Oberdorla

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Location of Oberdorla in Thuringia

Oberdorla is a district of the rural community in the Bailiwick westthüringischen Unstrut Hainich- Kreis (Germany ).

History

The local name ending in -a indicates a Germanic foundation and the presence of a water body. In fact, the local establishment was west of Oberdorla assisted by the highly tributing karst springs Kainspring and Melchior fountains, which provided drinking water and driving force for seven mills. Rieth mill, mill Probst and Grundmühle are stationary image characteristic to this day. Oberdorla 805 is first mentioned in a document in a deed of Count Erpho of Bilstein.

In 987 Count Wigger built of stone Biel (Earls of Bilstein ) in Oberdorla became the St. Peter and Paul Church and attached to it pen, the wealth and power, and gave the Dorlaern Hainich forest. The head of the pin was also archdeacon of the archdeaconry, one of the four northern Thuringian church organizations that had quite a power. This pin of the Augustinian Canons existed until 1472 and was in 1487 transferred to the city Langensalza .. Oberdorla belonged to the Bailiwick Dorla.

Two fires in 1666 and 1713 destroyed the place completely or almost completely.

The community Oberdorla joined on 31 December 2012 with other municipalities in the administrative community Bailiwick of Bailiwick of new community together.

Mayor

The last honorary mayor Winfried Boetticher was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Culture and sights

Festivals

Traditional festivals are the Feast of Pentecost, the children's festival and fair. Central fairground is each of Anger. Especially at Pentecost different customs are held. On Whit Monday, the Schößmeier, an approximately 3 -meter high container is moved out of flowered wreaths through the town. This tradition has its origins in the Germanic Flower Festival. Previously, the sample syringe is held, in which the so-called invoice boys must compete against the volunteer fire department. Whit Tuesday enters the Strohbär in action, which is conducted through the site. At Pentecost, as in many places, a birch set up as Pfingstmaie. Place on the lined with linden festival site on the eastern edge Hainich, also every year, the feast of cooperative Oberdorla instead.

Monuments

  • The Anger:
  • The Collegiate Church:
  • The Oberdorlaer Heimatstuben:
  • The former " bathhouse "
  • The center of Germany:
  • The Mallinden:

Natural Monuments

West of Oberdorla are in the open hallway the Erdfallquellen " Kainspring ", " Melchior fountain" and the Dittelhainsbrunnen. The Spittelbrunnen is an episodic source, here there was a medieval village location bubble Born. The former Opfermoor is a erstandenes again after the end of peat waters, it was originally a vast, water-filled and gradually silted valley north of Dorla - places which were cult centers already in prehistoric times.

Economy

Most of the corridor is used for agricultural purposes and as grassland. Agricultural production lie at the northwestern edge of the village. With 1124 hectares Oberdorla has a stake in the forest area of the Hainich the west of the village. The Oberdorlaer forest is shared under the direction of the Forestry Department Hainich- Werra valley of the foliage cooperative of place as beech selection forest. Only small areas in Senkig are reforested with spruce and other conifers, but they are not native to the Hainich. On Oberdorlaer district in Hainich is also a quarry, in the above ground stone and gravel ( limestone ) degraded. In the southwest there is a larger nursery, in the east along the highway between Mulhouse and Eisenach an industrial area with the establishment of a furniture store, commercial buildings and a gas station. Starting point for the development of the industry was the railway station in the east of the village.

Traffic

The transport connection is via the L 1016 between Mulhouse and Eisenach, which passes east of the village. The Muehlhaeuser road (L 2104 ) leads from the branch at the former Gunzelhof into the village. It bends to the right at the Anger in a westerly direction and leads from Oberdorla over the Hainich after Heyerode.

From 1911 to 1969 Oberdorla had a connection to the railway line Mulhouse Treffurt ( " Vogteier bell " ) that connected the Muehlhaeuser pool with the Werra on the Hainich time. From the old railway line sections of the railway embankment and the old station building still remains.

In a north-south direction Oberdorla is crossed by Unstrut Werra Cycle Route. As the only regional importance trail of Waagebalkenweg tangent to the place in the West, which connects along the eastern edge Hainich Mühlhausen with the Great Hardt in Bad Langensalza.

Conservation

Along a stone trench on the road between Oberdorla and Heyerode runs a about one kilometer long, narrow sheep pasture with loose wood stock, including numerous juniper shrubs. The area is set in 1983 on an area of ​​6.8 hectare area as a natural monument under protection and will continue to extensive grazing with sheep. The largest area take a calcareous grassland with some of rare species inventory. The karst springs Kainspring and Melchior wells west of the town since 1941 are designated natural monuments.

Public institutions

  • Office of the Management Community Bailiwick
  • Bailiwick school Oberdorla
  • Kindergarten " Vogteier tots "
  • Protestant kindergarten " children castle"

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Konrad Kleinschmidt (1768-1832), missionary of the Moravian Church in Greenland, linguist and translator
  • Walter Karmrodt (* 1927 in Oberdorla ), local historian and author of non-fiction books about the Thuringian history
  • Manfred Böttcher (1933-2001), painter
  • Joachim Böttcher ( b. 1946 ), painter and sculptor
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