Ebertshausen (Zella Mehlis)

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Ebertshausen
City of Zella-Mehlis
Coat of arms of Ebertshausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 381 m above sea level NN
Residents : 300  (2013)
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Incorporated into: Benshausen
Postal code : 98554
Area code : 036843
Ebertshausen (Thuringia)
Ebertshausen

Location of Ebertshausen in Thuringia

Village church
Village church

Ebertshausen is a settlement in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia , which belongs to the district of Benshausen in the city of Zella-Mehlis .

location

Ebertshausen is located in the Lichtenau valley , which leads from Zella-Mehlis to Schwarza . District road 580, formerly B 280, runs through it. The valley is narrow. In the valley there are mostly meadows next to watercourses and wooded foothills of the Thuringian Forest to the right and left .

history

Ebertshausen, an originally Franconian, until 1660 Henneberg, until 1816 Electoral Saxon, then Prussian and since 1944/45 Thuringian village, was mentioned on October 2, 838 in a letter of donation under the name Eburiseshuson. Another documentary mention of 1221 is documented. The terraced grassland locations are reminiscent of the once barren life in the Thuringian Forest. Farm products were produced to support nutrition - hence the terrace meadows.

Ebertshausen was persecuted by witches in 1598/1599 . One woman got into a witch trial and was burned.

Ebertshausen was parish off to Benshausen after the Thirty Years War , but has a church . Judicially it belonged first to the centering Benshausen and came up with this for Saxon Office Kühndorf . On March 8, 1994, the place was finally incorporated into Benshausen. On January 1, 2019, Ebertshausen became part of Zella-Mehlis together with Benshausen as part of the incorporation of Benshausen.

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke (Ed.): Codex Diplomaticus Fuldensis. Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1850, item 520 .
  2. ^ 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. 62.
  3. Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 55 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Benshausen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 232 and 253, (also: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000); Manfred Wilde : The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-10602-X , pp. 466-471, (also: Chemnitz, Technical University, habilitation paper, 2002).
  4. Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 21, 2019

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