Urbach (Menteroda)

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Urbach
Menteroda municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 42 "  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 26"  E
Height : 330 m above sea level NN
Residents : 313  (Jun. 30, 2012)
Incorporation : August 1, 1996
Postal code : 99996
Area code : 036029
Church of St. Johannis in Urbach
Church of St. Johannis in Urbach

Urbach is a district of the municipality of Menteroda in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .

location

Urbach is located southeast of Menteroda and west of Ebeleben on state road 2047 and on the stream of the same name. The district is 333  m above sea level. NN .

history

The village was first mentioned on May 18, 876. The municipality assumes the year 874. The village was mentioned several times in later history. In 1792 it was destroyed by fire. The church of St. Johannis was built by the citizens from 1829 to 1841. Later activities were carried out to improve the living conditions in the village. Until 1918 Urbach belonged to the rule of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

On December 31, 2010, 319 people lived in the district.

Personalities

  • Josef Blösche (1912–1969), former SS Rottenführer, lived in Urbach from 1947 until his arrest in 1967

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Urbach on the official website of the municipality of Menteroda. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on June 24, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.torzurwelt.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. 296.
  3. Urbach on the official website of the municipality of Menteroda. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on July 13, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.torzurwelt.de