Kefferhausen

Kefferhausen is a municipality in the Thuringian district of calibration field.

  • 2.1 Coat of Arms
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 community partnership
  • 4.1 Customs

Geography

Kefferhausen is located approximately 11 kilometers southeast of Heiligenstadt on the edge of the eastern slopes of the upper Eichsfelder height (up to 520 m at Keffer ), north of the western fertilizer runs (up to 515 m at the Hockelrain ). In Kefferhausen springs the main water line north of Thuringia, the Unstrut.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities, the city and the villages Dingelstädt Küllstedt, Wachstedt, Kreuzebra and Heuthen. Kefferhausen is part of the joint management Dingelstädt.

History

The village was first mentioned in a charter of Henry I, Archbishop of Mainz in 1146 as a gift of the von Kirchberg. Its sovereign until the secularization Kurmainz. 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then came to the Kingdom of Westphalia. From 1815 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony. During this time, the place had about 1200 inhabitants, mostly going about their employment outside the village, in the factories Dingelstädts or in the summer as a day laborer, as the ground for the management brought only inadequate conditions with it. So were in the hallway Kefferhäuser 1496 acres of farmland desolate. This corridor received in 1606 a significant increase in size, as the country, the meadows and the sheep of justice between Kefferhausen and Heuthen located, now desolate place Werdigeshausen fallen from the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Johann Schweikhard of Kronberg bought and Kefferhausen been transferred.

On April 7, 1945 U.S. Army occupied after several hours of fighting, tank shells and artillery shelling and use of fighter-bombers the place. The church was badly damaged, as well as many residential and commercial buildings. Firefighters and residents put out fires during the artillery bombardment. In the public cemetery rest 22 German soldiers, including unknown 8 of them.

As of July 1945 Kefferhausen was part of the Soviet zone of occupation and since 1949 part of the GDR. From 1961 until the turn and reunion 1989/1990 the place was close to the German border. Since 1990 Kefferhausen is part of the newly founded Federal State of Thuringia.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In green with blue wavy Wellenschildfuß golden masonry with a goal and three pinnacles, about two upright linden leaves floating. "

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

  • 2002: 802
  • 2003: 803
  • 2004: 805
  • 2007: 796

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Kefferhausen is composed of eight council members.

  • CDU: 6 seats
  • Nomination per Kefferhausen: 2 seats

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Ewald Ofermann (CDU ) was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Community partnership

Kefferhausen has since 1994 an intra- German community partnership to Katzwinkel ( victory ) in the district of Old churches in Rhineland- Palatinate.

Culture and sights

  • The Catholic parish church of " St. John the Baptist" in Kefferhausen was ordained in 1686 and 1920/21 extended by a transept and new choir room. On 7 April 1945 she suffered by U.S. artillery shelling serious damage.
  • Since 1998, the Werdigeshäuser Church, a 250 year old chapel, mainly at the instigation of the parish of St. John the Baptist has been in Kefferhausen to which it belongs, and the community extensively renovated. A place Werdigeshausen was mentioned in 1221, in 1312 a corresponding parish. 1610 the village was attested as a deserted village. The present " New Church " St. Cyriacus was built in 1750 under Pastor Cyriacus Frankenberg in place of old.
  • Immediately to the church around Werdigeshäuser are 19 stately linden trees which were planted in the time it was built about 250 years ago and now designated as natural monuments.
  • In Kefferhausen is the Unstrut source.

Customs

Find pilgrimages to Werdigeshäuser church annually on Trinity Sunday and around the Cyriakus Festival ( first Sunday in August).

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