Deesbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
Management Community :	Schwarzatal
Height :	651 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.14 km 2
Residents:	322 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98744
Area code :	036705
License plate :	SLF, RU
Community key :	16 0 73 014
Association administration address:	Markt 5 98744 Oberweißbach / Thür. Forest
Website :	www.deesbach.de
Mayoress :	Claudia Böhm (independent)
Location of the municipality of Deesbach in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district

Deesbach is a municipality in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia . The community belongs to the administrative community Schwarzatal , which has its administrative seat in the city of Schwarzatal .

geography

Deesbach in the quiet Deesbachtal is located in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park .

Place view

history

The place was first mentioned in 1465 as Tespach . The small place belonged to the parish of Oberweißbach. Until 1918 the place belonged to the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

In 1919, Deesbach, together with the municipalities of Lichtenhain , Oberweißbach , Cursdorf and the Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , helped found the Oberweißbacher Bergbahn-Aktiengesellschaft , although the place is not directly on the Oberweißbacher Bergbahn route .

politics

Municipal council

The council of the Deesbach community consists of 5 members.

• Fire Brigade Association Deesbach 3 seats
• Sport fishing club Deesbach dam 1 seat
• FC Kümmerling Deesbach 1 seat

mayor

The honorary mayor Claudia Böhm was elected on June 6, 2010.

Buildings

• Deesbach barrier , with 3.2 million m³ of storage space

Special

According to their own information, Deesbach has the “steepest street in Germany” with a 25.30% gradient and the second-steepest “steepest local street” with a 22.65% gradient. On the Oberweißbacher Straße in Deesbach there is an annual folding bike hill climb on the steepest street. However, a Hessian radio station found out in 2017 that there is a street in Ranstadt-Dauernheim in Hesse, the Hasenpfad, with an incline of 29%. The steepest street in Germany is no longer in Deesbach.

Personalities

• Elmar Faber (1934–2017), Germanist, editor and publisher
• Hugo Kuemmerling , manufacturer of the herbal liqueur of the same name

literature

• Elvira Grudzielski, Around the Froebel Tower, Vol. 1, a contemporary document v. 1880 to 1930 of the city of Oberweißbach, ud communities Cursdorf, Deesbach, Leibis, Lichtenhain / Bergb. , Mellenbach, Meura, Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle, Schwarzburg, Sitzendorf, Unterweißbach published 1992, ISBN 3-89264-657-0 .
• Elvira Grudzielski, Around the Fröbelturm vol. 2., a contemporary document from 1930 to 1990 of the city of Oberweißbach, and communities of Cursdorf, Deesbach, Leibis, Lichtenhain / Bergb. Mellenbach, Meura, Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle, Schwarzburg, Sitzendorf, Unterweißbach published 2000, ISBN 3-89570-706-6 .
• Elvira Grudzielski, Mein Thüringer Kräuterland, published in 1997. The book tells the history of the former olive industry with its people, traditions and the diverse range of plants. ISBN 3-9804573-4-6 .
• Elvira Liebmann, (Grudzielski) Das Thüringer Kräuterland, published 2012. In the book, the jewel “Thuringian Herbal Land” is presented, a unique region (with around 40 villages), including the city of Oberweißbach. ISBN 978-3-943509-02-1 .

Web links

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

• Website of the administrative association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ August Elsäßer: The parish Oberweißbach through the ages . A review of the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the church in Oberweißbach with a short chronicle of the parish towns of Oberweißbach, Cursdorf, Deesbach, Lichtenhain and Leibis. Oberweißbach 1929, p. 175 .
3. ↑ Falkenstein (Northern Palatinate) (465 m). Retrieved May 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Homepage of the Deesbach community Homepage of the Deesbach community. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
5. ↑ The steepest street in Germany. Website of the Thüringer Allgemeine. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
6. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co KG: Dauernheim goes steeply ... - Kreis-Anzeiger. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .