Dermbach

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Wartburg district
Fulfilling municipality :	for Empfertshausen; for Oechsen; for Weilar; for Wiesenthal
Height :	370 m above sea level NHN
Area :	91.96 km 2
Residents:	7313 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36466
Primaries :	036964, 036965, 036966
License plate :	WAK, SLZ
Community key :	16 0 63 015
LOCODE :	DE DB2
Community structure:	20 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Behind the castle 1 ; 36466 Dermbach
Website :	www.dermbach.net
Mayor :	Thomas Hugk ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Dermbach in the Wartburg district

Dermbach ( dialect : Dermich ) is a municipality in the Wartburg district in the Thuringian Rhön . It is a fulfilling community for Empfertshausen , Oechsen , Weilar and Wiesenthal .

geography

Community structure (status: 2018)

Dermbach is centrally located in the hilly Vorderrhön in the middle Feldatal, directly on the B 285 .

Community structure

The following districts belong to the municipality of Dermbach:

Dermbach with Glattbach , Lindenau , Lindigshof , Mebritz
Oberalba
Unteralba
Brunnhartshausen with Föhlritz and Steinberg
Diedorf
Housing with Hohenwart
Neidhartshausen
Stadtlengsfeld with Menzengraben
Urnshausen with Bernshausen and Hartschrecken
Zella / Rhön

history

The place was first mentioned in 1145 as "Tirmbach".

Church buildings followed Dermbach Castle. There were already several churches in the same place in front of the Trinity Church, consecrated in 1714. It is reported, however, that the keep was the predecessor of the church towers. The adjacent castle grounds have massive enclosing walls and may once have belonged to the castle.

The seat of the local court came in 1317 from the Lords of Frankenstein to the Fulda Monastery , which in 1326 acquired the entire town with all its accessories. The Fulda abbots temporarily took their official seat of the Fischberg district in Dermbach Castle, which they built in 1706. Between 1810 and 1813 the principality belonged to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Dermbach came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and in 1850 became the seat of the district administration for the districts of Dermbach, Geisa, Kaltennordheim, Lengsfeld, Ostheim vdR and Vacha. In 1922, Dermbach and most of these once grand ducal districts came to the Eisenach district , in 1950/52 to the Bad Salzungen district and in 1994 to the Wartburg district .

Sample case with cork items from Dermbach

Farmers from Dermbach in the 1950s, picture from the Federal Archives

The place has traditionally been shaped by the textile industry since the 16th century, which flourished particularly after the market rights were obtained in 1716. The construction of the field bridge became important for trade in the neighboring Meiningen area. The natural stone bridge donated by Prince Abbot Adalbert von Harstall in 1791 is located on the road to Wiesenthal. In 1856, the Ruhla factory owner Leo Ziegler began setting up a workshop for cork cutting products in Dermbach. The production was very successful and already in 1860 offered almost 500 jobs for which no training or manual skills were required. The annual production of the Dermbacher cork manufactory already comprised 50 million stoppers for bottles this year. At that time there were also six mills, tanneries, a pharmacy, a savings bank, the postal expedition and the state authorities and courts in the village. Dermbach had thus achieved an urban character without having city rights.

On July 4, 1866, during the German War, a battle between Prussian and Bavarian troops took place near Dermbach , from which none of the warring parties emerged as the clear winner. 48 men died on the Prussian side, the Bavarian troops lost 62 men. A simple memorial was erected for them in 1868 over the graves.

In 1924 an iron meteorite weighing 1.5 kilograms was found near Dermbach . Today it is in the Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) .

In 1955 there were 2139 inhabitants. In addition to agriculture and forestry, glass and wood processing companies were traditionally represented in Dermbach.

In 1994 Dermbach came to the Wartburg district. It had been part of the Dermbach administrative community since 1992 . With the dissolution of this on January 1, 2019, the member communities Brunnhartshausen, Neidhartshausen, Stadtlengsfeld, Urnshausen, Zella / Rhön and the community Diedorf , for which Kaltennordheim was previously the fulfilling community, were incorporated into Dermbach. For the other member communities as well as Empfertshausen , for which Kaltennordheim was also the fulfilling community, Dermbach became the fulfilling community.

Dermbach owned a district hospital, which last served as a rehabilitation clinic. After years of deterioration, the house found a new owner in 2012. It was demolished in 2018.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dermbach has consisted of 24 council members since 2019.

