Voigtstedt

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Voigtstedt
City and rural community of Artern
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 27 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 125 m
Area : 11.48 km²
Residents : 877  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 76 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 06556
Area code : 03466

Voigtstedt is a district of the city and rural community Artern in the Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis .

location

The federal highway 86 and the railway line from Artern to Roßleben as well as the federal highway 71 lead through the demarcation of the former municipality on the small helmets, a branch of the helmets . The basin around Artern is surrounded in the north by the Harz Mountains , in the west by Kyffhäuser and in the east by the Ziegelroda Forest . This makes this country one of the warmest and driest areas in Thuringia.

St. Mary's Church in Voigtstedt

history

At the beginning of the 9th century Voigstedt is mentioned in a document as Vocstat in a list of the goods of the Hersfeld Monastery built by Archbishop Lullus († 786) of Mainz . The former moated castle stood on a small island of the helmets at the northeast corner of the village. A Heinrich von Vokstete was named in 1200, who was probably lord of the castle. In 1208 it was called a castle. There are no remnants of these buildings. At times there were up to six manors in the village, including the official property, the castle property, the back tower, the Wechsunger Hof and Kresses Hof. The place was also the seat of a manorial office to which the villages of Voigtstedt, Nikolausrieth , Katharinenrieth and Schönfeld belonged. The noble Knaut family held a farm here from 1453 to 1554, which was called Knauthof until the 19th century .

During the Second World War , 57 women and men, mainly from Russia , Ukraine and Poland, had to do forced labor .

On January 1st, the municipality of Voigtstedt was merged with the town of Artern / Unstrut and the municipality of Heygendorf to form the new town and rural municipality of Artern. The community Voigtstedt belonged to the administrative community Mittelzentrum Artern .

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

  • 1994: 1183
  • 1995: 1172
  • 1996: 1169
  • 1997: 1141
  • 1998: 1133
  • 1999: 1104
  • 2000: 1085
  • 2001: 1064
  • 2002: 1068
  • 2003: 1063
  • 2004: 1049
  • 2005: 1040
  • 2006: 1031
  • 2007: 1016
  • 2008: 0993
  • 2009: 0969
  • 2010: 0958
  • 2011: 0926
  • 2012: 918
  • 2013: 911
  • 2014: 874
  • 2015: 856
  • 2016: 880
  • 2017: 877
Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

traffic

The place has a stop on the Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway line .

Attractions

  • In the north of Voigtstedt there was the brickworks Louisenwerk with a nearby clay pit. This clay pit became famous for its fossil remains of carnivores from the Pleistocene . Voigtstedt warm period is the name of an era in the history of the earth, in the Quaternary about 470,000 years ago. The ice masses of the glaciers have reached this part behind the Harz Mountains. At the edge of the glacier, the winds have piled up the loess and clay of the Golden Aue, and fossils of bison, beavers, hyenas, southern elephants and many other animals have been preserved. The Mindel glacial period followed.
  • The church is a listed building.
  • A burial ground from the Roman Empire was discovered near Voigtstedt as early as 1878/79 .

Personalities

Was born in Voigtstedt:

literature

  • Jörg Kleemann: The cemetery of Voigtstedt, Kyffhäuserkreis . In: EAZ 38 (1997), 1-38.
  • H. Wehrli, editor: Paläontologische Abhandlungen, Section A, Paläozoologie Volume II, Issue 2/3, Akademie-Verlag Berlin, July 1965
  • International Paleontological Colloquium. 1963, Weimar: The Pleistozaen von Voigtstedt, 1965

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 259.
  2. ↑ 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. 178 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0 .