Christes

This article deals with the municipality in Thuringia. For the German classical scholar see Johannes Christes .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 10 ° 29 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Management Community :	Dolmar salt bridge
Height :	450 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.53 km 2
Residents:	550 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98547
Area code :	036844
License plate :	SM, MGN
Community key :	16 0 66 015
Association administration address:	Zella-Meininger-Str. 6 98547 Schwarza
Website :	www.vg-dolmar-salzbruecke.de
Mayor :	Frank Liebaug (CDU)
Location of the Christes community in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district

Gothic church in Christes

Christes is a municipality in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia, which is part of the Dolmar-Salzbrücke administrative community .

geography

Christes is located in the southern Thuringian Forest, southeast of Schmalkalden and north of the 739.5 meter high Dolmar .

Neighboring communities

In the southwest lies Metzels , in the south behind the Dolmar the municipality Kühndorf , in the southeast Schwarza , in the east Steinbach-Hallenberg and in the north Schmalkalden with the district Breitenbach .

history

In 833, in a deed of donation from Count Christian I and his wife Heilwich to King Ludwig the Germans, the term 'Christaneshusun' was mentioned for the first time. Christian I was the father of the founder of the Rohr monastery. According to the latest research, it was probably founded around 870. Christes was then mentioned as Villa Christens . The local well ( Christ Born ) was assigned healing powers, so that pilgrimages took place from 1425 to the first half of the 16th century, which brought prosperity and importance to the place. From 1686, copper and silver were dug in the forester's pit on the 566 m high Kleiner Dolmar , the ores were smelted in a smelter near Schwarza. In 1695 mining came to a standstill due to an accident.

Christes initially belonged to the county of Henneberg , from 1660 to Sachsen-Zeitz , from 1718 to Kursachsen (in the office of Kühndorf ). Between 1500 and 1806 the place was in the Franconian Empire . From 1816 to 1944 Christes was part of the Erfurt administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony . Christes came to the Suhl district in the GDR in 1952 .

Christes was persecuted by witches from 1657 to 1681 : two women and a man got into witch trials , one woman was executed, one died in custody. The first victim in 1657 was Anna, Valentin Machentanz's wife.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 699 1995: 698 1996: 690 1997: 687 1998: 692 1999: 718

2000: 716 2001: 713 2002: 707 2003: 705 2004: 689 2005: 690

2006: 681 2007: 668 2008: 646 2009: 627 2010: 620 2011: 620

2012: 601 2013: 597 2014: 589 2015: 577 2016: 568 2017: 565

2018: 552

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Culture and sights

• The smallest late Gothic three-aisled basilica in Europe, the Church of Our Lady , has been located in Christes since 1443 . Remains of double wall paintings and a baptismal font from 1572 have been preserved in the Marienkapelle.
• The historic town center with the basilica on the linden hill has been a listed monument since 1992.
• The Christes am swimming pool education camp is known throughout Germany , and its special camps for chess, mathematics, etc. and holiday camps attract many young people.
• There are also old boundary stones, cross stones and a half-timbered house from the 17th century in and around the village.

Economy and Infrastructure

Education Camp Christes

• Germany's only gifted camp for primary school students

Companies

• Precision steel company
• Metal construction
• Plumbing
• Tourist station
• Construction company

Infrastructure

The K2513 leads through the village, which connects Christes via Breitenbach with Schmalkalden (approx. 12 km) and via Schwarza with Meiningen (approx. 20 km). The closest motorway connection is junction 21 “Meiningen-Nord” on the A 71 (approx. 16 km away).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Mayoral elections 2016 in Thuringia, district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen
3. ↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , pp. 83f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Kühndorf area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 253, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000) .; Manfred Wilde : The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-10602-X , pp. 518-522, (At the same time: Chemnitz, Technical University, habilitation paper, 2002).

Web links

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