Friedrichswerth

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base data
Land of the Federal Republic: Thuringia
district: Gotha
geographical situation:
Coordinates: 51° 0 ' N, 10° 33 ' O
51° 0 ' N, 10° 33 ' O
height: 287 m and. NN
surface: 4.90 km ²
inhabitants: 576 (30. June 2005)
Population density: 118 inhabitants for each km ²
postal zip codes: 99869
preselection: 036254
Kfz characteristics: GTH
municipality key: 16 0 67 021
address
of the local administration:
Hauptstr. 15
99869 gold brook
Website: www.mittleres-nessetal.de
politics
mayor: Fritz tree (CDU)

Friedrichswerth is a municipality in the Thuringian district Gotha. It belonged to the central administrative body middle Nessetal

history

nearly 800 years long - until 1685 - was called the village Erffa.

The place got his original name of the Mr. von Erffa. The formerly noble-free aristocracy sex was obligated to the German emperors as Vasallenhaus and drove for the monasteries tenth . Since the Nesse from this place was navigable, they built a water castle here. On the rivers material assets were brought into the monasteries until Hersfeld. Thus Erffa developed.

1677 came duke Friedrich I. from Gotha on a trip into the place. He pleased him so well that he bought the Erffas the water castle including reason and soil. It let it tear off and to establish in their place a summer lock. “Because him as much was ´werth´ “, as it was at that time written, „has it the village also right after designated: Friedrichswerth. “And so a place with today about 550 inhabitants has a baroque castle, into which they would clean-fit easy all at once.

Friedrichswerth is on the right bank of the Nesse in a fruitful valley valley, which to the south and the west is surrounded by small hills and after northwest gradually extended. The so-called Nessetalwind, which takes the run of the Nesse following, from east to west and in reverse, its direction, blows the largest part of the yearly. If one directs its steps beyond the upper village, then the island mountain (916 m) greets, of Thuringia third-highest mountain from the distance of the sagenumwobene hearing same suppl. (486 m) and at the further distance.

The probably most well-known son Friedrichswerths is the Kartograph Hermann Haack, to 29. October 1872 in Friedrichswerth was born.

literature

  • Franz hums, the village and church play Friedrichswerth (formerly Erffa called), with special consideration of the freewonderful family of Erffa - the lock Erffa, publishing house skirt chair, bath Langensalza, 1. Reprint edition 2004, ISBN 3-937135-28-6

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