Leinefelde-Worbis

Leinefelde- Worbis is a small town in the Thuringian district of calibration field. It was created on 16 March 2004 from the merger of the previously independent cities Leinefelde Worbis with the municipalities of Breitenbach and Wintzingerode. After a sharp decline in population from 1990 survived the end of 2012 in the town of about 18,500 people.

Leinefelde- Worbis both by area and by population is the largest municipality in the district of calibration field and also working part agent center for the eastern part of the circle.

• 2.1 Leinefelde
• 2.2 Worbis
• 2.3 Beuren
• 2.4 Birkungen
• 2.5 Breitenbach
• 2.6 Breitenholz
• 2.7 Kaltohmfeld
• 2.8 Kirchohmfeld
• 2.9 Wintzingerode
• 2:10 religions
• 2:11 incorporations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 flag
• 3.4 Coat of arms of districts
• 3.5 Town twinning

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures

• 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 railway
• 5.1.2 motorway and trunk roads
• 5.1.3 bus

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Leinefelde- Worbis is in the calibration field in a hilly landscape, which is bounded on the north by the Ohmgebirge and in the south by the fertilizer. While the sources of the line are in line field, and it flows through this district, rises in Worbis Wipper that flows through Worbis. This is the town Leinefelde- Worbis both in the water catchment area of ​​the Elbe ( Wipper, in the east), and the Weser ( leash; west).

Boroughs

• Leinefelde (about 9,700 inhabitants)
• Worbis ( about 5,000 inhabitants)
• Beuren (about 1,300 inhabitants)
• Birkungen ( about 1,500 inhabitants)
• Breitenbach ( about 1,000 inhabitants)
• Width wood ( about 540 inhabitants)
• Kaltohmfeld ( about 170 inhabitants)
• Kirchohmfeld ( about 430 inhabitants)
• Wintzingerode ( about 570 inhabitants)

History

Leinefelde- Worbis was re- formed on 16 March 2004 by the Association of Cities and Leinefelde Worbis and the municipalities of Breitenbach and Wintzingerode.

The area was already slaved since the 8th century the diocese of Erfurt and the archbishopric of Mainz. In the course of secularization during the Napoleonic period it fell to Prussia. There, the district Worbis was formed in 1816, which covered all districts and existed until 1952. The area fell in 1944 to the State of Thuringia. That was in 1952 divided into districts. The territory of the present-day city was the circle Worbis in Erfurt district assumed. It was one of the few Catholic areas in the GDR, which was on the border with West Germany.

Leinefelde

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ' N, 10 ° 19' O51.3876510.321611111111

Location and name of the place suggests that he was already in the 9th century. Leinefelde was first documented in 1227. Leinefelde centuries was only a small village with a few hundred inhabitants. With the construction of the great Rhine Street Cologne - Berlin 1826 ( now the Federal Road 80) and the National Highway from Mulhouse to Duderstadt 1834 ( now the Federal Road 247) began the development line field to the transport hub. This was continued with the construction of the railway Halle-Nordhausen-Leinefelde-Eichenberg-Kassel/Göttingen in 1867. As the place a little later (1870 ) with the railway line Gotha - Leinefelde yet received a second major railway, the station was the central railway station of the Eichsfeld and the place grew rapidly. The Kanonenbahn by Leinefelde was completed in 1880 by a rail connection from Leinefelde to Eschwege Hesse (closed 1998). In 1897 the railway line Leinefelde- Wulften, on which, however, from Teistungen to 1945 the business was discontinued due to the division of Germany.

The approximately 2,500 inhabitants counting village should be developed for the industrial center of the upper Eichsfeld after the calibration field plan of the SED. So also, the goal was to destroy the existing structures of agriculture, small craft and the Catholic faith. By attracting workers from other parts of the GDR society should be "socialist ". Thus, the decision Leinefelde develop an industrial center, not only for economic but also for political reasons had been like. On April 10, 1961 started the construction of the cotton mill. Worked here in the heyday of up to 4,500 employees. In the following years many plate areas were created in Leinefelde, and the population rose in 15 years from 6658 to the end of 1970 to 15,526 in late 1985. On October 7, 1969 Leinefelde received city rights. At the time of German reunification Leinefelde was 16,500 inhabitants, the largest city in Obereichsfeld.

