Altenbergen (Georgenthal)
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Altenbergen
Rural community Georgenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 29 ″ E
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| Height : | 429 m above sea level NN |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 |
| Incorporated into: | Catterfeld |
| Postal code : | 99887 |
| Area code : | 036253 |
Altenbergen is a district of the rural community Georgenthal in the district of Gotha in Thuringia .
location
The village is located on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest southwest of Catterfeld, about 15 kilometers from Gotha . The B 88 touches the town coming from Crawinkel and leading to Eisenach . Further north, which runs A 4 .
history
The chronicler Johannes Rothe wrote in his "Düringische Chronik" from around 1430 that the first baptismal church in Thuringia, the Johanniskirche, was founded on the Alteberg above today's village Altenbergen in 724 by the missionary Winfried Bonifatius. There is no timely evidence to support this statement, although the life of Boniface has been extensively handed down. What really happened on the Alte- or Johannisberg in the early 8th century, we can therefore not say with certainty - only guess. It is certain that around the year 1039 Ludwig the Bearded came to Altenbergen and had his son ( Ludwig the Springer , builder of the Wartburg) baptized on the Alteberg in the Johanniskirche, which he expanded or founded again in 1042 . Ludwig the Bearded is the progenitor of the Thuringian Landgraves, the Ludowingers. The development and expansion of power of this important noble family started from the Alteberg and the small town of Altenbergen. Ludwig the Bearded is said to have lived in a mansion on the Alteberg before he had the Schauenburg built near Friedrichroda. The first mention of Altenbergen from 1141 proves that the Altenberg Johanniskirchen parish already existed 100 years before, i.e. around the time when the progenitor of the Ludowinger came to Altenbergen. As a result, the Altenbergen parish, which today consists of the villages of Altenbergen, Catterfeld, Finsterbergen and Engelsbach, looks back on at least almost a thousand years of history.
When the Immanuel Church in the village was inaugurated in 1712, the old St. John's Church on top of the mountain fell into disrepair until its remains were completely removed in 1770. In order to preserve the memory of this historical and important church for Thuringia, the monument "Candelaber" was erected on the Alteberg in 1811.
Today this place of the candelabra is a destination for history and nature lovers. Information boards provide information about the history of the Johanniskirche, the Ludowingers and the construction of the candelabra.
A fortification system of the Counts of Kevernburg- Schwarzburg is said to have stood on Georgsberg . The ancestor was probably the noble Asulf, who was praised by the Pope in 722 for his Christian faith. The place is called Asolveroth . Around 1140 the nobles moved the seat to the Käfernburg near Arnstadt and named themselves after the new seat. The complex on the Georgsberg became a monastery, which later moved to Georgenthal .
Otto Dobencker mentions 1142–1153 as the earliest documented mention. From the time of clearing, forest work was the most important source of income for the population, later also home work in the manufacture of toys and, from industrialization, work in the factories in the surrounding areas.
The place belonged to this until the dissolution of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery in 1525 and then came to the ruling office of Reinhardsbrunn , which from 1640 to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha , from 1672 to the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and from 1826 to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha belonged to. Altenbergen has been in the state of Thuringia since 1920 .
In 1996 Altenbergen came to the community of Leinatal , which was merged into the rural community of Georgenthal on December 31, 2019.
Attractions
Archaeological site of St. Georgsberg
An information board at the excavation site on St.-Georgsberg reports the following under the graphic representation of the foundation walls of a building:
- On November 21, 1962, the teacher Roland Scharff and the Georgenthal citizen Paul Lesser discovered the walls of the above-mentioned building complex on this meadow plateau measuring 70 a (cf. “Alt.-Thür.”, Vol. 7, 1965).
In the summer months of 1963 and 1964, with the support of the experts from the Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory of Thuringia and the Erfurt Institute for Monument Preservation , students from the “Young Historians” working group created a 31 m long and 150 m wide search cut, which in some cases was 1.50 m m depth reached. Extensive research has shown that the forerunner of the later Cistercian monastery Georgenthal stood on this St. Georgsberg . According to the original document from March 20, 1141, this first establishment was called Asolveroth. This name refers to the first named Asolf, who was named first in a letter to Boniface on December 1, 722, and who probably had his castle here.
Candelabra
A well-known resident of Altenbergen was Nicolaus Brückner (1756-1808) (see below). In view of the increasing decline of the St. John's Church on the Georgsberg, the construction of which goes back to Bonifatius, he bequeathed 20 guilders to the community in his will with the wish that a memorial stone should be erected in memory of the St. John's Church at its former location. Rudolph Zacharias Becker then published an appeal for donations in the "Reichsanzeiger" in Gotha , which received a broad, interdenominational response. It reached as far as Erfurt, Leipzig and Dresden and finally brought in 1,000 Reichstaler. The Gotha court sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (1750-1816) was commissioned to design and erect the monument . The shape of the 10 m high monument is reminiscent of a medieval church chandelier. It stands on seven steps and eight sandstone balls and carries at its top a "fire pan" carried by three angel heads, the stylized three flames of which symbolize the three denominations that spread upwards and on all sides. The foundation stone was laid on June 17, 1811 in the presence of representatives from the four surrounding villages of Altenbergen, Catterfeld, Finsterbergen and Engelsbach. The inauguration ceremony was beyond the usual scope, and the ruling state father, Duke August von Sachsen-Gotha and Altenburg and his family also took part. A memorial service is still held every year on Whit Monday today.
Brückner is considered to be the founder of the "candelabra" building, a tourist destination between Catterfeld and the Paulfeld campsite on the site of the former Johanniskirche. The municipality of Altenbergen named the town's main street after Brückner.
