Markvippach

Markvippach is a municipality in the district Sömmerda in Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community to the brand, which has its administrative headquarters in the municipality Schloßvippach.

• 5.1 municipal
• 5.2 Mayor

Geography

Markvippach is located on the Vippach in the Thuringian basin, Bachstedt as a part of the community on the northwestern foothills of the mountain Etter.

History

For the first time the municipality in the year 802 was mentioned. However, all mentions of this period can not be unequivocally assigned to a particular place of settlement. The additional place name "Mark " for ordinary registered Vippach is first detected in a received certificate for the year 1221. An interpretation of the name explains him maiming of Sanct - Margarethenvitpeche, from which Martvippeche was. In the legal and factual content of a deed of Ernestine entire archive documents is under no. 4311 a villicus Albertus de Marctvipeche named as landgräflicher judge.

Markvippach grew composed of an upper and a lower village. The place was at times the seat of the Lords of Schloßvippach, alongside those of the Vitzthume Eckstedt had a manor here. The two manors were combined later. Was first mentioned in 1387 a medieval, a moated castle sir. It was then rebuilt in 1620. Diagonally across this old castle (the " water castle " ) was built after a fire the previous building in 1812 a new castle. Its door is moving and covered passageway still came from in 1780.

During the Second World War, 95 men and women from Poland, Yugoslavia, Russia and Ukraine had to do forced labor in agriculture.

Markvippach was from July 1945 in the Soviet occupation zone, later East Germany, and made in accordance with all the social changes that resulted from it.

In both castles refugee families were brought from the eastern territories. After that was demolished on the basis of the instruction of the SMAD 209 New Castle. On the site now houses the cultural center of the town. In the Old Castle ( Wasserburg ) the LPG moved in, which partly took the premises as stables.

The Protestant parish church Sankt Andreas, and the Old Palace - - After the reunification of the oldest buildings in the village were rescued from decay. The 1500 built and 1992 baupolizeilich locked church after years of restoration used again for worship. In the Old Castle, which has been restored by the architect Dix since 1992, there is a restaurant.

North of Markvippach wind turbines were built and determine where the landscape.

Markvippach lies at Laura bike path that runs along the route of the former railway Laura. The tracks were spent in 1946 as war reparations to the Soviet Union.

Coat of arms

In 2011, the council has given the order to develop your own coat of arms to Manfred Fischer from Unterwellenborn and confirmed one of the drafts presented by a small citizen survey on the Internet, as the official coat of arms. In the new coat of arms, the heraldic symbol of the Vippach blue ribbon was introduced, the names of the lords of Vippach and this famous story is mirrored by the hawks, the predominantly agricultural accompanied by the ear and Bachstedt is mentioned by the former Saxon- Weimar affiliation of the goods and the colors Gold-Black as a cut below the ear.

Church of St. Andrew in Markvippach

Castle in Markvippach

Monument of 1913 for the victory over Napoleon in 1813

Culture and sights

Structures

• Old castle or moated castle Markvippach: two-storey quarry stone under a hipped roof, partly supplemented with half-timbered. Even at the end of the 19th century, the castle was surrounded by a moat and accessible via a narrow stone bridge. The present building dates from 1620 and was renovated extensively after 1992. Restaurant.
• Parish Church of St. Andrew: built in 1500, extensively restored after the fall of

Policy

Parish council

The municipal council of Markvippach consists of 8 council women and councilors.

• CDU: 5 seats (-1)
• FWG: 2 seats (± 0)
• LEFT: 1 seat ( 1)

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Corinna Herre (CDU ) was elected on 26 May 2013.