Felchta () is a village and quarter of the town of

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a town in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's Central Germany (geography)#Geographical centre, geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen ...

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, central

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Geography

Felchta is located on the southern edge of the town of Mühlhausen. 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 road ...

'' ("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 The Thuringian Basin () is a depression (geology), depression in the central and northwest part of Thuringia in Germany which is crossed by several rivers, the longest of which is the Unstrut. It stretches about from north to south and around fro ...

not far from the

Unstrut The Unstrut ( or ) 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 Ba ...

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. For centuries, it belonged to the sphere of influence of the imperial city of Mühlhausen. In 1565, there were 45 (male) inhabitants in Felchta. In 1802, Felchta, together with Mühlhausen, fell to the

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (, ) was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. It played a signif ...

, from 1807 to 1813 to the

Kingdom of Westphalia The Kingdom of Westphalia was a client state of First French Empire, France in present-day Germany that existed from 1807 to 1813. While formally independent, it was ruled by Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte. It was named after Westphalia, ...

(canton Dorla) created by

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

, and after the

Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon, Napol ...

in 1816, it was assigned to the district of ''Mühlhausen i. Th.'' in the Prussian

province of Saxony The Province of Saxony (), 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 merger of various territories ceded ...

. On 9 April 1994, the village, which at that time had 842 inhabitants, was incorporated into the town of Mühlhausen.

Sights

Notable people

* Roland Gööck (1923–1991), editor and non-fiction author * (born 14 March 1948 in Felchta), politician ( The Left)

References

External links

{{Authority control Mühlhausen Former municipalities in Thuringia