Bienstädt

Bienstädt is a municipality in the district of Gotha, Thuringia, and a member of the administrative community Nesseaue.

Geography

Bienstädt is approximately 13 kilometers (direct distance ) north-west of the Thuringian capital of Erfurt on the southeastern edge of the Fahner height. The highest point is a boundary point on the crest of Fahner height ( 405.3 m above sea level. NN ), followed by Bien mountain dwellers ( 385.2 m above sea level. NN ) with the present there Bien townspeople waiting. Geologically, the area is one of Erfurt formation of the Keuper.

By Bien townspeople corridor, the watershed of the rivers Weser and Elbe runs. At the southeast edge of town location, the headwaters of the White creek, this opens on the northern outskirts of Erfurt in the Gera. The western part of the corridor is part of the catchment area of ​​the Nesse and thus to the current territory of the Weser. The once rich in natural surface waters were diverted as a result of melioration ditches. In a depression in the fields east of the local situation is the 1.6 -hectare, endorheic lake Haibacher.

Through the village leads the L 1044, which connects the town to the south over Zimmernsupra and Ermstedt with Gamstädt and there past leading B 7 and to the northwest with the L 1027, which comes from Molschleben and forwards over the Fahner height after Gierstädt.

History

After Dobenecker the first mention of Bienstädt took place on 17 March 1252. Both lying in the territory of the Counts of Tonna / same places Beinstedt and Hofhusen (now deserted ) are also mentioned in 1263. The field name on the edge "Among the mill " refers to a former windmill, built in 1731.

Religion

For Evangelical Lutheran parish Bienstädt include the parishes Bienstädt, Gierstädt, Großfahner, Kleinfahner and Töttelstädt. The parish offices Bienstädt, Friemar and Molschleben form the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Association " Fahner country."

Policy

The council consists of nine members. In the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, only candidates were elected, who belong to the CDU. The turnout was 63.3%.

Attractions

• The devastated during the withdrawal of the defeated Napoleon's army, the end of October 1813 Church of Bienstädt received the auspicious name of Peace Church in reconstruction. The parish renewed the nave, only the tower remained of the late Gothic church predecessor.
• The Bien townspeople waiting counted since the late Middle Ages to the outer fastening system of the city of Erfurt, in 1411 she was one of 16 urban waiting. The now protected as a historic ruin was even after a former village site known in their neighborhood Uffhusener waiting. The tower has a square base with side length of 4.65 m, the wait once towered 18 meters up on the ground, today the remaining amount is still about 6 m. After a fire in 1733 was waived on reconstruction and the peasants allows the shutdown of useful building material.
• At the deserted village Offhusen in the western part of the corridor still remembers the Offhauser source. The layer source in the Upper Muschelkalk fills a broader trough of 50 × 20 m
• In an ash grove on mountain dwellers Bien is a natural monument an approximately 22 m high oak (Quercus robur L.) with a trunk circumference of 4.16 m.