Mäbendorf

Mäbendorf City of Suhl Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 37 ″ E
Height :	384 m
Residents :	597 (Jan 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1979
Postal code :	98529
Area code :	03681
	Location of Mäbendorf in Suhl
	Mäbendorf Church

Mäbendorf is a district of the independent city of Suhl in Thuringia with around 600 inhabitants .

Geographical location

Mäbendorf is located in the southern Thuringian Forest west of Suhl, on the road to Meiningen in the valley of the Hasel.

Mäbendorf was first mentioned in a document from the Rohr monastery in 1206 . The current church was built in 1721. The place belonged to the county of Henneberg and was in the Saxon office of Kühndorf until 1815 . From 1816 to 1944 Mäbendorf was part of the Erfurt administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony .

Mäbendorf was hit by the persecution of witches in 1611 . Dorothea Schultheiß got involved in a witch trial and was burned.

On April 1, 1979 it was incorporated into Suhl.

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

^ Kai Lehmann : Exhibition "Luther and the Witches", Mäbendorf area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012