Pferdingsleben
Pferdingsleben is a municipality in the administrative district of Gotha in Thuringia Community Nesseaue.
Geography
The place is located in the shallow valley between the Nesse Friemar in the west and in the east Nottleben. The county road K 4 connects the municipality with the approximately 2 km south running B 7 (Erfurt - Gotha ). The deepest point of the district is 281 m below sea level in the immediate vicinity of Friemar in Rieth source that derives its water into the Nesse after a few meters. The highest point is 325 m above sea level. NN in the east of Tröchtelborn. The center at the church has a height of 290 m above sea level. NN. Besides Nesse the local situation has only a trickle as a flowing body of water that comes out of the miter box, a corridor in the northeast of the community.
History
Like the others to " live " ending locations of the region, the name Pferdingsleben towards a settlement dating from around 300 AD. At the beginning of the 9th century Pferdingsleben is first mentioned in a list of the Archbishop of Lull († 786) of Mainz awarded for the monastery of Hersfeld outdoor goods as Pertikeslebo.
Pferdingsleben developed as a scattered village, which was protected by a wall with three gates and a peripheral ditch. Agriculture, particularly the Waidanbau, the village made wealthy. So it could afford to pay for a representative church. There is in place yet beautiful yard gates and original timbered buildings.
Population Development
Development of the population (31 December):
- 2002 - 427
- 2003 - 424
- 2004 - 420
- 2005 - 416
- 2007 - 405
Attractions
- The listed protection Church St. Wigbert is named after the patron saint of the village. The current construction of the predecessor was much smaller - was manufactured from 1483 in late Gothic style, starting with the built in three years defensive tower. It is located south of the nave is 42 meters high and has slit-like windows, gargoyles, a deal and a Seigerglocke on the spire for the tolling of the time. The rich interior of the church dates back in part from its creation time, when she was Catholic. In the 18th century three superimposed galleries were built. Each of her painted cassette has a different pattern. The ceiling decoration was designed similarly. The winged altar from 1514 shows a Coronation of the Virgin. A well harmonizing with their surroundings pulpit wall is a foundation of a later period. The baptismal font was already in the previous church. In the meantime he had - because of his non-matching site - found use as a horse trough on a farm, but returned in 1953 to return to the house of God. The walled cemetery was abandoned as a cemetery in the early 20th century. The church was extensively restored after the turn, followed by the German Foundation for Monument Protection participated financially significant.
- In Pferdingsleben the only surviving Waidmühle (small Waidmühle ) in central Europe located. It is owned by the municipality. In historical times it was operated by draft animals subjected to the vertical millstone in circulation through the lying in the Mühlpfanne regrind. She is one of at least three formerly Waidmühlen of the place. A second (the big Waidmühle ) was implemented after 1896 on the site of the present ega in Erfurt. A third Waidmühle stood on pond house, her whereabouts are unknown. The stone pillars of Waidmühlen, in the fork of Millstone outsourced support beams, often served on the setting of Mühlbetriebs as a web over streams, etc. for securing gate entrances, fence posts, brick keystones A millstone is found as the lowest stone of the north-west corner of the church in Eschenbergen. All mills were at the former northern outskirts on large and small green garden (now the territory of Angerstraße ), ie on public lawns near a watercourse, the minor stream. The minor stream rises in the NSG Alacher lake, and flows (today) on the northwestern outskirts of Nottleben in the Nesse. The last Pferdingslebener Waidbauer, Ernst Reinhardt, delivered his production of about 2 to Ballenwaid to the Waidhändler in Erfurt, Councillor friend. The Waidmühle degenerated gradually and was rediscovered as a tourist monument only in the 1950s, rebuilt and designed as a cultural monument. In 1974 a new reconstruction, the last renovation and redesign of the system was done on the occasion of the 1st International Waidtagung in the spring of 1992 ( See also: Waidanbau in Thuringia).