Wichmar

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '  N , 11 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Dornburg-Camburg
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.38 km 2
Residents:	205 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07774
Area code :	036421
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 112
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausstrasse 1 07774 Wichmar
Mayor :	Timo Schmidt
Location of the municipality of Wichmar in the Saale-Holzland district

Wichmar is a municipality in the northeast of the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia and part of the Dornburg-Camburg administrative community .

Wichmar has 213 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015). The Würchhausen district belongs to the community .

Village church

geography

Wichmar is located between Jena and Camburg on the east bank of the Saale , the district of Würchhausen on the west bank. The hills of the Ilm-Saale-Platte rise to the west of Würchhausen . Both districts are connected by a bridge over the Saale. Bundesstrasse 88 runs southeast of the village . The Saale cycle path leads through the Würchhausen district .

history

Wichmar was first mentioned in a document in 1124. The oldest tradition of court owners comes from the period from 1421 to 1425. Not far from the Grümpelmühle on the “Rietschke” there is said to have been a burial ground and a pre-Christian sacrificial site.

Wichmar belonged to the Wettin office of Camburg , which was under the sovereignty of various Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of its existence . In 1826, the place came as part of the Camburg exclave from the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . From 1922 to 1939 the place belonged to the Camburg district department .

fire Department

After the great fire in Wichmar on July 13, 1731, in which the entire village including school, parish and church burned down to four houses, a fire brigade began in Wichmar. Before the big fire in the village there was nothing more to fire armor in Wichmar than a number of ladders. Around 1800 Wichmar had a strictly structured, compulsory fire brigade of 45 men. Every male resident between the ages of 18 and 45 was obliged to serve in the fire brigade, to take part in training, exercises and fire operations. Any absence was punished. The village was one of the first in the county to buy what was, for the time, a highly modern hose pressure syringe. Even today, the municipality of Wichmar has a very modern volunteer fire brigade for its circumstances . In 2012 a new fire station was built and a TSF-W (portable pump vehicle with water tank) was purchased.

Personalities

• Georg Götze (1633–1699), Lutheran theologian

church

→ See also Wichmar village church

Web links

Commons : Wichmar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wichmar on the website of the administrative association Dornburg-Camburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ 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 , p. 64.
3. ^ Andrei Zahn: The inhabitants of the offices of Burgau, Camburg and Dornburg. A prayer register from around 1421–1425 (= AMF series of publications. 55, ZDB -ID 2380765-9 ). Printed as a manuscript. Working Group for Central German Family Research, Mannheim 1998.
4. ↑ Michael Köhler : Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 228.