Creunitz

Creunitz City of Graefenthal Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 42 " N , 11 ° 16 ′ 36" E
Height :	533 m above sea level NN
Residents :	54
Incorporation :	April 1, 1974
Postal code :	98743
Area code :	036703
	View of the place

Creunitz is a district of the town of Gräfenthal in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .

location

Creunitz is located southwest of Graefenthal. The hamlet can be reached via Landesstrasse 1150 and Kreisstrasse 175. The hilly and partly terraced area of the hamlet is located in a typical low mountain range in the Thuringian slate mountains . It is characterized by valley, slope and altitude. Clearing islands and areas are still recognizable. Go from the town of hiking trails in the Aubachtal and the Rennsteig by Spechtsbrunn , past the Stone Rider shrouded as a resting place with a forecast.

history

The hamlet was first mentioned in a document on April 23, 1394. 54 people live in the hamlet.

Resting place Steinerner Reiter

In the Middle Ages, Creunitz was on the busy, so-called "Judenbacher Straße", an impassable section of the former military and trade route between Nuremberg and Leipzig . The Creunitzers and their neighbors from Spechtsbrunn , Graefenthal , Meernach and Buchbach were carters or forest workers for generations. On December 15, 1806, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld joined the Rhine Confederation with the other Ernestine principalities . From November 1806 until the Peace of Tilsit in July 1807 the principality was occupied by the French. The Napoleonic occupation forces forced the father of the state, Duke Franz von Sachsen-Coburg Saalfeld, to build a new military road according to French specifications, but it was never completed. At the Vogelherd, the Buchbach and on the rock face of the community dome near Creunitz, clear traces of the construction and blasting work can still be seen today. The so-called “Stone Rider” was hewn out of the slate rock by an unknown person in 1811, and the rapidly weathered image was severely damaged by vandalism after the First World War. After 1920, the Graefenthal-based modeller Schubert was commissioned to make a copy out of cement cast.

In the Creunitz slate quarry, geologists determined Silurian alum shale, it contains rare fossils of graptolites of the genus Abiesgraptus.

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 50.
↑ Creunitz on the website of the city of Graefenthal.Retrieved on March 9, 2012
↑ Fr. Zinn: The stone rider on the community dome near Creunitz . In: Thüringerwaldverein (Ed.): Thuringian monthly sheets . tape 42 . Eisenach 1934, p. 182-183 .
↑ Rudolf Hundt: Two new sheets from the geological history of Thuringia . In: Reinhold Vesper (Hrsg.): Das Thüringer Fähnlein . tape 4 . G. Neuenhahn, Jena 1935, p. 561-565 .

Web links

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

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 50.

[2] Creunitz on the website of the city of Graefenthal.Retrieved on March 9, 2012

[Thr-3] Fr. Zinn: The stone rider on the community dome near Creunitz . In: Thüringerwaldverein (Ed.): Thuringian monthly sheets . tape 42 . Eisenach 1934, p. 182-183 .

[TFähnlein-4] Rudolf Hundt: Two new sheets from the geological history of Thuringia . In: Reinhold Vesper (Hrsg.): Das Thüringer Fähnlein . tape 4 . G. Neuenhahn, Jena 1935, p. 561-565 .