Unterweid
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Unterweid
City of Kaltennordheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 3 ′ 37 ″ E
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| Height : | 437 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 7.13 km² |
| Residents : | 420 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 59 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 36452 |
| Area code : | 036946 |
 Districts of the city of Kaltennordheim
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Unterweid ( Rhöner Platt : Öngerwied) is a district of the town of Kaltennordheim in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .
Geographical location
Unterweid is a village in the Thuringian Rhön on the Hessian-Thuringian border. It is on the state road 1124 with connection to the federal road 276 to Hilders and lies in the Weidtal . Neighboring towns are Oberweid in the south, the district of Kaltenwestheim in the east and Tann in the northwest and Hilders in the southwest.
history
The village was first mentioned in a document on June 9, 795 (Marburg archive). The place belonged to the office of Kaltennordheim of the county of Henneberg , later to Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ( Eisenacher Oberland ).
Unterweid was persecuted by witches in 1624 : Margaretha Kleinpeter got into a witch trial and was burned.
On January 1, 2019, Unterweid was incorporated into the city of Kaltennordheim together with six other locations of the Hohe Rhön administrative community .
politics
The community council from Unterweid finally consisted of six councilors and councilors. The honorary mayor, Christel Bittorf-Rasch, was elected on June 27, 2004 and remained in office until the town was incorporated into Kaltennordheim. Since January 1, 2019, she has been the local mayor .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 295.
- ^ Kai Lehmann : Exhibition "Luther and the witches". Unterweid area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 239 f., (At the same time: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 3, 2019
