Heichelheim
Heichelheim is a municipality in the northern part of the Weimar area and part of the joint management Nordkreis Weimar.
Geography
The village is located about 5 km north of the city of Weimar edge. Towns nearby are Ramsla the northwest, Daasdorf at Buttelstedt in the northeast, southeast and Kleinobringen Großobringen in the south. About 1 km north-west is the 18 -acre reservoir Heichelheim. The summit of Mount Etter near the former Buchenwald concentration camp is about 5 km south-west. Immediately a dam is built in the 1829 windmill Heichelheims, which now houses a restaurant.
History
The area around Heichelheim was settled very early. First archaeological finds dating to the early Iron Age (ca. 750-450 BC). The first certain mention of the village was carried out in 1123 in a charter of Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz for the Erfurt Marienstift as Huningleiba. A copy is kept in the Central State Archive Munich. 1310, the name changed to Hichelleyben and since the mid-14th century mention certificates both Hucheleiben, as well Huchelnheim. From the beginning of the 15th century, the name on Huchulheim be converted to Huchelheim, Heuchelheim and finally since 1789 to Heichelheim. The name is interpreted as Hugo's property.
A parish in Heichelheim is first mentioned in 1420. At that time it was under the patronage of the monastery Oldisleben and the Dean of Großobringen. 1880, the parish was abolished and the church subordinate to the minister of Großobringen. In 1775 a large part of the town was destroyed along with the school by fire. 1778 was the reconstruction of the old school building. In 1813 the city was plundered several times in the context of the liberation war. 1838, contained the finial a document in which, inter alia, was reported by devastating fires in 1638 and 1775. In the latter year to have been spared by the fire next to the church only a few houses. Both 1806, at the Battle of Jena and Auerstedt, as well as in 1813 ( the French are on the run after the Battle of Leipzig ) the place is haunted and robbed by soldiers. In 1839 a new school house was built. The neighboring Kleinobringen was separated in 1877 after numerous disputes of Heichelheim. 1884 saw the establishment of the local fire department. From Easter 1886, the school system has been expanded to two classes. 1890 got Heichelheim again a pastor. In 1912 Kleinobringen was finally store the pastorate Heichelheim. A year later, the electric lighting has been introduced. The supply was made by the electric company Oberweimar. 1922 was finally the commissioning of the water pipe. In 1931 the parish was dissolved and Heichelheim Heichelheim and Kleinobringen assigned to the parish Großobringen.
Heichelheim had possession of several noble families. So were masters of the Heichelheim of Azmannsdorf ( 1343 ) and that of Denstedt ( 1349 ). In 1811, the place to office Weimar. The farmers operated arable and Waidanbau. In addition to the manor and the farms there was a water mill and a windmill.
At the mill, the Heichelheimer Heichelheimer Potato Festival is annually committed, on the elected and nominated the Thuringian potato of the year and the Thuringian potato queen. Heichelheim is also very well known for its good Thuringian dumplings, which are produced in the Thuringian Kloßmanufaktur Heichelheim. In the dumpling museum in Heichelheim you can learn all about these Thuringian delicacy and taste. Thuringian dumpling museum Heichelheim conducted from 1999 to 2009 as a nonprofit museum closed in 2010, it was reopened as a company museum on August 26, 2011.
Attractions
The following objects are protected under the monument list of the circle Weimar Country:
- Church with cemetery:
- Tower windmill, Am Raven Bache
- Inscription plaque from 1585, former Good
- Two inscription panels by 1612, Lange Gasse 45
- Outbuildings of the former Good with vaulted cellar, No. 27
- Former school, No. 56
- Thuringian dumpling museum
Personalities
- Born Johann Tobias Krebs, (1690-1762), German organist, composer and cantor, Heichelheim
- Sylk Schneider ( * 1966), German author, 1999-2009 Director of Kloßmuseums