Wartha (Eisenach)

Waiting City of Eisenach Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	198 m
Area :	2.21 km²
Residents :	83  (2008)
Population density :	38 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	June 1, 1973
Incorporated into:	Wartha-Göringen
Postal code :	99817
Area code :	036928
Location of Wartha in Eisenach
The half-timbered church of the place

Wartha is a district of the independent city of Eisenach in Thuringia. It is right on the Werra .

location

In terms of its natural surroundings, Wartha lies in the middle Werra valley and on the eastern edge of the Ringgau on the left (western) bank of the Werra. The highest point of the district is on the southern slope of the Kielforst (approx. 300 m), the location itself is between 196 and 198 m above sea level and was at high risk from flooding until the flood protection dams along the Werra were built. The place borders on the Hessian municipality Herleshausen ( Werra-Meißner-Kreis ) in the west , followed in Thuringia by the place Pferdsdorf (municipality Krauthausen , Wartburgkreis ) in the north, in the east the Eisenach districts Neuenhof and Hörschel as well as Göringen in the south.

history

Wartha was mentioned on May 1st, 1279, when a burgrave from nearby Brandenburg sold the place to the Eisenach Katharinenkloster, this is the oldest written evidence of the place so far.

The place Wartha was at a ford place of the Werra for their control and protection at times on the adjacent high bank a watchtower - a waiting was located. The area of ​​the former Spirau farm also belongs to the district. The Vorwerk of the Warthaer Avemannschen estate, located near today's Wartha (Werra) train station at the foot of the Kielforst, was already desolate in the 18th century, and the areas were sold to Wartha residents around 1840.

In the late Middle Ages the place belonged to the Saxon-Thuringian office of Eisenach , the church was a branch of the Neuenhof parish. In 1870 there were 25 houses and 145 inhabitants. At that time the place was blessed with the most productive soils in the Eisenach area.

In 1831 the first Warthaer Werra bridge was inaugurated, which replaced the ford that had existed until then. In the course of its existence, the bridge was damaged several times by floods and ice drifts and then repaired. In 1868 the Wartha corridor was separated .

On April 1, 1945, the place was ravaged by the fighting of the Second World War . The inn on Herleshäuser Strasse was destroyed in the American artillery bombardment, several houses and the church were damaged. Retreating German soldiers had blown up the Werra bridge and set fire to the US troops from the heights to the right of the Werra.

As a result of a regional reform, the amalgamation of the communities of Wartha and Göringen came into force on June 1, 1973. At that time, the place in the Eisenach district could only be reached with a pass due to its immediate border location. The incorporation into the city of Eisenach took place on July 1, 1994.

The community chronicle reports of numerous floods, which always caused high damage in the village. In 2007/2008 the Free State of Thuringia therefore built a ring dike around the location, which is intended to protect the location from a 100-year flood runoff.

politics

The district has a common district constitution with the neighboring town of Göringen . In the election on May 25, 2014 , Dirk Schmietendorf was elected mayor of both towns.

Attractions

The village church , built in 1586, is the oldest and smallest half-timbered church in Thuringia. The location is characterized by half-timbered courtyards, some of which are listed as a historical monument.

Impressions

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  The townscape from the west

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  Wartha train station

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  Half-timbered house

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  monument

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  Werra Valley Bridge

traffic

Traffic jam in front of the Wartha border crossing point on November 10, 1989

Wartha became known through the former border crossing Wartha / Herleshausen between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic ( interzonal traffic ).

The place is connected with the neighboring places by the district roads 17 and 505. On the outskirts there is a bridge over the Werra. The closest junction of the federal motorway 4 is in Herleshausen, two kilometers away. There are stops in Hörschel and Herleshausen on the Halle – Bebra railway line . The Wartha (Werra) station is now only a depot . From 1907 the route began here in the direction of Schwebda , which led via Creuzburg , Mihla , Treffurt and Wanfried to Eschwege . After 1945 the line was gradually shut down and dismantled, most recently in 1969 the section Wartha - Mihla.

Web links

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

• www.eisenach.de - website of the Wartburg city Eisenach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Otto Dobencker : Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae , Vol. IV, Jena 1869-1939 (No. 1655)
3. ↑ Friedrich Adolph Schumann: Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Volume 11, Page 263n ( Books )
4. ^ Voss, Georg (ed.): Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. District Court District Eisenach. In: Lehfeldt, Paul / Voss, Georg (eds.): Building and art monuments of Thuringia. Booklet XL. Jena 1915 p. 590
5. ^ C. Kronfeld: Regional studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . Second part. Weimar 1879. p. 55.
6. ↑ Chronicle of Neuenhof ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 25, 2014 
7. ^ Rainer Lämmerhirt, "Battle for the Werralinie 1945", ISBN 3-937135-64-2 . Pp. 64-65
8. ↑ § 3 Paragraph 1 of the main statute of the city of Eisenach from March 4th, 1997 (PDF; 93 kB)
9. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics , accessed on May 26, 2014