Vieselbach

Vieselbach State capital Erfurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 4 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 49"  E
Height :	192  (187-220)  m
Area :	7.72 km²
Residents :	2172  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	281 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1994
Postal code :	99098
Primaries :	036203, 0361
Location of Vieselbach in Erfurt

Holy Cross Church in Vieselbach ( Location → )

Former town hall in the town center

Vieselbach is a district in the far east of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt .

geography

Vieselbach is located about seven kilometers east of Erfurt am Vieselbach, a tributary of the Gramme in an agricultural area at an altitude of 207 m above sea level. NN . The Vieselbach dam is located south of the village .

history

The place name Vieselbach goes back to the previously very winding course of the brook. Vieselbach was first mentioned in a document in 1193, when seven pigs were obliged to pay interest to the Marienstift (Domstift) Erfurt. However, historians assume that Vieselbach was much older and probably originated around 900.

In the Middle Ages, Vieselbach was the official seat of the County of Vieselbach , which comprised 17 villages and was subordinate to the Counts of Gleichen . The castle of the counts was located on the so-called Schlossberg and was probably destroyed as early as the 14th century. In 1343 the von Gleichen sold the office to the city ​​of Erfurt and the Archdiocese of Mainz . This divided the count's farm yard to farmers. At the instigation of Erfurt, a large fish pond (25 ha) was created northwest of the village. This was drained in the 18th century and a wood for pheasant rearing was planted, which was replaced by wicker in 1912. The Thirty Years War brought great damage to the place. After its end, Vieselbach only had about 100 inhabitants. In 1664 Vieselbach came to Kurmainz together with Erfurt , and in 1802 to Prussia . In the course of the Napoleonic Wars , the village became part of the Principality of Erfurt in 1806 , which was directly under France . In 1815, after more than 500 years of association with Erfurt and some surrounding villages, as a result of the Congress of Vienna , Vieselbach became part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , with which the place remained until the state of Thuringia was founded in 1920. Vieselbach became the seat of a judicial district office ( Amt Vieselbach and Justice Office Vieselbach ), which in 1818 moved into a new building on the Hausberg or "Amtsberg".

As early as 1847, Vieselbach received a railway connection on the Thuringian Railway from Halle and Leipzig to Erfurt, which sustainably promoted industrial development in the town. The railway viaduct built at that time from natural stone, reinforced in 1934, is still in use today. A beer brewery, iron foundry, steam mill and other businesses came into being, supported by their own savings bank. Vieselbach became wealthy. The new nave was inaugurated in 1895. Agriculture also flourished. A number of large farms emerged. The farmer Otto Lippold, one of the founders of the good reputation of Thuringian cold-blooded breeding, was particularly successful .

In the First World War 49 Vieselbacher soldiers lost their lives. There was a gradual recovery from the aftermath of the war in the 1920s and 1930s. For example, B. Edmund Kühn, Otto Lippold's son-in-law, continued his great success in horse, cattle and seed breeding in his model business (collectivized in 1953).

During the Second World War , numerous Vieselbachers died not only at the front, but also in Erfurt factories in air raids . Railway systems in Vieselbach were destroyed by explosive bombs , air mines and on-board weapons . The Vieselbach population also used the cold storage cellars of the Deinhardt brewery as bomb-proof shelters when there was an air raid alarm . In April 1945 the site was occupied by US troops , and in early July by the Red Army . Due to the influx of refugees from the eastern regions, the population increased to over 2,500 people. Vieselbach became part of the SBZ and from 1949 the GDR . With expropriations and collectivization, it took part in all resulting social developments.

Many Catholics were also among the displaced persons . Their services took place for years in the Protestant church. In 1953 the new building of the Catholic Church of St. Maria Rosary Queen was consecrated. The community had 1,700 members from Vieselbach and 20 surrounding villages. Many parishioners had also helped build the church. The building material came partly from the demolition of storage buildings on the Ettersberg . From 1995 to 1997 the church building was completely renovated. Since 1981 Vieselbach has been a subsidiary of St. Georg in Erfurt.

In 1952 the village was assigned to the district of Erfurt-Land , to which it belonged until it was incorporated into the city of Erfurt on July 1, 1994. Today Vieselbach has a joint local council with Wallichen, about one kilometer to the north (172 inhabitants).

Population development

• 1843: 0560
• 1910: 1,252
• 1939: 1,748
• 1995: 1.968
• 2000: 2.123
• 2005: 2.204
• 2010: 2,215
• 2015: 2,170
• 2019: 2.232

traffic

Vieselbach stop (2018)

In addition to the Halle – Bebra railway line, there are roads from Vieselbach to Azmannsdorf (Erfurt), Mönchenholzhausen ( B7 ), Niederzimmer ( Weimar ), Kleinmölsen ( Sömmerda ) and Wallichen . The Erfurt-Vieselbach motorway junction of the A 4 is about five kilometers south of the village . EVAG city ​​buses run in the direction of Ringelberg , Niederzimmer and Erfurt city center (bus station).

People who were born in Vieselbach

• Friedrich Justus Riedel , writer and university professor
• Karl Güldenapfel (1859–1944), pastor a. a. in Stockhausen near Sondershausen
• Ernst Katzmann (1897–1968), NSDAP politician
• Ernst Sorge (1899–1946), geographer, polar explorer and teacher

Monuments and landmarks

• The Protestant Church of the Holy Cross from 1894 and the Catholic Church of St. Mary from 1953
• The railway viaduct from 1847 (reinforced in 1934)
• War memorial 1870/71 on Rathausplatz
• An Ernst Thälmann monument near the train station.
• See also the list of cultural monuments in Vieselbach

societies

The sports club SV 1899 Vieselbach e. V. offers various popular sports activities in several departments. For its 110th anniversary in 2009, u. a. the topping-out ceremony for a new 455,000 euro sports center was celebrated.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Places of the Vieselbach judicial district
2. ↑ " Our life is a festival" is the motto. (60th anniversary of the church): Thüringische Landeszeitung, October 9, 2013
3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
4. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843.
5. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Population of the districts

literature

• Hans Kretzschmar: Special from Vieselbach . In: "Erfurter Heimatbrief No. 28, June 6, 1974, pp. 33-38

Web links

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

• Pages about Vieselbach on the homepage of the city of Erfurt
• vieselbach-wallichen.de
• Private homepage about the place
• Erfurt Statistics - Data and Facts 2011 (PDF; 1.2 MB)