• Leinefelde

Mitte

Rathaus " water tower "

Obereichsfeld Hall

Reorganized plate

St. Boniface (1993 consecrated )

Townhouses in Leinefelde -South

Worbis

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ' N, 10 ° 22' O51.42233333333310.360166666667

The city Worbis is mentioned in a document from the year 1162 for the first time. 1209 called himself a noble family after the place " Worbis ". They were probably vassals of the Counts of Lohra. The suzerainty later moved to the Beichlinger and Landgrave of Thuringia. By the Earl of Beichlingen Worbis received its town charter 1238-1255. 1289 but was first mentioned in documents until the castle. 1381-1574 had the Lords of Bülzingslöwen the property as collateral. Later, there was no indication to the castle. The facility was at the northeast corner of the city and was incorporated into the city's fortifications with. A trench also points to the system. Already in the Middle Ages, the city had a very convenient traffic.

• Worbis

Krengeljägerbrunnen

Wipper

St. Roch Chapel

Registry office

Beuren

Documentary first mention found Beuren in 1128 in a court document. During this time there was a fortified manor house, around which formed the village. By 1200, founded a Cistercian monastery in Lower Beuren ( " Buren inferior " ) by Konrad von Bodenstein. It is the oldest monastery of this order on the calibration field. Through customs and Geleiteinnahmem Beuren be developed from a market village ( 1238 ' forensic Buren " ) to a city ( 1269 " in civitate Buren "). It put an urban development a to acknowledge gates, urban street layout and fortifications. With the relocation of the office in 1294 after Heiligenstadt Beuren lost its city charter. From 1870 to 1873, the church "St. was Pankratius " built. The " Old Tower " which was originally built as a customs and residential tower, was rededicated at the new building of the church to the church tower. The monastery of Beuren existed until 1809; Today the surviving buildings serve as a home for people with intellectual disabilities

Birkungen

The first mention of Birkungen falls into the year 1191st The construction of a church was held to 1516.

Breitenbach

Breitenbach was first mentioned in 1227 in a land swap with line field. 1373 came Breitenbach by a purchase under Adolf of Nassau to the archbishopric of Mainz. Many residents of Breitenbach were known as the traveling salesman and Weber. A specialty of the village are known as " booties " slippers.

Breitenbach was 1681/82 affected by witch hunts. Two women got into witchcraft and burned alive between Worbis and Kirchworbis. The 8- year-old stepdaughter of a woman from Neuendorf ( Teistungen ) was " given life because of their youth."

1991 Breitenbach was a founding congregation of the administrative community "Am Ohmgebirge " Worbis. 2004, the final incorporation into the newly formed double Leinefelde -Worbis.

Width wood

Breitenholz found his documentary was first mentioned in the year 1544th Presumably, however, it has existed before and was a long time desolate. The name ( " broad wood " = extensive forest ) comes from a wooded area, the remains of which is south of the village can still be found in the direction Birkungen. Width Wood is a Angersdorf, with church and Anger with Linde as its center. The church was built in 1695 and the tower was added later. The altar is from the Franciscan monastery church in Worbis. Breitenholz since 1655 Pilgrimage ( grace "Madonna with Child" from the 15th century ).

Towards the end of World War II was built a V2 launch site in Birkunger forest between Birkungen and width wood.

Kaltohmfeld

The first mention took place in 1418. In the first third of the 16th century Kaltohmfeld was a deserted village. Under Anna Wintzingerode of a new settlement was begun. 1573 residents Kaltohmfelds came under the administration of Mainz, but kept because of the close ties to the later Earl of families Wintzingerode the Protestant faith at. 1588 a Protestant church ( " John the Baptist" ) was built on the outskirts of the village, which was demolished in 1655 and rebuilt. Later Kaltohmfeld district of Kirchohmfeld.

Kirchohmfeld

The first mention Kirchohmfelds ( Warmohmfeld, Kirchenohmfelde ) comes from the year 1217th Since 1448 Kirchohmfeld subordinate to those of Wintzingerode. The desert site was built from 1515 to 1554 by Hans Wintzingerrode as an independent Gutsbezirk. To 1539 began the settlement again. On October 2, 1800 Heinrich Werner was born here. The fort-like Gutskomplex and the manor Adelsborn served as fortifications and farmyard to 1945 as the seat of the Lords Wintzingerode. After the expropriation in 1945, the complex was torn down to the ground.

