Willerstedt

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Willerstedt
Rural community of Ilmtal-Weinstrasse
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 218 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.71 km²
Residents : 293  (Dec. 31, 2012)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31 2013
Postal code : 99510
Area code : 036463
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Location of Willerstedt in the Ilmtal Wine Route
Village church
Village church

Willerstedt is a district of the rural community Ilmtal-Weinstrasse in the northeast of the Weimarer Land district .

location

Willerstedt and its district are located in an arable area in the Thuringian Basin . The county road 112 connects the village with traffic. The Willerstedter Municipality Village lies in a slight depression east of the watershed Ilm-Unstrut in the East of the Thuringian Basin (202- 272  m above sea level. NN ), in the rain shadow of the Etter Mountain and about 12 km south-west of the ridge Finn . The annual average rainfall is 480-520 mm. Our landscape, which has been cleared for centuries, is blessed with excellent soil quality and high fertility. The deep loess soil, which is a relic of the last Thuringian Ice Age, has received a high rating. The average land value number (today: soil points) is 76, whereby the peculiarity can be noted that the most difficult soils (40s soils and slopes) surround the village. From there to the respective corridor boundaries, they get all the better (80s and 90s floors).

history

The area around Willerstedt was settled very early, as evidence from the Stone and Bronze Ages prove. Around 1000 a moated castle was built, which was first mentioned in 1110 under the castle lord Gerhard von Wilherstede. Willerstedt came into the possession of the Archdiocese of Mainz in the 11th century, probably through a donation . In the 12th century the castle and its accessories were owned by the Thuringian landgrave . On it were Landgrave Ministeriale that "Dietmare of Willerstedt" used. The members of the knight family von Willerstedt are mentioned in a document from 1186/89 to 1358, but the last officially known official act in the place was recorded in 1302.

In 1333, the Wettin Landgrave Friedrich II gave Willerstedt Castle and its accessories to the Count of Orlamünde from the Weimar line as a fief. In the Thuringian Count War (1342/1345) that began nine years later, the place was on the loser's side. After a two-day siege, the castle was stormed in 1345 by the Erfurters with the support of the Landgrave and completely destroyed. Reconstruction was prohibited. The castle loan to Willerstedt was now given by the Thuringian Landgrave to the knight and landgrave court judge Christian von Witzleben († 1374) for his services in the Count's War. He added the place to his possessions around Wendelstein an der Unstrut, which is why the place belonged to the Wendelstein line of the Lords of Witzleben until 1619.

When Leipzig was partitioned in 1485, Willerstedt fell to the Albertine Duchy of Saxony as part of the Wendelstein castle district . After the Wittenberg surrender in 1547, the place belonged to the Albertine Electorate of Saxony ( Thuringian District ). In 1623, Wendelstein Castle and the associated rulership as the Wendelstein Office came into the direct possession of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony , to whom Willerstedt belonged as an exclave .

As a result of the resolutions of the Vienna Congress of 1815, Willerstedt was given to Prussia in February and in November of the same year, like its neighboring towns, which previously belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Eckartsberga , the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach came to be . Willerstedt incorporated this into the Buttstädt office in 1817 . After the administrative reform of the Grand Duchy, the place belonged to the Apolda administrative district and the Buttstädt District Court from 1850 . In 1920 Willerstedt came to the state of Thuringia .

On December 31, 2013 Willerstedt was incorporated into the new rural community of Ilmtal-Weinstrasse.

Attractions

The following structures have been included in the Weimarer Land district's list of monuments :

  • St. Alban's Church
  • Gate and portal, Franz-Magnus-Böhme-Straße 7
  • Homestead, Kirchberg 13
  • Residential building, Alter Markt 11
  • Waidmühlstein, Alter Markt, with local history museum

The plan (village green) with the open dance area, club house, local museum and the residential buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries are well worth seeing. also the area around the castle hill, which is used especially for the bivouac in 1813. The fountain festival on the old market is also a magnet for visitors; whoever has been here will be happy to come back.

Personalities

  • Franz Magnus Böhme (* 1827 Willerstedt, † 1898 Dresden); University teacher, composer, folk song researcher and collector.
  • Johann Thuringia (*?, † 1635 Willerstedt); Schoolmaster and cantor in Willerstedt from 1603/1635. In 1617 he came to the public for the first time with printed compositions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Reformation Day.
  • Johannes Cotta (* 1794 Ruhla; † 1868 Willerstedt); Pastor, music lover and composer, from 1851 to 1868 pastor in Willerstedt. In his second marriage he married Johanna Ranke from Wiehe.
  • Curt Elschner (* 1876 Willerstedt, † 1963 Erfurt); successful restaurateur, secret commercial councilor, Dr. phil. H. c., 1922 honorary citizen of Willerstedt.
  • Heinrich Theodor Linschmann (* 1850, † 1940); Pastor and ducal librarian, in Willerstedt he was pastor from 1892 to 1901.
  • Max Wilde (* 1883 Willerstedt, † 1966 ibid); Farmer, landowner, successful cold blood horse breeder. He attended the agricultural school in Jena-Zwätze.
  • Gerhard Porsche (* 1949 Willerstedt, † 1972 ibid); Farmer's son; Sports teacher studies at the university in Jena, enthusiastic athlete and founder of a sports community in Willerstedt; Orienteering runners from a Jena-Weimar group of athletes who founded the GutsMuths Rennsteig run with a three-stage run over 130 km in August 1971.

Web links

Commons : Willerstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2013
  2. ↑ Walter Loading sac: Chronology of Willerstedt 1110 to 2010. In: willerstedt.de, accessed on May 6, 2017th
  3. ↑ Walter Ladensack, Ingrid Morche (Red.): Community panorama Willerstedt 1110 to 2010. From the first evidence and 900 years of village history. Festival Committee “900 Years Willerstedt”, Willerstedt 2010, p. 1.