Aschenhof
The Aschenhof was a manor belonging to the Benshausen district court and later to the Henneberg office of Suhl .
Geographical location
The Aschenhof was in the southern Thuringian Forest between Benshausen and Albrechts, northwest of the city of Suhl . While he belonged to the office of Suhl, he was on the western border of the office of Kühndorf . Today it belongs to the independent city of Suhl in the Free State of Thuringia .
history
The field names Aschenkopf and Aschenberg refer to the commercial extraction of potash - a raw material for late medieval glass production in the 15th century.
The Frauenbreitungen monastery on the Werra, which was secularized in 1528 , in the county of Henneberg- Schleusingen , also owned splinter property in the area around Suhl. In 1587, a forest farm on the Aschenberg that once belonged to the monastery was mentioned. At first it was under the jurisdiction of the Benshausen Central Court. After the Schleusinger line of the Counts of Henneberg died out , the Aschenhof came to the Wettin office of Suhl in 1583. After 1660, a real division of the county Henneberg took place, the farm belonged 1660-1718 to Albertine Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz and then directly to the Electorate of Saxony.
From 1700 the Aschhof is called a manor, the Meiningen chamber councilor Philipp Albrecht von Buttlar acquired the Aschenhof in 1673 and upgraded it through investments and renovations. However, the agricultural yields fell short of expectations, and the heirs of the landlord, who died in 1707, became over-indebted. In 1788 Gut Aschenhof was auctioned by the wine merchant Kräger from Benshausen. Due to the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Aschenhof and the royal Saxon part of the former county of Henneberg fell to Prussia .
Valtin Frühauf from Rappelsdorf bought the estate in 1836. After seven years he sold it again in 1842. But even the magistrate Witschel, the next owner, could not receive it. After a forced sale, the city of Suhl acquired the property. It was converted into the "Biertunnel" tavern. In 1902 a side building fell victim to flames for unknown reasons.
In 1907 the Aschenhof became the property of the Prussian state and was converted into a royal domain . Another fire destroyed part of the building in 1912. In 1916 the Aschenhof was sold and a horticultural agricultural school was built on its premises.
During the Second World War the estate served as a reserve hospital and maternity hospital for women from upscale Nazi families. From 1946 to 1976 an infection hospital and later a psychiatric department were housed there. Thereafter, the district school of civil defense of the GDR was set up in the buildings and used until 1990.
In 1992 the Aschenhof became the property of the State of Thuringia. A few years ago the estate was converted into a hotel.
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; Office Suhl, page 100f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 35 " N , 10 ° 37 ′ 19.1" E