Bettenhausen (Rhönblick)
Bettenhausen
Community Rhönblick
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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 17 ′ 7 ″ E | |
Height : | 355 m above sea level NN |
Residents : | 760 (June 30, 2015) |
Incorporation : | August 1, 1996 |
Postal code : | 98617 |
Area code : | 036943 |
Bettenhausen is a village with 820 inhabitants in the Thuringian Rhön and is the largest district of the Rhönblick community in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district.
location
The village is 350 m above sea level. NN in Herpfgrund at the mouth of the Stedtlingsbach , south of the Hohe Geba and its foothills, the Neidhardskopf .
history
Bettenhausen was first mentioned in a document in 850. The place was originally owned by the Neuenberg monastery near Fulda. In 1320/23 the Fulda towns of Seeba and Bettenhausen became the property of the Counts of Henneberg -Schleusingen and were incorporated into the Sand Office , but legally they belonged to the Kaltennordheim district . In 1350 they were pledged again to the Fulda monastery . After the pledge was redeemed in 1419, the two places belonged to the Henneberg office of Maßfeld , with which they came to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from 1680 after the Hennebergs died out . A curiosity of the local history is that Fulda was able to assert feudal sovereignty over the village, which has otherwise been Henneberg since 1320, including church patronage until 1808.
On August 1, 1996, Bettenhausen became part of the municipality of Rhönblick , which was formed by ordinance of the Interior Minister of the State of Thuringia.
Attractions
- The Evangelical fortified church of the Holy Cross is strategically located on the highest point of the village . The medieval defense tower , protected by a high entrance , was later added a staircase. Remnants of the circular wall with loopholes and three Gaden buildings have also been preserved from the fortifications . The church, built as a choir tower church in 1617, has an organ pulpit altar in the style of the Rococo period . The gallery parapets are painted. The church was renovated from 1995 to 2000 with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .
- The townscape is characterized by half-timbered buildings from the Franconian- Henneberg region, especially the rectory built in 1541 is worth seeing.
- The local history museum is located near the church.
- In the vicinity of the village there are two atonement crosses that were placed on a prehistoric barrow , this probably dates from the La Tène period .
Sons and daughters
- Johannes Voigt (1786–1863), historian
- Otto Götz (1895–1995), chess player and chess composer
- Hilda Zensen-Grahner (1917–2007), honorary president of the German China Society
literature
- August Reukauf: Bettenhäuser Heimatbuch. Local history and local knowledge from the parish of Bettenhausen near Meiningen as part of a history of the Alt-Henneberger Land . Roßteutscher in commission, Coburg 1937.
- Gustav Reuchsel: Back then in Bettenhausen . Kinzel, Göppingen et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-95544-006-0 .
Web links
- thueringenfotos.de - Photos from the village from 1990
- Bettenhausen
- Church of the Holy Cross
- Bettenhausen cultural center
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the lines of the county of Henneberg .
- ↑ Bettenhausen in Rhon lexicon .
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996 .
- ^ Ingrid Scheurmann , Katja Hoffmann: Sacral buildings (= preserve cultural heritage, funding projects of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. 1). Monuments, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-935208-10-3 , p. 313.
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 18, 2007, p. 40.