Bad Colberg-Heldburg

Bad Colberg -Heldburg is a country town in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia. She is a member of the administrative community Heldburger lowlands since 1994.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 memorials

Geography

The city is located in the extreme south of Thuringia, in the fertile, hilly Heldburger Keuper landscape, at the Kreck, 288 m above sea level and is the largest city in the Heldburger country.

Boroughs

Bad Colberg -Heldburg is composed of the following districts:

  • Bad Colberg
  • Einoed
  • Gellershausen
  • Heldburg, seat of administration
  • Holzhausen
  • Lindenau
  • Völkershausen

Neighboring communities

Clockwise: West Hausen, Straufhain, bathroom Unterrodach, Ummerstadt, Sesslach, slipways and Gompertshausen.

History

In 1993, the seven formerly independent communities of Bad Colberg, Einoed, Gellershausen, Heldburg, Holzhausen, Lindenau and Völkershausen the unity of municipality Bad Colberg- Heldburg and today form the city.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

  • 2002: 2350
  • 2003: 2316
  • 2004: 2281
  • 2007: 2205

Policy

Parish council

Since the local elections of 7 June 2009, the council is composed as follows:

  • The Left - 2 seats (10.7%)
  • SPD / Lindenau list - 1 seat ( 10.1%)
  • Independent Citizens - 9 seats ( 66.8 %)
  • Bad Colberg- initiative - 2 seats (12.3%)

The turnout was 51.1 %.

Coat of arms

It is on a red heraldic shield with a silver embattled tower, to which an upright golden lion puts his paws. The coat of arms comes from the ancient detectable seals of the city. The similarity with the coat of arms of the city of Meissen, an upright black lion lay there his two paws on a red crenellated tower, clearly points to the origin of the Wettin Heldburger coat of arms. The so-called Meissner lion can be found in numerous coats of arms of the former Wettin cities. The crenellated tower points to the defensibility of the city after its attachment by a city wall. The color of the Heldburger crest has been changed several times. A re aufgefundenes carved wooden coat of arms from 1833, it hangs in the Town Hall, shows a golden lion and a golden spire.

Culture and sights

Health clinic in Bad Colberg

St. Cyriacus in Gellershausen

St. Matthew in Lindenau

Veste Heldburg

The landmark of the city is the Heldburg Castle, a medieval castle from the year 1317. Objective would be 2015, the German castle museum opened. The first exhibition is on view since 2007.

Once a year in the Thuringian Heldburg Montgolfiade takes place.

Memorials

The memorial stands on the site of the Billmuthausen 1978 destroyed village Billmuthausen and lies between Bad Colberg and Heldburg. The village was a victim of the military fortification of the inner German border by the GDR authorities.

In the forest on the road that connects Poppenhausen with Einoed, stands a monument commemorating a massacre in 1942 of 20 Polish citizens.

Personalities

  • Eucharius Hoffmann (1540-1588), composer, organist, choir director, music documentaries ( the site of action: Stralsund ), born in Heldburg
  • Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), an important representative of Lutheran orthodoxy, church father, superintendent in Heldburg (1606-1615), General Superintendent in Coburg, teaching at the high school Casimirianum in Coburg, professor in Jena, author
  • Paul Matthias Wehner (1583-1612), lawyer, author, born in Heldburg
  • Johann glans of Rautenkron (1621-1688), anthropologist and lawyer, born in Heldburg
  • Georg Schubart (1650-1701), lawyer, historian and philosopher, born in Heldburg
  • Johann Christian Thomae (1668-1724), Rector, author, born in Heldburg
  • Johann Wilhelm Wagner (1681-1745), astronomer, who was born in Heldburg
  • Adam Lorenz Bartenstein (1711-1796), Hofmeister
  • August Friedemann Rühle of Lilienstern (1744-1828), lawyer, journalist, writer
  • Paul Motz (1817-1904), dialect poet, some foresters in Heldburg
  • Moritz Hensoldt (1821-1903), pioneer of the optical industry, born in Lindenau
  • Fritz binding (1867-1921), preacher and evangelist, born in Heldburg
  • Lommatzsch Ernst (1871-1949), scholar, born in the present deserted Erlebach
  • John W. Schneider (1928-2010), psychologist, Waldorf educator, anthroposophist, author, born in Heldburg

Dialect

In Bad Colberg- Heldburg the Main-Franconian dialect is spoken Itzgründisch.

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