Döbritschen

Döbritschen is a municipality in the southern part of the Weimar area and part of the joint management Mellingen in Thuringia. It consists of the villages Döbritschen and Vollradisroda.

Geography

Döbritschen is located at the foot of the Northern Slope of the stone hill, an offshoot of the western limestone slopes of the Saale valley to Jena in the transition to the field level in Mellingen and Weimar. In contrast Vollradisroda only on the northern edge of the hamlet of free access to the field marks. On the other side of the forest to the hamlet stands on.

History

Findings point to an occupation of the site since the Neolithic period. The first written mention of the town took place in 1190. 1290 the village was owned by the family butler of Döbritschen. 1332 went Döbritschen of the taverns of Nidda in the possession of the counts of Weimar- Orlamünde over. The lying in the village at that time Wasserburg was a medieval manor house and 45 x 80 m surrounded by a wall with a protective moat. It was destroyed in 1450. On the wall of the village church has been built. Later, the Count of light grove, later the Vitztume of Apolda and the monastery chapel village followed. In the early 19th century was Döbritschen Kammergut the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar- Eisenach. The domain of 96 ha cultivated in 1923 Albin Gellert.

The district Vollradisroda is first mentioned in 1311 as " Volradesrode ", the name means clearing settlement of a solid wheel. The village was destroyed in the Saxon Brother War and partially inhabited again until after 1700. It was Döbritschen since the 19th century Vorwerk of the Salzkammergut. In 1900 Vollradisroda had 38 inhabitants. On October 16, 1923 Vollradisroda was incorporated into Döbritschen.

Traffic

The country road in 1060 is achieved through a communication path.

Culture and sights

• The evangelical church is a rectangular, plastered and massive hall church of 1583rd She has a western, stately roof tower on the mansard roof of the renovation of 1723. Late 19th century, a polygonal, neo-Gothic apse was built and painted inside. The interior shows a flat wooden barrel vault and a single-storey gallery and the rest of a pulpit altar from the 18th century. The bell of 1518 is by Heinrich Ziegler from Erfurt.
• Remains of the former fortification from the 12th century