Wormstedt

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Wormstedt
City and rural community Bad Sulza
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 256 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 599  (2009)
Incorporation : March 15, 1996
Incorporated into: Saaleplatte
Postal code : 99518
Area code : 036464
Wormstedt (Thuringia)
Wormstedt

Location of Wormstedt in Thuringia

Wormstedt is part of the city and rural community Bad Sulza in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia .

location

Wormstedt lies on the plateau between the Ilm and Saale on top of overturned shell limestone . The brook Utenbach rises in the district and flows to the village of Utenbach to the west, then to the north to flow into the Ilm in Flurstedt . The state road 1059 from Apolda to Camburg grazes north of the place.

history

Before the 19th century

Church in Wormstedt (2012)

Excavations show a settlement of the area at least since the younger Stone Age around 2000 BC. The later Celtic was followed by a Germanic settlement of the area. The final syllable -stedt suggests that the town was founded between 300 and 800 AD. It could have been the abode of a worm ("Wurmheristat"). Already before 900 this place name appeared in a register of the imperial monastery Fulda . The legend brings the place name together with a lindworm that is said to have lived here. This has long been shown in the church seal (connection with George the Dragon Slayer ?) And in the local coat of arms. In a document from King Otto I , Wormstedt is mentioned in 957. The place celebrated its 1000th anniversary in 1957 and its 1050th anniversary in 2007. Wurmheristat belonged to Husitingau or Ostergau , from the 14th century with the Wettin office of Dornburg to changing Ernestine duchies to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach from 1815 to 1918. The oldest tradition of court owners dates from 1421 to 1425.

It is controversial whether there was a deserted Proschwitz area within the corridor . It may be based on a common field name.

In addition to the rural properties, there was a manor in the village . It was the headquarters of the Lords of Wormstedt. A Reinher von Wormstedt was mentioned in documents from the end of the 12th century. The owner was later a family von Wolframsdorf and from 1694 until the 19th century the family von Milkau .

The place suffered badly from robbery, murder and looting during the Thirty Years' War . The population decreased drastically. 114 people died in five years, most of them starving. In 1637 almost the entire village burned down, and again in 1742 - including all the manor buildings. The place was rebuilt in the "Franconian style".

In 1717 Georg Philipp Telemann , whose brother (as a pastor) and his mother lived in Wormstedt, wrote his cantata Who wants to separate us from God's love .

After the lost battle near Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, Wormstedt was sacked by French troops for three days and the residents mistreated. During the time of foreign rule billeting, compulsory levies and clamping services followed. Most of the young men who served with the “Weimar Jäger” did not return from Napoleon's wars in Spain and Russia.

In 1816 Wormstedt had 345 inhabitants, 83 farmhouses and a manor. The latter fell to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1819; from then on it was leased, partially dismantled and dissolved. 40 farmers then acquired the property as a buying community. They sold the manor house in 1831 to Johann Christoph von der Gönne , who set up an inn in it. His son built a brewery on the estate, which worked as the "Wormstedter Brewery" until the expropriation in 1946 and was demolished in 1953. In 1857 an agricultural association was founded , which took great care of introducing the new knowledge of agricultural science to farms.

Around 1870 a new school building was built, which was used as such until 1958, then as a gymnasium until 1989 and now houses the “Ludotschka” café and restaurant.

After the Franco-German War in 1870/71, Wormstedt experienced a sustained economic boom, as did the German Empire in general. 1903–1908 a water pipe was built for Wormstedt.

Since the 20th century

Ten soldiers from Wormstedt did not return from the First World War . A memorial was placed in front of the church for them on the Sunday of the Dead in 1920.

From 1933 the residents were integrated into the National Socialist organizations and many areas of life were brought into line. Hereditary farms were set up if the requirements were met . In the Second World War that followed , women, old people, French and Polish prisoners of war and “foreign workers” had to take over the work of men drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1939/40 the village had to take in evacuees from the Saarland , later from the air war zones in West Germany and from the end of 1944 refugees from the eastern regions. The population increased to 900. Since March 1945, one air raid replaced the next. On the evening of April 12, US tanks rolled through the village to the east, after which Wormstedt was occupied by American soldiers .

