Veilsdorf

This article deals with the municipality of Veilsdorf. For the noble family, see Veilsdorf (noble family) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '  N , 10 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Hildburghausen
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.9 km 2
Residents:	2762 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98669
Area code :	03685
License plate :	HBN
Community key :	16 0 69 053
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 12 98669 Veilsdorf
Website :	www.veilsdorf.de
Mayor :	Herbert Hess
Location of the municipality of Veilsdorf in the district of Hildburghausen

Veilsdorf from the west

Veilsdorf is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in the Franconian south of Thuringia .

geography

Geographical location

The core community is located on the banks of the Werra , which separates the core town through which Habergrund flows (called in Veilsdorf Weihbach or Wäbich ) and the Schackendorf immediately to the east of the Veilsdorf monastery north of the core town and Hessberg 3 km to the west. Goßmannsrod is 4 km northeast of the core town on the Schwaba , Hetschbach 3 km south near the Rhine-Weser watershed .

Veilsdorf lies in the city triangle of Hildburghausen in the west, Eisfeld in the east and Bad Rodach in the south. In the municipal area heights of 550  m above sea level. NN reached.

The community borders directly on Bavaria (Upper Franconia administrative region). The national border is only about two and a half kilometers away from the core town.

Neighboring communities

• Brno / Thür.
• Floodplain
• Ice field
• Bad Rodach
• Straufhain
• Hildburghausen

Community structure

The districts of the municipality are:

Goßmannsrod Hessberg Hetschbach

Veilsdorf Monastery Schackendorf Veilsdorf

Veilsdorf forms a coherent core town with about 1800 inhabitants with the monastery Veilsdorf and Schackendorf.

history

Until the 19th century

In the year 817 Veilsdorf was first mentioned in a Fulda document. There were different ways of writing names: "Fiselestorp", "Filedorff", "Vilesdorp", "Veihelsdorff", "Feielsdorf" and "Veylsdorf".

In the vicinity of the place there was a Benedictine nuns monastery, which was most likely a fortification before and was then consecrated to the Archangel Michael . The monastery was first mentioned in a document in 1189. In 1446 the nunnery was converted into a monastery. This was burned down by farmers during the Peasants' War in 1524/25.

In the northeast of the place there was a castle, the Trigelsburg ( Ingilinburg , Friselenburg) and opposite it - above the Gottesackerkirche - the castle, called the stone house, which served the knights and lords of Veilsdorf as their ancestral seat.

In 1760, Prince Eugene of Saxony-Hildburghausen founded the first porcelain factory in Thuringia in Veilsdorf on the site of the Benedictine monastery, which was founded in 1153 and destroyed in 1525 . After 1863, under Gustaf Kieser and Albert Heubach, an economic boom began with the production of utility and industrial porcelain. The factory, which has been a stock company since 1883, had 1,300 workers and employees before the First World War. In 1863 and 1883, devastating fires took place, both times in which most of the village was destroyed.

20th century

In 1903 the church tower of the Trinity Church burned down by lightning.

During the Second World War , over 200 men and women, mainly from the Soviet Union and Poland, had to do forced labor in the porcelain factory at Kloster Veilsdorf .

In Heßberg there was an originally Heßberg manor which, after being sold, belonged to the von Eichel-Streiber family from 1860 to 1945 . The mansion was demolished in 1948 according to Order 209 of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) despite protests from residents.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Hetschbach and Veilsdorf Monastery were incorporated.

On November 29, 1994, Heßberg was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Veilsdorf consists of 14 council members.

Party / list	%	Seats
Veilsdorf citizens' list	41.4	6th
Heßberg voter community	22.7	3
Red Cross Community Veilsdorf	11.2	2
Goßmannsrod group of voters	9.5	1
Veilsdorf fire department	6.3	1
SPD	5.7	1
Alliance Future Hildburghausen	3.2	0

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

coat of arms

A shield divided - from above red over silver by three upright points , below in black a golden scale.

Public facilities

Veilsdorf has a primary school, three communal kindergartens in the districts of Veilsdorf, Kloster Veilsdorf and Heßberg, a communally operated outdoor swimming pool and the sports facility Weihbachgrund with sports hall and stadium.

Culture and sights

Churches

• Aegidienkirche in Hessberg, built before 1425
• Veitskirche (cemetery church) in Veilsdorf, built around 1308
• Trinity Church in Veilsdorf with a remarkable coffered ceiling and interior furnishings, built around 1604 - in an ensemble with the rectory and old school

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  St. Vitus Church

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  Trinity Church

Memorials

• Since 1984 a grave with a memorial stone in the cemetery of the Goßmannsrod district has been commemorating the communist resistance fighter Albin Fischer , who was sentenced to prison and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where he was murdered in 1945. The memorial stone was desecrated by strangers and removed after 1992.
• War memorial on the Leite in Veilsdorf
• Memorial to the porcelain manufactory in the district of Kloster Veilsdorf

dialect

Itzgründisch , a Main Franconian dialect, is spoken in Veilsdorf .

Economy and Transport

economy

Porcelain has been manufactured in Veilsdorf since 1760. Today there is a Rauschert Group plant here with around 200 employees, which specializes in the manufacture of technical ceramics. Another important employer is Milch Land GmbH, which, in addition to a modern dairy cattle facility, operates a country market with regional products and an EDEKA range, breakfast and lunch supplies and a “milk café”. A considerable part of the population commutes to work in Bad Rodach and Coburg in Upper Franconia.

traffic

Veilsdorf station

Veilsdorf has a train station on the Werrabahn , which is served every hour by trains of the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn in the direction of Eisenach or Eisfeld (from there every two hours in the direction of Rauenstein / Sonneberg / Neuhaus am Rennweg).

There are individual bus connections to Hildburghausen, Eisfeld and Waffenrod / Hinterrod.

The federal road 89 runs through the districts of Heßberg, Veilsdorf / Kloster Veilsdorf and Schackendorf . Convenient access in private transport is by each about 9 kilometers away interchanges Eisfeld Eisfeld-Nord and South on the A73 given.

tourism

The Werra Valley cycle path runs directly through the center of Veilsdorf. Before and after the village, the path leads along the wooded ridge of the Leite . In addition, Veilsdorf is affected by the Werra-Burgen-Steig and the border hiking trail Grünes Band .

Personalities

• Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (1750–1816), sculptor
• Hermann Hahn (1868–1945), sculptor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 257.
3. ^ Community Veilsdorf: Chronicle of the localities. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 8, 2017 ; accessed on March 7, 2017 . 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.  
4. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 134 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0 .
5. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994

literature

• Armin Human: Chronicle of the Veilsdorf Monastery - A source study , published by FW Gadow & Sohn, Hildburghausen 1882
• Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, Hildburghausen district , II vol., Jena 1904

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Veilsdorf