Becoming part of the dominion of those of Wintzingerode the place was Protestant. In the village is an evangelical church. To Kirchohmfeld belonged to the union of the community on 1 July 1994 with the city of Worbis the districts Kaltohmfeld, Adelsborn and Bodenstein.

Wintzingerode

1209 Wintzingerode place is first mentioned. The ancestors of the later Counts of Wintzingerode who reside here. Above the village is the castle Bodenstein. The first mention of a church dates back to 1389th In the 16th century the place as their rule adopted the Protestant faith. Around 1530 Wintzingerode was a desert village site. Through a comparison of farmers from five villages with Hans von Wintzingerode in 1580 recolonization was favored. 1633 was established by Henry of Wintzingerode a free school for the children of Lehnspflichtigen.

Religions

The Lords of Wintzingerode took in the 16th century on the teachings of Luther and held even after the Counter-Reformation to the Protestant religion established. In accordance with the stipulations in the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, this change in Religionszugehörigekeit remained intact even after the Counter-Reformation on the calibration field. Becoming part of the dominion of those of Wintzingerode the districts Kirchohmfeld, Kaltohmfeld and Wintzingerode form a Protestant island in the otherwise Catholic calibration field.

Incorporations

Policy

City ​​council

The City Council consists of 30 members, which are distributed to the individual lists for the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 was as follows:

• CDU: 16 members (-1)
• LEFT: 4 members (-1)
• FWG: 4 members (-1)
• SPD: 3 members (± 0)
• ODP / GREEN: 2 members ( 2)
• FDP: 1 member ( 1)

Coat of arms

At the City Council meeting on 11 December 2007 a ​​new joint coat of arms was adopted after the approval of the Thuringian Office of Administration for the city.

Blazon: "In red with silver pinnacles flank a triple split shaft pile. "

The color combination of red - silver coat of arms is derived from the coat of arms Kurmainzer. It refers to the former belonging to the Archbishopric of Mainz and the region indicates the location of the city in the calibration field. The city Leinefelde- Worbis lies in the east with the Wipper in the water catchment area of the river Elbe and on the west with the leash in the water catchment area of ​​the river Weser. While the sources of the line are in Leinefelde, rises in Worbis the Wipper. The waters are represented by a silver triple split shaft pile, with graphical results in four waves for the sources of lead and Wipper, with the single drawing. Furthermore, the arms will be referred to the importance to the area of ​​the city as a landmark castles Bodenstein and Scharfstein in heraldic implementation. The Bodenstein Castle, like the castle Scharfstein each symbolized by a crenellated edge.

The coat of arms was designed by Frank heraldist Jung.

Flag

The city Leinefelde- Worbis performs a flag. The flag is red with white edges (pitch 1:2:1 ) and bears the coat of arms.

Coat of arms of districts

Birkungen

Breitenbach

Kaltohmfeld

Kirchohmfeld

Leinefelde

Worbis

Wintzingerode

Twinning

After the merger of 2004, the cities partnerships are up to now (2007) has not yet been transferred to the city Leinefelde- Worbis, but consist with the individual parts of the city continued.

Leinefelde:

• Kanegasaki in Japan, since 2001
• Papa in Hungary, since 2005
• Chełmek in Poland

Worbis:

• Medebach in North Rhine -Westphalia, since 1994
• Annœullin in France, since 2000
• Mezöcsát in Hungary, since 2000

Beuren:

• Měrunice in the Czech Republic since 2004

Breitenholz:

• Béb in Hungary, since 2004

Breitenbach:

• Hildfeld in the Upper Sauerland since 1989

Attractions

• Bear Park Worbis
• Japanese Garden
• Castle Scharfstein
• Bodenstein Castle near Kirchohmfeld. Best Held castle in the calibration field (900 years old ).
• By Worbis leads the German Framework Road
• Group of sculptures by the sculptor Werner Lion: The fur traders illustrated in Leinefelder Bahnhofstrasse is reminiscent of the previous coat and intestinal trading in the calibration field. Because of that trade the leash fields were also called " lambs tails".

Museums

House " Gülden Creutz ," museum with a shoemaker's workshop from the 1920s.

