Wolfsberg, Thuringia

Wolf Mountain is a town in Ilm-Kreis in Thuringia. It is located in the southern part of the county about four kilometers east of Ilmenau. Wolf Mountain was formed in 1994 from the places Gräfinau - Angstedt, Wümbach and Bücheloh. About two-thirds of the population live in Gräfinau - Angstedt, Wümbach has about 650 440 inhabitants and Bücheloh.

The namesake of the municipality is the 527 meter high Wolfsberg, which lies between the three villages. Wolf Mountain has several business parks. In addition, there are the villages of Wümbach and Gräfinau - Angstedt new housing estates that benefit especially from the proximity to the university town of Ilmenau. Administrative center of the municipality is the place Gräfinau - Angstedt.

2.1 Population development

3.1 municipal
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Coat of Arms
3.4 Local Partnerships

Geography

Wolfsberg is characterized by the varied landscape of the Pauli Zellaer red sandstone hill country. The lowest point of the municipality is about 400 meters altitude in the valley of the Ilm at Gräfinau - Angstedt and the highest point is the eponymous wolf mountain with 527 meters. In the landscape change of arable and pasture land with spruce and pine forests. The key component here are the watercourses and their Taleinschnitte. The largest river in Wolfsberg is the Ilm, flowing through the city Gräfinau - Angstedt and the eastern municipality in south-north direction. Other rivers are the Wipfra that the dam Heyda fed in the extreme northwest of the community, the Wohl Rose in the southeast, which flows through Humbach Bücheloh the north and the Wümbach flowing through the homonymous village and Gräfinau - Angstedt in the Ilm.

Community structure

Wolfsberg consists of three parts:

Gräfinau - Angstedt ( with the small settlement Lehmann Brück )
Wümbach
Bücheloh

Neighboring communities

Clockwise, starting in the north: Wipfratal - Ilm Valley - Königsee Rottenbach - Mitre - Long meadows - Ilmenau

History

The unit Wolfsberg was founded in 1994 by the merger of places Gräfinau - Angstedt, Wümbach and Bücheloh. The three villages planted on 21 May 1994 on the summit of Mount Wolf symbolically their crests trees. Gräfinau an oak, a beech and Bücheloh Wümbach a lime tree. The administrative center is Gräfinau - Angstedt.

All three places were mentioned in a document in a document from 1282 for the first time. They were henceforth in the influence area of County Schwarzburg, to which they belonged also to the end of sectionalism in Thuringia 1920. Bücheloh and Gräfinau among Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt, Angstedt and Wümbach to black -Sonderhausen. When the country was founded in Thuringia, the field boundaries were adjusted and Gräfinau merged on the eastern shore of the municipality Gräfinau - Angstedt on the west bank of the River Ilm and Angstedt.

Population Development

From 1994: data as of December 31, source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

2000 - 3364
2001 - 3374
2002 - 3342
2003 - 3352
2004 - 3313
2005 - 3293
2006 - 3240
2007 - 3202

2008 - 3157
2009 - 3149
2010 - 3115

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Wolfsberg consists of 16 aldermen.

CDU 12 seats
SPD 4 seats

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

The full-time mayor of the municipality is Lars Strelow. He was born on November 18, 2012, after the death of his predecessor George Juchheim selected.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 8 December 1994 by the Thuringian State Office of Administration.

Blazon: "In gold, a black wolf of a green, divided by a golden Pfahlberg, the front is covered with a golden beech leaf in the center with a green oak leaf and rear with a golden linden leaf. "

In speaking of Arms of the place name is visualized heraldic. The two motifs and Wolf Mountain are complemented by three leaves that symbolize the various hamlets. So is the book sheet for Bucheloh, the oak leaf for Gräfinau - Angstedt and lime leaf for Wümbach.

The coat of arms was designed by Frank heraldist Diemar.

Local partnerships

A partnership exists with the communities Haiger in Hesse, Lusigny in France and with the Polish communities Ślesin, Kleczew and Rychwal ( LK Konin ).

Economy and infrastructure

In business, agriculture and animal husbandry are dominant, especially the dairy cattle breeding. But in all three places there are also small commercial areas in which various small enterprises have settled. Many residents commute to work even after Ilmenau. In Wümbach is also the bio-waste landfill of the district.

Through the municipal area leads the federal highway 87, which also passes through the town Bücheloh. The A71 connection place Ilmenau- Ost is located about one kilometer from Bücheloh. Country roads lead to Ilmenau, Long Meadows, Mitre, penne joke Cottendorf and Traßdorf ( Arnstadt ). The next train connections are located in Ilmenau on the railway line Erfurt- Ilmenau and singing on the railway line Arnstadt -Saalfeld. Under construction is the high-speed line Nuremberg -Erfurt, which runs through the municipality in south-north direction. Between Wümbach and Gräfinau - Angstedt is the Wümbachtalbrücke this route. On the Wümberg at Wümbach arises at the distance a train station. In any case, it should serve as Betriebs-/Überholbahnhof before the tunnel under the Thuringian Forest. Furthermore, the plan was a inter-regional support for the Ilmenau region whose future after the abolition of this train category is open.

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