Kyffhäuserkreis

The Kyffhauserkreis is a district in the north of Thuringia. Neighboring districts are belonging to the north of the district of Nordhausen and Saxony-Anhalt district of Mansfeld - South Harz, in the east of the Saale district and the castle district, both also of Saxony -Anhalt, in the south of the county Sömmerda and Unstrut Hainich and west of the county calibration field. Very popular with tourists are the Sondershausen Castle and the visitor mine in Sondershausen, the model railway in Wiehe, the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen, the Barbarossahöhle in Rottleben and Kyffhäuserdenkmal.

• 3.1 Kreistag
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 District Partnerships

• 4.1 company
• 4.2 traffic 4.2.1 Road Traffic
• 4.2.2 Transportation
• 4.2.3 Air Transport

• 7.1 communities
• 7.2 Management Communities
• 7.3 Name Changes

Geography

The circle lies in the southeastern Harz foreland. It is characterized by large agricultural areas, which are interrupted by the smallest mountain range in Europe, the Kyffhaeuser, as well as the Windleite and Hainleite. These highlands are also a popular hiking area. The altitude of the circle is 114-522 m above sea level. NN. Rivers of the region are the Wipper and the Unstrut. The Valley of the Unstrut around the town of Bad Frankenhausen is also called the Diamond Pasture. Golden and Diamond Pasture unite in the city Artern.

History

The county was established on 1 July 1994 by merging the circuits Artern and special Hausen. While the county was founded in 1952 Artern while the GDR was part of the borough hall, the old district Sondershausen belonged to Thuringia in 1946 and after the dissolution of countries to Erfurt district. The name comes from the Kyffhaeuser this circle, on which the same Kyffhäuserdenkmal the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, the former imperial Kyffhausen and a radio tower located.

Population Development

Development of the Population:

• 2000: 94 343
• 2001: 92 983
• 2002: 91 940
• 2003: 90 758
• 2004: 89 517
• 2005: 88 307

• 2006: 87 058
• 2007: 85 362
• 2008: 83 835
• 2009: 82 650
• 2010: 81 449
• 2011: 80 471

• 2012: 78 618
• 2013:
• 2014:
• 2015:
• 2016:
• 2017:

Policy

On 23 September 2008, the district received the loaned by the federal government entitled " City of Diversity".

Council

(As of election on June 7, 2009)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 26 October 1994 by the Thuringian State Office of Administration.

Blazon: " Azure, erect golden, red and reinforced gezungter lion, which is based on a plate, on a green, silver top bordered Three mountain. The shield is quartered; Field 1 and 4 are shared by five red and silver; Field 2 and 3: in silver six red Awaken in two rows. The three mountain is covered with a silver wave bar and a silver shaft thread. "

The golden lion on a blue field, the so-called beetle Burger Lion, is the ancestral coat of arms of the Counts, later Princely House of Schwarzburg, whose territories included the majority of the district. The quartered shield shows the coat of arms of the Counts of Mansfeld, to whose territory Artern still in the 18th century belonged to it first came to the Electorate of Saxony and then in 1815 to Prussia ( Province of Saxony ). The Green Three mountain symbolizes the hilly, wooded landscape, in particular the three mountain ranges Hainleite, Windleite and the county the name -giving Kyffhaeuser Mountains. The silver wave bar is the symbol of the circle ostwärtigen part flowing through Unstrut, the silver shaft thread symbol of the western district area flowing through Wipper.

An overview of the coat of arms of cities and villages of the district can be found in the list of the coat of arms in Kyffhauserkreis.

District partnerships

A partnership exists with the southern Polish district Olkusz.

