Diedorf, Thuringia

Diedorf is a municipality in the district of Wartburg in Thuringia. Fulfilling community for Diedorf is the city Kaltennordheim.

3.1 municipal
3.2 Mayor

5.1 Commercial
5.2 traffic

Geography

Empfertshausen lies in the Thuringian Rhön in the south of Wartburg circle on the main road 285 neighboring municipalities are Neidhartshausen in the north, Kaltennordheim the east and south, Empfertshausen in the west and Zella / Rhön in the northwest.

Diedorf located in the countryside of the upper Feldatales, not far from there is the Umpfen and above the village of Hohn. with the remains of the medieval castle Fischbach that the quarry operation on the west side of the mountain was in some cases the victim.

History

Diedorf was first mentioned in 788 as Theodorpf in a deed to the monastery of Fulda documented. The place belonged for centuries to the Official Fischberg, which at times was owned by the Lords of Neidhartshausen, the Lords of Frankenstein, the Counts of Henneberg - Schleusingen, the monastery of Fulda, various Ernestine duchies, and finally in 1815 the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar -Eisenach.

Since 1920, the town belonged to the state of Thuringia and belonged from 1952 to 1990 for Suhl district. In the 1990s, the community of the joint management Upper Feldatal entered, based in Kaltennordheim at.

On the night of 2 to 3 October 2006, a third of the houses in the village was damaged significantly in part by a tornado around 1:30 clock.

At December 31, 2013, the administrative community Upper Feldatal was dissolved and Kaltennordheim was fulfilling community for Diedorf.

Population Development

The development of the population is constantly decreasing:

Policy

Parish council

The council is composed of six council women and men:

CDU / FDP: 4 seats
Independent citizens ( UBL ): 2 seats

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Ralf Matthes (FDP) was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Culture and sights

On a hill lies the Protestant church, designed as a church hall and built in 1785. It surrounds a small cemetery with the war memorial in the church wall. The baptismal font with coat of arms dates from 1605, from the previous church, it was burned down.
On the Hoehn there are the remains of the medieval castle Fischbach that the quarry operation on the west side of the mountain was in some cases the victim.
There is an old double-arched stone bridge on the Felda.
One of the Diedorfern like popular place is the pond on the east Mühlrain the field retreating. There are four ponds, the top two ponds were reported as Feuchtbiotob.
From a club, the experiment was started to locate the Soayschaf in the region. An information board informed on the pond also about this conservation project to preserve the Hutewirtschaft and cultural landscape of the Rhön.
In the local situation, there are several timber-frame buildings, a newly built fountain located in the town center.
Structural remains of the former Feldabahn you meet at the east of the local situation, to them, including the one-time breakpoint Diedorf / Fischbach - now a residential house.

Economy and infrastructure

Trade

The commercial area on the B 285 is located on the southeastern outskirts of Diedorf. It has a total area of 5.3 ha ( as of 2009). On the northern outskirts modern building of an agricultural concern were built. The mainly operated grazing with sheep and cattle advertises with organically produced products.

Traffic

By Diedorf the federal highway 285 which connects Bad Salzungen with the Lower Franconian Mellrichstadt runs.
In rail transport, the place was opened by the Feldabahn with the breakpoint Diedorf -Fischbach. The passenger was set 31 May 1997 and now dismantled the railway line.
In public transport Diedorf is served by the public transport company Wartburg district on the lines L -101 and L -109.
Due to the location of Feldaradweg runs.

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