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City of Eisenach
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 434 m
Residents : 2
Postal code : 99817
Area code : 03691
Castle ruins and an antenna mast on the Rennsteig
Castle ruins and an antenna mast on the Rennsteig

The Hohe Sonne is a forest settlement in the Wartburg town of Eisenach in Thuringia . The Hohe Sonne today consists of the ruinous structure of the Hohe Sonne hunting lodge , the adjacent rest area with parking lot on Bundesstraße 19 , a residential building and two transmitter masts built for post and telecommunications purposes.

location

The ensemble of buildings known today as Hohe Sonne is located on the Rennsteig , about six kilometers south of the Wartburg town of Eisenach on Bundesstraße 19 . The highest point of the place is the Gickelhahn ( 461  m above sea level ); the nearby Hirschstein ( 463.3  m above sea level ) and the Karthäuserberg southwest of the castle ( 423.8  m above sea level ) belong to the municipality of Gerstungen . The geographic height of the place is 434  m above sea level. NN . The forest nature reserve, designated in 2015, extends around the Hohe Sonne with gorges between Wartburg and Hohe Sonne .

history

Not far from the castle, there are numerous ravines in the area that bear witness to the old street that was once known as Nürnberger Straße . The top of this much-used traffic route was called the Hohes Kreuz . Whether there was a summit cross at this point remains speculative, as there are no written references from the pre-Reformation period. The wooded area within sight of the Wartburg was always a popular hunting ground for the Saxon nobility. The Wilde Sau stone cross, erected around 1483, recalls the tragic course of a wild boar hunt in which a ducal court official was killed in a hunting accident. The passion for hunting of Eisenach Duke Ernst August I initially resulted in the construction of a log cabin as a hunting lodge, which was replaced by the hunting lodge built by the master builder Gottfried Heinrich Krohne as early as 1741–1746 . Before the First World War, the forest village of Hohe Sonne belonged to the Mosbach community , which in 1906 approved the construction of an inn. The surrounding forest, on the other hand, was largely owned by the Grand Ducal, then state forest. At present, the districts of Eisenach (in the north), Mosbach (in the east), Eckardtshausen (south) and Wolfsburg-Unkeroda (west) meet at the castle .

The building with the little turret, known today as the “castle”, was last used as a hotel and restaurant in the 1980s, but was closed as early as 1985 due to structural damage that could not be repaired. The building and property are now privately owned and inaccessible. Appeals from citizens' groups, associations and the city administration to save the listed building remained without consequences until 2012. The request of a Swiss prospect to tear down the former hunting lodge and instead build a post-modern building made of glass and steel was rejected. Since 2012 there has been a Dutch investor who wants to restore the ailing facility and turn it into a hiking hostel.

In addition to the castle building, a relatively small, three- story main house with a mansard roof , contemporary descriptions and images also report on farm buildings, stables and accommodation for servants. Most of these buildings were built as half-timbered buildings with board cladding on the outside - for weather and rain protection. The castle is one of those buildings with which the dukes of Saxony-Eisenach built a network of satellites around their royal seat. It was Duke Ernst August I who had all of the Eisenach dukes' buildings redesigned.

tourism

The Hohe Sonne is the starting point for hikes into the Drachenschlucht . During the GDR era, when it was not possible to enter the border area , all Rennsteig hikes and, until 2001, the GutsMuths Rennsteig run began here . The Lullus path X 16 coming from the Edersee also ends here .

literature

Eberhart Matthes: From the history of the city and the district of Eisenach , in: Eisenacher Schriften zur Heimatkunde. Issue 4. Eisenach 1979 p. 76.

Web links

Commons : Hohe Sonne (Eisenach)  - 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. ^ A b Erwin Riske: Stone crosses and related land monuments in the Eisenach district . In: Eisenach writings on local history . Issue 14. Eisenach 1981.
  3. ↑ Riske mentions: Anno 1483, the year Luther was born, a Weimar servant at Eisenach in the forest was stabbed to death with a spear while hunting. Servant, standing on stone †: 1483. Balthaßer Rodecher. next to it stands the pig and dabey the man and servant.
  4. ↑ Norman Meißner: Hope germinates for "Hohe Sonne". The hunting lodge is to become a hiking hostel . Thuringian regional newspaper, August 16, 2012
  5. ↑ Lotar Köllner The Ruhla House. (History of a lost Ruhla hunting lodge on the Rennsteig). In: Heimatblätter , EP Report 2 Marburg 1992 p. 108 f.
  6. ↑ Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure palaces of the 17th and 18th centuries in Thuringia. Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , p. 297