Wohlsborn
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Wohlsborn
Rural community Am Ettersberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 56 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 54 ″ E
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| Height : | 285 m |
| Area : | 4.04 km² |
| Residents : | 477 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 118 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 99439 |
| Area code : | 03643 |
Wohlsborn is a district of the rural community Am Ettersberg in the north of the Weimarer Land district . The Scherkonde rises in the village .
history
The village of Wohlsborn was first mentioned in 1249 . At that time the place belonged to the property of the lords of Wolfesborn, later it belonged to the property of the castle in Weimar. In 1410, the Commander Liebstedt of the Teutonic Knight Order acquired the settlement. In 1525 the monastic assets were secularized . From 1807 Wohlsborn belonged to the Kingdom of Saxony . At the beginning of 1815, the place briefly came under Prussian influence. By the Congress of Vienna Wohlsborn finally came after intercession of the Russian Tsar Alexander I to the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .
On the broad ridge of the Kleiner Ettersberg lies the bear hill, lined with trees, east-southeast of the village. It is the last hill of a once very powerful burial mound that has been removed. Vulpius carried out an excavation on behalf of Goethe . The square has been used as a burial place and cult site since the Neolithic Age .
On July 20, 1944, a US Boeing B-17 (Flying Fortress) bomber was hit by anti- aircraft shells over the Wohlsborn district and shot down. The nine crew members were able to parachute , but three of them could not save their lives with it. One of the captured was killed by a farmer, the other shot by Nazi district leader Franz Hofmann, a third was already dead because his umbrella had not opened. In 2001, with the participation of US war veterans, a memorial stone was erected in the local area to commemorate the crime.
The - somewhat difficult to read - inscription on the memorial stone from 2001 reads: In memory of the crew members of a US bomber B 17 / Navigator OLT Owen H. Jorgensen, radio operator John S. Spirodex, rear gunner Donald H. Schmidley / Die on July 20, 1944 lost their life in the district of Wohlsborn / The community.
On January 1, 2019, the community of Wohlsborn was merged with other communities of the administrative community of Northern Weimar to form the rural community of Am Ettersberg .
Buildings
The following buildings in the area are listed:
- Church with a churchyard
In 1474 a parish was first mentioned in the village. The church that exists today also dates from the 15th century. Until the development of the new building area, the church was not, as is generally the case, in the center of the village, but on the south-western edge of Wohlsborn. After the death of the last pastor in 1928, the pastor's post was not filled again. The parish of Großobringen is responsible for the parish today .
- Parish farm, Hauptstrasse 4
- Taubenturm, Herrengasse 35
- Portal, Herrengasse 39
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 121.
- ↑ Thomas Gräser: "He hit him on the head until it cracked several times", = Allgemeine Anzeiger für Weimar and Apolda September 28, 2005
