Eichsfeld (district)
The district Eichsfeld [ aɪksfɛlt ] is a county in the extreme northwest of Thuringia. Most of the villages of the district belong to the eponymous historic landscape calibration field. Neighboring districts are the districts of Lower Saxony Göttingen and Osterode am Harz, in the eastern district of Nordhausen, in the southeastern Kyffhauserkreis, south of the Unstrut Hainich and west of the Hessian Werra- Meißner-Kreis in the north.
- 4.1 District
- 4.2 Kreistag
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 6.1 rail
- 6.2 bus
- 6.3 roads
- 6.4 Air Traffic
- 8.1 communities
- 8.2 Administrative Communities
Geography
The county calibration field is in the northwest of the state of Thuringia, embedded between the resin in the north, the Werra and the Osthessischen mountains to the southwest and the Thuringian basin in the southeast.
In the south of the county, the landscape of about 450 m high limestone plates of the Upper Eichsfeld, the Düns and Gobert is marked ( with the 543.4 m high Goburg ). To the north, close to the hills of the central Eichsfeld. Again, mountain ranges rise like the Ohmgebirge with the 533.4 -meter-high mountain birch.
Some rivers have their origin as the Unstrut, leash, Wipper and Hahle district calibration field.
History
See also: Eichsfeld
Until 1803, the calibration field belonged to Electoral Mainz, therefore it is characterized primarily Catholic today. Then it belonged first to Prussia, in 1815 there were but at the still existing division of the Eichsfeld between Hanover and Prussia. The Prussian part came in 1945 in Thuringia and was with this later part of the German Democratic Republic.
The present district was created on 1 July 1994 by merging the counties Holy City and Worbis.
Population Development
Development of the Population:
- 2000: 114 109
- 2001: 113 427
- 2002: 112 498
- 2003: 111 455
- 2004: 110 843
- 2005: 109 999
- 2006: 108 883
- 2007: 107 924
- 2008: 106 937
- 2009: 106 052
- 2010: 105 195
- 2011: 104 549
- 2012: 101 312
Language
Due to the division of Germany and the whereabouts of belonging to a special Thuringia Eichsfelder dialect is spoken in Obereichsfeld. You can hear here the Thuringian out, especially with hard consonants. The dialect, however, is clearly not so " washed out" and Thuringian breathed, as in the adjacent Thuringian counties. In Untereichsfeld a fairly high German is spoken.
See also: Article calibration field.
Policy
District
District Administrator of the calibration field since 1994 until today, Dr. Werner Henning ( CDU). In the district elections on 22 April 2012, he was confirmed with 70.3 % of the vote in office. His only rival candidate was Ronny Fritzlar, he was nominated jointly by the SPD and the Greens, and came to 29.6 % of the vote.
Council
The 46 seats in the district council groups since the local elections in Thuringia in 2009 follows on the individual parties:
Coat of arms
Blazon: " On a red silver, gold reinforced eagle, on the breast a silver sechsspeichiges wheel "
The coat of arms was made the majesty of Arms of King Frederick William III. taken over by Prussia on 9 January 1817 as amended by Corrigendum dated 11 January 1864. During the six-spoked silver Mainzer Rad to the power of the electors and archbishops of Mainz remembers from the 9th century to 1802 about their eichsfeldische exclave, shows the red Brandenburg-Prussian eagle subsequent membership in the Kingdom of Prussia.
The individual arms of the cities and municipalities in the district can be found in the list of the coat of arms in the district Eichsfeld.
Economy and infrastructure
The county is Eichsfeld and was also in its history has always been a structurally weak region. This tendency was reinforced when in 1993 the potash plant was closed in Bischofferode. Mostly dominate small and micro enterprises, the economy of the calibration field. Only occasionally there are farms with more than 100 employees. Because of this, many Eichsfelder soft into the space Göttingen- Kassel.
In the district of calibration field and the Southern Lower Saxony region, the Südniedersachsenstiftung has made to promote the development and growth of the southern Lower Saxony region in its economic, cultural and social totality to the task.
