Effelder (Frankenblick)

Effelder Community Frankenblick
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 38 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 39"  E
Height :	380 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	1994
Incorporated into:	Effelder-Rauenstein
Postal code :	96528
Area code :	036766
Location of Effelder in Thuringia
Evangelical Kilian's Church in Effelder

Effelder is a village in the district of Sonneberg ( Thuringia ). It is part of the community of Frankenblick .

geography

Effelder is located in the Effelder valley at about 380 meters above sea level on the southern edge of the Thuringian Slate Mountains . It is a street village that extends along the B89 .

history

The place was first mentioned in the year 956. A document from the Banz monastery mentions “Affeldrahe”, but there are doubts about the authenticity of this document. Effelder is undisputedly a very old settlement. This is also evident in the Kilian's Church. This is dedicated to the Franconian patron saint Kilian . The outside of the church appears as a late medieval fortified church , the inside appears very spacious. The church in Effelder was the mother church of 18 parishes in the surrounding area, the parish extended to Steinach, approx. 15 km away .

The town's defining buildings are the castle, long owned by the von Schaumbergs , today the seat of the municipal administration, and the school, a very impressive building from 1910. Nevertheless, the students from Effelder today have to be driven to the surrounding communities to teach in the old one School some clubs have found a place to stay. The topography of the parish Effelder, which was written by the pastor Thimotheus Heim around 1800, is a valuable document on the history of the municipality of Effelder and the surrounding areas. Heim described the geographical location as well as the economy and population structure extremely precisely and thus provided a very precise picture of the rural lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Effeldertal. The poet Friedrich Rückert was a welcome guest of the pastor's family, but his deep affection for Heim's daughter Friederike was ultimately unrequited. The tomb of Thimotheus Heim is still accessible today on the church wall.

Effelder and the neighboring villages of Blatterndorf , Seltendorf and Grümpen experienced an economic boom with the construction of Meininger Chaussee from 1830. This road connected the ducal seat of Meiningen with Sonneberg . The Chaussee was laid out in a stately width for that time and thus shaped the face of the places lying on it, which spread along the course of the road. Today the federal road 89 runs along this route. The new road also formed the basis for the development of the toy industry around the turn of the century. For many families, making dolls (docking) was a livelihood. Plaster molds of these figures that are no longer required can be found in the partition walls of many (half-timbered) houses in the entire Sonneberg-Neustadt-Coburg region as "bricks". A toy factory existed in Effelder until the turn of the millennium. In 1909, the Eisfeld – Sonneberg line was connected to the railway network.

In 1923, Blatterndorf and Korberoth were incorporated. In 1992 the Effelder administrative community was established with the towns of Rabenüßig , Rückerswind and Seltendorf, and in 1994 the municipality of Effelder-Rauenstein was established with Effelder as its administrative center. Effelder became part of the Frankenblick community on January 1, 2012 as part of the merger of the communities of Effelder-Rauenstein and Mengersgereuth-Hammern .

traffic

The place is on the B 89 , which leads from Sonneberg to Meiningen . It has a train station on the Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway line .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The castle in Effelder , the seat of the municipal administration and cultural center as early as the GDR era, was the successor to the moated castle originally built as a Banz fief by the Schaumberg knights around 1225. It was converted into a castle in the 16th century.
• The cemetery was surrounded by a stone wall in the 16th century, which also has loopholes on the east and west sides.
• Next to the church and the rectory is an old building known as the “stone house”. The local history mentions that it was a property belonging to the Banz monastery and served as a hostel for the monks passing through. A stone embedded in the wall bears the inscription:

DISHAV SDEHED INGODE SHANDZ 1593 UMGRO PG SENKES ISDESGENAND

Basically: This house is in God's hands . It is called the “Big Cheese”.

Natural monuments

Tanzlinde, planted in 1707

• The 300-year-old Tanzlinde on the village square in Effelder was verifiably planted in 1707. Until 1751, the lower part of the tree was “educated” - the branches were tied up and trimmed so that a wooden dance floor could be built into the linden tree. Since then, the fair society has been meeting at this place on the second weekend in July for a plant dance .
• The Krumme Stein is a striking boulder and was first mentioned in a border description in 1378. It was a natural border between the Schaumberg office of Schalkau and the Henneberg-Meißnian office of Neustadt on the Heide. Later he marked the border between the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen and the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg , then between Thuringia and Bavaria and from 1949 to 1990 between the GDR and the FR of Germany.

Regular events

The fair in Effelder takes place every year on the second weekend in July.

dialect

Itzgründisch , a Main Franconian dialect, is spoken in Effelder .

Others

The oldest recipe for the much-praised Thuringian dumplings comes from Pastor Friedrich Timotheus Heim from Effelder (near Sonneberg) in his handwritten “Topography of the Parish Game Effelder” (1808–1814).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Schwämmlein: Double names shaped the first reform. In: Free Word , February 14, 2013.
2. ^ Thuringian Association for Home Care. Yearbook. 1912, ZDB -ID 554725-8 , p. 77 .
3. ↑ Rainer Graefe: Buildings from living trees. Guided dance and court linden trees . Geymüller, Verl. For Architecture, Aachen [a. a.] 2014, ISBN 978-3-943164-08-4 .
4. ↑ Advertising page for the municipality of Effelder-Rauenstein in the “Tips '99” tourism brochure of the Sonneberg District Office. Sonneberg 1999, p. 24.
5. ^ RH Reuter (Effelder): The crooked stone at Effelder . In: Reinhold Vesper (Ed.): Thüringer Heimatschutz . tape 4 . G. Neuenhahn, Jena 1937, p. 30-31 .
6. ↑ Homepage of Michael Kirchschlager
7. ↑ 3sat