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Election angle City of Waltershausen Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 54 ″ E
Height :	315 m above sea level NN
Residents :	474
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	99880
Area code :	03622
	Location of Wahlwinkel in Waltershausen

Wahlwinkel is a district of the city of Waltershausen in the Gotha district in Thuringia .

geography

Wahlwinkel is about 310 m above sea level. NN in the east of Waltershausen. In the immediate removal the municipality passes through A 4 , via the AS Boxberg (Gotha) is reached (41b) m in about one thousandth

Transport links

The place can be reached with the Thuringian Forest Railway. The place is connected to Gotha and Waltershausen by the L 1026 and L 1027 .

history

The church of Wahlwinkel

In the main street

During construction work between 1954 and 1957, extensive traces of settlement and remains of Stone Age houses (line ceramic) and a settlement from the late Roman imperial era were examined on the local road to Ibenhain .

In 1106, parts of the area around Waltershausen were still owned by Count Siegmund von Orlamünde. In 1186, the Thuringian landgraves gave their house monastery Reinhardsbrunn a gift of forest and lands: the places Iwinhagen (= Ibenhain), Snephindal (= Schnepfenthal) and Walwinkilhart (= Wahlwinkel) are named in a directory. Later the place was a 'care village' in the Tenneberg office .

In the Middle Ages, the place was considered to be relatively strongly fortified, it had fences, clay walls and gates, in front of which there was a surrounding village moat. A frivolously concluded contract with the neighboring town of Waltershausen meant that the village stream was diverted towards Waltershausen, the townspeople insisted on the validity of the agreements, the farmers were left behind. Two major fires in 1783 and 1863 wiped out many neat farms from the village. It was incorporated into Waltershausen on July 1, 1950. Many residents found jobs in the city's industrial plants, and as a result, numerous new buildings were built on the edge of the historic location. Next to the church, a modern multi-purpose building and community center was opened in 2011 on the occasion of the local anniversary.

St. Gotthard village church

The St. Gothardus Church is the oldest building in the village, and the patron saint is also the patron saint of the district town of Gotha. In Wahlwinkel there was a pleban (pastor) Heinrich Ysnal in 1297. Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich in Erfurt first mentioned the church in 1401 in connection with a letter of indulgence . In 1496 a new church was consecrated. In 1827/28 the church had to be demolished and rebuilt due to its dilapidation. On this occasion, a new organ was built by Georg Andreas Hesse in Dachwig in 1829 . The lower tower room is covered by a groin vault, with tracery and sound openings the tower dates from 1505. It has not changed its appearance since 1724 until today. It is covered with slate and has a tail dome with a lantern and a tower ball with a weather vane . Inside the church the visitor finds a circumferential double gallery and a pulpit altar and, as a special feature, an early Gothic crypt . In 1994/96 the church had to be restored because the vaulted ceiling had collapsed as a result of moisture. From 2001 to 2005 the Hesse organ was restored by Orgelbau Waltershausen . The church is currently (2011) being renovated. The parish belongs to the Hörselgau parish.

Others

The distinguishing feature of the Wahlwinkler population

As evidence of coarse folk humor, neck names and nicknames that characterize each village developed centuries ago . Accordingly, the blue stockings lived here in the village - the name probably means a reference to the woad dyeing trade. The blue-colored wool socks of Wahlwinkler costume could have been a distinguishing mark of the place that differentiated them from the neighboring towns.

literature

Wolfgang Möller, Günter Zacher: Under the sign of the blue stockings. 825 years of Wahlwinkel . Ed .: City administration Waltershausen. Waltershausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-932655-43-2 , pp. 220 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Steffen Möller, Kamen Pawlow: 800 years of Waltershausen. Festschrift for the first documentary mention . Ed .: City administration Waltershausen. Waltershausen 2009, Wahlwinkel, p. 52 .

[Waltersh_800-1] Steffen Möller, Kamen Pawlow: 800 years of Waltershausen. Festschrift for the first documentary mention . Ed .: City administration Waltershausen. Waltershausen 2009, Wahlwinkel, p. 52 .