Apfelbach (Geisa)

Apfelbach Geisa municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 23 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 25" E
Height :	365 m above sea level NN
Residents :	40 (Jun 30, 2009)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1957
Incorporated into:	Chains
Postal code :	36419
Area code :	036967
	Location of Apfelbach in Geisa
	The location of Apfelbach (2013)

Apfelbach is a district with 8 courtyards and around 40 inhabitants, the district belongs to the Geisa community in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . Apfelbach is located on the Hessian-Thuringian border in the northern part of the Rhön , the Kuppenrhön and is also in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve.

geography

Apfelbach is located in the southwest of the district, about 32 kilometers (as the crow flies) southwest of the district town of Bad Salzungen and about seven kilometers south of the core town of Geisa.

The highest elevations in the corridor are the Seelesberg - to which a wedge-shaped forest strip extends to the boundary stone 505 ( 625 m above sea level ), also only partly belonging to the Spahler Berg ( 423.4 m above sea level ) and the Geisaer Berg ( 412 , 6 m above sea level ). To the east of the village, the eponymous apple creek marks an approximately 1.5 km long section of the state border, this source creek belongs to the Werra river basin . The water flow of the brook was already sufficient to operate a grinding mill on the western outskirts and the cutting mill at Ketten .

history

The area of the Rhön was also called Buchonia in the High Middle Ages . The mountainous landscape was evangelized in the west by Bonifatius (sphere of influence of the imperial monasteries Fulda and Hersfeld ) and in the south and east by Kilian ( diocese of Würzburg ), which is still remembered by numerous church foundations and field names.

Apfelbach has been part of the Rockenstuhl Office of Fulda since the 13th century, which was only moved to the city of Geisa in the 17th century. The parish church was in Spahl.

In the Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605 the place is mentioned under the name Apffelbach with 5 families.

There were also close relationships with the neighboring village of Ketten. The neighboring Tann dominion formed a center of the Reformation in the Rhön in the 16th century . The religious struggles and social tensions raged in the upper Ulstertal around Geisa, with the Catholic side having the upper hand. From 1632 to 1634 Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel ruled the imperial monastery as Prince of Buchen . In the Peace of Prague in 1635, the imperial monastery was restituted. The numerous war damage in the Fulda area was repaired under Prince Abbot Joachim von Gravenegg (1644–1671). With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the clerical principality and its monasteries were dissolved. The Fulda possessions went to Friedrich Wilhelm von Oranien-Nassau , until 1806 Napoleon I annexed the province of Fulda. In 1810 it became part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the province was dissolved and after a year-long Prussian administration, the " Geisaer Ländchen " came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .

In 1955 there were 66 inhabitants in Apfelbach. The border location often prevented an economic development of the place, which today consists of 8 farmsteads and further individual houses. In Apfelbach there are two main farms. Tourism has an increasing value in the border region, which has not yet been developed industrially. From March 24, 1994 to December 31, 2008, Reinhards formed the Rockenstuhl community together with Geismar, Ketten, Spahl, Walkes and Apfelbach .

A significant part of the corridor along the border strip was dedicated to nature conservation and forms the maintenance zone of the biosphere reserve. It was with dismay that the population welcomed plans to expand the protected area in the summer of 2012. These also concern the designation of a further core zone in the forest area on Selesberg . The consultations, which have been personally moderated by Thuringian Agriculture Minister Jürgen Reinholz since September 2012 , are intended to bring about an amicable solution between the legitimate interests of the residents, the farms and nature conservation concerns.

literature

Adelbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön. 3. Edition. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 .

Web links

Commons : Apfelbach - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Information .. In: District Office Wartburgkreis (Hrsg.): Official Gazette of the Wartburgkreis from 10 August 2010 . Bad Salzungen 2010, p. 14 .
↑ ^a ^b 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.
^ Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. Nature and landscape . In: Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . tape 7 . Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 87 .
↑ Thomas Heiler: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605, (Publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , place register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers
^ Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .
↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994
↑ Compromise in the biosphere reserve: agreement with farmers. Südthüringer Zeitung, local page Bad Salzungen, September 12, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2012 : “The Minister of the Environment expressed understanding for the Rhön property owners, especially with regard to the experiences from the restricted area. "No land will be taken away from the people, there will be no expropriation," he promised. After the farmers declared the moderation process to have failed a few weeks ago, and the state parliament members Manfred Grob and Michael Heym (both CDU) intervened, there were further rounds of talks, the last one immediately before the public event on Monday. The result was a compromise that Dr. Aribert Bach, Vice President of the Thuringian Farmers' Association, presented. "We discussed factually and constructively, but very critically," he said. For example, a new category B is defined for agricultural areas that are to be added to the maintenance zone. "No arable land, only grassland should be affected."

[Amtsblatt-1] Information .. In: District Office Wartburgkreis (Hrsg.): Official Gazette of the Wartburgkreis from 10 August 2010 . Bad Salzungen 2010, p. 14 .

[TK10-2-2] 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.

[Natur-3] Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. Nature and landscape . In: Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . tape 7 . Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 87 .

[4] Thomas Heiler: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605, (Publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , place register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers

[Schulungsmaterial-5] Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .

[6] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994

[STZ120912-7] Compromise in the biosphere reserve: agreement with farmers. Südthüringer Zeitung, local page Bad Salzungen, September 12, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2012 : “The Minister of the Environment expressed understanding for the Rhön property owners, especially with regard to the experiences from the restricted area. "No land will be taken away from the people, there will be no expropriation," he promised. After the farmers declared the moderation process to have failed a few weeks ago, and the state parliament members Manfred Grob and Michael Heym (both CDU) intervened, there were further rounds of talks, the last one immediately before the public event on Monday. The result was a compromise that Dr. Aribert Bach, Vice President of the Thuringian Farmers' Association, presented. "We discussed factually and constructively, but very critically," he said. For example, a new category B is defined for agricultural areas that are to be added to the maintenance zone. "No arable land, only grassland should be affected."