Frauenwald

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Frauenwald
City of Ilmenau
Frauenwald coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 750 m
Area : 19.14 km²
Residents : 967  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 51 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 98694
Area code : 036782
Frauenwald (Thuringia)
Frauenwald

Location of Frauenwald in Thuringia
Place view
Schinkel Church of St. Nicolai
Former NVA rest home on the Großer Riesenhaupt (764 m)

Frauenwald is a district of the city of Ilmenau in the Ilm district in Thuringia , located in the Thuringian Forest .

geography

Frauenwald is located on a ridge between the Nahe valley and Schleusetal at a height of well over 700 meters, about two kilometers south of the Rennsteig . The place is a street village about two kilometers long. The slopes descend steeply to the right and left of the ridge along which the village road runs. Frauenwald is surrounded by rich spruce forests. The highest point of the place is the Great Giant Head (764 m).

Other mountains near Frauenwald are the 824 meter high Große Hundskopf in the north and the 784 meter high Schmiedswiesenkopf in the south. The famous Dreiherrenstein lies between Frauenwald and Neustadt am Rennsteig .

Local division

The Allzunah district is located two kilometers north of the main town , directly on the Rennsteig.

Neighboring places

The neighboring towns are clockwise, starting in the north: Ilmenau , Großbreitenbach , Schleusegrund , Schleusingen , Suhl .

history

According to legend, Count Poppo VI got lost in 1177 . von Henneberg while hunting in the Thuringian Forest. He was picked up by a charcoal burner and brought back to the Geleitstrasse Erfurt – Nuremberg. In gratitude, the charcoal burner had one wish. He wanted a chapel where he could say a prayer. Count Poppo had a chapel built on the heights of the Thuringian Forest, which was transferred to the Veßra monastery from 1218 ; this is the first written mention of the place. The monastery had the chapel expanded into a provost house with a women's monastery , from which the current name Frauenwald (to the Frawen auff the forest) comes. The women's foundation existed until 1520.

The Salzburg exiles marched through the town on July 23, 1732, and were given four buckets of beer free of charge by the mayor on behalf of Augustus the Strong . A fire on the night of August 7th to 8th, 1778 destroyed the school and the rectory with all church records. Until 1815, the place belonged to the Henneberg or Electoral Saxon office Schleusingen and then came to the Schleusingen district of the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony , where it remained until 1945.

On August 3, 1831, the St. Nicolai Church, built according to the construction plans of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , was consecrated. Frauenwald belonged to the Prussian district of Schleusingen until 1945 . During the Second World War , 27 men, mainly from the Soviet Union, had to do forced labor in the Rennsteig factory and in the Schübel glass factory . Two dead and eight forced laborers shot by the Wehrmacht are buried in the cemetery.

From 1945 to 1952 the place belonged to the district of Arnstadt , between 1952 and 1994 to the district of Ilmenau and since 1994 to the Ilm district . Between 1996 and 2018 Frauenwald was part of the Rennsteig administrative community . On January 1, 2019, it was incorporated into the city of Ilmenau.

During the time of the GDR there was a bunker of the Ministry for State Security near Allzunah , which was supposed to serve as the headquarters of the regional operations management of the ministry in the event of an emergency or war. Since 2004 it has been expanded into a bunker museum ( 50 ° 36 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 47.2 ″  E ). Since 1976, the former NVA recreation home Auf dem Sonnenberg , which can be seen from afar and shaped the site in its ski jumping hill shape, has stood on the Great Giant Head , which later served temporarily as a residence for asylum seekers and was finally demolished in 2018.

Population development

Development of the population:

  • 1843-679
  • 1939 - 1,388
  • 1989 - 1,429
  • 2005 - 1,105
  • 2010 - 1,010
  • 2015 - 964

Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values ​​from December 31st

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on January 5, 1993.

Blazon : “Divided by green and silver; in front a silver female figure in medieval-monastic robe, behind a green, rooted spruce. "

The place was created by the establishment of a nunnery (monastery on the forest to the women) by the Henneberg Premonstratensian foundation Veßra before 1323. The talking Frauenwald municipal coat of arms symbolizes the place name and the development of the place by the female figure in medieval-monastic garb and the spruce as the typical one Tree of the Thuringian Forest.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldists Frank Jung and Frank Diemar .

Local partnerships

A local partnership exists with Villebon-sur-Yvette in France and since June 23, 1990 with Liederbach am Taunus .

Economy and Transport

Frauenwald is a state-approved resort and lives from tourism , especially from winter sports enthusiasts. There are several hotels in town that book around 25,000 overnight stays each year. In Frauenwald, the infrastructure typical of holiday resorts has developed, consisting of restaurants, hotels, guest houses, holiday houses and apartments. The place also has a small outdoor pool in Lenkgrund.

Until 1965, Frauenwald was connected to the railway network via the Rennsteig – Frauenwald railway line . Today only historic Rennsteigbahn trains run from Ilmenau and Schleusingen to Rennsteig station . There are three roads leading from Frauenwald: one over the Rennsteigkreuz to Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig and to the B4 , one to the Allzunah district , from there over the Dreiherrenstein / Auerhahn to Ilmenau or Neustadt a. Rennsteig and one to Steinbach-Langenbach .

Sports

Musher at the sled dog race in Frauenwald 2012

Frauenwald is the venue of one of the largest German sled dog races in the sprint distance every year. Since the merger of the two German umbrella organizations AGSD (thoroughbred) and DSSV (non-thoroughbred) to form the joint association VDSV in 2007, non-thoroughbred dog teams have also been represented at the race. The race is a regular part of the WSA World Cup and SHC Cup. In 1998, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2015 and 2018 the German sled dog championships took place there . In 1999 Frauenwald received the order for the WSA European Sprint Championship , which was a great success. From February 10 to 12, 2006, the first WSA world championships in sled dog racing on German soil took place in the village. More than 150 participants from 14 countries took part. In September 2014 Frauenwald was awarded the contract to host the WSA World Championships again for 2016. However, it was canceled due to lack of snow. For the first time in the history of the race, there should be sprint courses up to approx. 20 km as well as distances up to approx. 35 km. The 25th anniversary of the race in 2020 was again awarded the contract for the German Sprint Championship by the national umbrella organization VDSV in April 2019.

Frauenwald is the venue for the Super 8 marathon every year , a cycling race for mountain bikers with distances between 43 and 120 kilometers. The weekend of the Super 8 marathon was expanded in 2006 to include the Rund um die Sportlerklause run . Distance: 21 km run (since 2007); 10 km run; 10 km Nordic walking; 1 km quilted run.

Personalities

  • Adolf Scheidt (1870–1947), politician, died here
  • Wolfgang Scheidel (* 1943), former luge rider, worked from 1977 to 1990 as a supervisor in a vacation home in Frauenwald
  • Ronny Amm (* 1977), racing driver, lives in Frauenwald
  • Greta Taubert (* 1983), author, comes from Frauenwald

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau 02/2019. In: Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau. City of Ilmenau, March 8, 2019, p. 10 , accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser, Volume 8 Thuringia. Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 139.
  3. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 3, 2019
  4. ^ Source for Schwarzburgische and Saxon places: Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843. Available online from Google Books . Source for Prussian places: Handbook of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population figures. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ Population development since 1989 (TLUG) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 18 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tlug-jena.de
  7. ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen eV (Ed.): Neues Thüringer Wappenbuch, Volume 2. 1998, ISBN 3-9804487-2-X , p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Frauenwald  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

See also