Utendorf

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Management Community :	Dolmar salt bridge
Height :	376 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.09 km 2
Residents:	439 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98617
Area code :	03693
License plate :	SM, MGN
Community key :	16 0 66 079
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Meininger Strasse 107 ; 98617 Utendorf
Website :	www.vg-dolmar-salzbruecke.de
Mayor :	Martin Thiel
Location of the municipality of Utendorf in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Utendorf is a municipality in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the Franconian south of Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative association Dolmar-Salzbrücke , which has its administrative headquarters in the municipality of Schwarza .

geography

Utendorf is located around five kilometers north of the city center of the district town of Meiningen and two kilometers east of the Meiningen district of Jerusalem . A few kilometers northeast of the village rises with the 739 m high Dolmar an extinct volcano.

history

The village was initially a Henneberg fiefdom and since 1264 the property of the Lords of Kühndorf . In 1264 a part came to the Rohr monastery , but the whole village in 1307 to the order house in Kühndorf. The community was first clearly mentioned in a document in 1343. In 1380, however , the church village burned down completely and is not mentioned again until 1536.

After the division of the county of Henneberg-Schleusingen in 1660, the place came from the office Kühndorf to the office Wasungen . Since 1680 he belonged with this to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . In 1702 Utendorf was incorporated into the Meiningen office.

Utendorf was persecuted by witches from 1660 to 1674 : seven women were involved in witch trials . Catharina, Hans Kehl's wife, was burned in 1660.

Today, due to its location close to Meiningen, but without a through road, the small community is a popular place to live. A new building area was built on the outskirts in the 1990s.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1554: 29
1611: 61
1649: 22 families
1803: 161
1851: 235 (53 families)
1900: 349
1906: 306

1946: 575
1959: 467
1960: 418
1965: 411
1975: 417
1980: 379
1988: 362
1990: 344

1994: 395
1995: 436
1996: 444
1997: 463
1998: 460
1999: 469
2000: 496
2001: 499

2002: 511
2003: 510
2004: 505
2005: 505
2006: 486
2007: 479
2008: 482
2009: 478

2010: 471
2011: 475
2012: 468
2013: 467
2014: 459
2015: 467
2016: 459
2017: 439

2018: 438

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

mayor

The honorary mayor Martin Thiel was elected on June 9, 2019.

Culture and sights

View from the village center to the church

Village church

Buildings

The Utendorfer Church is enthroned on a hill 27 meters above the village. The current church was built in 1821 after the previous medieval building collapsed immediately after a service.

Natural monuments

The armholes represent a geological peculiarity as sources of hunger ; they are only full of water if it has rained for a long time before and after the snow has melted. The two separate spring openings are located east of the road to Meiningen in Berlesgrund.

Sports

The gymnastics and sports club 1905 Utendorf eV is active as a sports club in Utendorf. The association has 87 members (as of January 1, 2011). Football is the main sport in the club, but there is also a women's gymnastics department.

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 370; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Utendorf 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 , p. 247, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).

Web links

Commons : Utendorf - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the administrative association

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 370; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Utendorf 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 , p. 247, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).