Ebenau (Creuzburg Office)

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Ebenau
City of Creuzburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 195 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : 1922
Incorporated into: Creuzburg
Postal code : 99831
Area code : 036926
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Ebenau is a small settlement in the district of Creuzburg , Stadt Amt Creuzburg in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

Ebenau is located about 1 kilometer northeast of Creuzburg on the left bank of the Werra in the area of ​​the Werra breakthrough valley between Creuzburg and Mihla . The Ebenau cliffs and the Nordmannsteine frame the place, the courtyards of the place are half-timbered houses from the 17th century. The geographic height of the place is 195  m above sea level. NN .

history

Ebenau was first mentioned in a document in 1378. Like all small settlements and farms that arose along the Werra between Creuzburg and Mihla in the Middle Ages, Ebenau was parish off to Creuzburg and was owned by the St. Jakob nunnery in Creuzburg . After the secularization , nobles, patricians and other wealthy people from Creuzburg acquired these goods. The place belonged to the office of Creuzburg in the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach , later Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .

In 1879 the place had six houses with 33 inhabitants. Due to an administrative reform in 1922, the settlements Ebenau, Buchenau , Eschenborn , Mihlberg and Hahnroda were incorporated into Creuzburg. As early as 1925 this was partially reversed and Buchenau upgraded to an independent municipality, whose district became Ebenau. In 1962 Ebenau, Eschenborn and Mihlberg were transferred to Creuzburg; the settlements of Eschenborn and Mihlberg were given up shortly afterwards.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Werratal cycle path near Ebenau

Ebenau is on Landesstraße 1017 , which connects Creuzburg with Mihla.

From 1907 on, the Schwebda – Wartha railway passed Ebenau and crossed the Werra north of the village. In 1915 the place received a stop on the route for a few years. Passenger traffic between Wartha and Mihla was stopped in 1962, freight traffic in 1968 after the closure of the Solvay plant in Buchenau . The still intact superstructure of the bridge over the Werra was removed in 1980. Sections of the railway line are now part of the Werra Valley cycle path .

Ebenau-Buchenau quarry

On the opposite bank of the Werra, the Ebenau cliffs rise up from the valley floor as a striking rock face. With the approval of the state government, a quarry began to be built on its northern edge, which initially served the Solvay plant in Buchenau for soda production. The quarry continued to be used when the extraction of soda had to be stopped in the 1970s. A small construction company used the remaining material to manufacture hollow blocks and paving slabs for residential construction. After 1990, an investor discovered the quarry and received permission to resume production.

The weekly demolitions associated with this angered the residents, and regional politicians tried to limit the mining on the grounds of nature and landscape protection - the adjacent area has been designated as the Klosterholz and Nordmannssteine nature reserve since the 1960s . The final operating plan provides for the final closure and partial renaturation of the opencast mine for 2013. The complete renaturation was completed by the end of 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. M 1: 25000 sheet 4927 Creuzburg, Thüringer Landesvermessungsamt 1997, ISBN 3-86140-035-9
  2. Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 62
  4. ^ C. Kronfeld: Regional studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . Second part. Weimar 1879. pp. 34f.
  5. Image impressions from 2006 show the extent of the rocks that have already been removed, in the background the Ebenau settlement 400 m away.
  6. Heavy discussion in the local council. Mihla municipal administration, September 18, 2009, accessed on September 17, 2012 : “(7.) The final operating plan must definitely contain the statement that after the operating permit expires, by June 2013 at the latest, all work in the quarry and all renaturation work must be completed. There must be no stipulation of the dismantling quantities, which would then make a possible extension of the current final operating plan necessary. In this context, reference is made to the explanations of the new ROP (reserved area for tourism and recreation, Mihla as a place with a tourism and recreational function). "
  7. ^ Renaturation in the Buchenau quarry rated as successful , Thüringer Allgemeine, December 10, 2014

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