Kyffhäuserland
Kyffhaeuser country is a municipality in the Thuringian Kyffhauserkreis. It was created on 31 December 2012 from the merger of eight municipalities. In Kyffhaeuser Country 4119 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).
- 2.1 Population development
- 2.2 Coat of arms of districts
Geography
Geographical Location
The municipality is located in Kyffhauserkreis. In the north, the boundary of the municipality is also the limit of the Kyffhaeuser circle and the border of Thuringia with Saxony -Anhalt. In the East, the community is bordered by the territory of the city of Bad Franken / Kyffhäuser and to the west of the area of the district town Sondershausen and the City of herring / helmets. In the south the communities Bilzingsleben and Frömmstedt district Sömmerda, the community and the city Trebra Großenehrich and the community Oberbösa adjoin.
With only about 30 inhabitants per square kilometer, the community is one of the most sparsely populated areas of Thuringia. With the Hainleite in the south, the Kyffhaeuser to the east and the west Windleite three low mountain ranges lie in the municipality, whose extensive deciduous forests are still partially closed areas due to previous military use. Largest river in the village is the Wipper, which flows through the four southern districts Hachelbich, Göllingen, Seega and Günserode.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages Badra, Bendeleben, Göllingen, Günserode, Hachelbich, Rottleben, Seega and Steinthaleben, corresponding to the eight former municipalities.
History
The eight municipalities that make Kyffhaeuser country has emerged since the March 8, 1994 did their administrative business together in the administrative community Kyffhaeuser that has been extended with effect from November 29, 1994 at the church Oberbösa. Since 2007, efforts were made to convert the administrative community in a unified community. Finally, in autumn 2011 decided the local councils of eight member municipalities of the administrative community whose resolution and the merger to the unity community Kyffhaeuser country. After approval by the Committee on Internal Affairs of the Thuringian state parliament, the Diet approved the municipality merger on 22 November 2012. The community Oberbösa did not follow this step and change from 31 December 2012 in the administrative community Greußen while merged the other municipalities of the administrative community Kyffhaeuser also on 31 December 2012 to the municipality Kyffhaeuser country.
Population Development
The population of the eight places have been declining for a long time:
Data source from 1995: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
Coat of arms of districts
Bendeleben
Göllingen
Günserode
Hachelbich
Rottleben
Seega
Steinthaleben
Policy
Kyffhaeuser country is the legal successor of the eight districts and the administrative community Kyffhaeuser. The seat of the future local government decides the newly elected council. Until the mayor introduction on 1 May 2013, appointed by the municipal supervisory officer directed the administrative work of the community. The mayoral election was held with a participation of 60.2% on 14 April 2013. With 50.8 % of the valid votes cast by the CDU politician Knut Hoffmann was elected. On the same day the council was determined, here, the voter turnout was 59.4 %, while accounting for associations of voters following seats:
- CDU Kyffhaeuser Country: 6 seats
- CDU: 5 seats
- FDP: 1 seat
- Constituency association Seega: 1 seat
- Change in Rottleben: 1 seat
- SPD: 1 seat
- The Left: 1 seat
Economy and Transport
The community is dominated by agriculture and not also has significant commercial settlements of the industrial or services that are faster off related traffic routes with the adverse situation between mountains. In the 20th century played the mining of potash an important role in the promotion after 1990 has been set.
Kyffhaeuser country lies approximately 15 kilometers south of the federal motorway 38 The Federal Highway 85 runs through the Kyffhaeuser Mountains in the northeast of the community, but without passing through one of its districts. Major country roads lead from Sondershausen to Bad Frankenhausen Bendeleben and Rottleben and special Hausen to Kelbra about Badra. Own links to the rail network are no longer available since the cessation of the train in 2006 with former Kyffhaeuser Keep in Rottleben, Göllingen and Hachelbich. Next additions to the rail network are now Sondershausen in the West ( Erfurt - Nordhausen ), Berga - Backman's north ( line Halle -Kassel ) and Griefstedt, Heldrungen and Artern in the southeast ( Erfurt - Sangerhausen ).