Ilmtal
Ilm Valley is a municipality in ( Thuringia) Ilm-Kreis. It is the area according to the largest community of the county and the ninth largest municipality in Thuringia. It was formed on 1 June 1996 from the communities Dienstedt - Hettstedt, Ehrenstein, Großliebringen, Nahwinden, Niederwillingen and Singerberg. It is named after the river Ilm, flowing through the municipality in southwest-northeast direction and coming into contact with six of 21 districts. The community Ilm valley is sparsely populated and agricultural. Administrative center of the municipality is the place Griesheim.
- 2.1 Population development
- 4.1 traffic
Geography
The community Ilm valley is U-shaped around the city Stadtilm and can be divided into four regions. In the northeast, the places Dienstedt, Oesteröda, United Hettstedt and Kleinhettstedt lie in the valley of the Ilm. They formed the former municipality Dienstedt - Hettstedt. To the southeast lies the Deube region, named after the small river Deube with the villages Großliebringen, Small Großliebringen, Nahwinden, Ehrenstein and Döllstedt. The southwestern part of community around the Singer mountain is home to the places Geilsdorf, Gössel Born, Singing, Dörnfeld an der Ilm, Cottendorf, Traßdorf, Griesheim and hammer box that made up the former municipality Singerberg. In the northwest, the former rural community Niederwillingen lies with the villages Niederwillingen, Upper Willingen, Behringen and High Cross in the Valley of Wipfra that is not a tributary of the River Ilm. It flows for Gera and is therefore within the catchment area of the Unstrut.
The lowest point of the municipality lies at just over 300 meters in the Ilm valley at Dienstedt. The highest point is the 583 meter high mountain Singer, who is also the most important natural area of the municipality. There is a unique limestone dry flora and fauna has evolved. They are also fitted steep rock walls and cliffs. On the Singerberg are plants such as juniper and pine home.
Other mountains in the municipal area are the Great Kalmberg (547 meters ) in the east, which was used by the military during GDR times, the 545 -meter high Herrenberg between Gössel Born and small Großliebringen, the Willinger mountain ( 502 meters) in Upper Willingen and the mountain chain between Großliebringen and Stadtilm which is about five kilometers long and up to 526 meters high. Most mountains are, as well as a large part of the municipal area to the Ilm -Saale- plate ( limestone and sandstone ). The forests are mostly located on the mentioned mountains and consist of spruce, pine and a few deciduous trees together. The large flat areas along the rivers Ilm, Wipfra and Deube are deforested and used for agriculture.
The districts are all relatively small agricultural villages with 70-570 ( Niederwillingen ) residents.
Neighboring communities
Clockwise, starting in the north: Bösleben - Wüllersleben - Stadtilm - Joke Life - Crane Field - Remda - Teichel - Königsee Rottenbach - Wolfsberg - Wipfratal
Community structure
The quarters are ( in alphabetical order):
- Behringen
- Cottendorf
- Dienstedt
- Döllstedt
- Dörnfeld an der Ilm
- Ehrenstein
- Geilsdorf
- Gössel Born
- Griesheim
- Great Hettstedt
- Großliebringen
- Hammersfeld
- High Cross
- Kleinhettstedt
- Small Großliebringen
- Nahwinden
- Niederwillingen
- Upper Willingen
- Oesteröda
- Singing
- Traßdorf
History
The community Ilm valley was formed on 1 June 1996. Historically, the area belongs mostly to the County of Schwarzburg and the influence area of the city Stadtilm. Until 1920, there was the small states in Thuringia. Until then, most of the villages belonged to the Official Stadtilm in the Principality of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt. Dienstedt belonged to Saxony -Weimar- Eisenach, Traßdorf to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the three villages in Wipfratal to black -Sonderhausen. After the founding of the towns of Thuringia came to the district of Arnstadt, Oesteröda was the only county to Rudolstadt.
1952, the district Arnstadt was dissolved and the municipality came to the newly formed - reduced - Arnstadt circle in the Erfurt district. Although the towns are only about ten kilometers from Ilmenau in the southwest, you nevertheless decided to assign it to the circle Arnstadt, as they better fit with their agricultural structure of this circle as the industrially shaped circle Ilmenau. In 1994, the circles Arnstadt and Ilmenau were merged to the new Ilm-Kreis, which the community belongs today.
Population Development
Due Suburbanisationseffekte surrounding towns, the population of the community grew in the 1990s. Since then she falls, according to the general trend, again slowly.
Culture and sights
The culture of the community is heavily influenced by the associations of individual villages. They organize parties and events in the region.
Worth seeing, besides the 18 part beautifully restored village churches, the Museum brewery singing, the castle Ehrenstein, the karst cave Dienstedt, the mustard mill Kleinhettstedt that saline at Dörnfeld, the Singer mountain, with its special flora and fauna, the Tunnel Museum Niederwillingen, the Wasserburg Großliebringen the upper Willinger Spring and numerous half-timbered farmsteads in the United Hettstedt and Gössel Born.
A memorial stone on the main street of Nahwinden reminiscent of 57 camp inmates who died at a leading through the villages of the municipality of death march of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 and are buried in the cemeteries of the districts.
Economy and infrastructure
The economy of the municipality Ilm valley is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry. Industry, there are practically none, so most people are commuting to work and for example in Stadtilm. In Dörnfeld some salt pans are where salt was earlier promoted. Today, they are available as a technical monument.
Traffic
Most important thoroughfare of the village is the federal highway 87 Ilmenau- Weimar, which follows the course of Ilm substantially. The nearest motorway junctions of the A71 motorway are Arnstadt and Ilmenau South East. More roads lead to Arnstadt, in the space Rudolstadt, after Rottenbach, after Remda, after Gräfinau - Angstedt and in the places of the upper Wipfratals.
The districts Niederwillingen and singing have breakpoints of the railway line Arnstadt -Saalfeld.
Along the Ilm runs through the community and the Ilm Valley Cycle Route.