The first positively documented mention of Ketschendorf is dated from the year 1100. In the copy books (
Cartulary) of the Coburg provost of the
Benedictine Cloister of
Saalfeld, which are preserved in the State Archives of Coburg, there is a copy of the text of a document from 1100. In this document, the nobleman Sibot and his wife Hildegunt in “Chezzendorf” appropriated a
Zinsgut [feudal estate] of 30
Morgen [9 hectares or 22.24 acres] of land. The owner of the provost's estate at Ketschendorfer Straße 77 was first detected in 1518. The nucleus of the village was built around 1660. Over the centuries, the settlement area developed along the Ketschenbach to the east and, in 1445, had about 60 settlers. On September 28, 1632,
General Wallenstein during the siege of the
Veste Coburg made Ketschendorf his personal quarters. Two years later, General Lamboy destroyed the whole place. The first construction of a farm was in 1651, and only in 1725 the existing buildings of the village were restored to what they once were before the
Thirty Years' War. The construction of the
Schloss Ketschendorf in 1804 as a summer palace for
Duchess Augusta, wife of
Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was followed in the 19th Century by the large number of visitors, giving this predominantly rural village an economic boom. In 1903, at the northern edge of the Ketschendorfer area, the new was opened. In 1904 and 1905, factories were started on the
Postweg [Post Way] to make
cartons and
cases. A single school was opened in 1902. Previously, schoolchildren had to walk from Ketschendorf to Seidmannsdorf for school. In 1901, the school was built in the
neo-Renaissance style and later became the
Neue-Heimat-Schule [New Home School]. It is now
Volksschule Coburg-Ketschendorf (Grundschule) [Coburg-Ketschendorf Public School (Elementary School)]. The old building was later expanded with more classroom space with the addition of a new building. The town had 643 inhabitants in 1910 and 686 in 1925. On July 1, 1934, Ketschendorf, with and 766 residents, was incorporated with the city of Coburg. Today Ketschendorf has the character of a suburban settlement. Since about 1500 Ketschendorf belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Seidmannsdorf, from 1934 to
Morizkirche in Coburg and since 1969 the suburb has its own church, the St. Luke Church [
Lukas-Kirche]. == Public organizations ==