At the beginning of July, the United States surrendered all of Thuringia to the Red Army . So Wormstedt became part of the Soviet Zone and from 1949 the GDR. It had to go along with all radical changes in society, including land reform with expropriations of the large peasants without compensation , the division of their land to new farmers and later collectivization . An LPG "8. Mai ”was founded, in 1960 the last individual farmers were forced into an LPG type II“ Lindwurm ”. New school buildings were erected in 1958 and 1988, the latter is now the mainstream school.

The NVA built in the 1980s at Wormstedt an "object", probably a rocket bearing or Neva position. The Soviet air forces created the Wormstedt Reserve Airfield (NATO name).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the LPG dissolved, and those involved joined the newly founded agricultural cooperative Ilm-Saale-Platte in Eckolstädt . From 1991 to 1993 a new industrial area was developed, from 1994 a settlement area "Am Eselstanz" was created. Old buildings and infrastructure in the village were renewed, and in 1997/98 the former manor house of the estate was rebuilt and converted into an attractive residential building.

From 1996 to the end of 2019, the administration of the newly formed community municipality of Saaleplatte , which was formed from nine villages, was based in Wormstedt. The place has a primary and regular school. In 2009 there were 599 residents here. With the incorporation of the municipality of Saaleplatte into the town and rural municipality of Bad Sulza on December 31, 2019, Wormstedt became a district of this.

Attractions

  • The Gothic church of St. Georg was built between 1617 and 1622 under the manor and patron saint Christoph von Wolframsdorf. The stone west tower comes from the previous building from around 1200 and measures 33 m. In 1717 the church was renovated. At the beginning of the 19th century, the landlady von Milkau donated a new interior after the previous one had fallen victim to a raid. An extensive renovation followed from 1879 to 1884, which also brought more light into the church. The grave slabs of the personalities buried in the church were moved to the outer church wall. After the two world wars, nameplates of the fallen were placed in the interior. The name “von der Gönne” is found four times among the 35 fallen and missing in World War II. During the GDR era, the church threatened to deteriorate and was no longer used from the 1970s. Organ and altar structure with pulpit have been removed. Church activities took place in a community room in the rectory. In 1984, restoration work began with the participation of community members, volunteers, donors and an LPG construction brigade. In 1985 a special tower construction brigade was formed. In the early 1990s, the roof structure was renewed and the stucco ceiling restored. In 1996 the church was solemnly rededicated. A photovoltaic system supported by the Free State of Thuringia was installed on the roof .
  • A sandstone baptismal font probably dates from the 11th or 12th century. It was set up inside the churchyard walls for a long time and has been inside the church since 1996.
  • A war memorial from 1920 for the fallen of the First World War stands in front of the church, with the later inscription: “The dead admonish”. The name boards were removed after 1945.
  • The tombstone of Johanna Maria Telemann, the mother of Georg Philipp Telemann , was found, identified and reconstructed. Her son Heinrich Mathias Telemann was a pastor in Wormstedt for decades, and his mother had lived with him.

  • Renewed mansion in Wormstedt (renewed 1997/98)

  • War memorial in Wormstedt (from 1920)

  • Waidstein in Wormstedt

  • Courtyard gate in Wormstedt, building dilapidated

economy

  • The residents work in companies in the town, in Apolda or Jena . Only one resident is said to be active in the agriculture of the former farming village.
  • In the north-east of the village, an industrial park was built in 1991
  • To the northwest of Wormstedt are older wind turbines from 1996. To the east, a wind farm belonging to Eckolstädt with 20 large turbines dominates the landscape.

people

literature

  • Festschrift 1050 years of Wormstedt . Using the local chronicle of Otto von der Gönne, continued by Walter Meißner and Gabi Ritter. Ed .: Festival committee on the occasion of the 1050th anniversary of Wormstedt, 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ↑ Cafe and Restaurant "Ludotschka". Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Wormstedt on the official website of the municipality of Saaleplatte. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on January 5, 2020

Web links

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