Saaleplatte

Saaleplatte is a municipality in the east of the circle of Weimar.

The municipality is divided into nine districts Eckolstädt, Großromstedt, Hermstedt, Kleinromstedt, Kösnitz, Münchengosserstädt, Pfuhlsborn, Stobra and Wormstedt.

Since December 31, 2013, the country village of Bad Sulza is fulfilling community for Saaleplatte. In the distant future, the municipality plans to incorporation to Bad Sulza.

  • 2.1 Pre-and Early History
  • 2.2 Development of the Population

Geography

Geographical Location

The community Saaleplatte lies to the east of the country on the Weimar Ilm -Saale- plate, a plateau between the rivers Saale and Ilm. Through the municipal area the roads leading from L 1060 Apolda to Jena that. L 1059 from Apolda to Camburg and the L 2160 Utenbach to Dornburg Other district roads connect the villages with each other. The next major roads are the B 7 in the southwest, the B 87 in the west and the B 88 in the east. The nearest motorway is the A4 south of Jena.

Landscape

The landscape is characterized by the wide, fertile farmland of the plateau. In the lowlands there are meadows, at a few steep or wet spots are small groves. In the east, on the slopes of the Saale valley out the terrain becomes steeper. There are meadows and orchard areas or larger forest areas. The highest elevations are the heights northwest of Eckolstädt with less than 300 meters above sea level. NN and the wood corner south of Kleinromstedt with 352 m.

Geology

The municipality belongs almost exclusively to the upper shell. In large parts it is superimposed in the Eastern Township area of fertile loess. Encircled with gneiss or other Nordic rocks as relics of the Elster glaciation. To the west are large areas of the lower Keuper, thereby mainly of carbon Keuper. In the lowlands formed by the streams suspensions.

Waters

Through the municipal area, east to the Saale, or west to the Ilm, flow several small streams. The largest is the Utenbach, which rises east of Wormstedt and further flows westward through Wormstedt and Utenbach and then north of Ilm. Along its course between Wormstedt after Utenbach are the so-called Utenbacher fish ponds. Other small streams, for example, the Anger ditch at Kleinromstedt, the Hermnitzgraben at Utenbach and the cock digging in Kösnitz.

History

→ The history of the individual districts is treated in the local items.

The community Saaleplatte was on 15 March 1996 by the merger of nine villages, which had been previously merged municipalities in the administrative community Ilm -Saale- plate. Wormstedt is the parish seat.

Pre-and Early History

All parts of municipalities obtained only after 1918 belonging to the same management, but looking back on a common pre-and early history. Due to its favorable soil and water conditions, the Saale- Ilm- plate was inhabited almost continuously since the Neolithic period. Within the community and their neighboring towns following crops and settlement periods are detectable: Linear Pottery Culture (5500-4900 BC), Stroked Pottery Culture (4900-4500 BC), Rössen culture (4500-4300 BC), Globular ( 3100-2700 BC), Corded Ware culture (2800-2200 BC), the Bell Beaker Culture (2600-2200 BC), Unetice culture (2300-1500 BC) Tumulus culture (1600-1300 BC BC), urn field culture (1300-800 BC), Hallstatt D ( 650-475 BC), Latène ( 480-0 BC), Roman Empire ( 0-400 AD) migration Period ( 400-600 AD).

In the early Middle Ages, the time of the Franco- German eastward expansion, the present settlement structures formed from. Along the Alte Leipziger Street, a major traffic route distance between Leipzig and the Thuringian Basin lowlands, new farming villages were established piecemeal. One probably older, coming from the west Frankish settlement ( city name to - stedt or urbanized ) followed well in the 9th and 10th centuries, a Slavic settlement of Eastern outgoing ( Slavic place names: Stobra, Kösnitz and numerous desertions ). The settlement patterns of Rundling village, which is particularly characteristic of German -Slavic Durchdringungszonen has, in some places still preserved.

The region was an imperial fief, isolated, however, acquired the imperial monasteries of Fulda and Hersfeld and the Archbishopric of Mainz possessions. In the late Middle Ages (14th century) reached almost all the districts under the Wettin country rule and became part of the offices thorn castle, Camburg or chapel village.

Development of the population

Culture and sights

  • Stobra a listed Rundlingsdorf
  • Rectory with Ranger Memorial in Münchengosserstädt
  • Heritage Museum in Eckolstädt
  • Heimatstube in Hermstedt
  • The village church Eckolstädt

Personalities

  • Friedrich Christoph Förster, poet, was born on September 24, 1791 in the parsonage to Münchengosserstädt the son of the local priest
  • Ernst Förster, German painter and art historical writer, brother of Friedrich Förster, was born on April 8, 1800 Münchengosserstädt
  • Alfred Ruppe, father of Hugo Ruppe, founder of the automobile company A. Ruppe and son, was born in 1829 in Kösnitz
Ilm (Thuringia) Muschelkalk Stroke-ornamented ware culture Hersfeld Abbey Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz Kapellendorf Bad Berka Ballstedt Berlstedt Blankenhain Buchfart Buttelstedt Eberstedt Ettersburg Hammerstedt Heichelheim Hetschburg Hohenfelden Isseroda Kiliansroda Kleinobringen Kleinschwabhausen Klettbach Kromsdorf Lehnstedt Leutenthal Magdala, Germany Mechelroda Niedertrebra Niederzimmern Nohra Obertrebra Oettern Ottstedt am Berge Ramsla Rannstedt Rohrbach (Weimarer Land) Schmiedehausen Schwerstedt Troistedt Umpferstedt Vippachedelhausen Vollersroda Wiegendorf Wohlsborn Integrated Authority File
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