Mattstedt

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Location of Mattstedt in the Ilm Valley Wine Route

Mattstedt (2009)

Mattstedt is a town in the Ilm Valley Wine Trail in the northeast of the county Weimar area.

History

The first part of the name comes from althochdeuten mät that meant so much like " mow, Mowed ". Instead, stedt is called site or central square. Old church records refer to a noble family, which bore the name Matstat ( 1243 ) or Matstete ( 1274). North of Mattstedt there is a deserted village named Stedten.

Around 1000 is started with the construction of Mattstedter Marienkirche. 1218 will be the place for the first time by a donation to the monastery Heusdorf by Landgraf Albrecht Vitzthume of Jena, mentioned in documents .. From 1262 to 1307 was Mattstedt seat of the Steward of Matstete and his family. The oldest house in town ( Plot No. 130 - today: the lower village 113) was in its possession. Even today, are located under the basement of the horse stable remnants of the old secret tunnel leading to the monastery Heusdorf. Later it belonged to the Counts of Orlamünde and since the 14th century which of Kefer castle. Since 1437 the fief of Vitzthume of Rossla is occupied.

During the so-called Thüringer flood rises on May 29, 1613 the water level of the river Ilm 6 m above normal. The entire lower village is flooded and largely destroyed. Likewise disappear carp ponds, of which the name Karwiese has been preserved. So it is with today's village structure to a resettlement in the middle and upper village on the Mattstedter plate.

1634 Swedish troops pull through the Thirty Years War the village and plunder the surrounding farms and the parish that they use as a base. The then looped church is newly built in 1707 with the nave still preserved. This is possible by the collected own resources of the inhabitants with the permission of the Duke of Saxe- Weimar.

Short term takes place in 1799, a coal mining by the pastor Wilhelm Christoph Günther on behalf of the Grand Duke Carl August. Even Goethe visited the site for this purpose. Due to poor quality of coal, the promotion was discontinued, however. Get remained only the district Poche as Neuwerk. Here today is still the wayside inn and former Pferdewechselhof " To Poche " get.

Also in 1806 draw soldiers by Mattstedt. There are fleeing Prussia and moving up the Napoleonic troops of Marshal Louis -Nicolas Davout after the battle of Jena and Auerstedt.

Attractions

• St. Mary's Church ( bell tower restored in 2006 - first from 1636 three bells, including the newly cast Marie Bell ) with a historic altar, organ ( 1800 ) and frescoes and rectory
• Manor

Chancel of St. Mary's Church

Rectory

Plaque for pastor Wilhelm Christoph Günther

Culture, tourism, associations

Mattstedt has its own cultural center. Is regularly used for concerts ( Biba and Butzemänner ) and festivals, such as the " Ilmrockfestival " or the " Folk Festival ". Furthermore, there Apoldaer the breed shows for the world famous Doberman and the Bernese Mountain dogs are held.

In the former manor place several times a year a privately organized, but Europe known Tango Festival. Due to the high international visitors rush on you but since 2013 evades also on the Community Centre.

In addition to the firefighters association and the home club was involved in Mattstedt to 2008, the acting throughout Thuringia association " Children of Chernobyl". Since the disaster in 1986 to two groups of children over several weeks in the old school and in host families were housed annually for recreation here. The association funded primarily through donations.

By the Mattstedt of Ilmenau Weimar and coming to the river Saale mouth ( Großheringen ) performs leading Ilmradwanderweg.

Economy / Agriculture

• Several medium-sized enterprises
• Private smallholders with approaches to organic agriculture
• The main agricultural use by Agricultural Cooperative Rannstedt
• Large industrial ruins: former dyeing, then Lacufa ( paints and coatings ), privatized after the fall, later insolvency

Personalities

Freeman

• Ken Roczen, appointed October 14, 2011
• Elke Röcker, appointed on October 3, 2013

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wilhelm Christoph Günther (1755-1826), theologian, author of children's stories, later court and garrison preacher and Oberkonsistorialrat in Weimar, trust in 1806 in Weimar in the Jakob Church Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christiane Vulpius
• Christine Laser born Bodner (* 1951) in Mattstedt, former German track and field athlete, ( pentathlete ), married with Jürgen Laser 1973 German Champion ( GDR ) in 400 meters hurdles
• Ken Roczen (* 1994), motocross racers