Wangenheim

Wangenheim is a municipality in the district of Gotha, Thuringia, and a member of the administrative community median Nessetal.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 4.1 The village church of St. Trinity
  • 4.2 Other points of interest
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

The municipality is located in the northwestern part of the district of Gotha in the Valley of Nesse on the southern edge of the ridge Large Harth, a south-eastern foothills of the Hainich. The surrounding community hill reaching heights of up to 360 m above sea level. NN. It is located approximately 15 miles from Gotha and Bad Langensalza. Through the center of the herb Dimensions ditch, a small stream which drains the fields north of the village runs. West of the town is the 1977/78 built for irrigation dam Tüngeda / Wangenheim, which today serves primarily the recovery with a northeast adjacent campsite.

The nearest towns are Eberstädt at the Nesse in the south, Brüheim the southwest, Tüngeda the northwest, Wiegleben in the north, Hochheim in the east and Goldbach in the southeast. Through the village the road L leads 1030 from Gotha to Reichenbach, where it meets the B 84. North of the village is located on the 358 m high Teufelsberg a large wind turbine.

History

Based on archaeological finds in the Wangenheimer corridor is assumed that already the Corded Ware and Bronze Age people settled here. The village itself has been documented as a possession of the monastery of Fulda for the first time in the year 860.

1133 appeared the noble family of Wangenheim to in documents that shaped the development of the town in the late Middle Ages. Crucial to the fortified headquarters of Wangenheim family in the village may have been the south with the running from east to west routes and the favorable natural and nutritionally economic situation of North intersection. For now they were free, from 1395 they were ministeriales the Thuringian Landgrave. This generation was also from 1513 to 1560 owned the castle Winterstein and 1370 owners of the castle Sonneborn. The Wangenheim castle was abandoned in the 16th century. 1747 broke one from a kemenatenartiges building. Residues of the plant should have been still visible in the 18th century.

From the 17th century until 1920, the village belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha or its successor duchies. After that, the place was part of the district of Gotha and was from 1952 to 1990 to the district of Gotha in Erfurt DDR district.

Policy

The municipality belongs to the administrative community median Nessetal, which has its headquarters in the town of Goldbach.

Parish council

The Council of the Municipality Wangenheim Council consists of eight women and councilors.

  • FWG 7 seats (as at municipal election held on 7 June 2009)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Martina Rieke was elected in September 2013.

Twinning

Godfather municipality of the place is Dörzbach in Hohenlohe district, in Baden -Württemberg.

Attractions

The village church of St. Trinity

On a hill north of the now-defunct castle of the rich wealthy noble family von Wangenheim was built around 1488 a church was whether their structural condition in 1687 demolished. The two lancet windows of the east side with Gothic tracery of lobed arches and the six lancet windows facing south with renewed Fischmaßwerk and the stone cornice still come from 1488th Already on May 2, 1687 the year of the foundation stone for the present church was laid in on July 27, 1690 the presence of Duke Friedrich I. solemnly inaugurated as Trinity Church. This expresses this stone tablet on the south side of the church. The tower was canceled in 1839 because of its damage and rebuilt. The church underwent some changes here, which cost about 4500 thalers. Of these, the Count of Wangenheim was 1500 dollars. 1857 a new organ was installed for 1150 dollars by a Tambacher organ builder. The clock tower is from 1852. In the facade of the church is Gothic tracery found. Began early in the 19th century, with the support of its founding family of Wangenheim the gradual reshaping of the inner region, a first installation of double galleries and 1910/1911 the murals of biblical scenes. Are the ceiling paintings of the church painter stone and the stained glass windows of the east side of the same period. They were donated by the families of Wangenheim and Winterstein, as this detail shows, and executed by the glass painting workshop Ernst Kraus from Weimar. From the pre-Reformation period the parish remained a late Gothic crucifix, which was restored in 1988 for 6800 marks. The arched portal with the fillet profile on the south side comes from a construction of the 16th century. From the time of the new building (1688-1690) the basket- arched wooden ceiling, the eastern pediment with the little round window and the door and the windows are on the north side of the nave. The wooden capital of standing in the middle of the sanctuary baptismal font is from 1590, his foot from the second half of the 17th century. From the same period is the wooden pulpit on the east pediment of the ship, which has an octagonal plan and their corners are equipped with candelabra -like columns with rosette ornament. The round-arched niches bear images of Christ, Moses and the four evangelists. In the tower and in the vestibule of the church some grave slabs of the Lords of Wangenheim are placed. In the sacristy is the tomb of the baroness Christiane Hippolyta Wangenheim. 1982-1984 received tower and church roof a new covering. 1987-1988 was an organ repair and installation of new front pipes.

To the west next to the church, in front of their main entrance, stands the rectory was built in 1736. The fenced with a stone wall graveyard around the church was closed in November 1871, and the bricks installed elsewhere. Today the area is designed park. See also: List of members of the noble family of Wangenheim and from there to open pictures of grave stones

Additional points of interest

  • A few hundred meters west of the town is the dam Tüngeda / Wangenheim, a recreation area.

Economy and infrastructure

The community is dominated by agriculture. With the development of rural tourism center reservoir Wangenheim, tourism has gained some importance. In 1999 was built on the territory of the municipality until then largest wind farm in Thuringia.

Wangenheim is located on the local road from Goldbach to Reichenbach, in the municipality of Hörselberg -Hainich in Wartburg district. The nearest motorway junctions are located about 20 kilometers south of the A4.

The place had from 1890 to 1995 a station on the Nessetalbahn, which was about two kilometers south of the town center.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Gotha (district) Mittleres Nessetal Nesse (Hörsel) Corded Ware culture East Germany Erfurt (Bezirk) Hohenlohe (district) Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Wartburgkreis Major general National People's Army Bufleben Crawinkel Dachwig Drei Gleichen Emleben Eschenbergen Friedrichroda Friedrichswerth Friemar Georgenthal Haina, Gotha Herrenhof Leinatal Luisenthal Molschleben Nottleben Ohrdruf Petriroda Pferdingsleben Tonna, Germany Waltershausen Warza Westhausen, Gotha Integrated Authority File
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