Hopfgarten, Thuringia

Hopfgarten is a municipality in the western part of the Weimar area and part of the joint management Gram Metal. It is also the origin of the Thuringian noble family of the lords of Hopffgarten.

Geography

The place is located in the Gram Metal at the foot of Wartberges and has a stop on the Thuringian Railway (Erfurt -Weimar ). The agricultural storage dam Hopfgarten lies within the municipality.

History

The first documentary mention of Hopfgarten place in the year 842 as " Hophgarto " in goods inventories of imperial abbey of Fulda. 1226 appears as the place Hoefgarten. It is now believed that the name of Hoppegartyn ( mare = enclosure ) is derived. A castle site is located in the lowlands of grams and is regarded as the headquarters of the said Lords of Hopfgarten from 1247, the castle said to have been destroyed already in 1303. Originally, the village was under the rule Vieselbachs, but went in 1286 conditionally and after the Thuringian Count war in 1343 finally to the city of Erfurt. This built an solid round tower as a watchtower. The parish is the first time in 1329 demonstrated. The first Protestant minister came in 1579 to Hopfgarten. The Classicist Hopfgarten village church was built in 1834.

From the beginning of the 19th century the city was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach and after 1945 with the State of Thuringia part of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR. Since 1990, the city is part of the newly established state of Thuringia.

Attractions

  • The watch-tower on a small hill is a solid, 20 -meter-high round tower. The lower part dates from the 14th, the top of the 16th century. The tower has a round arched entrance with Erfurt's coat of arms. The tower belonged to the system of observation towers, which built the city of Erfurt around them.

Memorial

In the village square recalls since 1984 a stele on the death march of concentration camp prisoners in the concentration camp Buchenwald, which were driven through the town in the spring of 1945.

Others

Hopfgarten is part of a series of images of Lyonel Feininger, who painted parts of the village at the time of his stay at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Among other things, the image Hopfgarten, 1920 was born.

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