CDU : 14 seats
DIE LINKE / Citizens for the region: 3 seats
Citizens for the Feldatal: 3 seats
NPD : 2 seats
FFW - Urnshausen Fire Brigade Association: 1 seat
BPU - CITIZENS PER URNSHAUSEN: 1 seat

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

mayor

Thomas Hugk (CDU) was elected mayor in June 2016 .

coat of arms

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Uwe Reipert .

Culture and sights

Dermbach Castle ( Location → )

Evangelical Church ( Location → )

Catholic Church ( Location → )

Interior of the catholic church

Rear view of the castle

Dermbach is a good starting point for rewarding Rhön hikes on signposted hiking trails (approx. 65 km). Sights are the historical market square, beautiful half-timbered houses, village fountain, bakery and the local museum. Another special feature is the Ibengarten nature reserve with the oldest yew tree population in Germany (600–800 years).

Buildings

The Dermbach Castle was built in 1707 as the seat of the official administration by the Fulda prince Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras . The castle consists of three baroque-style buildings that enclose a wide rectangular courtyard. The interior of the main building, in which the chapel of the Franciscan monastery opposite (the monastery existed between 1730 and 1817) and the Catholic school were located until 1736, contains a spacious staircase and ceilings with decorative ornaments. The castle was used as an administration building until 1918. After that, the buildings were used by the forestry office, the police, a museum, a youth hostel or as an office. In 1952 the border police and later the border regiment "Florian Geyer" of the National People's Army of the GDR moved in. The castle is currently used as a mayor's office, library and for youth and cultural spaces.
The Evangelical Dreieinigkeitskirche is a baroque building from 1714, into which parts of a previous building were incorporated. One of the art treasures of the church is a late Gothic Last Supper relief from the 15th century. The church houses an organ by Johann Casper Beck from 1754, which was renewed in the baroque case between 2002 and 2004 by Orgelbau Waltershausen .

The Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul is a baroque, single-nave church from 1731/36, which has rich architectural decorations on its east facade and a portal decorated with coats of arms.
The Gasthaus Sächsischer Hof was built as a representative two-story half-timbered building in 1623. The upper floor with the half-timbering dates from 1901. Up until the beginning of the Second World War, particularly in the 1920s and 30s, fishermen from all over Europe and overseas met here to fish for trout in the Felda. Prominent guests of the inn should u. a. the writer Ernest Hemingway may have been. The building was completely renovated in the 2000s and reopened as a 4-star hotel.
The village green bordered by stone slabs with linden tree and court table is located below the Protestant church on the Schlossberg.

museum

In Dermbach, on the Schloßberg, is the local history museum for the Eisenacher Oberland , founded in 1932, which has been rededicated since 1959 as a museum for the art and social history of the Thuringian Rhön. The museum provides information on the development of local handicrafts and industries - especially the carving trade. The museum also houses two galleries.

Natural monuments

Several trees in the district are designated as natural monuments :

Lutherlinde
Village linden
Apotheker-Keller-Linde
Linden at the shepherd's trough
Pedunculate oak in the field near Glattbach
Linden tree on the Trift near Glattbach
Feldabrücke, built in 1791, has been a cultural monument since 2009

Musical Rhönpaulus

The musical Rhönpaulus was directed by the Art and Culture Association Dermbacher Schloss e. V. premiered on July 31, 2009. The composer and director is Hans Aschenbach. The piece deals with the adventurous life of Rhön-Paulus - a legendary free spirit and robber from the Rhön in the 18th century.
In 2012 the musical was performed again between August 17 and August 26. The "Kunst und Kulturverein Dermbacher Schloss eV" realized the play on an open-air stage in the Dermbacher Schloss. The direction was again taken over by Hans Aschenbach. In this new edition, the figure of Paul was played by Maximilian Mann. Paul's mistress, Johanna was played by Elisabeth Hübert .

Regular events

Pigeon market

Since Dermbach was granted market rights in 1716, quarterly cattle markets were held, which at that time already had the character of a fair and thus exerted a great attraction on the residents of the neighboring towns. Almost ground to a halt during World War II, this market tradition (called "China Fritz") in 1945 by the citizens Dermbacher Friedrich Denner as Taubenmarkt revived. His greatest passion were pigeons, and even when there was a heavy snowstorm he walked to the market in Geisa.

