Wartburg, Tennessee
| Wartburg | |
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 Morgan County Courthouse |
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| Location in Tennessee | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1851 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Tennessee |
| County : | Morgan County |
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 6 ′ N , 84 ° 36 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 890 (as of: 2000) |
| Population density : | 356 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 2.5 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.5 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 420 m |
| Postal code : | 37887 |
| Area code : | +1 423 |
| FIPS : | 47-78100 |
| GNIS ID : | 1304388 |
Wartburg is a place in Morgan County , in eastern Tennessee in the United States . The place had 890 inhabitants in 2000 and is the county seat of Morgan County.
Geographical location
The place is located on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau in the Crab Orchard Mountains , a low mountain range belonging to the Cumberland Mountains . The Bird Mountain dominates the area east of the village, it rises from its foot on the outskirts over a distance of about 16 km to a summit height of about 958 m at the Frozen Head State Park . Near the summit is the source of the Emory River , which flows north from there on the north side of the mountain at Wartburg over west and then south of the plateau in the Tennessee River belonging reservoir Watts Bar Lake empties. The Obed River flows east from Cumberland County through a canyon and joins the Emory River west of Wartburg.
According to the United States Census Bureau , the area of the place is about 2.5 km².
Traffic connection
Wartburg is near the intersection of US Route 27 , which goes south to Harriman and Interstate 40 and north to Kentucky, and Tennessee State Route 62, which goes east to Oak Ridge and continues west Tennessee leads into it.
history
Morgan County was originally the Cherokee land and was ceded to the United States in the Third Treaty of Tellico in 1805. Wartburg was founded around 1840 by George Gerding, who bought up large areas of land in order to found a new colony.
Under the direction of the Schwarzenberg pastor Hermann Behr , attempts were made between 1847 and 1848 to recruit willing emigrants, especially from the area around Leipzig and Dresden . In addition, the land sale went so far as to reduce the official land price set by Congress from $ 1¼ to just $ 1. This should actually have made one suspicious that the promised land is really as fertile as described. In Leipzig, the emigration agent Johann Ernst Weigel (at that time Grimmasche Str. 33) advertised the colony (for example in advertisements in the Leipziger Tageblatt).
German and Swiss immigrants founded the settlement, which they named after the Wartburg in Germany. The official founding date is 1851.
After the colony did not develop properly, Weigel and an F. G. Günther, who allegedly had twelve years of experience in America, switched to a new property that sold land in East Tennessee under the name Kingston Land Compagnie. Friedrich Gerstäcker , who also publicly argued with Weigel and Günther, was an early warning of rash land purchase in Germany .
In 1879, Morgan County decided to move its headquarters from Montgomery to Wartburg. In 1880 the railroad reached the city and led to an expansion of forestry and increased coal mining.
Nature and leisure
There are several national or state nature parks in the area:
- Obed Wild and Scenic River (white water areas on the Obed River; administered by the American National Park Service )
- Frozen Head State Park (between Wartburg and Petros )
- Lone Mountain State Forest (located along US Route 27 between Wartburg and Harriman)
- Catoosa Wildlife Management Area (west of Wartburg)
- Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (a large area stretching to Kentucky some distance north of Wartburg)
swell
- Communications about the German colony "Wartburg" in East Tenessee . Leipzig 1848. Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
- Behr, Friedrich Herrmann: Collected letters about the German colony "Wartburg" in East Tennessee . Leipzig 1848. Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
- Latest letters from Saxons who emigrated to the German colony of Wartburg in East Tennessee . Leipzig 1848. Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
- Kienbusch, Otto G. von: Report on the German Colonie Wartburg in East Tennessee in North America: in terms of its climate, country and its order ... as well as its social intercourse . Ed .: Weigel, Johann Ernst. Kinkhardt in Komm., Leipzig 1848. Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Gerstäcker: The Wartburg Colony . In: Leipziger Tageblatt and Anzeiger . No. 324 , November 19, 1848, p. 4849 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id453042023-184811198 ( slub-dresden.de ).