Economy and infrastructure

Business

The Kyffhauserkreis located in a structurally weak region. Despite the sharp decline in the numbers employed Kyffhauserkreis is still dominated by traditional industrial and craft enterprises, with small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly in the field of electrical and mechanical engineering industries prevail. The Potash and electrical industry specific nearly a century the region around the present district town Sondershausen. In the city Artern founded in the second half of the 19th century, the tradition of iron working and machinery. International companies such as the Wago Contact Technik GmbH, the Lexel electric GmbH, Demag Ergotech GmbH or the TWB Automotive Engineering GmbH & Co. KG as well as numerous small and medium-sized companies lead the location tradition in the electrical and mechanical engineering industries. The Kyffhauserkreis achieved mainly thanks to these companies in the Thuringian comparison ( January-September 2007) 5th place with an export share of about 42 % to Jena and Gera before (Thuringian State Office for Statistics ). The high export ratio is a strength and indicates the high proportion of workers in the export-oriented economy and their implications for the circle. In this area, a slight increase is predicted by 2015. ( Empirica ag; "economic and living in Germany - Regional Forecasts to 2015" )

During the copper shale, lignite, barite mining and reading never gained significant importance, it brought the potash mining at the sites Sondershausen and Roßleben to full flower. After the reunification of the potash were closed due to lack of economic viability. Since 8 December 2004 for industrial salt is at the site Sondershausen again promoted to a limited extent. A special feature is the local mining experience, in the oldest navigable potash mine in the world.

From Research to the potash industry in the GDR and the revitalization of Kalibergbaustandorte out of the still young field of environmental protection and waste disposal technology has developed (eg company K- UTEC AG Salt Technologies). With the Fachhochschule Nordhausen, Department of surfaces and material recycling, is, since 2002 also a scientific research and education institution in the immediate vicinity.

The Business and Innovation Centre (BIC ) North Thuringia at the site Sondershausen support entrepreneurs and young companies, especially in the sectors of electrical engineering, metal, machinery and plant engineering and environmental engineering. Close proximity to BIC several electrical companies, and industry service providers have been found in the commercial areas Hainleite and Jecha their location.

Due to the decline of potash mining and large engineering companies in the years after reunification has the circle with 19.3 percent (as of March 2009; Thuringia: 12.7%) is by far the highest rate of Thuringia as well as the third highest (after circles ) Unemployment in Germany. This structural weakness is all the eastern counties, inter alia, as opposed to the goal - 1 region of the European Regional Development Fund.

Between January 2005 and November 2009, the unemployment rate has almost halved in Kyffhauserkreis from 26.9% to 13.7%. In no other Thuringian district, in any district-free city in Thuringia, a decrease in this amount was recorded. At times, could - first time in many years - the " red lantern " be issued. During the same period, the number of employed persons ( civilian labor force less unemployed ) has increased noticeably in Kyffhauserkreis. In November 2009 37.147 persons were employed, employed 3,627 or 11 % more than in January 2005 ( calculations based on data of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics). The largest employer in Kyffhauserkreis with 1,119 employees (January 2010) -observance GmbH in Sondershausen - at the same time the largest employer in northern Thuringia and the fourth largest in the Free State (Thuringian State Gazette 10/2010).

Traffic

Road

Between the border at Artern ( Autobahndreieck South Harz in Saxony -Anhalt A 71 / A 38) and the state border in the south ( towards Schweinfurt with access to the A 70) for the most part, completed A passes 71 that the " Erfurt cross" the important West - Eastern connection A 4 crosses. The A38 links the metropolitan areas of Göttingen / Kassel (A 7 ) and Halle / Leipzig (A 9). By the district lead the federal highways 4, 84, 85, 86 and 249

Transportation

In Kyffhauserkreis the Nordhausen - Erfurt railway company in 1869 opened its route through special Hausen- Hohenebra - Greußen. From their chain since 1883 in Hohenebra the state railway of the Principality of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen to Ebeleben from.

There was a local railway junction, after 1897, the railway company Mulhouse Ebeleben and 1901 the Greußen - Ebeleben - Keulaer Railway Herrmann Bachstein had been opened.

The former district Artern crosses since 1879 the railway line Sangerhausen Erfurt the Magdeburg- Halberstadt Railway Company. She was married from 1894 to 2006 by the Kyffhaeuser train Bretleben Special Hausen Bad Frankenhausen with the Nordhausen - Erfurt railway. Builder was, as with the 1889 already finished web Reinsdorf -Naumburg the Prussian State Railways.

