Wandersleben

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Situation of migrant life in three matches (municipality )

Wandersleben is a village in the eastern district of Gotha in Thuringia. Since 1 January 2009, the formerly independent municipality is a district of the municipality Drei Gleichen. In Wandersleben is the seat of the municipality. The district had on 31 December 2010 1 649 inhabitants in an area of 12.63 km ².

Two kilometers south of migrant life is the castle peers.

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures 4.2.1 Burg Gleichen
• 4.2.2 Medieval tower house
• 4.2.3 St. Peter's Church
• 4.2.4 Waid and other mills

Geography

Geographical Location

Wandersleben lies in the valley of Apfelstädt at an altitude of 270 m above sea level. NN almost in the middle of the triangle Gotha - Erfurt - Arnstadt. The separated by the river sections of the community are connected by two bridges ( one for pedestrians thereof). Near the railway station leads the waters red at an altitude of 258 m above sea level. NN in the Apfelstädt.

Hiking Life is good transport connections via the motorway junction Wandersleben the A4 and a breakpoint on the Thuringian Railway in Gotha -Erfurt section. Through the village leads to the cycle path Towns of Thuringia, which leads from Creuzburg in the west via Erfurt up to Altenburg in the east.

Wandersleben is a popular starting point for hikes to the Drei Gleichen.

History

Wandersleben is first documented as containing Wantesleiben or Wantesleibo mentioned in a donation directory of the monastery of Fulda, the donations from the years 780-817. The history of the church has long been determined by the near Burg Gleichen. Until their extinction in 1631 the Count of Gleichen had from the mid-10th century based here successors were the Hatzfelder, until 1793 also became extinct this generation. 1802 Wandersleben became Prussian and part of the district of Erfurt.

After passing led the Thuringian web at Wandersleben already since 1847, the place obtained in 1885 a railway station.

A great good in life was traveling domain which belonged to the Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha. It was also teaching material.

In April 1945, the place of U.S. troops was occupied and passed in early July as the whole of Thuringia to the Red Army.

The reorganization of the country in 1945 Wandersleben came to Thuringia and since then belongs to the district of Gotha. In 1952, this part of the newly formed district of Erfurt, who in 1990 survived until the reestablishment of the state of Thuringia in the year. On 21 May 1992 the congregation joined with neighboring communities grave life, Miihlberg and seamounts to manage three of a kind community together. For this merger on 1 January 2009 was the three of a kind community.

In the night of 10 August 11, 2005, a major fire destroyed the shopping center of the town down to the walls. The volunteer fire department of the town, which has 50 meters from their firehouse could only control the fire and prevent spread to other buildings, despite the support of firefighters surrounding places. The opening of the newly built shopping center on 23 November 2006.

Population Development

( Figures are based on the 31 December of the year indicated )

Policy

Since the founding of the state of Thuringia in 1990 achieved the conservative parties in the village high proportion of votes. In the last local election before the dissolution of the community in June 2004, the CDU had reached 47.1 % of the vote, a free group of voters 33.7 % and the SPD 19.2%. Last mayor was since 1998 Gerhard Päselt ( CDU).

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Open in gold a wanderer in natural colors with a silver shirt, blue jacket with red collar and red neck with golden ornaments, the lower buttons, red breeches and stockings, black shoes and black hat, diagonally across the back of a black role ( ceiling), in his right hand a black cane with a silver tassel, a black glove holding in his left hand. "

There is a relief stone bearing the date 1721, which is a wanderer above the entrance of the town hall; since the 18th century we find the wanderer also in the seal. The traveling man stands for the many visitors who visit the place Wandersleben and its beautiful surroundings. The gold of the shield represents the sun and the grain fields of late summer time, widely dominate the landscape. The traveling man wears a costume that was common at this time and in this area and has been handed down as a symbol of the village seal since 1721.

The coat of arms was approved on 14 August 1998 and designed by hiking Haderslev Horst Baumgart.

Culture and sights

Museums

Since September 2005, an exhibition on the life and work of the formerly famous Christian Friedrich Hunold you can visit Menantes also known in the literature Menantes memorial. It was built in a renovated stable block of the vicarage.

The entire area of ​​the medieval residential tower - a former Vierseitenhof - offers a variety of visual objects, which you could find on a farm. With the reorganization of the courts of the medieval tower house that no longer exists half the front building had been rebuilt in the years 2008 to 2010. The Historical and Folk Society Wandersleben 2005 eV taught in spaces as small museum one. On the ground floor a copy of Kartulars with the first mention of the place, historical location maps and photos are seen. In the former small royal kitchen and on the upper floor will be furniture, household equipment and household items of a farm from the past, which were donated by residents and visitors, is shown.

Structures

Burg Gleichen

→ Main article: Burg Gleichen

The castle peers (also hiking Haderslev same, hiking liver castle, hiking Haderslev Castle ) is a ruined medieval castle. It belongs to the castle ensemble of three matches.

Medieval tower house

The residential tower of migrant life was built around 1250 as part of a manor house and belonged including large estates by the family of scenting. After the mansion was burned down in 1450, referring to the residential tower in 1599 a new large building one, a four-sided. In 1636 he went as a fief to those of Volgstedt. By 1975 the building had constantly changing owners until it passed into the possession of the community.

