Waldstedt

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Waldstedt
Waldstedt coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 226 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.99 km²
Residents : 98  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 33 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1992
Postal code : 99947
Area code : 03603
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Location of Waldstedt in Bad Langensalza
Location view from SSO
Location view from SSO

Waldstedt has been part of the town of Bad Langensalza in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia since 1993 .

geography

The small village is about five kilometers west of the core town of Bad Langensalza, between Zimmer and Alterstedt , close to the Hainich National Park . The K 104 connects the place via the state road  1042 with Bad Langensalza and the villages to the west. The corridor of the place consists of meadows, pastures and fields, to the west of the place the spring Klingelbach rises, which already flows into the Sumbach, a tributary of the Unstrut, after about two kilometers. The Sumberg north of the village and the observation point in the east tower above the terrain.

history

A Bronze Age grave was uncovered in the corridor Am Dornrain on the road to the neighboring village of Zimmer in the late 19th century, and the finds (including a flint knife , a bronze needle, two other knives) ended up in the collection of Langensalza local researcher Hermann Gutbier .

Waldstedt was first mentioned in a document as early as 822–842. The location on the western edge of the Thuringian basin was called in ancient writings as the monastery of St. Juliana, he was in the early days to the land of the monastery Homburg and reached the territory of the Thuringian Landgrave, whose fiefdom Mr von Salza had anticipated. The inhabitants of the place were assigned to the parish Beatae Mariae Virginis in Schönstedt , as early as 1165 there was a branch church in Waldstedt, which is said to have emerged from a chapel - this was probably part of the monastic Frohnhof from the Ottonian times.

The village complex on the Quellbach has consisted of around 30 farmsteads since the late Middle Ages; agriculture was the dominant branch of business until the end of the GDR. The field name Schanzgraben on the south side of the place evidences the temporary fortification of the place. In times of need and war, the population and cattle were brought to Langensalza. A watchtower depicted in the community seal - the so-called »Julianswarte« was used to monitor the fields and the old streets to Hainich. In the 14th century the cultivation of woad was ordered, on the village green there is the broken millstone as a witness of the times. Because of the low water flow in the Sumbach, the farmers were dependent on water mills on the Unstrut. A windmill was in operation at times in the neighboring village of Zimmer.

The Reformation was introduced late in Waldstedt, the first Protestant pastor was Melchior Engelhardt, who succeeded his Catholic predecessor Berthold Herzog in 1556. The first village school was built before 1575 and consisted of a room next to the teacher's living room. Several new schools followed as single-class half-timbered schools. The school children had to start school in neighboring towns from 1959. School transport was a problem until the 1970s and was often managed with the support of the local LPG.

In 1634 Nicolaus Meder and 1693 Caspar Heinrich Hebsäcker are registered as students in the directories of the University of Leipzig .

A 36-page pamphlet was published in Langensalza in 1713 under the title »Poetic Description of Dörffgens Waldstedt«, which was written by Waldstedt pastor Christian Kleber (1674–1746) and sent to the sovereign - Duke Christian II of Saxony-Weißenfels , which enabled the village of Waldstedt to build a new school building through a donation.

Waldstedt belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Langensalza until 1815 and, after its cession to Prussia, from 1816 to 1944 to the district of Langensalza in the province of Saxony . In the local history, the feudal estate occupies the dominant economic position. After the Thirty Years' War, citizens from Langensalza and landed aristocrats were enfeoffed with the estate in quick succession, and in the 19th century tenants sat on the estate. With the separation ordered in 1855 - also land reorganization - the agricultural area of ​​the smallholders and the estate management was effected in larger parcels with simultaneous abandonment of numerous dirt roads and hedges.

The poor road conditions offered several opportunities for job creation measures , and a fire water pond and a new syringe house were built before 1900 for use by the Walstedt fire brigade. The place had only a few major fires. On February 10, 1929, the record temperature of minus 32 ° C was measured in Waldstedt.

The residents of Waldstedt were dependent on self-sufficiency until the 1950s, the post buses and motor transport did not drive to the place. There was no doctor's office or police station in the village.

The Volkseigene Gut (VEG) was created in the GDR era from the former feudal estate, the last pre-war owner of which fled in 1945 and was expropriated. In addition to fulfilling the plan (propagation of seeds) and other agricultural products, research contracts from the GDR agricultural institutes were also carried out in the state-owned estate. A self-developed process for humus extraction by the so-called "earth manure soil" was propagated in the GDR in 1952 and had also attracted interested parties from the ČSSR to Waldstedt. The switch to pig rearing and pig fattening was ordered in the mid-1950s.

In May 1958, the LPG "Vor der Warthe" was initially founded by four farmers whose total agricultural area of ​​40 hectares was one of the smallest cooperatives in Thuringia. In the same year, all small farmers in the village were forced to join the cooperative , the total area increased to almost 200 hectares.

On July 1, 1992, Waldstedt was incorporated into the city of Bad Langensalza.

District Mayor

The district mayor of Waldstedt is Christoph Müller.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The village church of St. Juliana stands on the site of a former chapel . According to tradition, the chapel was donated by a rich woman, meaning the head of the Homburg monastery. The church building shows an eventful architectural history, but there is no written evidence. The pastor Ursinus died from a stroke on the pulpit, which was newly inaugurated after the Thirty Years' War in 1679. In 1741 the church was again dilapidated, the community could not raise the total amount of 500 thalers, so only the tower was secured, the nave was only poorly repaired. In 1795 the church bell was damaged. It was not until 1873 that the church received replacement bells cast in Apolda by C. F. Ulrich, which were hung in a wooden bell tower in front of the church. In 1879 the tower was rebuilt by Friedrich Kesselring from Waldstedt. A memorial in honor of Kesselring is in the cemetery, and an inscription near the pulpit indicates that the church was renovated again in 1924. The altar cross dates from 1680, as can be seen from an inscription on the back of the base of the cross.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Wolfgang Hildebrand: Chronicle of the community Waldstedt. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2003, ISBN 3-937135-00-6 .

Web links

Commons : Waldstedt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 1.6 MB) See under: Thuringia, No. 15796 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1992, accessed on November 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Information on the Waldstedt district. In: Website City of Bad Langensalza. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ A. Götze (eds.), Paul Höfer and Paul Zschiesche: The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia. Curt Kabitzsch (A. Stubers Verlag), Würzburg 1909, ( digitized version ) p. 171.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 302.
  5. ^ Carl A. H. Burkhardt: History of the Saxon Churches and School Visitations from 1524 to 1545. Leipzig 1879, p. 282 ( digitized [PDF; 23.2 MB; accessed on March 4, 2019]).