Wahlhausen

This article deals with the municipality of Wahlhausen in Thuringia, for the district of the same name in Parc Hosingen in Luxembourg see Wahlhausen (Parc Hosingen) .

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Hanstein-Rusteberg
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.22 km 2
Residents:	306 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37318
Area code :	036087
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 102
Association administration address:	Steingraben 49 37318 Hohengandern
Website :	www.wahlhausen.de
Mayor :	Thomas Gallinger
Location of the community of Wahlhausen in the Eichsfeld district

Wahlhausen is a municipality in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld on the Werra , directly on the border with Hesse . It belongs to the Hanstein-Rusteberg administrative community .

Geographical location

Wahlhausen lies on the western border of the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal nature park at the confluence of the Walse and Werra . North is the ridge height mountain ( 508.9  m above sea level. NN ) and southeast of the mountain range Gobert ( 569  m above sea level. NN ). Beyond and west of the Werra is the to North Hesse belonging Soodener Bergland .

history

The first written mention of Wahlhausen dates back to 1243 as "Waldesa". This traditional document from a "Hartung von Waldesa" records a donation to the Germerode monastery . The first spelling of the name was "Waldesa"; this means forest water and is derived from the stream that flows through the place. In 1336 the place is also called "Wasser-Waldesa". When the Hansteiners moved their homes to the surrounding villages after their ancestral castle fell into disrepair, they also built three mansions in Wahlhausen, the lower, middle (or also outer) and upper courtyards. Before these new residences, the village almost disappeared, and so the place was called "Waldes-Haus" with regard to the newly built houses. This resulted in the current form of the name Wahlhausen. The sovereign was Kurmainz until the secularization in 1802 .

The “Hanstein Patrimonial Court ” had its seat in Wahlhausen from 1772 to 1849. From 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 to 1945 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1945 the Hanstein estates were expropriated and divided up. Until 1949 the place was part of the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 part of the GDR . Until the fall of the Wall and reunification in 1989/1990, Wahlhausen was severely affected by the nearby inner-German border. It belonged to the “ 5 km exclusion zone ” along the inner German border . On the night of August 17th to 18th, 1989, Wahlhausen got into the media because of the shooting at Wahlhausen . Unidentified people had fired 91 shots across the German-German border from Bad Sooden-Allendorf in Hesse at Wahlhausen without hitting anyone. The perpetrators and their background have not been clarified. The most common hypotheses are that it was a diversionary maneuver by the Stasi or a stupid prank.

Since 1990 the place belongs to the re-established state of Thuringia. The small family church of those von Hanstein was restored just in time, thus saved from decay and is the community jewel. Professor Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt created glass windows .

The historic center of Wahlhausen was entered as a monument ensemble in the monuments book of the Free State of Thuringia in June 2018 .

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 390 1995: 369 1996: 354 1997: 330 1998: 250 1999: 246

2000: 256 2001: 266 2002: 310 2003: 334 2004: 343 2005: 342

2006: 343 2007: 343 2008: 341 2009: 340 2010: 347 2011: 315

2012: 312 2013: 324 2014: 306 2015: 304 2016: 310 2017: 304

2018: 306 2019: 306

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The council of Wahlhausen consists of six council members.

• Nomination for free voters: 6 seats

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014)

mayor

The honorary mayor Thomas Gallinger was elected on June 5, 2016. Gabriele Stallknecht was the mayor from 2003 to 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Above a green shield base , in it a silver wavy bar and a silver wavy bar, split by silver and gold, in front three (2/1) black, waxing moons , in the back a black, gable-sided church with roof turret, bumped lantern and two day-lit arched windows. "

Declaration of coat of arms: The black, waxing crescent moon in silver comes from the coat of arms of those of Hanstein, the black, gable-sided church represents the local church of Wahlhausen, and the two silver waves symbolize the rivers Werra and Walse, where Wahlhausen flows into the Werra.

Personalities

Wahlhausen Church

• Fritz Huschke von Hanstein (1911–1996), racing driver and race director. His father was the owner of Gut Wahlhausen-Unterhof.

literature

• Johannes Beisheim: How Joseph is saved and other biblical stories. Pictures from the church in Wahlhausen. Evangelischer Medienverband, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-89477-029-5 , p. 92 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Thuringian State Gazette No. 25/2018, page 732
3. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 25, 2014. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on January 29, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on June 5, 2016. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on January 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ http://www.endstation-rechts.de/news/ategorie/npd-thueringen-1/artikel/npd-bundesvorstandsverbindungen-heise- geht-unter-die- weinhaendler.html

Web links

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

Wikisource: Walhausen in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Presence on www.vg-hanstein-rusteberg.de

The inner-German border in 1981 Wahlhausen