Vineyards
Weinbergen was a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . It was created on June 30, 1994 as part of the regional reform through the merger of the communities of Bollstedt , Grabe , Höngeda and Seebach and existed until December 31, 2018. The community was incorporated into Mühlhausen / Thuringia . The state bird sanctuary in Seebach , located in the municipality, was known nationwide .
geography
3,068 inhabitants lived in an area of 43.96 km² (as of December 31, 2017). The telephone code for the municipality was 03601, the zip code was 99998.
location
The municipality of Weinbergen joined the urban area of Mühlhausen / Thuringia in the northwest. In the northeast it bordered on grains , in the southeast on the administrative community Unstrut-Hainich and in the west on the rural community Vogtei . The municipality was at an altitude of between 182 m above sea level on the Unstrut near Seebach and 389.8 m above sea level on the Forstberg in the north.
Community structure
The community consisted of the four districts of Bollstedt , Grabe , Höngeda and Seebach .
The municipal administration had its seat in Bollstedt.
Waters
The municipality of Weinbergen was traversed by the Unstrut and its tributaries Notter and Seebach .
traffic
The federal highway 247 in the section Mühlhausen – Bad Langensalza and the federal highway 249 , which connects Mühlhausen with Sondershausen , ran through the municipality .
Bollstedt was connected to the city bus service of the city of Mühlhausen.
The route of the disused railway line Ebeleben – Mühlhausen with the former stops Bollstedt and Grabe ran in the north-west of the municipality . The tracks and bridges were dismantled in 2007. The closest connection to the railway network was in Mühlhausen on the Gotha – Leinefelde railway line .
climate
A weather station with a longer series of measurements is located in the Grabe district. With an annual mean temperature of 8.7 ° C and an average annual precipitation of 565 mm , the climate of Grabe is relatively warm, but already dry.
history
The municipality of Weinbergen was created through the voluntary amalgamation of the formerly independent municipalities of Bollstedt, Grabe, Höngeda and Seebach in the course of the first Thuringian regional reform on July 1, 1994. On March 8, 2018, the municipal council decided with a narrow majority to integrate it into Mühlhausen on January 1 2019.
politics
The council of the municipality of Weinbergen consisted of 16 councilors and councilors.
(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )
The last full-time mayor Hans-Martin Menge was re-elected on April 22, 2012.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Walter Burghardt (1885–1938), politician (NSDAP)
- Mechthild von Alemann (* 1937), politician (FDP)
Others
With 99998 vineyards together with grains had the highest postcode in the Federal Republic of Germany ; the number 99999 was not assigned to any municipality, but was used by Deutsche Post AG on September 9, 1999 in a special postmark in the village of Körner.
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office: Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
- ^ Community of Weinbergen - home page. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Otto Thomasczek (1854–1923) - landscape painter and cityscape chronicler from Mühlhausen / Thuringia .
- ↑ Compare to this section: Eckhard Götze: Nine months too little sun. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , from January 13, 2009, p. TAMU 3.
- ↑ Claudia Bachmnann, Victoria Augener: Weinbergen agrees to be incorporated into Mühlhausen. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from 9.3.2018, p. 15 (TAMU 3)