Alsbach (Neuhaus am Rennweg)

Alsbach City of Neuhaus am Rennweg Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 53 " N , 11 ° 3 ′ 59" E
Height :	750 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	October 1, 1923
Incorporated into:	disc
Postal code :	98724
Area code :	036704
Location of Alsbach in Thuringia
	Gotthelf Greiner's birthplace

Alsbach is a place in the district of Scheibe-Alsbach in the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia .

location

Alsbach lies up to 750 meters above sea level in the Thuringian Slate Mountains . The mountain village is bordered by the Rennsteig in the south , and Scheibe joins it in the north .

history

Alsbach (also Altesbach, Altsbach) was first mentioned in a document on August 8, 1711.

On August 7, 1711, master glassmaker Hans Nicolaus Greiner from Schmalenbuche had permission from Prince Ludwig Friedrich von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt to establish a glassworks and a bar on the Hohe Walde above the upper Alsbach, close to the border with 16 acres of land. In a report from June 1736, the Rudolstadt forest officials are satisfied with the construction work of the Greiner family. "According to inquiries made, these glassmasters are undisputedly the strongest and wealthiest in your Hochfürstlichen Landen, which ... have raised their trade quite a bit." In the tough competition with the neighboring Habichtsbach glassworks (the location was 500 m above today's Scheibe-Alsbach reservoir) , which belonged to a cousin Nicol Greiner, and other glassworks, in 1735 the members of the glassmaker's guild formed a "society" to provide the business fundamentals of each hut. However, the Habichtsbacher glassworks perished in the following decades and was described as a desert in 1764, its last owners were heavily in debt. In 1784, immigrated master glassmakers intended to produce again on Habichtsbach and were turned away at the instigation of Alsbacher glassmakers. A Meiningen gentleman von Donop founded a stamping mill in Habichtsbachtal around 1805, which lasted until 1834 and produced quartz sand as a raw material for the glassworks. Until 1918 the place belonged to the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . On October 1, 1923, Alsbach was formally incorporated into the parish of Scheibe , which was then renamed to Scheibe-Alsbach on February 13, 1924 . On December 31, 2012, Scheibe-Alsbach was incorporated into the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg .

Town view around 1850

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 15.
↑ August Trautwein (Meinigen): On the trail of former glassworks on the Rennsteig. In: Thüringerwaldverein (Ed.): Thuringian monthly sheets . tape 42 . Eisenach 1934, p. 193-196 .

[1] Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 15.

[Thr-2] August Trautwein (Meinigen): On the trail of former glassworks on the Rennsteig. In: Thüringerwaldverein (Ed.): Thuringian monthly sheets . tape 42 . Eisenach 1934, p. 193-196 .