Immanuel Church
After the Reformation , but before the Thirty Years' War , Altenbergen fell to the Dukes of Saxony and after 1640 to the Dukes of Saxe-Gotha . The Reinhardsbrunn office administered the parish with the parishes of Altenbergen, Finsterbergen, Catterfeld and Engelsbach. Today's Immanuelkirche was built from 1710 to 1712, the foundation stone of which was laid on August 4, 1710 and its inauguration on November 8, 1712. The costs at that time were 4,000 guilders, which the three communities of Catterfeld, Altenbergen and Engelsbach shared. The keystone above the entrance portal bears the year 1710. The building was built according to plans by the Saxon-Gotha master builder Johann Erhard Straßburger (1675–1754). The building material for the aisle church is the red lying broken in Tambach .
Pastor Johann August Schönau (born February 27, 1677 in Gotha; † February 14, 1747 in Altenbergen) had rendered outstanding services to the establishment, who took up the position of pastor in Altenbergen in 1708. The construction of the new church was preceded by a community crisis of several years, as the last pastor of the Johanniskirche on the Georgsberg, Johann August Eckard (also Eccardt ), wanted to prevent the construction of a church in the valley. After he could no longer oppose the decision of the three mayors of the villages of Altenbergen (Johann Friedrich Ortlepp), Catterfeld (Johannes Kühn) and Engelsbach (Johann Oschmann), on Christmas Eve 1708 he chose to commit suicide with a razor cut through the throat. The first burial took place in the Altenberg cemetery on October 18, 1716. The burials on the Alteberg near the Johanniskirche were stopped in 1717.
Schönau was married twice. First with Alexandrina Maria Schramm from Eisenach on August 13, 1709, with whom he fathered eight children, four of whom died. Second with Regina Charita's simple grudge, with whom he had six children, two of whom died.
The interior has a double gallery, the fields of which were painted in 1913 with fruit and flower baskets or with garland decorations.
In the middle of the basket of the freestanding pulpit altar is a miniature version of the Döllschen candelabra and is adorned with gold strips.
The hall ceiling received an ornamental painting in 1861.
At the end of the 1990s, the church was restored by the Neudietendorfer restorer Albert Hornemann . The work was officially ended with a parish festival on August 29, 1999. The organ from the workshop of the Ohrdruf organ builder Georg Franz Ratzmann dates back to 1831 and was restored by the Schönefeld workshop from Stadtilm 1999–2002. The church tower was completely renovated with the tower button and weather vane in 2002.
Entrance portal with keystone 1710
View from the northwest
View of the chancel
View to the organ gallery
Ratzmann organ
Painting depicting pastor Johann August Schönau
St. Gabriel Monastery of the Antiochene Syrian Orthodox Church
In spring 2012, the construction of the mother house of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Central Germany began in Altenbergen . The building complex of a former company holiday camp on the outskirts was acquired for this purpose ( location → ). The inauguration and the move took place in 2014. The head of the monastery, Metropolitan Severius , emphasized in an interview that the central location of the Gotha region in Germany was important for the choice of location. From here the metropolitan controls a church province with around 15,000 Christians in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland and on the west coast of the USA.
Campsite Paulfeld
Not far from Altenbergen, to be reached after 3 km from the junction of the B88 with the main road - here is the Weser-Elbe watershed - you will find the Paulfeld campsite . The first campers camped here in 1967 on the "Field of Paul". Today, on 70,000 m², the site has 280 parking spaces for tents, mobile homes or caravan teams of around 60–100 m² each. The place is operated by a municipal GmbH. In addition to the necessary facilities, visitors are offered a restaurant and two bathing lakes. ( Location → )
Nikolaus Brückner
In 1756 Nikolaus Brückner was born as the eldest son of the woodcutter Johann Michael Brückner from Altenbergen and his wife Anna-Margareta, née. Hofmann, born in the neighboring town of Engelsbach. He spent his youth with three other brothers in Altenbergen. Because of the low wages paid by the duke's forestry administration, the family lived in modest but secure circumstances. Like his father, Nikolaus worked as a woodcutter in the nearby Altenfeld Forest. In 1780 he married Martha Catharina Ortlepp from Altenbergen; the marriage remained childless. In addition to his work as a woodcutter, Nikolaus worked as a messenger for the Altenbergen parish to improve his income and learned a lot of interesting things about the history of the St. John's Church, which he had known since his childhood and which was now in decline. Meanwhile the remains of the church were overgrown with plants. Brückner decided to preserve the memory of the church for posterity. In June 1808 he bequeathed in his will - he was seriously ill and had death before his eyes - the above-mentioned 20 guilders to the parish with the wish to set up a memorial stone in memory of the church at its previous location. He bequeathed his land, his house and his household effects to his family members. The will is in the Thuringian State Archives in Gotha, Georgenthal Justice Office.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. Wartberg Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 79.
- ^ Otto Dorbencker (arrangement and ed.): Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae (1152-1210) . tape 2 Part 1. Fischer, Jena 1898. No. 54.
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on December 30, 2019
- ↑ Excerpt from the information board on the excavation site
- ↑ Roland Scharff's private website about Asolveroth
- ↑ Information board in Altenbergen
- ↑ The candelabra near Altenbergen. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ellrich / Heinke / Hoerenz: Between Hörsel and Wilder Gera , ISBN 3-86160-167-2
- ↑ Information board next to the painting in the church
- ↑ Content of the text part in the painting depicting the pastor
- ↑ Syrian Orthodox monastery consecrated in the Thuringian Forest. In: welt.de. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Everyone interested is warmly welcomed. (No longer available online.) In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. April 21, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on July 12, 2020 (report in the Thuringia Journal of April 21, 2012). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Prospectus of the operating company
- ↑ Information board in town
