Vehra
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Vehra
Community Straußfurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 4 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 11 ″ E
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| Height : | 145 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 153 (December 31, 2010) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 |
| Incorporated into: | Henschleben |
| Postcodes : | 99634, 99346 |
| Area code : | 036376 |
 The Road of Peace in Vehra
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Since December 31, 2019, Vehra has been part of the Straußfurt municipality in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia . Before that, Vehra had belonged to Henschleben as a district since July 1, 1950 .
location
The former church village is located south of the Unstrut opposite Straussfurt and very close to the lock gates of the Unstrut retention basin and east of Bundesstraße 4 and the Erfurt – Nordhausen railway in the Thuringian Basin .
history
The village was first mentioned in a document in 1208. 1 km east of Vehra was a vanished by aerial photographs Wallenburg pinpointed: a rounded, square moat. The name Vehra (Old High German ver = ferry) goes back to an old ferry connection at this point over the Unstrut. A chapel is said to have stood here as early as the 9th century. In 1080 a battle between the troops of King Heinrich IV and the opposing king Rudolf took place west of Vehra on the "Mordäckern", which Heinrich won. In 1208 King Otto IV confirmed the Cistercian monastery Pforta to have a farm with fishing license called vere . In 1257 there was a dispute between the pastor of Werningshausen and the Pforta monastery over the prayer house in Vehra, as a result of which the pastor was granted pastoral care in Vehra (and Henschleben). He had to forego his previous interest. Vehra only became a village in the 15th century. After the Pforta monastery was closed, the estate passed to the von Selmnitz family . A “Church by the Good” was built in 1623/24 under Ernst Friedemann von Selmnitz. Various other families of the landowners can be found from 1689. In the 19th century it was the von Henning family . Until 1815, Henschleben and Vehra belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Eckartsberga as exclaves . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna they came to Prussia and were in 1816 the district Weissensee in the administrative district of Erfurt the province of Saxony allocated to which they belonged to the 1944th
In 1830 the ferry traffic over the Unstrut was stopped because a bridge was being built during the construction of a road from Weißensee to Erfurt. In 1863 Vehra had 231 inhabitants. According to an old custom, the Pentecostal boys and maids from Werningshausen honored the manor owner in Vehra with a bouquet on the third day of Pentecost. This was delivered on a march with music, the thanks consisted of a barrel of beer and the opportunity to dance in Vehra. In 1870 the custom was discontinued.
In 1918 Elise von Pommer Esche , named von Henning auf Schönhoff, was the "Fideikommisherrin auf Vehra". In 1945 the Vehra estate was expropriated without compensation . The cattle herd of the estate was free of tuberculosis, so that it was allowed to supply the municipal hospital in Erfurt. Part of the farm buildings of the originally stately four-sided estate, which belonged to a VEG , later fell into ruins. On July 1, 1950, Vehra was incorporated into Henschleben.
In 1960 the place got a paved street and sidewalks (up to that time only the section of today's L 2142 running through the place Vehra was paved). At the same time, the place got its first sewer system, which had to be heavily reworked after a few years due to the pipe cross-sections being too small and the occasional elevated groundwater level (caused by the damming of the debris during floods). At the end of the seventies the construction of a drinking water pipe and the reconstruction of the village lighting took place with the participation of the citizens.
In the 1970s the roof of the nave of the village church collapsed, whereupon it was removed and the church tower blown up. With the church, its interior was lost, including the ancestral coats of arms and memorial plaques carved in stone, as well as the coffins of the landowners in the crypt. The area was leveled. After the “Wende”, a wooden frame with one of the two bells of the church was erected on the green area, but without any reference to the earlier church.
On the federal road 4 between Vehra and Henschleben (approx. 300 m from the entrance to the town) there is a small group of trees on the right. A burial chapel for the von Vehra landowner families stood here above the Unstrut, safe from flooding. The mortal remains of those who were buried in zinc coffins were buried after 1945 in the local cemetery of Vehra without a memorial. There was a small residential building next to the chapel and the entire area around the chapel (including this one) was a “new farmer's economy” from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. After that, the crypt was used as a potato cellar for the LPG, the rest of the room as a warehouse. It was only in the eighties, when the LPG no longer had any economic interest in the building, that the chapel was "torn down" by vandalism and looting. There are only unsecured, ground-level wall remnants to the crypt. Here, too, no sign reminds of the history of the square.
In Vehra there is a war memorial for the fallen and missing soldiers of the First World War in front of a farm building , and after the fall of the Wall it was supplemented by a plaque for the victims of the Second World War.
Vehra had 153 inhabitants at the end of December 2010. On December 31, 2019, the community of Henschleben was dissolved and Vehra became a district of Straussfurt.
Son of the place
- Eduard von Selchow (1791–1868), chamberlain and manor owner
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office: Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
- ^ 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. 298.
- ^ The district of Weißensee in the municipality register 1900 .