Ummerstadt

Ummerstadt is a city of Heldburger country in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia and since 1994 a member of the administrative community Heldburger lowlands. With 499 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011) is by Neumark ( near Weimar ) is the second smallest city in Thuringia and one of the smallest in Germany.

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geographical location

Ummerstadt lies at the southernmost tip of the state, bordering the Bavarian Coburg. The neighboring town in Thuringia, Bad Colberg- Heldburg, the nearest large city in Bavaria Coburg.

Due to its location on the river Unterrodach which drained via the Itz in the Main, Ummerstadt belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Rhine.

Neighboring communities

Clockwise: Bad Rodach, the common area call free Forst -West, Weitramsdorf Sesslach and Bad Colberg -Heldburg.

History

In Eberhardi Codex, a collection of documents of the monastery of Fulda, copies of which originated in 1140, numerous places of grave field - Gaus were mentioned for the first time. To Ummerstadt probably heard one of the two not sure assignable name " Uundrungeuui " ( certificate 507 of October 17, 837 ) or " Gubrahtestat " ( certificate 520 of 2 October 838 ). In both documents also Heldburg and slipways are called. A Würzburg Certificate No. 5630 from February 1, 1223, in turn, calls Heldburg and " Umerstat " together. A wettinisches cartulary contains a copy of the lost city charter dated 2 December 1394, which was exhibited in the " village Heldburg ". Heldburg received city rights on the same day. The Ummerstädter stressed, however, that they had been under the hen salvors city rights (ie no later than 1374, the last year of the hen bergischen rule ) obtained, but the deed had gone lost. In fact, in 1347 in connection with the transition of hen bergischen care Coburg as a dowry ( to among other Ummerstadt belonged ) to the Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen, Frederick III. ( the severity ), Ummerstadt called a city. Ummerstadt thus has hen bergisches wettinisches and municipal law.

On the Kirchberg of Ummerstadt there was a fortification. The wall, the gate and the gate tower and the remains of the moat still bear witness to it.

During the Thirty Years' War burned in September 1632 from 52 houses and all public buildings. In the following years the city had only about 100 inhabitants. Eleven years later there were only 26 inhabited houses.

From the 18th century the craft of pottery was the dominant economic activity of the small town.

Due to its location on the border of the GDR Ummerstadt was subjected to a strong migration before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Already 1952/1953 had citizens, in which a political danger was seen leaving the city. Had Ummerstadt founding of the GDR in 1949, nearly a thousand inhabitants, this number was halved in the following decades almost. The district Erlebach was completely vacated until 1982. In the second half of the 1980s Ummerstadt became the smallest city in the GDR. After 1990, the migration trend continued unchanged. 1992 the population voted in a referendum for the preservation of the independence Ummerstadts.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

• 2000: 539
• 2001: 528
• 2002: 526
• 2003: 526

• 2004: 526
• 2005: 533
• 2006: 530
• 2007: 522

• 2008: 507
• 2009: 508
• 2010: 500
• 2011: 499

• 2012: 487

Policy

City ​​council

The council Ummerstadt consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " square of 1:4 and 2:3 Gold Blue, in four mutually applied lion: black split in the first and fourth frame with red tongue and reinforcement, in the second and third of seven silver and red. "

The coat of arms of Ummerstadt shows on the one hand and on the other hand markmeißnischen the Thuringian lion and thus both the former membership of the House of Wettin (as Balthasar of Meissen the ancient lost city rights anew confirmed ) as well as to the land of Thuringia is confirmed. The four fields with the lions first appeared on a 1400 seal incurred.

Structures

The entire historic local situation of Ummerstadt is a listed building, and there are numerous individual monuments.

• As a monument of the city and postal history is the Unterrodach bridge of 1565 by importance.
• The old town still has a closed half-timbered houses.
• Particularly interesting are the marketplace with the historic City Hall, according to a stone located in the basement it to have been built in 1558. It was renewed in 1682 for the " Sweden Brand". The previously rendered from fear of further city fires, richly decorated façade was only in 1929 uncovered again.
• On the market there are also the market fountain of 1687 and the Protestant parish church of St. Bartholomew.
• The Mountain Church of St. Andrew goes back to an already around the year 880 applied from iro -Scottish monks chapel and is considered one of the oldest churches in the area. Also impressive is the later added fortifications surrounding the Romanesque church still. On the subsequent site is the cemetery, from where a path leads to the rectory.
• Located in the city is also the former brewery.
• For the drinking water supply and for brewing a water line was already created centuries ago as " tube ride " on which one is proud; the five running fountain in the local situation brought Ummerstadt later Necknamen "five- Fountain City " field.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Justus Lawrence Diez (1692-1750), Lutheran theologian
• Johann Georg Rose Müller (1736-1815), superintendent of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig
• Friedrich Konrad Müller (1823-1881), poet
• Erich Scharf (1908-1943), communist workers, the KPD Thuringian Landtag, inmate protection and Wehrmacht soldier.

Dialect

In Ummerstadt the main Frankish dialect is spoken Itzgründisch.