Eichsfeld

Coordinates: 51°19′48″N 10°15′00″E / 51.33000°N 10.25000°E / 51.33000; 10.25000
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Wanfried Agreement
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Geography

Typical landscape in the Eichsfeld: Villages between fields and wooded hills

Today the greatest part of the Obereichsfeld makes up the Landkreis (district) Eichsfeld. Other parts belong to the district Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis. The Untereichsfeld, later Landkreis Duderstadt, was merged mostly with the Landkreis of Göttingen, while Lindau became part of Katlenburg-Lindau which is now part of the Landkreis of Northeim.

Cities in the Eichsfeld are Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Leinefelde-Worbis and Dingelstädt.

History

Brunswick-Lüneburg and Grubenhagen
between 1342 and 1434.

During the

Reichsstadt of Mühlhausen
most of the monasteries, churches and castles were plundered and most of the Eichsfeld became Protestant.

In 1575 the

Catholicism
in the area which was two thirds devastated and had lost 75% of its population.

During the Napoleonic time Eichsfeld was part of the

Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig
.

The Borderland Museum Eichsfeld in Teistungen, Thuringia.

From 1949 to 1990 the Obereichsfeld belonged to the GDR. In this atheistic state the people preserved their Catholic roots, and church life stayed relatively intact.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the GDR, the Borderland Museum Eichsfeld was opened in the buildings of the former border crossing point Duderstadt-Worbis in the centre of the Eichsfeld region. It addresses the history of the GDR and the German division with focus on its meaning for the Eichsfeld region.

Politics

In consequence of the traditionalism in Eichsfeld, the percentage of voters for the CDU is significantly higher than in the surrounding area.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Kreistag of the district Eichsfeld". Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2007-07-13.

External links

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