Wallichen

Wallichen State capital Erfurt Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	188  (184-188)  m
Area :	2.37 km²
Residents :	168  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 14, 1974
Incorporated into:	Vieselbach
Postal code :	99098
Area code :	036203
Location of Wallichen in Erfurt

Wallichen is the smallest district of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt in terms of population .

geography

Wallichen is located in the valley of the Vieselbach in the Thuringian Basin at about 200 meters above sea level and twelve kilometers northeast of Erfurt city center. Neighboring villages are Großmölsen and Kleinmölsen in the north, Niederzimmer in the east, Vieselbach in the south and Töttleben in the west.

history

Church ( location → )

Hereditary funeral of the Lochmann family

Wallichen was first mentioned in a Mainz document in 1143. In the 13th century there was already a manor and a chapel. Various monasteries owned the town, such as the Schulpforte monastery and the Bürgel monastery . These were lifted as a result of the Reformation and the place came to the Electorate of Saxony in 1531 . In the Thirty Years' War Wallichen was devastated. The lieutenant colonel and manor owner Johann Beyer rebuilt the estate and the church. He was a member of the " Fruit Bringing Society ", just like Wallichen had a number of important landowners and pastors. In 1679 the property was divided into an upper and lower courtyard.

After divisions of the inheritance, Wallichen fell to Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , with which it remained until Thuringia was founded in 1920. In 1813, when the Napoleonic troops withdrew, the place suffered from looting and lost 27 inhabitants. Between 1815 and 1850 Wallichen belonged to the Vieselbach office .

In the Second World War in 1944, Allied bombs caused great damage in Wallichen. In April 1945 the village was occupied by US troops and at the end of June by the Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Zone . In 1946 the intact Oberhof was torn down. New farmhouses were built in 1947, and an LPG was founded in 1952 . After the "Wende", Wallichen was first connected to a drinking water pipe in 1991. In 1997 a church building association was founded. In 1999 part of the property, which had been vacant for years, collapsed.

Wallichen belonged to the district of Weimar until 1952 , before it came to the district of Erfurt-Land in the district of Erfurt as part of the territorial reform of 1952 in the GDR . On March 14, 1974, Wallichen was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Vieselbach and, together with it, on July 1, 1994, was reclassified to the state capital Erfurt. Today Wallichen has a joint local council with Vieselbach, which is only one kilometer away.

The remaining buildings of the former manor are partly ruinous - if they still exist. Many were demolished. The "last gentleman on the Wallichen manor" was Dietrich Lochmann , whose grave († 1994), like that of his wife Ilse († 1995), is in the family's hereditary burial in the churchyard.

Today Wallichen is a preferred place to live because of its quiet location with no through traffic.

→ See also Wallichen village church

Population development

• 1843: 157
• 1910: 200
• 1939: 203
• 1995: 167
• 2000: 168
• 2005: 172
• 2010: 164
• 2015: 171

Economy and Transport

There is an industrial park between Wallichen and Vieselbach. The sewage treatment plant for Wallichen and the surrounding Erfurt districts in the catchment area of ​​the Vieselbach is located north of the village.

Wallichen is connected to Vieselbach in the south by a road. There is also the nearest train station on the Thuringian Railway from Erfurt to Weimar.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843.
3. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ^ Population of the districts of Erfurt. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 

Web links

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

• Local homepage. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
• Wallichen on erfurt-web.de ( Memento from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Wallichen on the website of the Erfurt city administration. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .