Bernshausen (Dermbach)

Bernshausen Dermbach municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 52 "  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 41"  E
Height :	400 m above sea level NN
Residents :	116
Incorporation :	June 1, 1973
Postal code :	36466
Area code :	036964
The location from the northwest

Bernshausen is a village and part of Dermbach in the Wartburg district . Coined by agriculture and tourism site is located in the UNESCO - Biosphere Reserve Rhön .

location

Bernshausen is located in a side valley of the Felda , at an altitude of 400  m above sea level. NN , about ten kilometers (as the crow flies) north is the district town of Bad Salzungen . The Johanneskirche is located in the center of the village on a hillside.

history

The oldest known mention of the place was given in 1247 in the spelling Bernoteshagen . Another court located in what is now the district was represented as Bertholdis in Cent Friedelshausen . The knight Berthold von Berlnhusen is said to have descended from the village, he was a castle man on the Salzung Schnepfenburg and in 1340 the founder of the first Salzung hospital. In the same year Bernshausen was sold by the Lords of Wildsprechtroda to the Count of Henneberg-Scheusingen. At the beginning of the 15th century, Bernshausen was temporarily deserted and was part of the property of the Zella monastery , which after the Reformation was part of the splinter property of the Fulda monastery . In 1452 the abbess Agnes von Buttlar granted Count Heinrich von Henneberg the lifelong lease of the Bernshausen desert (among other things) as thanks for the military protection of the monastery by the Henneberger, so Bernshausen was returned to the Zella monastery from 1475 onwards. The place received the first church in 1615 and a school in 1743. In the 18th century, the Kreuzberg monastery owned one of nine named farms.

In 1815 Bernshausen belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . The Battle of Nebelberg raged in 1866 near Bernshausen and the neighboring towns of Roßdorf and Wiesenthal.

When the Bad Salzungen district was founded on July 1, 1950, Bernshausen had 157 inhabitants. On June 1, 1973 Bernshausen was incorporated into Urnshausen , which in turn became part of Dermbach on January 1, 2019.

Sights and excursion destinations

• The Protestant Johanneskirche is a simple three-aisled hall building from 1615 with galleries and a wooden cross vault over the central nave.
• Bernshausen is known for its idyllic sinkhole lake Bernshäuser Kutte , the area marked as a nature reserve also includes three adjacent ponds. The Erdfallsee is still used by the local population for swimming.
• To the north of Bernshausen, in the middle of a wooded side valley, there is the Schönsee, on its bank there is a campsite and a large children's playground. The lake can be used for swimming.
• There is a leisure hotel, a country hotel with a restaurant and a western ranch in the village. The village community center is also the base of the volunteer fire brigade.
• Bernshausen is a stage stop and starting point for hikes in the Rhön. The Hochrhöner premium hiking trail (runs from Bad Kissingen to Bad Salzungen ) affects the location, as does the local circular hiking trail no.3 and the Rosatal cycle path. From the outskirts and from the resting place at the Bernshäuser Kutte you can quickly get to the 620 m high Stoffelskuppe or on a day tour to the 645 m high Pleß in the northeast , a regional panoramic mountain .

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  Johanneskirche

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  Youth leisure hotel

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  View to the Stoffelskuppe

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  Bernshausen cowl

Web links

Commons : Bernshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Johann G. Brückner: Landeskunde des Herzogthums Meiningen: Die Topographie des Landes, Volume 2 Brückner and Renner, Meiningen 1853, p. 92.
3. ↑ Georg Voss (Ed.): Salzungen. In: Thuringia's architectural and art monuments. Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen: District of Meiningen: District court districts of Salzungen and Wasungen. Publisher = Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena 1910 p. 42
4. ^ Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .
5. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
6. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 18, 2019