Utzberg
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Utzberg
Rural community of Grammetal
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 28 ″ E
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| Height : | 261 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 6.79 km² |
| Residents : | 295 (Dec. 31, 2006) |
| Population density : | 43 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 1, 2007 |
| Incorporated into: | Nohra |
| Postal code : | 99428 |
| Area code : | 036203 |
 Church in Utzberg
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Utzberg is a district of the rural community Grammetal in the west of the Weimarer Land district and part of the administrative community Grammetal in Thuringia.
location
The village of Utzberg is located in the Thuringian Basin east of the city of Erfurt and west of the city of Weimar . below the Utzberg, 324 meters above sea level . The district is located on the best arable land. To the south, the federal highway 7 and the federal highway 4 pass not far from the village.
history
In the early Middle Ages , there was a place of worship on the neighboring Utzberg, after which the place was named , where the Germanic god Wodan was worshiped. Around 1170 the place was first mentioned as Wuodenesberg and Wutensberc in a document that Emperor Friedrich I issued for the imperial abbey of Fulda . Around 1123 there was a Hermannus de Wothensberg or Wodenesberg. The place name changed over time. From 1273 Utensberc was in use, in the 15th century Utisberg and from 1790 Utzberg can be proven as a place name. The place originally belonged to the county of Vieselbach .
A castle stood on a terrace in the southeast corner of the village. It belonged to the Landgraves of Thuringia . In 1316 it was destroyed by troops from the city of Erfurt . From then on the place belonged to the city of Erfurt , whereby a nobleman from Utzberg is mentioned in the same year. In 1518 the Lords of Utzberg are mentioned again when they took over the possessions of Ollendorf Castle . The majority of the population of the village lived from agriculture. There is evidence that woad was grown in the 16th century. The village was repeatedly affected by the effects of the war. The place was devastated in the Thirty Years War . Further damage occurred during the Napoleonic coalition wars in 1806 and 1813. In 1896 and 1909 the place was devastated by conflagrations .
In 1802 Utzberg came with the Erfurt area to Prussia and between 1807 and 1813 to the French principality of Erfurt . With the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the place came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ( Amt Vieselbach ) with the Amt Azmannsdorf , to whose administrative district Weimar it belonged from 1850.
After the fall of the Wall in 1989, a business park developed, benefiting from the good transport links. On December 1, 2007 Utzberg was incorporated into Nohra . On December 31, 2019, Nohra merged with other communities to form the rural community of Grammetal.
traffic
The federal highway 7 Erfurt - Weimar runs about 1 km south of the town center . The next train station is in Hopfgarten on the Erfurt – Weimar railway line .
Attractions
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Napoleon stone near Utzberg
The "Napoleon Stone" is located on federal road 7, west of the village. According to local tradition, at the place where Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander of Russia first met, there was a striking pear tree, which was destroyed by lightning in 1857. In the 100th anniversary year of the Wars of Liberation and the Battle of Leipzig in 1913, the Niederzimmer- based landowner von Imhoff had the longed-for opportunity to donate a “patriotic” monument. It consisted of an iron memorial plaque that was attached to a masonry plinth about one meter high and crowned with a boulder that was probably found there on the roadside.
The text of this original plaque read:
- “1813 - 1913. For the centenary of the uprising of Germany and the destruction of Napoleon's world domination. Germany be awake! Here in 1808 Napoleon and Alexander of Russia shook hands over Germany's disgrace. "
In 1936, the memorial, which had been attacked by the weather, had to be repaired, the masonry base was removed and the associated boulder was now on the ground again. Since then, a pillar-like obelisk has been rising up at the same place. However, this bears an abbreviated inscription:
- "1813 - 1913. For the centenary celebration of the rise of Germany and the suppression of Napoleon's foreign rule."
In the GDR era, the monument became a political issue, so the stone received another inscription that seems to have no direct reference to the original occasion:
- "Germany, be vigilant against the imperialists."
The property, which was also designated as a monument in the GDR era, has now been renovated again.
Other architectural monuments
The following buildings in the area are listed:
- Church of St. John Baptista with cemetery . A previous building from the 15th century and its reconstruction were twice victims of the flames in the 17th century. The oldest bell was cast in 1703. In 1725 V. Ditmar from Erfurt created the pulpit altar.
- Former brewery, Am Teich
- Barn, No. 6
- Portal and gate, Weimarer Strasse 32
- A war memorial in the town center is composed of three Waidmühlsteins .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Dominikus: Erfurt and the Erfurt area. According to geographical, physical, statistical, political and historical conditions. An award typeface co-crowned by the Academy of Useful Sciences in Erfurt. Part 2. Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, Gotha 1793, p. 253 f.
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 256 and 196–197.
- ^ Locations of the administrative district Weimar in the municipality register 1900 .
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007 .
- ↑ von Imhoff: Napoleon memories in the area of Niederzimmer. October 22, 1913 . In: Thuringian monthly sheets . tape 21 , No. 8, November 1, 1913, ZDB -ID 527359-6 , p. 10-11 .
