewing beer, a water pipe was laid out centuries ago as a "tube ride", of which one is very proud; the five running fountains in the locality later brought Ummerstadt the nickname "five-fountain city".

dialect

The Main Franconian dialect Itzgründisch is spoken in Ummerstadt .

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Georg Rosenmüller

literature

  • Max-Rainer Uhrig: The Heldburger Land. In: Frankenland, magazine for Franconian regional studies and culture. Issue 6, Würzburg, June 1990. Available online on the Würzburg University Library website at: http://frankenland.franconica.uni-wuerzburg.de/login/data/1990_137.pdf#view=FitBV
  • Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land, a historical travel guide ; Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
  • P. Lehfeld: Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia , booklet XXXI, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, district court districts Heldburg and Römhild , 1904, reprint, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, ISBN 978-3-86777-378-2

Established businesses

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 158.
  3. ↑ 2014 municipal council election in Thuringia - final result Ummerstadt
  4. ↑ http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wjahr=0000&angeboteErg=GEM&auswert=1&wknr=069&gemnr=69052&terrKrs=&gemteil=000&buchstabe=&Langname=&wahlvorschlag=&sort=&druck=H&XLS=& number = -6 & Non_existing = & x_vollbildDatteil = & optik = & aktuell = & ShowLand = & ShowWK = & ShowPart = & w_date = 05.06.2016
  5. ^ Heinz Göschel (Ed.): Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the GDR. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1984, pp. 468/469
  6. ↑ Ummerstadt - coat of arms. Retrieved on June 10, 2013 (after choosing "History" and then "Wappen"). - There the lexicon of cities and coats of arms of the GDR is quoted as follows: “Square of 1: 4 gold and 2: 3 blue, in it four lions facing each other: black with red tongue and reinforcement at the top and at the back, and at the top divided by red and silver seven times at the bottom ”(ie the lion begins red like the Thuringian lion in today's state coat of arms ). However, the coat of arms shown on the side shows a silver lion on top.
  7. ^ The city arms of the city of Ummerstadt. Historical Association Ummerstadt, accessed on June 10, 2013 (after choosing “current topics” and then “coat of arms”).
  8. ^ "Rodach thermal baths, Gleichberge mit Heldburger Land" . In: Fritsch hiking map . 3. Edition. tape 140 . Landkartenverlag Fritsch, Hof / Saale 2000, ISBN 3-86116-140-0 .
  9. ^ Georg Brückner:  Diez, Justus Laurentius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 217.

Web links

Commons : Ummerstadt  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Topographia Franconiae: Umbstatt  - Sources and full texts