Kalbsrieth

Kalbsrieth is a municipality in the Thuringian Kyffhauserkreis. It lies at the mouth of the helmets in the Unstrut.

To Kalbsrieth part of the district Ritteburg. The municipality is a member of the administrative community resources center Artern.

History

Ritteburg is considered as a suspected site of the Battle at triad in 933. The former water castle " Ritteburg " said to have been built as early as the 8th century to control and secure the Unstrut transition. In Hersfeld tithe directory this castle was already mentioned. 932 and 972 were the German kings on site. It is believed that this place " triad " was called, where 933 King Henry I has trounced his Ironshirts the Hungarians. In 1000 the plant was given to the Archbishop of Magdeburg. Otherwise, about the castle and the location nothing more known.

The place name Kalbsrieth derived from the resident since the 15th century Knights of calf. The Lords of calf are since the 15th century detectable in place noble family, their once in the northeastern area of ​​the local situation the water present castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War by the Swedes, and in 1690 by a representative palace replaced on the Goethe repeatedly at Charlotte von Kalb to guest was. With effect from 1 October 1945, by then located in Thuringia Kalbsrieth was assigned to the circle Sangerhausen the province of Saxony.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

  • 2002 - 826
  • 2003 - 813
  • 2004 - 797
  • 2007 - 785

Personalities

  • Charlotte von Kalb, author, owner of the castle Kalbsrieth
  • Ernst von Wolzogen, writer, found in Kalbsrieth his final resting place
  • Otto Tiersch, music theorist, born in Kalbsrieth
  • Johann Gottfried Gottlob Mühlig, naturalist, born in Kalbsrieth

Culture and sights

  • The Kalbsrieth palace with its remarkable landscape park was acquired in 1821 by the family Wolzogen after the previous owner had to sell this property by threat of financial ruin. The castle was then rebuilt in the classical style of Goethe's time and equipped with a collection of works of art. After the war, the castle was provided as an apartment for emigrants, valuable equipment, doors, windows, furnaces and stucco as features of valuable classical interior design deprived went there. A development association has been active since the turn of the preservation of the park and building parts.
  • St. John's Church
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