Felchta

Felchta
Felchta
Ortsteil of Mühlhausen
	St Peter's Church, Felchta
	Location of Felchta
	Felchta Felchta
	Coordinates: 51°11′31″N 10°26′39″E / 51.19193°N 10.44413°E / 51.19193; 10.44413
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Town	Mühlhausen
First mentioned	876
Government
• Ortsteilbürgermeister	René Seyfert
Elevation	212 m (696 ft)
Population (March 2021)
• Total	626
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	99974
Dialling codes	03601
Vehicle registration	UH, LSZ, MHL
Website	muehlhausen.de

Felchta (pronounced [ˈfɛlçtaː]) is a village and quarter of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, central Germany.

Geography

Felchta is located on the southern edge of the town of Mühlhausen. The Landesstraße ("state's road") L 1016 runs past the village and connects it with the town and the surrounding area. Felchta lies in the Thuringian Basin not far from the Unstrut river in an agricultural farming area. There is hardly any forest in the intensively used flat-wavy terrain. The climate is mild and low in precipitation with mostly groundwater-influenced soils.

History

Felchta was first mentioned in a document on 18 May 876.^[2] For centuries, it belonged to the sphere of influence of the imperial city of Mühlhausen. In 1565, there were 45 (male) inhabitants in Felchta.^[3]

In 1802, Felchta, together with Mühlhausen, fell to the Kingdom of Prussia, from 1807 to 1813 to the Kingdom of Westphalia (canton Dorla) created by Napoleon, and after the Congress of Vienna in 1816, it was assigned to the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. in the Prussian province of Saxony. On 9 April 1994, the village, which at that time had 842 inhabitants, was incorporated into the town of Mühlhausen.

Sights

St Peter's Church, Felchta [de]

Notable people

Roland Gööck (1923–1991), editor and non-fiction author
Wolfgang Thiel [de] (born 14 March 1948 in Felchta), politician (The Left)

References

^ "Einwohnerstatistik" [Population figures] (in German). Stadt Mühlhausen. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
^ Kahl, Wolfgang (2010). Ersterwähnung Thüringer Städte und Dörfer. Ein Handbuch [First mentions of Thuringia's towns and villages. A handbook] (in German) (5th ed.). Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0.
^ Jordan, Reinhard, ed. (1900). Chronik der Stadt Mühlhausen in Thüringen [Chronicle of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia] (in German). Vol. 1: (–1525). Mühlhausen: Danner. p. 41.

External links

Media related to Felchta at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Einwohnerstatistik" [Population figures] (in German). Stadt Mühlhausen. Retrieved 8 June 2022.

[2] Kahl, Wolfgang (2010). Ersterwähnung Thüringer Städte und Dörfer. Ein Handbuch [First mentions of Thuringia's towns and villages. A handbook] (in German) (5th ed.). Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0.

[3] Jordan, Reinhard, ed. (1900). Chronik der Stadt Mühlhausen in Thüringen [Chronicle of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia] (in German). Vol. 1: (–1525). Mühlhausen: Danner. p. 41.