Bad Tennstedt

Bad Tennstedt is a country and health resort in the Unstrut Hainich in northern Thuringia and office of the Management Community Bad Tennstedt, belonging to the other twelve communities.

  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 5.2 Persons who are in connection with Tennstedt

Geography

Bad Tennstedt located in the western part of the Thuringian Basin about 20 km north- west of Erfurt in the midst of a predominantly agricultural area. Around the city there are some sulfur springs whose water is used as a remedy in Kurbetrieb since 1812.

History

Numerous findings in the area of Bad Tennstedt suggest that here since the Neolithic people settled. Since 1875 also systematic archaeological excavations were to take over again. So they found a 1888 worn grave mound on the chalk hills in the parcel at the court, in which a young woman was buried in an extended supine position. Among the finds were pieces of pottery and fragments of spiral rings and amber jewelery.

The favorable and strategic location of Tennstedt underpins the tradition that the early Middle Ages has passed a royal court. It is also believed that developed two fortifications from the yard, the street outputs were located on two adjacent hills left and right to the north. The Tennstedter Wasserburg owed ​​its importance through the link road Eisenach- Weissensee Neuchâtel, because she was for the Landgrave of Thuringia, the main connection to their seats. Of the Tennstedter castles are almost impossible to find traces, since the stones were used to build the city wall.

The first mention of the place in a donation document from the year 772, after which the material is donated by a clergyman Alwahlah to the monastery of Fulda. A deed of gift of Charlemagne to the monastery of Hersfeld is attested from the year 775.

Since the 13th century Tennstedt has a municipal constitution. 1419 received the suburb Osthöfen also the town rights. The city wall with four gates - now a symbol of the city - was built only in the period from 1448 to 1483, at its completion, it was already militarily obsolete. Tennstedt was from the 14th to the 17th century, one of the five Waidstädte of Thuringia, who had the right to act with woad, which provided the important dye indigo for textile production. As part of the Electorate of Saxony, the city is 1657 as the seat of county government. Tennstedt was affected by witch hunts of 1690-1700. Four men came in witch trials. Great suffering caused to the stationing of occupation troops in the Seven Years' War. 1800 was a Salpeterhütte in Tennstedt built in 1828 a paper mill. 1811 helped the discovery of a sulfur source of the city to a significant upswing. 1812 gardens were created and opened the first bathhouse. The spa began from 1813. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe met in 1816 on his way to Baden -Baden, where he wanted to take a cure in the city. Only at the end of the 19th century efforts were made to make the place through the construction of additional health facilities and pensions more attractive, but the typical spa architecture was limited to Kurstraße.

In April 1945, Bad Tennstedt was occupied by U.S. troops and passed the beginning of July to the Red Army. This was the place, like all over Thuringia, part of the SBZ and from 1949 the GDR.

On June 17, 1953, the pastor and superintendent Gerhard collectors called before 500 people at the market square in Bad Tennstedt the resignation of the East German government and free elections. The assembled crowd spoke in chorus the text of the song Germany, followed by an address by the pastor and a concluding " Now thank we all our God ". Even on Bad Tennstedt state of emergency was proclaimed by the Soviet commander. The " ringleaders ", among them pastor collectors were arrested by the People's Police.

City ​​Church

Osthöfer gate

City ​​wall

Policy

Mayor

The honorary mayor Jörg Klupák (SPD ) was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, on a green ground, the lower half of a natural fir; right from the tree growing a bishop in blue and gold vestments, a golden crosier in his right hand, a silver book in his left hand, on a blue bunch of grapes; left the tribe a seven divided by red and silver lion. "

Symbolism: The fir is already in the coat of arms in the early 15th century. The Colorful Leo has the former supremacy of the Thuringian Landgrave. The bishop is the ecclesiastical possessions of the monasteries Hersfeld, Gander home and Fulda. Previously, he was a bishop in blue- silver regalia. The Grape Vine is in the past.

Twinning

The town of Bad Tennstedt is twinned Bad Salzschlirf, the management community has partner relations to Stromberg (Hunsrück ), Bernkastel- Kues and Koźmin Wielkopolski.

Culture and sights

Bad Tennstedt was a significant Waid, Ackerbürger and commercial city with trade routes towards Leipzig, Kassel and Frankfurt to a northern alternative route for the Via Regia in the Middle Ages. A decline experienced Tennstedt, similar to the neighboring cities Thamsbrück and Weissensee, of 17, as the importance of agriculture in general and in particular Waidanbaus fell to the 19th century and were shifting traffic flows. So Bad Tennstedt still retains essentially the townscape of the 16th century.

In the city center is the relatively large triangular market, the historical trade routes east towards Weissensee and leave two in a westerly direction to Bad Langensalza and Mulhouse. In the middle of the square the stately town hall with tower of 1598th In the southwest of the town there is a hill on which stand the gothic town church and the Fronveste. The town church was once the patronal feast of the Holy Wigbert and is now dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Parts of the choir are from 1418, the rest was essentially rebuild 1652-1659, after the Church was burnt down in 1636. With its two Gothic towers with Baroque domes it dominates the cityscape.

The Fronveste located behind the church, you are of a defensive tower and a few small buildings preserved. It was built about 1465 as a prison and now houses the town museum. A water castle consisted east of Tennstedt, until it was bought in 1484 by the city and used as a quarry. Surrounded by the city is a city wall ( originated 1443-1489 instead of an older fortification), parts of the east and west, a few towers and the gate Osthöfer are obtained. The Osthöfer goal of 1448 with a roof structure from 1579 is today one of the landmarks Bad Tennstedts.

To the east front of the city was the suburb Osthöfen, the 1419 also brought to the town, but was never fixed. In this area there are two other churches of medieval origin, firstly, the Nikolai Church from the mid-15th century, which today serves as a cemetery church, on the other hand, the Holy Ghost Church, which belonged to the medieval Hospital of the city. It was first mentioned in 1506 and is now the Catholic parish church of the city.

Other attractions include the town houses of the Renaissance in the old town and the spa park in the northeast of the city with various facilities for cold water cures.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Justin Bertuch (1564-1626), educator
  • Christoph Schmidt (1629-1676), merchant and alderman, great-grandfather of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
  • Ernst Friedrich Meurer (1660-1722), Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Council and Bailiff of the Thuringian district
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Ernestine (1705-1758), theologian
  • Johann August Ernesti (1707-1781), educator, scholar and theologian
  • Sigmund Bergmann (1851-1927), inventor and entrepreneur
  • Christel Riemann - Hanewinckel (* 1947), politician (SPD )

Those associated with Tennstedt

  • Andreas Toppius (1605-1677), state historian, a pastor in Tennstedt
  • Christian Andreas Siber (1662-1704), educator and theologian
  • Johann Christoph Ernestine (1662-1722), theologian
  • Christoph von Hellwig (1663-1721), some of Stadtphysikus Tennstedt, invented in Tennstedt a toothbrush
  • Johann Christian Ernestine (1695-1769), theologian
  • Friedrich von Hardenberg ( Novalis pseudonym, 1772-1801 ) was, from 1794 to 1796 worked in Tennstedt in Saxon administrative services
  • Celestine August Just (1750-1822), district magistrate of Tennstedt, supervisor, friend and biographer of Novalis

Traffic

The Bad Tennstedt station was on the railway line Ballstädt - Straußfurt, on the 1998 passenger services were set and was decommissioned in 1999.

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