Heygendorf

Heygendorf is a municipality in the management of Community funds center Artern in the Thuringian Kyffhauserkreis ( Germany ). The place is located 5 kilometers east of Artern on the helmets, a tributary of the Unstrut, consists of the districts Heygendorf and Schaaf village and extends over 9.35 square kilometers.

History

In a resulting 881-899 Directory of tithes of the monastery of Hersfeld Heygendorf is mentioned as requiring a tenth place in the frieze Hachendorpf field in a document.

Schaaf village was certainly founded the same time as Heygendorf, but for the first time in 1273 mentioned as Scafsdorp documented.

In the 13th and 14th centuries Heygendorf was under the Counts of Mansfeld. After the ownership under various counts in the period that followed changed several times, it came in 1422 to the House of Wettin. Under their rule, the village stood until 1918. Both brothers Ulrich and Balthasar of Geusau received in 1451 the manor Heygendorf fief. In the possession of those of Geusau it was 357 years long. Since the 15th century the village belonged to the Official Altstedt the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar- Eisenach.

Prominent resident Heygendorfs was Caroline Hunt Man, Weimar actress and mistress of the Grand Duke Karl August, who gave her the fief Heygendorf 1809. Thus ended the rule of the of Geusau, because of their contentiousness were a nuisance during their reign often. A son of Caroline Hunt man, Wolfgang inherited after the death of the mother's estate. Only in 1930 sold his descendants the property. In 1830 also ended the affiliation Schaaf village to the manor Heygendorf.

In the first quarter of the 20th century were drilled in the hallway Heygendofer by potash, but soon gave up on it for economic reasons. The ruin of the potash plant union Thuringia rises still visible from far above Heygendorf.

1923, the two places Schaaf village and Heygendorf were merged into one municipality.

With effect from 1 October 1945, by then located in Thuringia Heygendorf was assigned to the circle Sangerhausen the province of Saxony.

With the local government reform, the village came to the district in 1952 Artern in the district hall of the German Democratic Republic and since 1994 has been to Nordthüringer Kyffhauserkreis.

(Source: Community funds management center Artern Publisher and Editor: VG middle center Artern )

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

• 2002 - 742
• 2003 - 721
• 2004 - 717
• 2007 - 671