Alexandrinenthal

Alexandrinenthal City of Rödental Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 33 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	320 m above sea level NN
Fallow land

Alexandrinenthal is an officially named part of the municipality of the Upper Franconian town of Rödental in the Coburg district .

At the end of the 18th century there was a grinding mill on the Röden in Unterschafhausen, part of the village of Schafhausen . In 1850, Messrs. Von Bartels and Monhard bought the property and had a blue factory built on the site for the production of blue linen. It was the first industrial establishment in the Rödental area. The financier Mr. von Bartels belonged to the Coburg court society and was able to win Duchess Alexandrine to name and inaugurate the factory.

In 1854 the Coburg linen weaver Forkel and the Bamberg banker Wassermann acquired the unprofitable company. About 25 workers were employed. In 1884, due to insufficient competitiveness, the blue factory was closed and in 1885 it was sold to the commercial councilor Theodor Recknagel, who came from Eisfeld. Recknagel had Alexandrinenthal converted into a porcelain factory and made doll heads and porcelain figures. The company had up to 350 employees. Production ceased in 1930. At the end of 1936, the Annawerk took over the company premises and, after a renovation, began producing ceramic wall and floor tiles there from May 1937.

In addition to the porcelain factory, the Gottlieb Hollerung doll factory was located in Alexandrinenthal until the end of the 1960s, and in 1971 it was also sold to the Anna factory. As a result, the company buildings were demolished.

In 1925 the Alexandrinenthal factory, which was located in the Mönchröden district, had 16 residents and two residential buildings. The school and the Protestant church were located in Mönchröden, 1.3 kilometers away . In 1950, 117 people lived in five residential buildings in Alexandrinenthal. In 1970 there were 45 people.

On January 1, 1971, Mönchröden merged with the communities of Einberg , Kipfendorf , Oeslau , Rothenhof and Unterwohlsbach to form the unified community of Rödental. Since then, Alexandrinenthal, which now has no residential or factory buildings, has belonged to Rödental.

Web links

Commons : Alexandrinenthal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alexandrinenthal in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Schunk: Mönchröden the pearl of the Coburg country . Verlag Frankenschwelle KG, Hildburghausen 2004, ISBN 3-86180-158-2 , p. 90
3. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925, Munich, 1928
4. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950, Munich, 1952
5. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, Munich, 1973
6. ↑ Festschrift 40 years Rödental, p. 14