Traffic
Rail
The Magdeburg- Leipzig Railway Company made in 1867 with the track Nordhausen - Kassel Leinefelde - Heiligenstadt the beginning with the local railway construction ( Halle- Kassel railway). As in 1870, the Thuringian Railway Company with the railway line Gotha - Leinefelde created a connection to Erfurt, the junction station Leinefelde the rail hub of the Eichsfeld was.
The " canon train" of the Prussian State Railways ( KPStE ) Dingelstädt over to Geismar - 1880 Schwebda took their starting line in the field, but ran up Silberhausen separation station parallel to Erfurt route.
Other lines of the Prussian state railways were built:
The upper Eichsfelder small Bahn AG led since 1913 by Silberhausen small train station to the mining community Hüpstedt in a circle Unstrut Hainich.
Due to the division of Germany 53 km distance were initially shut down:
After the fall of longer distances of 41 km in length followed in the district:
Currently, passenger takes place only on routes of 57 km from Eichenberg Holy City Leinefelde to Nordhausen and Erfurt Mulhouse. Him operate the German railway and - since 1998 - the Erfurt railway (EIB).
Bus
The regional bus services in the district is carried out by the calibration field works GmbH.
In East-West direction, the A 38 and the L3080 runs through the county Eichsfeld. In a north-south direction, the B - 247 Duderstadt Leinefelde- Mulhouse -Gotha is important.
Traffic
The airfield Heiligenstadt in 2005 equipped with a 750 m long asphalt runway, which is now also larger private aircraft makes a landing.
Cities and Towns
See also: List of places in the district Eichsfeld
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Cities
Communities
Management Communities * Office of the Management Community
- 2 Management Community Eichsfelder boiler ( 5453)
- 3 Management Community Eichsfeld- rocker Rough ( 7506 )
- 4 Community Management Ershausen / Geismar ( 5528 )
- 5 Management Community Hanstein - Rusteberg ( 5694 )
- 6 Management Community Leinetal ( 6956 )
- 7 Management Community Lindenberg / calibration field ( 7912 )
- 8 Management Community uder ( 6428 )
- 9 Management Community Westerwald- Obereichsfeld ( 4925 )
Territorial changes
Communities
- Resolution of the municipality Birkungen - Integration by Leinefelde (23 July 1995)
- Resolution of the municipality Rüdigershagen - Integration by Niederorschel (1 January 1996 )
- Resolution of the communities Ershausen, Martin Field, armor and Wilbich - Formation of community Schimberg ( 1 August 1997)
- Resolution of the communities Böseckendorf, Neuendorf and Teistungen - neoplasm of community Teistungen ( 1 April 1999)
- Resolution of the communities Beuren, Breitenbach and Wintzingerode and the cities of Leinefelde Worbis - Education of the City Leinefelde- Worbis (16 March 2004)
- Resolution of the municipality Bernterode ( at Worbis ) - Integration by Breitenworbis (1 September 2009)
- Resolution of the communities Bischofferode, Großbodungen and Neustadt - education of the community on Ohmberg (1 December 2010 )
- Resolution of the communities Bockelnhagen, Holungen, Jützenbach, Silkerode, Steinrode, Stöckey, White -Lüderode and ferrule - neoplasm of the rural community Sunstone (1 December 2011)
- Resolution of the municipality Vollenborn - incorporation to Deuna (31 December 2013)
Management Communities
- Resolution of the governing communities Geismar and Südeichsfeld - formation of the joint management Ershausen / Geismar from the member communities (1 January 1997 )
- Resolution of the Management Community Upper Bode - integration of member communities in the management of community - calibration field Suedharz (1 January 1997 )
- Resolution of the Management Community at the Ohmgebirge - integration of community Ferna in the administrative community Lindenberg / calibration field; Inclusion in all other areas in the new city Leinefelde- Worbis (15 March 2004)
- Resolution of the administrative community Eichsfeld- Suedharz (1 December 2011)