Dorotheenthal (Arnstadt)

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The old people's home on the site of the faience factory.
Dorotheenthal street sign.

Dorotheenthal is a settlement within the district town of Arnstadt in the Ilm district , Free State of Thuringia . This small settlement, which has existed continuously for about 300 years, is an integral part of the Angelhausen-Oberdorf district.

location

The Dorotheenthal is located south of Arnstadt and southwest of Angelhausen-Oberndorf on the provincial road 1047 from Arnstadt towards Dannheim . To the east is the belonging to Arnstadt City Forest Grove grove as a remnant of the former landscape park with the so-called "Preiss Oak" at the southern tip. The wooded Fürstengrund between the Finkenberg and Roter Berg descends to the west of the state road . The grove extends in the northwest to the castle hill of the Kevernburg (today Käfernburg ).

history

In the stage of the late medieval country development around Arnstadt, there were two settlements - Siechersdorf and Braunsrode - on the southern edge of the Hain, they became deserted. In 1715 Auguste Dorothea owned a test farm for faience in the house next to the Oberndorf church . In the same year she founded the Dorotheenthal factory and dissolved the previous facility. The clay pits were on the edge of the grove, not far from the manufactory. The production was no longer profitable for her, so she leased the business in 1724 and later it was sold. The owners changed often. The manufactory was in production until 1804.

The Dorotheenthal settlement was first mentioned in a document on October 18, 1717.

In the meantime, the manufactory's buildings have been converted and expanded into the Dorotheenthal AG senior citizens' residential park. A Christian chapel has been built on the company premises, which is mainly used by the local senior citizens.

In the area of ​​the Dorotheenthal itself, there is a two-part allotment garden with a few houses. Several buildings have been converted over the years. For example, the former well-known village pub "Rößchen" and a small LPG are used for living.

Settlement pressure, as a result of the displaced persons from the First and Second World War and industrialization, has shrunk the space between Angelhausen-Oberndorf and Dorotheenthal from approx. 550 m to 250 m as the crow flies within approx. 100 years. Even if the densification continues everywhere in Angelhausen-Oberndorf, this existing open space is available through different protected areas, such as B. a drinking water protection area, protected from the development and thus to be described as spatially stable. In the GDR era, spatial planning was considered to close a gap. Even as a result of the turning point in 1990 and with the ongoing problems of demographic change, this has not been carried out until today. Nevertheless, different initiatives by clients have shrunk the open space to this day, so that a street, the Schloßbergweg, has emerged right up to the protected area boundaries. This represents the current possible settlement boundary between Oberndorf and Dorotheenthal .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HEMüllerott: Boniface and the cradle of the Counts of Käfernburg-Schwarzenburg in the Middle Thuringian Forest ... Thuringian Chronicle Publishing, Arnstadt, 1994, ISBN 3-910132-21-9 , p 68
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 246

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 22.2 ″  E