Bermbach (Buttlar)

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Bermbach
Buttlar municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 297 m above sea level NN
Residents : 200
Incorporation : March 25, 1994
Postal code : 36419
Area code : 036967
map
Location of Bermbach in Buttlar
View from the south
View from the south
Wayside cross

Bermbach has been part of the Thuringian municipality of Buttlar in the Wartburg district since it was incorporated in 1994 . Bermbach was first mentioned in a document in 1329 and naturally belongs to the Kuppenrhön .

geography

Bermbach is located three kilometers east of the main town of Buttlar in the Thuringian part of the Rhön and is also about 18 kilometers (as the crow flies ) west-southwest of the district town of Bad Salzungen . Bermbach is located in the valley of the Bermbach , an orographically right tributary of the Ulster . The stream runs through the village in a beautifully walled canal. The highest elevations are the Lange Berg ( 431.2  m above sea level ), the Wachkoppe ( 421  m above sea level ) and the Arberts ( 347.1  m above sea level ). To the west of the town rises the Michaelsberg with the chapel of the same name ( 431.2  m above sea level ), this mountain is only partly in the Bermbach area. The geographic height of the place is 297  m above sea level. NN .

history

Bermbach was first mentioned in a document in 1329 and was parish and schooled in Buttlar.

In the Turkish tax register of the abbey of Fulda from 1605 the place is mentioned under the name Bermich with 55 families.

In 1879, based on the census of 1875, statistical information on the location was published. This year Bermbach had 53 houses with 295 inhabitants. The size of the field was 634.7 ha of which courtyards and gardens 7.7 ha, meadows 75.9 ha, arable land 346.2 ha. Forest 185.2 ha, ponds, streams and rivers 1.0 ha, on paths, drifts , Wasteland and orchards accounted for 18.6 hectares. The village had a herd of 17 horses, 232 cattle, 249 sheep, 11 goats and 58 pigs, and 24 beehives. In 1955 there were 416 inhabitants in the village.

Culture and sights

  • The Michaelskapelle on the Michaelsberg reminds of the time of Christianization . ( Location: )
  • Bermbach is a settlement laid out as a street village and has a small Catholic village church, renovated in 1882, it is consecrated to St. Peter and Paul and is located in the center of the village.
  • On the northern edge of the valley near Bermbach is the singer meadow - also the festival area of ​​the community. The most important events and festivals take place here throughout the year.
  • About one kilometer south-east of the village there is a stone cross on a dirt road , it bears the traditional name Franzosenkreuz . According to local tradition, several Napoleonic soldiers are buried there.

Impressions of the church

  • View from the west

  • Look at the choir

  • View to the organ gallery

  • inside view

people

  • Eugen Willsau - gathers since 1965 and determined the amateur lepidopterist the butterfly species of the Rhoen and could prove 625 species.
  • Josef Magnus Wehner (1891–1973), German writer and playwright

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Buttlar, Bermbach and Wenigentaft of February 22, 1994 (GVBl p. 302)
  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.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ^ C. Kronfeld, Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879. p. 68.
  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. ^ News (Thuringian Rhön) . In: Rhönklub (Ed.): Rhönwacht . No. 1 , 1995, ISSN  0936-1723 , pp. 40 .

Web links

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