Weira

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Weira
Weira
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 11 ° 43'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Saale-Orla district
Management Community : Oppurg
Height : 390 m above sea level NHN
Area : 14.88 km 2
Residents: 388 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 07806
Area code : 036481
License plate : SOK, LBS, PN, SCZ
Community key : 16 0 75 121
Association administration address: Am Türkenhof 5
07381 Oppurg
Mayor : Martin Jacob ( AfD )
Location of the municipality of Weira in the Saale-Orla district
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Weira village square with the restaurant "Zur Fürstenfichte" and the former parish

Weira is a municipality in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . The community consists of the districts Weira and Krobitz and is part of the administrative community Oppurg . An industrial and commercial park is located in the municipality, which covers around 60 hectares.

location

Weira is located with its district on the northern roof of the Thuringian Slate Mountains with the transition of the soils into the Orlasenke . The terrain is cropped. To the north, Weira borders the communities Lausnitz and Neunhofen , whose common border runs in the Mühlengrund in the Zechstein reef area of ​​the Orlasenke. At the height of the Orla at the Schlagmühle, Weira has its lowest geographical point in the municipality at around 290 m above sea level. Weira is bordered to the west by Oberoppurg and Quaschwitz along the Dürrbachgrund. In a southerly direction the altitude rises to approx. 520 m (Probst), the neighboring villages Dreba and Knau limit Weira there along the Brüßbach, south of the industrial park. Weira shares the eastern borders along the Siechenbach with Kleina and Steinbrücken as well as with Kospoda and its district of Meilitz . The closest town is Neustadt an der Orla . The local connection road to Kolba connects to the federal road 281 , which means that the former district town of Pößneck can be reached.

Protected areas and hiking destinations

history

The place was first mentioned in a document on July 31, 1307. The Krobitz district was mentioned as early as 1074. In the 16th century, the fortified church dedicated to St. Nicholas was built, which was supposed to offer the inhabitants protection in the event of armed conflicts. In the 17th century, the flood-plagued town center could be drained by building a barrel vault as a sewer system.

In 1841 the Dutch windmill was built. In addition to the grain grinding aisle, she had a Lohe stamping mill since 1841. The company ran on wind until 1938 and then on diesel and electric drive until 1964. In 1864 the so-called “Prince's spruce” was planted in honor of the reign of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna .

In recent history, Weira's landscape has been shaped by the industrial fattening of the former pig breeding combine Neustadt / Orla, whose ammonia pollution caused considerable damage to nature and the environment. As the second largest industrial fattening facility in the GDR with around 180,000 pigs, the facility was in operation from 1978 to 1991 and mainly produced pork for export to the Federal Republic. Shortly before and after the end of the GDR, the citizens of Weira and the neighboring communities actively fought against the significantly reduced quality of life caused by the resulting faeces and made them the subject of the free and national press. In the period after 1990, the completely acidic forests were largely reforested by the Dürrbachgrund forestry management association. At the end of this reforestation, the former Thuringian Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel planted an oak tree at the edge of the path to the former local connection path towards Knau, next to which there is a memorial stone. The 106 m high, widely visible chimney of the former SZM's thermal power station was blown up on July 7, 2015.

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

  • 1994: 449
  • 1995: 465
  • 1996: 470
  • 1997: 466
  • 1998: 482
  • 1999: 474
  • 2000: 472
  • 2001: 461
  • 2002: 441
  • 2003: 434
  • 2004: 438
  • 2005: 429
  • 2006: 421
  • 2007: 419
  • 2008: 414
  • 2009: 417
  • 2010: 405
  • 2011: 386
  • 2012: 383
  • 2013: 379
  • 2014: 375
  • 2015: 379
  • 2016: 383
  • 2017: 378
  • 2018: 386
Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

Local election 2014
Turnout: 69.6%
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51.9%
32.7%
15.3%
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Remarks:
b 1. List connection: voter group FFW Weira, voter community Weira

Since the 2014 local elections , the local council has been composed as follows:

  • WG FFW Weira: 2 seats (32.7%)
  • WG Weira: no registered office (15.3%) 1
  • Free voters: 4 seats (51.9%)

The turnout was 69.6%.

1 1. List connection: voter group FFW Weira, voter community Weira

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on February 1, 1995 by the Thuringian State Administration Office.

Blazon : “In green with a curved golden tip; in front a golden horse head turned to the left, behind gold crossed irons and mallets, above a golden high cross floating above, in the tip a green spruce. "

The coat of arms was designed by Manfred Fischer from Goßwitz .

societies

There are two associations in the municipality of Weira:

  • Country women Weira
  • Sports club Weira SV 61

On the outskirts of Weira there is a Dutch windmill built in 1816, into which a tamper was built in 1841.

Sons and daughters of the place

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Timo Lehmann , Ann-Katrin Müller and Milena Pieper : They are already there . In: Der Spiegel . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein, August 10, 2019, ISSN  0038-7452 , p. 14 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , pp. 307 and 154.
  4. ↑ Werner Dietzel: Mills between the upper Saale and Thuringian basin. Water wheels and turbines in mills, hammer mills and smelters in the Saale catchment area as well as windmills on the surrounding plateaus. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86777-453-6 , p. 157.
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ Hartmut Ulle: New Thuringian Wappenbuch. Volume 2: Ilmkreis, Jena, Kyffhäuserkreis, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt (district), Schmalkalden-Meiningen (district), Suhl. 2nd, changed, revised edition. Working group Genealogy Thuringia, Erfurt 1997, ISBN 3-9804487-2-X , p. 47.