Wallrode

Wallrode Rural community Am Ohmberg Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	303 m above sea level NN
Residents :	150  (2012)
Incorporation :	March 14, 1974
Incorporated into:	Large floors
Postal code :	37345
Area code :	036077
Location of the district in the rural community Am Ohmberg
Village church

Wallrode is a district of the rural community Am Ohmberg in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

location

Wallrode is located south of Großbodungen on the district roads 208 and 207 in a hilly agricultural area, Buhla is the neighboring municipality to the south. To the south of Wallrode are the Bleicheröder mountains and the Hasenburg and further south there is a connection to the federal motorway 38 .

history

The place was first mentioned on June 2, 1255. The core of the church is from the 13th century. It was changed in the late Gothic period and rebuilt in the baroque style in the second half of the 18th century. 150 people lived in the village to date.

Literary setting

The writer Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) chose Wallrode as the setting for his historical novella Else von der Tanne , published in 1885 .

Personalities

• Johann Heinrich Hartmann (born March 11, 1716 in Wallrode; † May 31, 1772), Protestant theologian

literature

• Ralf Lippold: Wallrode. A village at the foot of the Hasenburg - then and now. 2nd, revised edition, Wallrode 2009, 198 pages, numerous black and white images

Web links

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

• Großbodungen & Wallrode - On the website of the rural community Am Ohmberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 302
2. ^ Carl Bertheau:  Hartmann, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 686 f.