Welkershausen
Welkershausen
City of Meiningen
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 46 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 59 ″ E
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Height : | 355 m above sea level NN |
Area : | 2.26 km² |
Residents : | 189 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 84 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | April 1, 1936 |
Postal code : | 98617 |
Area code : | 03693 |
Welkershausen Church
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Welkershausen is a district of the district town of Meiningen in southern Thuringia .
location
Welkershausen is located north of the city center on the eastern slope of the Werra Valley, directly on the Bundesstrasse 19 Meiningen– Eisenach . To the north, Welkershausen borders the Meiningen district of Walldorf , to the south of the Jerusalem district . Landsberg Castle is on the opposite side of the valley .
history
On June 6th 837 Welkershausen was first mentioned in a document as Uuentilgereshusun (at the houses of Wentiilger) in a deed of donation to the diocese of Fulda and is thus the second oldest district of Meiningen . The village was one of the development settlements that arose around the Meiningen branded town in the Middle Ages . During this time a castle was built, which later came into the hands of the Hennebergs . Since lord of the castle Gottfried von Exdorf repeatedly attacked Würzburg possessions and the trade routes between Meiningen and Walldorf, Bishop Otto II von Würzburg had the castle besieged in 1340 and razed to the ground after it was captured.
In 1410 Welkershausen came into the possession of the Wolf von Landeswehr family and in 1429 the village was given a village order. During the Thirty Years War , Croatians destroyed the church in 1634. The new church was built between 1724 and 1728 . It was consecrated on November 25, 1728 and belonged to the parish of Meiningen. With its rich wooden decorations, it can be assigned to the peasant baroque . In 1735 Welkershausen received a school, which was rebuilt in 1864 and existed until 1973. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1886 .
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Meiningen Minister of State, Könitz, had a park with a villa built south of the community, which he named Jerusalem, which gave the later district of Meiningen its name. The villa was replaced by a small castle in 1913, which served as an officers' mess from 1936 and was destroyed in the last days of the war in 1945. From 1905 a well-known lacquer factory existed in Welkershausen instead of a malt factory (until 1938 Gebr. Vollmann, from 1955 VEB ), which existed until 1990. The first incorporation into Meiningen took place in 1923, but was reversed in 1925. The re-incorporation on April 1, 1936 finally decreed the Reich Governor of Thuringia. In 1935 Reichsstraße 19 (today B 19) was built, which leads past the western edge of the village and with two connections opens up the village.
In 1946 the Welkershausen estate came into the possession of the city of Meiningen, which the farmers ran as a people's own estate from 1949 (VEG - Association of People's Own Goods). The VEG operated pig fattening facilities, cattle breeding farms and dairy cattle facilities in some surrounding communities. At the end of the 1970s, the VEG was demolished due to the construction of a prefabricated residential area with a retirement home and school (now part of the Jerusalem district). In 1989 the new residential area "Landsbergblick" was built. Welkershausen celebrated its 1175th anniversary in early June 2012.
On December 31, 2018, 189 inhabitants lived in Welkershausen.
traffic
Welkershausen is on federal highway 19 and is connected to it by two roads. The regional bus line 412 of the Meiningen bus company runs through the district .
literature
- Kuratorium Kulturstadt Meiningen: Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
- Festschrift 1150 anniversary, Meiningen City Archives.