Henningsleben () is a village and an ''Ortsteil'' (part) of the town of

Bad Langensalza Bad Langensalza (; until 1956: Langensalza) is a spa town of 17,500 inhabitants in the Unstrut-Hainich district, Thuringia, central Germany. Geography Location Bad Langensalza is located in the Thuringian Basin, the fertile lowlands along t ...

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

, central Germany, with about 230 inhabitants.

Geography

Henningsleben is situated ''c.'' south of Bad Langensalza, north of the old part of

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...

and about (beeline) northwest of

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

. Together with the neighbouring

Grumbach Grumbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Lauterecken-Wolfstein. ...

, the village is situated on the eastern slope of the ''Große Harth'' on a deeply cut stream, which is fed by two springs in the Grumbach area and is reinforced east of Henningsleben by the outflow of the ''Katzenborn''. The stream, now called ''Herzbach'', flows eastwards in the valley to Illeben. South of

Nägelstedt Nägelstedt () is a village and a quarter of the town of Bad Langensalza in Thuringia, central Germany, with about 700 inhabitants. Geography Nägelstedt is located from the core town of Bad Langensalza at the edge of the Unstrut valley. Hi ...

, the stream flows into the Tonna, before its confluence with the

Unstrut The Unstrut () is a river in Germany and a left tributary of the Saale. The Unstrut originates in northern Thuringia near Dingelstädt (west of Kefferhausen in the Eichsfeld area) and its catchment area is the whole of the Thuringian Basin. It ...

. The highest elevation near the village is the ''Roter Berg'' to the north. The

Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...

(federal highway) B 247 between Gotha and Bad Langensalza runs along the eastern edge of the village. The paved field path ''Illeber Weg'' leads from the B 247 straight northeast to Illeben, about away. From the same point, the

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'') are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads t ...

(state road) L 2125 (formerly

Kreisstraße A Kreisstraße (literally: "district road" or "county road") is a class of road in Germany. It carries traffic between the towns and villages within a '' Kreis'' or district or between two neighbouring districts. In importance, the ''Kreisstraße ...

103) runs through the village as the main village road; on the one hand, to leave it to the south in the direction of Wiegleben, and on the other hand, now again as K 103 and as a dead-end road, to lead to Grumbach.

History

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1186. Until 1815, Henningsleben belonged to the ''Amt'' (district of) Langensalza in the

Electorate of Saxony The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. It was centered around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles ...

and, after its cession to Prussia, to the ''

Landkreis In all German states, except for the three city states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a '' Gemeinde'' (municipality) is the (official term in all but two states) or (official term in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia ...

'' (district of) Langensalza in the

Province of Saxony The Province of Saxony (german: link=no, Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Its capital was Magdeburg. It was formed by the merge ...

from 1816 to 1944. Henningsleben played an important role in the Battle of Langensalza against the

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

ns in 1866. Until 1945, the Richter family of landowners lived in Henningsleben. Their manor house was demolished in 1947 and the material obtained was used to build settlement houses for the

German Expellees The German Expellees or ''Heimatvertriebene'' (, "homeland expellees") are 12-16 million German citizens (regardless of ethnicity) and ethnic Germans (regardless of citizenship) who fled or were expelled after World War II from parts of Germa ...

. In 1952, the second

Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft In East Germany, a Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (LPG) (English: 'Agricultural Production Cooperative') was a large, collectivised farm in East Germany, corresponding to the Soviet kolkhoz. In the agriculture of East Germany, ...

("Agricultural Production Cooperative") in the then

GDR East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

(after the one in Merxleben) was founded in Henningsleben. Henningsleben was incorporated into Bad Langensalza on 1 April 1993.

Culture and sights

St Mary's Church (german: St. Mariä, link=no) in Henningsleben was built in 1730. 22 pictures in need of restoration adorn the parapet of the three-sided gallery. A flat coffered ceiling spans the nave.

References

External links

{{Authority control Bad Langensalza Former municipalities in Thuringia