Fair

Every year in mid-October, the fair takes place in Dermbach.

carnival

The Dermbacher Carneval Club (DCC) was founded on November 11, 1953 by some of the citizens of Dermbach. The DCC organizes various balls, galas and a parade through Dermbach every year during the carnival season.

Excursion destinations

The Dermbach area offers attractive destinations for hikes and day trips.

the Baier is a wooded, 714 m high mountain and represents the remainder of an extinct volcano.
the bare, 670 m high Glass Mountain is also a popular vantage point.
Dermbach is located directly on the Hochrhöner hiking trail , which runs 180 km through the Rhön between Bad Kissingen and Bad Salzungen .
The Ibengarten in the Glattbach district leads into the Wiesenthaler Schweiz hiking area at the foot of the Neuberg

Economy and Infrastructure

Commercial areas

The Untere Röde industrial park is located on the eastern outskirts of Dermbach in the area of the former Dermbach train station. It has a total area of 8.6 hectares (as of 2009).

Swimming pool 1986

Leisure and sports facilities

swimming pool
Unteralba tennis court
Sports field Unteralba
gym

Transport links

The former train station in Dermbach (2009)

Dermbach is on the federal highway 285 , which leads from Bad Salzungen to Mellrichstadt . In addition, state road 1026 ( Geisa - Schmalkalden - Gotha ) runs through Dermbach .

Dermbach had a train station on the Feldabahn ( Dorndorf - Kaltennordheim ). The line was closed in 2003 and the track system dismantled in 2008. Today the bus station is located there.

Dermbach is connected to the neighboring communities by bus lines operated by the Wartburgmobil transport company . The bus station is the central hub in the south-eastern part of the line network.

Personalities

Theodor “Theo” Lechner (1883–1975), architect; born in Dermbach
Ronny Ackermann (born May 16, 1977 in Bad Salzungen), former Nordic combined skier, spent part of his childhood in Unteralba
Thomas Bing (born April 3, 1990 in Bad Salzungen), member of the WSV Dermbach, vice-junior world champion and multiple medalist at junior world championships in cross-country skiing
Roland Hoffmann (born May 14, 1938 in Brieg ), Lutheran theologian, was superintendent in Dermbach, now regional bishop emeritus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia
Philipp Marschall (born February 5, 1988 in Bad Salzungen), member of the WSV Dermbach, junior world champion 2008 in Mals in cross-country skiing, now biathlete
Caesar Riistow (born June 18, 1826 in Brandenburg an der Havel, † July 4, 1866 in Dermbach), military writer and Prussian officer
Reinhold Schildbach (born August 10, 1933 in Dermbach / Rhön; † October 14, 2019 in Berlin), agricultural and brewing scientist

literature

Adalbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön . St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 , p. 77-80 .
Bruno Kühn: The history of the Dermbach district . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . tape 1 , 1854, ISSN 0943-9846 , p. 249-296 .
Hans Peter Mötzung: Dermbach im Feldatal - A chronicle about the history and culture of the region . parzellers Buchverlag, Fulda 2008, ISBN 978-3-7900-0402-1 .

Web links

Commons : Dermbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

^ Otto Dorbencker (arrangement and ed.): Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae (1152-1210) . tape 2 Part 1. Fischer, Jena 1898. No. 734.

↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 82-83.

↑ Source: Display collection and local history panels in the Dermbach Local History Museum

↑ Illustrirte Zeitung No. 1304 of June 27, 1868, p. 461 (with illustration)

↑ Dermbach. Meteoritical Bulletin, accessed June 5, 2020 .

^ Meteorite find from Dermbach. dermbach.de, accessed on June 5, 2020 .

^ Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .

↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 4, 2019

↑ inSüdthüringen.de of March 29, 2012

↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on May 29, 2019 .

^ Dermbach community . dermbach.info. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 3, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ http://www.wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wjahr=2016&habenErg=GEM&wknr=063&gemnr=63015

^ L. Teichmann: The Franciscan Monasteries in Central and Eastern Germany 1223–1993. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1995.

^ Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul Dermbach . Parish of St. Peter and Paul Dermbach. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 20, 2013. @1@ 2

^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district. District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, p. 79 ff.

↑ Südthüringer Zeitung on the Rhönpaulus Musical 2012.

↑ Website of the Dermbach Carneval Club ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ Business parks in the Wartburg region ( Memento from May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).