Kirchworbis

Kirchworbis is a municipality in the administrative community Eichsfeld- rocker Rough in the Thuringian district of calibration field.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor

• 4.1 Structures

Geography

Kirchworbis is located in the south of the Long Mountain Eichsfelder boiler ( 462.5 m above sea level. NN ), a ridge of Ohmgebirges. Before the town south flows the Wipper. The place is located less than two kilometers southeast of the former county town Worbis and is closely connected with this. By Kirchworbis the B runs 80 In the neighboring Breitenworbis a driveway located on the A 38 ( Suedharz motorway ).

History

Kirchworbis 1209 is first mentioned as Kirchworvece documented and is an old church village. A second time enters the place almost thirty years later in appearance, this time under the name Kirchworbeze and Kirchworveze. It is well established that the second part of the name is of Slavic origin and may be derived from the word Wrba ( willow). Accordingly, the location of the contact was at the time of the great migrations applied after they were nachgerückt in the abandoned area of the Germanic tribes. Already in 1055 settled the contact in the area of ​​today's Eichsfeld. For a more precise distinction of the three places Worbis, Breitenworbis and the deserted village Hugenworbis called the village Kirchworbis. It is believed that Kirchworbis is older origin or the church occupied a higher rank. The second nomination in 1238 then it also appears as a parish village, as the deed of a Hunoldus, vicar speaks in Kirchworveze, who appeared as a witness. In Jurisdiktionalbuch of Martinus pin from the 1675 it is mentioned that the provost of Martinus pin to Heiligenstadt held the patronage of the parish church of St. Martin. Maybe there was a sovereignty Heiligenstadt on the parish village since 1276, when Archbishop Ruthard the provost of the pen gave five parish churches, besides Kirchworbis was not explicitly mentioned. The place belonged to Electoral Mainz until the secularization and in 1802 Prussian. After a brief membership in the Kingdom of Westphalia Kirchworbis was until 1945 part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. The new building of the parish church was in 1913.

During the Second World War since 1940, had to perform forced labor in agriculture and in the knitting Rhode more than 100 men and women from Poland and Ukraine.

1945-1949 was the place to the Soviet occupation zone and was since 1949 part of the GDR. From 1961 until the turn and reunion 1989/1990 the place was close to the German border. In 2002, the Valentinuskapelle was restored.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

• 2002: 1506
• 2003: 1499
• 2004: 1499
• 2007: 1425

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Kirchworbis is made up of 12 council women and councilors.

• CDU: 10 seats
• Nomination FFW: 2 seats

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Wolfgang Benisch (CDU / civil rights movement ) was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Culture and sights

Structures

• St. Martin's Church
• The Valentin chapel is a former hermitage.
• In the hall there is a Marian grotto as place of worship.

Among the listed half-timbered houses and mills of Kirchworbis include:

• The Upper Ippmühle to have existed since the 14th century. She was until 1979 in operation, was repeatedly rebuilt or replaced. The property is used for commercial purposes.
• The Lower Ippmühle in the immediate vicinity of the Upper Ippmühle was called by an owner also Hucke mill. She was a grist mill in operation until 1969.
• The Rieth mill is secluded from the village. She was mainly oil and hammer mill. Around 1906 they began to rebuild the mill, an engineer wanted it to build a power station to generate electricity. The mill wheel was decommissioned in 1960.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wilhelm Konrad Strecker (1690-1765), lawyer
• Josef Stand (1894-1976), physician and politician ( NSDAP MdR )