Eichenberg (near Suhl)

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 10 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Hildburghausen
Management Community :	Field stone
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.5 km 2
Residents:	165 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98553
Area code :	036873
License plate :	HBN
Community key :	16 0 69 011
Community structure:	Oberdorf, Unterdorf
Association administration address:	Mauerstr. 9 98660 Themar
Mayor :	Lutz Röhrig (FwV)
Location of the community Eichenberg in the district of Hildburghausen

Eichenberg is a municipality in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia. The community belongs to the Feldstein administrative community with its administrative headquarters in the city of Themar .

geography

Eichenberg lies at the transition from the Thuringian Forest to the Werra valley, about 10 kilometers south of Suhl . About two kilometers to the north, the 692-meter-high Schneeberg, the highest mountain in the so-called Little Thuringian Forest, rises .

View of Eichenberg

history

The village was mentioned for the first time in a document dated August 7th, 1130. Eychyneberg was mentioned in a document of the Roman-German Emperor Heinrich V dated August 26th, 1111, but this document must include the So-called Reinhardsbrunner forgeries from a later period can be attributed.

Until 1815, the place belonged to the Henneberg or Electoral Saxon office Schleusingen . From 1815 to 1945 Eichenberg belonged to Prussia and administratively to the Schleusingen district . From 1946 to 1994 Eichenberg belonged to the Suhl-Land district . Since July 1, 1994, the community has been incorporated into the Hildburghausen district.

politics

The council in Eichenberg consists of six council members, who in the local elections in 2014 in a majority vote were elected.

Mayor of the community is Lutz Röhrig. He was elected on February 24, 2019.

Culture and sights

Buildings

On a hill on the west side of the village rises the Protestant church that defines the village . In the center of the village there is a small park with a fountain and a memorial in honor of the Eichenberger who fell in the two world wars.

traffic

Local roads lead from Eichenberg in the direction of Bischofrod , Lengfeld and Grub .

Personalities

• Robert Gladitz (1892–1945), socialist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime

Web links

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

• Website of the administrative association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Publishing house Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, Neuausg. 2005, p. 41
3. ^ Dobencker, Otto: Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae. Vol. 1: c. 500-1152 No. 1069; Issued in Jena (1896)
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Schleusingen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ 2014 municipal council election , accessed on May 13, 2019
6. ↑ Mayoral election 2019 , accessed on May 13, 2019