Burggrub (Stockheim)

Burggrub Municipality Stockheim Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 29 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	338–373 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	782
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	96342
Area code :	09261
Evangelical Church of St. Laurentius

Castle pit from the northwest

Burggrub is a village in the municipality of Stockheim in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria . The place has 782 inhabitants and is right on the border with Thuringia . The word Burggrub is a word palindrome .

history

Burggrub was mentioned for the first time in 1272 and was called "Grube" at that time. The Burggruber area first belonged to the margraves of Schweinfurt and later, like most areas in the Kronach district, to the bishopric of Bamberg , which transferred the village as a fief to various lords (e.g. von der Grube, von Schaumberg, von Rosenau and finally the von Würtzburg ). The proximity to Thuringia (at that time the Wettin area) always brought border disputes with it, especially with the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , which had a great influence on Burggrub.

In 1528 the Reformation arrived and the Counter-Reformation remained fruitless due to the Saxon influence, so that Burggrub is one of the few predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran villages in the southern district of Kronach. The situation between Protestant Saxony (today Thuringia) and Catholic Bamberg brought with it a lot of destruction and suffering , especially during the Thirty Years' War ; so the place was haunted several times by Kronach mercenaries . Burggrub was looted, pillaged, and destroyed like other evangelical places.

In 1806, Burggrub, which had always been in Bamberg's territory, was declared Bavarian despite protests from the Duke of Saxony-Meiningen ; the territorial disputes were over. But until the Second World War the population was very much oriented towards Protestant Thuringia.

Former porcelain factory

In 1901 Burggrub was connected to the railway network with the Sonneberg – Stockheim line. In the same year, the Sonneberg doll manufacturers Schönau and Hoffmeister set up a porcelain factory on the outskirts of the town to ensure a constant supply of porcelain dolls' heads for the Sonneberg toy industry. The company took over in 1907 Magnus Leube, who continued to manufacture doll heads. During the Second World War, the factory was leased to the Siemens company , which began producing products that were essential to the war effort. After the war, the porcelain factory was continued by Magnus Leube's grandson, Horst Eversberg, who switched production to technical ceramics and later tableware . The Burggrub porcelain factory still produced under the name Porzellanfabrik Horst Eversberg GmbH and had over 250 employees at peak times, mostly women, as is common in the porcelain industry.

During the Iron Curtain era, Burggrub suffered greatly from its position; the border with Thuringia was only a few hundred meters (in some places less than a stone's throw) away; so in Burggrub, as in most towns on the border, the border police were stationed.

On January 1, 1975, Burggrub lost the status of its own municipality as part of the municipal reform and formed the new municipality of Stockheim together with Stockheim , Haig , Haßlach , Neukenroth , Reitsch and Wolfersdorf . This is worth mentioning because at that time it was decided against joining the Protestant Mitwitz . In 1987 the freight traffic of the railway connection to Burggrub was closed and the route was dismantled. On the site of the former station that originated firehouse of volunteer firefighters Burggrub.

In 1989 Burggrub lost the character of a border town through reunification . In 1992 the border and peace chapel was built near the Bavarian-Thuringian border. In 2004 a bypass was completed in order to ban the heavy goods traffic on the federal highway 89 from the place.

Border chapel near Burggrub

Attractions

• Evangelical church Sankt Laurentius with almost completely preserved curtain wall and a Gothic winged altar and sacristy (12th century) worth seeing
• Village square with relatively large farmhouses and village well
• Border and Peace Chapel (with modern altar , consisting of iron curtain fence elements)
• Border installations (e.g. convoy routes that are still visible) and border posts

Personalities

• Helmut Schmidt-Vogt (1918–2008), forest scientist, expert on the common spruce

Web links

Commons : Burggrub  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community of Stockheim: official population figures of the community of Stockheim ( memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 8, 2016.