Since 1979, the building was dilapidated and uninhabited. 1983, the half-timbered building was canceled due to disrepair, and the residential tower was rediscovered. By protecting coupled enclosure of the residential tower over this long period was hardly exposed to environmental influences and is thus well preserved. After the discovery, quickly found a community of interest " Medieval tower house " together, which strove for the early Gothic residential tower.

Since 2006, the history and Folk Society Wandersleben 2005 eV manages the object. Since then carried out a regular care and redesign. In September 2010, the redesign with the handover of the reconstructed house servants, were set up in the club rooms for small events and a small museum, to be continued.

St. Peter's Church

→ Main article: The Church of St. Peter

The original Romanesque church stands on the outskirts in the direction Apfelstädt.

Waid and other mills

In the extreme west of the district migrant life to approximately 1.5 km in the direction of seamounts, was the Waidmühle, which was destroyed by arson in early 2000 and then completely demolished. She is the last of three mills that were operated in the immediate vicinity of the Apfelstädt, but not with the water of Apfelstädt, but with that of the mill-race, which comes from Günther life and each about 1000 m distance bach up the middle and the upper mill ( dined on Seeberger area ) with water. He was spent from the upper mill parallel to Apfelstädt. Since the late 1950s, the trench is mostly dry. Upper mill and food grinder originate from 1299 and are the oldest mills along the 20 km long nature trail Apfelstädt mills for explorers between Schwabhausen and Marienthal.

The mills were already mentioned in 1299 as a gift of the Earl of Orlamünde to the monastery Stadtilm documented. In a Lehnsbrief the Count Adolf and Siegmund von Gleichen from 1436 is a mill called " seamounts according to". Over the centuries, the owners and operators changed frequently, alone in the 18th century there were nine operators.

Since 1621, the ownership and operating conditions are almost completely occupied:

Below the Waidmühle there were in the same trench or a paper mill in 1720 and 1871. The Waidmühle was used until 1969 as a residence. The other two mills are currently being used as residences, Mühlbetrieb there are no more.

Additional points of interest

• Relief stone above the front door of the town hall of 1721
• Wrought iron depiction of the migrant 's from 1800 at the Town Hall
• Stone tablet with an inscription in 1541 on the half-timbered house Menantesstraße 13
• Medieval stone crosses along the footpath to the castle peers
• Henningshof ( opposite the Town Hall ), residential buildings from the 16th century, today Convention and Exhibition center
• On Stangenweg clay disc wheels with hub were found in the soil at 40 cm depth. In the Danube region a similar find was made. These findings point to the importance of the wheel in the early Bronze Age, although they may still have ritual or symbolic meaning.
• On the hill Gallows or Galgenhög ( ⊙ 50.89683478388910.817842483611 ) there is a grave hill, from which one has recovered Neolithic and Bronze Age finds. About a kilometer further east is another grave mound from which the finds of prehistoric times have been recovered.

Regular events

Wandersleben The aim of the annual Thuringian castle ride, regularly participate more than 10,000 cyclists in the. According to the organizers, these are the largest Radsternfahrt the world, it being noted that the Berlin bicycle rally with more than 100,000 participants attracts significantly more cyclists.

Every year on the third weekend in September of migrant Haderslev Farmer's Market has been held for over 30 years. This article in the region are offered, the kindergarten, the traveling carnival club Haderslev, Haderslev migrant spinning room and other clubs cater for atmosphere and entertainment, with Lanz - art grain was threshed and much more.

Economy

LPG Wandersleben were between migrant life and the highway in the 1970s for a " fresh eggs Combine " built huge warehouses for laying hens, which significantly affected the landscape area Drei Gleichen. Meanwhile, they fall through the surrounding forest cover no longer so. The facilities were taken over after the turn by the company Saxony- egg.

2013 was to be built on the outskirts an " organic pig farm ." The population of migrant life joined together in 2012 to a citizens' initiative and could prevent the construction.

Personalities

• Christian Friedrich Hunold (* 1680, † 1721) famous novelist and poet of the first half of the 18th century, who published under the synonym " Menantes ".
• Johann Stephan Schmaltz (* 1715, † 1784), organ builder and a student of Johann Christoph Thielemann
• Christian Steffani (* 1780, † 1846), Protestant theologian
• Karl Mey (* 1879, † after May 1945), German physicist and Industry from 1933 to 1935 chairman of the German Physical Society ( DPG)

Images from Wandersleben

• The Apfelstädt

The border dolomite in the Apfelstädt at Wandersleben

• Building

Painting on the wall in the nursery ( " nipper " )

Stone plaque with the year 1541

Brick with year 1578

Year 1605

Year 1711

Year 1726 on a stone in the Kirchenhofmauer

Former domestic science school, built in 1898

Former Haushaltungsschule (rear view)

Clubs

• Boxing club
• Volunteer Fire Department
• Football club
• Carnival Association
• Bowling club
• Riding association
• Gun club
• Spinnstube
• Table Tennis Association
• Kleingartenverein
• History and Folk Society Wandersleben 2005 eV