Wingerode

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '  N , 10 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Leinetal
Height :	310 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.77 km 2
Residents:	1169 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	120 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37327
Area code :	03605
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 107
Association administration address:	Main street 73 37308 Bodenrode-Westhausen
Website :	www.vg-leinetal.de
Mayor :	Erhardt Wehr ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Wingerode in the Eichsfeld district

Wingerode is a municipality in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia in the Leinetal administrative community .

geography

location

View over Wingerode

Wingerode is located in the Leinetal about 6 kilometers east of Heilbad Heiligenstadt and 5 km west of Leinefelde . The place is surrounded by the heights of the Dün with the Heiligenberg ( 493.6  m ) in the south and the elevations of Stöckberg ( 351.8  m ), Mühlenberg ( 343.5  m ) and the Eschberg ( 355.1  m ) in the north . In Wingerode the Haarbach and the Ritterbach flow into the Leine.

Neighboring places

The immediate neighbors are Beuren in the east, Bodenrode in the west and Steinbach in the northwest.

traffic

The place has a stop on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . The state road L 2021 connects with the former federal road 80 and today's L 3080 , to the north runs the federal highway 38 with the Etzelsbachtal bridge. The Leine-Heide-Radweg leads from Leinefelde through Wingerode.

history

The first documentary mention took place on September 24th 1146 as Wichelderothe , so Wingerode was able to celebrate its 850th anniversary in 1996. In 1174 Heinrich the Lion , Duke of Bavaria and Saxony acquired the village from the Volkenroda monastery for the price of two hooves of land. The local St. Ignatius Chapel has been a destination for pilgrimages since the 17th century. Wingerode belonged to Kurmainz until the secularization in 1802 and was subject to the jurisdiction of the von Hanstein family . From 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 to 1945 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1945 the place came to the Soviet occupation zone and was part of the GDR from 1949 . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, Wingerode was affected by the closure of the nearby inner-German border. Since 1990 the place belongs to the re-established state of Thuringia.

Population development

Population development from 1994 to 2007

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 1,211 1995: 1,224 1996: 1,245 1997: 1,244 1998: 1,249 1999: 1,260

2000: 1,254 2001: 1,255 2002: 1,261 2003: 1,252 2004: 1,276 2005: 1,274

2006: 1,259 2007: 1,244 2008: 1,247 2009: 1,242 2010: 1,233 2011: 1,223

2012: 1,215 2013: 1,221 2014: 1,197 2015: 1,184 2016: 1,197 2017: 1,177

2018: 1,174 2019: 1.169

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

coat of arms

Blazon : “In a red shield with a looped silver tip in field one an oblique left wave bar, in field two a silver ax lying obliquely to the right and in field three a red from. golden nails pierced flaming heart. "

education

The community has a primary school.

Mayor and City Council

The honorary mayor Erhardt Wehr was elected on June 6, 2010 and confirmed in office on June 5, 2016.

After the 2014 election, the municipal council has 12 members:

• CDU: 10 seats
• GW: 2 seats

Worth seeing

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist in Wingerode

Sights of Wingerode are:

• the village center with green fields and historic half-timbered houses
• the Church of St. John the Baptist from 1896
• the Ignatius Chapel
• the Marian grotto
• the ground monument with the desert and the Volsbach glassworks northeast of the village
• the Etzelsbachtalbrücke
• small reservoir south on the outskirts

literature

• Author collective: Festschrift for the 850th anniversary of Wingerode 1146-1996 . Ed .: Wingerode municipal council. Heiligenstadt 1996, p. 72, format A5 .
• Gerhard Görge u. a .: Wingerode im Eichsfeld - A village and its people in old pictures . Horb am Neckar 1996, ISBN 3-89570-145-9 , p. 84, format> A5 .
• Author collective: 800 years of Wingerode 1174-1974 . In: Special edition of the Eichsfelder Heimathefte . Heiligenstadt 1974, p. 96, format A5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Helmut Godehardt: Westhausen, Günterode and Wingerode can celebrate their 850th anniversary in 1996 , in: EJb 2 (1994), pp. 272–274.
3. ↑ Hiltrud Rogge, Emmi Werner, Gerhard Görge, Jürgen Langlott: Festschrift for the 850th anniversary of Wingerode 1146-1995 , Verlag Cordier Heiligenstadt
4. ↑ http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wjahr=0000&angeboteErg=GEM&auswert=1&wknr=061&gemnr=61107&terrKrs=&gemteil=000&buchstabe=&Langname=&wahlvorschlag=&sort=&druck=H&XLS=& number = -5 & Non_existing = & x_vollbildDatteil = & optik = & Aktuell = & ShowLand = & ShowWK = & ShowPart = & w_date = 05.06.2016
5. ↑ http://www.vg-leinetal.de/html/wahlinformationen/index_wahlinfo.htm

Web links

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

• Page of the Eichsfeld project about Wingerode
• Web presence of the administrative association Leinetal via Wingerode