On both sides of the mountains Kyffhaeuser supplemented two branch lines the line network:

The overall network reached a length of 191 km. Of these, the following routes were shut down at 114 kilometers in length:

In Kyffhauserkreis today only operate regional express and regional trains, on the following routes:

• RE Magdeburg- Sangerhausen Artern - Sömmerda -Erfurt (every two hours, alternating with RB)
• RB Sangerhausen Artern - Sömmerda -Erfurt (every two hours, alternating with RE)
• RE / RB Nordhausen Special Hausen- Greußen -Erfurt (two hourly alternating RE ↔ RB)

Moreover, public transport is guaranteed by regional bus lines of the regional bus company Unstrut Hainich and Kyffhauserkreis.

Traffic

Apart from a special airfield in Bad Frankenhausen - Udersleben until 5.7 can run t start weight on the aircraft, there are no major airports in Kyffhauserkreis. The nearest airports are:

• Erfurt Airport ( about 56 km from Sondershausen )
• Leipzig / Halle Airport ( about 82 km from Artern )

Landscape

The landscape of the Kyffhaeuser circle is determined through extensive forests (many houses ) in the ridge of the Hainleite, the Windleite and the Kyffhäuser. Here, a diverse flora, especially orchids, such as Lady's Slipper, White helleborine, military orchid or fox developed ' orchid. The southern slope of the mountain Kyffhaeuser has a typical dry flora, since there fall very few rainfall. The High -cricket in the southeast is the largest nature reserve Thuringian.

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Cities ¹ Member municipality to an administrative community ² fulfilling community for other communities

Communities ³ fulfilling community

Management Communities * Head of Community Management

• 2 Management Community Greußen ( 9542 )

• 3 Management Community Central center Artern ( 5901 ) [Seat: Artern / Unstrut ]

Regarding the terms " administrative community " or " community -fulfilling " see administrative community in Thuringia.

See also: List of places in Kyffhauserkreis

Territorial changes

Communities

• Resolution of the communities Kleinbrüchter and Toba - Integration by Helbedündorf (2 September 1995)
• Resolution of the municipality Schönfeld - Integration by Artern (17 November 1995)
• Resolution of the municipality Gundersleben - Integration by Ebeleben (1 January 1996 )
• Resolution of the communities Großberndten, Hohenebra, Immenrode, Kleinberndten, Schernberg, Straußberg and Thalebra - Formation of community Schernberg (1 January 1996 )
• Resolution of the communities Feldengel, wooden angels church angel low Spier, Otterstedt, Rohnstedt and Westerengel and the City Großenehrich - Education of the City Großenehrich (1 January 1996 )
• Resolution of the communities Berka, Großfurra and Oberspier - Integration to Sondershausen (1 January 1998 )
• Resolution of the communities Bottendorf and Schönewerda - Integration by Roßleben ( 1 April 1999)
• Resolution of the municipality Esperstedt - Integration to Bad Franken / Kyffhäuser (1 December 2007)
• Resolution of the municipality Schernberg - Integration to Sondershausen (1 December 2007)
• Resolution of the communities Badra, Bendeleben, Göllingen, Günserode, Hachelbich, Rottleben, Seega and Steinthaleben - Formation of community Kyffhaeuser country ( 31 December 2012)

Management Communities

• Resolution of the administrative community Helbetal (1 September 1995)
• Resolution of the administrative community Großenehrich - Education of the City Großenehrich from the member communities (1 January 1996 )
• Resolution of the administrative community Schernberg - Formation of community Schernberg from the member communities (1 January 1996 )
• Resolution of the administrative community Kyffhaeuser - Formation of community Kyffhaeuser country from the member municipalities, with the exception of the community Oberbösa, these changes in the administrative community Greußen ( 31 December 2012)

Name Changes

• Of community Roßleben to city Roßleben (13 April 1999)