Rudersdorf, Germany

Rowing village is a municipality in the district Sömmerda in Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community Buttstädt, which has its headquarters in the city Buttstädt.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms
• 3.4 community partnership

• 4.1 associations

Geography

Rowing village is situated in the eastern part of the Thuringian Basin between Etter Mountain and Finn.

History

For the first time the community was in Hersfelder goods directory in 805 in a document erwähnt.1214 possessed the gift-giving of Großvargula own goods and fief of the Abbey of Fulda and the Landgrave of Thuringia in rowing village.

During the Second World War, more than 250 women and men from Poland, Ukraine and Russia had to do forced labor in agriculture.

Population Development

• 2002 - 378
• 2003 - 374
• 2004 - 369
• 2005 - 376

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Policy

Parish council

The municipal council of rowing village is composed of six members of a group together Free Voters (as of municipal elections on 27 June 2004).

Mayor

The honorary mayor Hannelore pottery was elected on 26 June 2004.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " left diagonally divided from silver to red; above a Rodehacke with black handle, silver eye and a blue sheet, below, a silver tree stump with the left aufwachsendem dreiblättrigem drive. "

Community partnership

• Böbingen in Rhineland -Palatinate

Culture and sights

The Protestant church has a slate-roofed tower and a brick- roofed nave.

Clubs

• Child care and youth welfare eV
• Senior Citizens Club eV
• Sport SV 97 eV

Personalities

• Adolph Dattan (1854-1924), businessman in Vladivostok, where co-owner of Art and Albers, born in rowing village