Structures

• Monastery Church of St. Anthony in Worbis. Foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1668th
• Rathaus " water tower " in Leinefelde: built in 1867 as a water tower of the later German Reichsbahn, 1905 increased by truss construction ( container volume 300 m³), used until 1986 and 1996/97 into the town hall.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Train

Leinefelde is the hub of the nationally significant railway Halle ( Saale ) - Kassel ( Halle- Kassel railway) and the track Göttingen- Erfurt ( railway Gotha - line field ). Here keep the regional express lines 1 ( Göttingen-Leinefelde-Erfurt-Chemnitz/Zwickau ) and 9 ( Kassel- Leinefelde- Nordhausen Hall ) and several regional railways.

The track Halle- Kassel was expanded to double track as German Unity Transport Project until 1994 and electrified. To this end, an electronic interlocking was established as one of the first in Thuringia Leinefelde station, which is also the sections Heiligenstadt - controls Bad Langensalza - Niederorschel and Leinefelde.

From 1897 Leinefelde starting point of the railway line field - Wulften, the line field and Worbis about Duderstadt was linked to the South Harz route. Beginning in 1945, interrupted by the inner- German border between Teistungen and Duderstadt, the line was shut down gradually until 2001 and mined until 2005.

Motorway and trunk roads

The federal highways 247 (Duderstadt Mulhouse ) and 80 ( Heiligenstadt Nordhausen ) intersect in Leinefelde- Worbis. The Federal Highway 38, also a German Unity Transport Project, is directly adjacent to the city Leinefelde. The A-38 was on 20 December 2006 for transport ( distance: Breitenworbis to Friedland ) enabled.

Bus

The urban and regional bus services carried out by the calibration field works.

Media

Local daily newspaper for Leinefelde- Worbis is the Thüringer Allgemeine, the local section ( Eichsfelder General ) is produced in Heiligenstadt.

In addition, there are the newspaper advertising column, which is published once a month and is produced in Leinefelde.

Eichsfelder News - online newspaper for the entire calibration field (also part of Lower Saxony and calibration field villages in the Unstrut Hainich base includes it), editing in Leinefelde.

Showcase calibration field - appears twice a month, editorial in Leinefelde

In Leinefelde the regional TV channel Open channel calibration field ( OKE ) had his seat This was concluded on 31 December 2009 by the Thuringian state media authority for cost reasons.

Public institutions

• Tax office in Worbis (until October 2006)
• Cadastral Office in Worbis
• Agricultural Office in Leinefelde
• Employment agency Nordhausen office Leinefelde
• Straßenbauamt Nordthüringen in Leinefelde
• German Red Cross District Association Eichsfeld eV
• Caritas regional office Eichsfeld / Unstrut Hainich Leinefelde
• Social Service Eichsfeld Mulhouse eV in Leinefelde

Education

In Leinefelde- Worbis following schools exist:

• Staatliches Gymnasium " Marie Curie " in Worbis
• Basic and standard school " Johann Carl Fuhlrott " in Leinefelde
• Basic and Standard School " Konrad Hentrich " in Leinefelde
• Primary school " On Ohmgebirge " in Worbis
• Regular school Worbis
• Free integrative comprehensive school "clover " in Beuren
• Special Education in Leinefelde
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -Gymnasium in Leinefelde
• State Vocational School of Eichsfeld in Leinefelde
• Eichsfelder Music School

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Heinrich Werner (1800-1833), composer of " Heidenrösleins "
• Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803-1877), discoverer of the Neanderthal
• Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), English bookseller and collector
• Konrad Hentrich (1880-1972), linguist
• Herman Joseph Meysing OMI (1886-1963), Archbishop of Bloemfontein in South Africa
• Karl Kaufhold (* 1922), composer, conductor and organist
• Hans -Reinhard Koch ( born 1929 ), Bishop em. , First Bishop of the newly established Diocese of Erfurt in 1994
• Horst -Jürgen Fuhlrott (* 1935), politician ( NPD)
• Barbara Sass Cattle Weger (* 1943), politician (CDU )
• Gerhard Rupp Rath ( born 1945 ), children's and senior consultant
• Michael Robert Rhein (born 1964 ), singer and founder of the medieval rock band In Extremo
• Stephan granton (* 1967), journalist and television presenter
• Johannes Krause ( born 1980 ), biochemist, professor at the University of Tübingen
• Marco Hartmann ( * 1988), football player
• Sebastian Huke (* 1989), football player
• Stefan Boetticher (* 1992), racing cyclist