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Location of Lengenfeld under the stone in Südeichsfeld

Partial view of the place ( the viaduct )

Lengenfeld under the stone (also shortening Lengenfeld / Stone ) is a village in the Unstrut Hainich in Thuringia. Lengenfeld / stone is located in Eichsfeld Hainich Werra. The place is attributed to historical reasons, the Obereichsfeld. Since 1 December 2011, the formerly independent municipality district of the rural community Südeichsfeld.

• 7.1 Viaduct
• 7.2 Catholic Church
• 7.3 Castle Bischofstein
• 7.4 people cave

Geography

Location

Lengenfeld under the stone is located at the Hesse-Thuringia border at the headwaters of Frieda, a right-side tributary of the River Werra. The place is located about 15 kilometers west of the county town of Mulhouse. A characteristic feature of the place is its location in a valley surrounded by towering limestone rocks and crowned by hills. The lowest point of the local position is located west of Lengenfeld with about 230 m in the Friedatal. The highest elevation is 476.6 m high mountain in the east calves. Further surveys are the stone ( 457.3 m asl) in the southeast, the Dünberg ( 445.4 m ) in the south, the Walperbiel ( 450.5 m asl ) in the north and the Schlossberg ( 401.9 m asl) in the northwest.

Neighboring towns

The neighboring communities of formerly independent village were in the north Effelder ( Eichsfeld district, 4 km), to the east Struth ( Unstrut Hainich, 6 km ) to the southeast Faulungen ( Unstrut Hainich, 3 km ), to the south Hildebrandshausen ( Unstrut Hainich, 2 km ) to the west Geismar ( Eichsfeld district, 5 km).

History

Lengenfeld under the stone was first mentioned in the year 897. The town's name means long field below the castle rock. Lengenfeld belonged to Electoral Mainz until 1802 and then came to Prussia. From 1807 to 1815 it was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, and then falling back to Prussia.

The village had around 1840, according to a statistical study in 1283, Catholic and Protestant 6 inhabitants. In the first place, the bishop stone castle is mentioned as a domain good of the manager. It was administered on a long lease. It houses 160, 203 stables and barns, three community centers were mentioned a school. Only one teacher taught at the same school 147 boys and 107 girls. The artisanal weaving and textile production was widespread in the calibration field, in Lengenfeld was found 47 woolen cloth looms and two for linen cloth. As other commercial and craft the overview identifies four pubs, four musicians, a traveling grocer, two bakers, a butcher, eight shoemakers, a Riemer, two tailors, two carpenters, two wheelwrights, two glasses, two coopers, three masons, two brick Decker, two blacksmiths, two Schönfärber, two white binders, two broom-maker, three barbers, a furrier, a rag-picker, three gypsum distilleries and three lime kilns, a brewery, a vinegar-maker, four oil mills, four grinding mills. It also had eleven servants, and twelve maids for all related services. Twelve grocer ( Victualienhändler ) and provided the necessary food from outside. This variety is very remarkable for a Landort and shows that Lengenfeld was for the neighboring towns as service centers and supply location of greater importance. The entire livestock included 60 horses, 154 cattle, 534 sheep, 88 goats and 104 pigs. The village hall covered an area of 3728 acres that agricultural land comprised thereof 1492 acres of farmland, 43 acre garden land. Furthermore, 95 morning meadow, 1834 acres of forest and 262 Morning Barrens were called. The produce of the fields was assessed as poor to low. In addition to fruit cultivation and trout farm was mentioned.

After the Second World War the town was up to the turn (GDR) on the edge of the frontier closed area of the GDR and belonged to the Erfurt district. Since 1990 Lengenfeld belongs under the stone of the newly established state of Thuringia. On 1 December 2011, the municipality Lengenfeld closed under the stone with the other three communities together to the new rural community Südeichsfeld.

Mayor

The last honorary mayor Augustin Dienemann was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Religion

Established in the history of the Eichsfeld is also in Lengenfeld the majority of the population are Roman Catholics. On 31 December 2005, the city counted 1,149 Catholics, equivalent to a population share of 87 %.

Education

• In Lengenfeld under the stone there is the Käthe-Kollwitz -Gymnasium and the Käthe -Kollwitz- primary school.
• On the grounds of the former Hagemühle on the western edge a private sports school was founded. Youth coach Andreas Seipel has created a lot of support of the sports club blue-white - Lengenfeld and with the A coaching license the basis for this youth football training center.

Media

The Lengenfelder Echo is a monthly home since 1999 writing for the community Lengenfeld under the stone. The sheet was published in its original form since October 1956 under the leadership of local historian Lambert Rummel, the local chronicler Walther Fuchs and the local poet Heinrich Richwien and informed about the historical development of the town, attractions and Ethnography of the calibration field. The editors had checked in the 1960s their products by a state censorship board, so the show was soon discontinued.

Culture and sights

Railway viaduct

The most prominent building, considered the railway viaduct, it spans the place on a length of 237 meters, the height of the tracks is a maximum of 24 meters above the ground. The architectural history of the railway line refers to military reasons, so she was given the vernacular jokingly nicknamed Kanonenbahn. After the adjustment of rail operations in 1992, the viaduct and track systems should be dismantled., This could, however, because they had already recognized the tourist value of this oddity can be prevented through the establishment of an operator association and the designation as a monument to the history of transport to date. On the route operates Eichsfelder Kanonenbahn club since May 15, 2006 a bicycle trolley route.

Catholic Church

The new building of the Catholic Church Nativity of Mary on the Kirchberg in the south of the village was built in the Gothic Revival style 1882-1884. You was consecrated on 11 August 1898 and is part of the Südeichsfelder cribs path. Among the paintings inside are specifically single out the Stations of the Cross depictions of Joseph Richwien. The organ with 26 speaking stops comes from the organ builder Robert pommel Bleicherode.

Castle Bischofstein

The Bishop Castle, a monument, is located north of the village location on the edge of the Schlossberg. The 1747 Baroque building erected was used from 1907 to 1942 as a private boarding school and from 1948 to 1989 as a convalescent home. Moved into the castle in the 1920s, the writer Beate Bonus, a friend of the artist Käthe Kollwitz. During the Second World War, Kate Kollwitz lived in the castle until 1943, which (see above under education) learn the names of the educational institutions of the place a special justification, as well as a close connection.

Man cave

The so-called man cave is a little known but inferred by a footpath cave in the south-eastern slope of the Dünberges, about one kilometer south of the local situation Lengenfeld.

Personalities

• Christoph Mähler (* April 11, 1736, † May 7, 1814 ); Catholic priest, Jesuit, Episcopal Pro-vicar and parish priest in Speyer.
• Joseph Richwien ( born January 10, 1912 † January 6, 1992 ), a church painter, especially of the Eichsfeld. Honorary citizen of Lengenfeld.

Others

• It should be noted at the exact mail letters of the name as " Lengenfeld under the stone " or " Lengenfeld / stone " because the 20 km distant place Lengefeld same zip code was assigned.

• As evidence of a bawdy folk humor already formed centuries ago particularities of each village out characterizing Neck and nickname. Accordingly, lived here in the place Lengenfelder Botter node - node butter. The Lengenfelder tended, as elsewhere wrapping paper had long been in use, the butter market day to display your art in rhubarb leaves and hand so the buyer.