Ketschendorf (Coburg)

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Location of Ketschendorf in Coburg

Ketschendorf is a southern district of the Upper Franconian town of Coburg.

Geography

The town borders on the core city of Coburg, Coburg Districts Creidlitz and Seidmann village as well as on the communities of Maple and Grub am Forst. June 30, 2010 Ketschendorf counted 1631 inhabitants, giving a population density of 911 inhabitants per km ². The place is located above the mouth of about five kilometers long ketch creek in the Itz, which rises in Seidmann village. The Ketschendorfer road, the road connection to Coburg was built, 1786-1794 as a country road. Previously had to be used today's High Street.

History

The first confirmed written mention ketch village dates back to the year 1100. In the cartulary of the provost of the Benedictine monastery Coburg Saalfeld, which is preserved in the State Archives Coburg, there is a copy of the text of a document from 1100. 's About suitable nobleman Sibot and his wife Hildegunt in Chezzendorf a Zinsgut with 30 acres of land. Owner of the provost court in the Ketschendorfer Straße 77 are detectable since 1518. The core of the building was built around 1660. Over the centuries, the settlement district developed along the creek ketch, to the east and in 1445 had about 60 inhabitants.

On September 28, 1632 Wallenstein pitched his personal quarters in Ketschendorf during the siege of the fortress of Coburg. Two years later, General von Lamboy destroyed the whole place. The first construction of a new farm was in 1651, and only in 1725 was the building stock of the village again the extent of time before the Thirty Years' War. With the construction of Ketschendorfer castle in 1804 as a summer palace for Duchess Auguste, wife of Franz Friedrich Anton of Saxe- Coburg- Saalfeld, was followed in the 19th century by the large number of visitors an economic upswing of the predominantly rural specific place. 1903, the new country hospital was opened on the northern edge of Ketschendorfer district. 1904 and 1905 originated in the mail a cardboard cases and a factory.

A private school was opened in 1902, previously had to run after Seidmann the village Ketschendorfer school-age children. In the 1901 neo-Renaissance style built school building, which later became New - home - school, now elementary school Coburg- Ketschendorf located ( elementary school ); later, the old building was supplemented by an affiliated building with another school rooms.

1910, the place had 643 inhabitants and in 1925 there were 686 on July 1, 1934, the annexation to Coburg with 186 ha community area and 766 inhabitants followed. Today Ketschendorf has the character of a settlement suburb.

Since about 1500 belonged Ketschendorf to the parish of the Evangelical- Lutheran parish church in Seidmann village, from 1934 to St. Moriz in Coburg and in 1969 the district has its own church, St. Luke's Church.

Public institutions

In Ketschendorf there is a church, a kindergarten, a youth center and a primary school ( elementary school Ketschendorf ). In addition to the Coburg Hospital, the hostel is located in the district.

Attractions

• Castle Ketschendorf
• List of monuments in Coburg / Ketschendorf