Aschenhausen

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Aschenhausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 525 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.64 km²
Residents : 136  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 37 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 36452
Area code : 036966
Districts of the city of Kaltennordheim
Districts of the city of Kaltennordheim

Aschenhausen ( Rhöner Platt : Aschehuuse) is a district of the town of Kaltennordheim in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the southwest of Thuringia .

geography

Aschenhausen lies at the east foot of the Leichelberg and northwest of the Diesburg in the Thuringian Rhön . The Rhön-Rennsteig hiking trail , which connects the Wasserkuppe with Oberhof , runs through the village .

The source of the Weissbach, which flows south to the Herpf , is located in the village .

Neighboring towns are the districts of Kaltensundheim in the west, Kaltennordheim in the north, Oberkatz in the east and the municipality of Rhönblick in the south.

history

The place was first mentioned in 838 as Aseshuson . It belonged from the 15th century to the office sand the county Henneberg -Schleusingen, the high jurisdiction over the place but not under the centering Friedelshausen . Until 1803 Aschenhausen was an imperial knighthood village owned by the imperial knight family von Speßhardt , who had lived in the village since 1486.

With the dissolution of the imperial knighthood in 1803, the knightly places Aschenhausen and Roßdorf came under the joint ownership of the duchies of Saxony-Meiningen and Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , until finally in 1808 Aschenhausen became the sole property of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and Roßdorf in the Saxony-Meiningen region fell. Aschenhausen was affiliated with the Kaltennordheim office and from 1815 it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . In this Aschenhausen was part of the Eisenach district . During the district reform in the GDR in 1950/1952 , the place was assigned to the Meiningen district .

In 1994 Aschenhausen came to the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen. The community had belonged to the Hohe Rhön administrative community since 1992 , which had its administrative seat in the community of Kaltensundheim . On January 1, 2019, Aschenhausen was incorporated into Kaltennordheim with other communities.

Jewish community

Up until the First World War there was a relatively large Jewish community, which around 1848 even formed the majority of the population in the village with a total of 50 families. After that, the size of the community gradually declined due to emigration, especially to Meiningen and Eisenach . From 1850 on, the Aschenhausen local advisory board consisted of three Christian and three Jewish members, and the deputy mayor was always a Jewish community member until 1918. Due to the high rate of emigration, only 10 elderly Jewish people lived in the village in 1929. The six Jews still living in Aschenhausen in 1942 were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and lost their lives there. Of the Jewish people born in Aschenhausen and / or who lived there for a long time, 33 perished violently during the National Socialist era .

politics

Former councilor

After the 2014 local elections, the Aschenhausen municipal council consisted of 6 councilors, all of whom came from the SSV Aschenhausen electoral association.

1999 2004 2009 2014
SSV Aschenhausen 6th 6th 6th 6th
total 6th 6th 6th 6th

Former mayor

On June 5, 2016, Günter Rudloff (SSV Aschenhausen) was elected honorary mayor with 87 votes.

Attractions

church
Jewish Cemetery
  • The Protestant village church was founded in 1602 by Balthasar Rab von Speßhardt (1574–1612), whose bones rest in the crypt under the altar. The church is simply furnished with painted wooden parts and an organ altar. In 1993 it was restored.
  • The former synagogue , the oldest of the few surviving Jewish meeting houses in southern Thuringia, is evidence of the long Jewish settlement . On the night of the pogrom in 1938, SA men from Kaltennordheim tried to set them on fire, but were prevented from doing so by the local population. The building had already been sold to a Christian resident in 1936, was used as a barn and would have put large parts of the village at risk in a fire. Fundamentally restored after 1989, it is today a meeting place for people of all denominations and guided tours are offered.
  • Also interesting is the Jewish cemetery at the foot of the Leichelberg with around 150 quite well-preserved tombstones ( Mazewa ). Relatives of a Jewish couple murdered in Łódź ( Litzmannstadt ) erected a memorial stone after 1989.

traffic

  • The L1124 passes by as a bypass road, which connects the B 19 in Meiningen (approx. 20 kilometers away) with the B 285 in Kaltensundheim (approx. Four kilometers away).
  • The place has a bus stop on bus line 411 of the Meininger Busbetriebs GmbH .

Personalities

literature

  • Walter Höhn: Thuringian Rhön. Cities, villages and landscapes between Werra and Ellenbogen. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-060-7 , p. 121.
  • Rhönklub (Ed.): Schneiders Rhönführer. Official leader of the Rhön Club. 25th edition. Parzeller, Fulda 2005, ISBN 3-7900-0365-4 , p. 304.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Heß: Research on the constitutional and administrative history of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Meiningen. 1680-1829. Volume 3: Authorities and civil servants. 1954, p. 182 f., (PDF; 4.52 MB).
  2. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 2, 2019
  3. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 247.
  6. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Wydenbruck, Ferdinand Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1890, p. 37 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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