Walkes

Walkes Geisa municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 14 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 56 ″  E
Height :	430-450 m above sea level NN
Residents :	64  (December 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Incorporated into:	Chains
Postal code :	36419
Area code :	036967
Location of Walkes in Geisa
The southern location of Walkes (2013).

Walkes is a district of Geisa in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

Walkes is located at the southernmost tip of the Wartburg district and has a hallway that was once under the strictest border measures of the GDR . Today it is part of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . The village is surrounded by forest and mountains of the Rhön . The village is connected to the surrounding area via county roads . Neighboring towns in Hessen are Gotthards and Boxberg .

history

The town of Walkes, with its 63 inhabitants today, could have been first mentioned on October 21, 1336, but the year 1627 is assumed in the village.

Walkes was one of the places of the Rockenstuhl Office and belonged to the dominion of the Fulda monastery . The neighboring Tann dominion was a center of the Reformation in the 16th century . The religious struggles and social tensions raged in the upper Ulstertal around the Geisaer Ländchen, with the Catholic side having the upper hand. From 1632 to 1634 Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel ruled the imperial monastery as Prince of Buchen . In the Peace of Prague in 1635, the imperial monastery was restituted. The numerous war damage in the Fulda area was repaired under Prince Abbot Joachim von Gravenegg (1644–1671). The Thirty Years' War in this part of the Rhön brought severe devastation and depopulation of entire regions. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the clerical principality of Fulda was also dissolved. The Fulda possessions initially went to Friedrich Wilhelm von Oranien-Nassau , until 1806 Napoleon I annexed the province of Fulda. In 1810 it became part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the province was dissolved and after a year-long Prussian administration, the " Geisaer Ländchen " came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . The State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, published in 1840, mentions the administrative village of Walkes: parish to Geismar, 110 residents and 13 houses, the mayor is Adam Röll , the Seeleshof (932 Selchinahof ) is close to the village . Kronfeld mentions in his geography published in 1879: Walkes (with Seeleshof), parish to Geismar, enrolled in Ketten . Walkes is the southernmost town in the district of Geisa and has 13 houses and 96 inhabitants, the Seeleshof another 2 houses with 23 inhabitants. The total area is 306.2 ha, it comprises 166.5 ha of arable land, 58.9 ha of meadows, 72.0 ha of forest. The livestock: 18 horses, 141 cattle, 130 sheep, 11 pigs, 7 goats and 7 bee colonies.

In 1955, 98 residents lived in the village. After the fall of the Wall , seven new houses were built. There are two main commercial farms in the village, which further shape the village character. One of the sights of the place is a St. Mary's grotto as a place of prayer - this was built there on the initiative of the Henkel family from Walkes, around the place further wayside shrines and crosses mark places of worship in this part of the “Geisaer Ländchen” that has remained Catholic. A privately financed memorial stone commemorates the homesteads in the Seeleshof corridor, which were razed to the ground in 1964 . From March 24, 1994 to December 31, 2008, Geismar, Ketten, Spahl, Walkes, Reinhards and Apfelbach formed the Rockenstuhl community .

Natural monuments

The two distinctive red beeches that characterize the landscape on the ridge on the road towards Boxberg were designated as a natural monument in 1994 .

Web links

Commons : Walkes (Geisa)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 302
2. ^ C. Kronfeld: Regional studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879.
3. ^ Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .
4. ↑ image of the memorial stone
5. ↑ Walkes on the website of the city of Geisa.Retrieved on May 19, 2012
6. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994
7. ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 103