Berggasthof Brand
The Berggasthof Brand is a restaurant and hostel in the district of Spechtsbrunn in the city of Sonneberg . It is located in the southern Thuringian Forest , directly on the Rennsteig at an altitude of 774 m above sea level. The buildings were erected in 1905 as part of a large slate processing plant and renovated in 2007 and largely returned to their original condition.
The historic main building with an attached low-rise building, consisting largely of quarry stone masonry, is on the south side and the Finnhütten built in the 1970s on the north side of the Rennsteig.
history
About twenty simple wooden huts stood on the fire for the stylus makers at the end of the 19th century . There were already large spoil heaps made of black-blue shale , because only 10% of the broken material was suitable for making pencils.
In 1891, with the establishment of the ducal style, the style slate quarries were nationalized in Saxony-Meiningen . Public criticism of the social and hygienic conditions of pen manufacture and the development of individual pen manufacture towards industrial mass production prompted the break administration to concentrate the further processing of the broken pen slate into finished writing pens in the immediate vicinity of the break and to build massive factories there, so-called large huts. The first was built in 1896 on the fire, which was modernized and expanded in 1905. The second large hut was built in 1897 on the Großer Tierberg near Steinach and was modernized and expanded in 1904. Three more large huts were put into operation in 1902 on the Fellberg , in 1903 on the Steinheider Berg near Steinach and in 1906 in Langebach near Hasenthal . The machines in the five large smelters were supplied with power via overhead lines from a power station in Obersteinach.
In 1923, a large private smelter was added to these five state-owned stylus works, which the Mohr and Loehrs company built on the Pechgraben near Haselbach. In 1928/29 there were 21 workers in the large works on the fire with the respective slate quarries. A finely splitting slate rock for slate mines with a diameter of 2 to 3 mm was found on the “fire” . This material was ideally suited for the production of so-called wooden pens, which were produced using machines commonly used in the pencil industry. Since the quarrying of penstock was concentrated on the Großer Tierberg, production was discontinued in 1930.
A youth hostel was built in an outbuilding of the Großhütte am Brand , and the Naumburg branch of the Thuringian Forest Association set up the “Naumburger Stube”. This room was paneled and decorated with carved furniture.
At the “watchman on the fire” there was always bottled beer and a snack for Rennsteig hikers. In 1936, the state of Thuringia leased the buildings to Paul and Margarete Danz.
The fire developed into a popular destination, with dance events, wine festivals, New Year's Eve parties and costume parties taking place. After the outbreak of the Second World War and Paul Danz was drafted into the Wehrmacht, Margarete Danz temporarily continued to run the restaurant on her own.
In 1944 the Secret State Police set up a control center on the fire. This gave the fire a telephone connection in the last year of the war. After the war, the fire became a restaurant again and in the 1950s, as in all other large huts, a children's holiday camp and company holiday home were built here.
In 1973 the Ministry of State Security took over the fire, which was located in the 5 km restricted zone area of the inner-German border . The area was fenced in and in 1975 eight Finnhuts were built to the then high standard for the GDR.
Since the opening of the border in November 1989 and the first cross-border Rennsteig hike on April 28, 1990, the fire has again been a destination for hikers and vacationers. The Finnhütten were completely renovated in 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry Czauderna: Berggasthof Brand - Chalets & apartments "Am Rennsteig" - Spechtsbrunn - Thuringia. In: www.thueringen.info. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Schwämmlein: District of Sonneberg (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Thuringia 1). E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , pp. 142-145.
- ^ Andreas Ziener: About the mountain inn "Brand". In: www.oberland-am-rennsteig.com. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 46.2 ″ N , 11 ° 13 ′ 39.9 ″ E