Iron doctor

Iron doctor Community Siegsdorf
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 51 ″  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	644 m
Residents :	1122
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	83313
Area code :	08662

Iron doctor

The place Eisenärzt on the map of Bavaria.

Eisenärzt is a climatic health resort in the Chiemgau and part of the municipality of Siegsdorf in the Traunstein district in Bavaria .

history

Origin of name

The local or former community name of Eisenärzt goes back to the iron ore mining that has been in operation since ancient times ; the iron stone obtained was melted on the spot and the pig iron was further processed in hammer mills.

overview

Eisenärzt is mentioned as early as 1524 as a princely Hofmark with lower jurisdiction; In 1808 this status was revoked. In 1818 the municipality Eisenärzt was founded by the municipal edict in Bavaria. In 1933 it had 617 inhabitants.

According to written records, iron processing was the economic focus of the small Hofmark from 1341 to 1878. Pig iron and scrap iron was processed in three smelting works operated by 18 tradesmen. The products were u. a. delivered to the salt works in Reichenhall and Au bei Traunstein. From 1808 to 1855 the workers worked in a private company. In 1855 the Bavarian state acquired the iron and steel works, which it shut down in 1878, leaving many iron workers unemployed. In 1882 the area of ​​the former ironworks was auctioned.

In 1965 the Feriendorf Eisenärzt of the Aid Foundation Berlin was opened, lastly consisting of 108 holiday homes. Until the end of 1971, Eisenärzt was an independent, small village community with around 1,000 inhabitants. It consisted of the main town Eisenärzt, the four small collections of houses Hörgering, Höpfling, Oberscharam and Unterscharam, as well as the other districts of Bucheck, Eckhof, Gschwendt, Lichtsberg, Maria Eck and Wiesen. On January 1, 1972, Eisenärzt was incorporated into the Siegsdorf community.

Short chronicle

General

Surrounded by the Scharam with Maria Eck and the Sulzberg with its highest elevation, the 1227 m high Zinnkopf, the village of Eisenärzt extends in the valley of the White Traun. Small farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries line the picturesque village street. As the name suggests, Eisenärzt not only owes its existence, but also its name to iron ore mining, the iron stone obtained was melted down on the spot and the pig iron was processed in hammer mills. In front of the bridge in the village stood one of the three hammer forges, of which the abandoned buildings that were later used as a sawmill (Huber sawmill) can still be seen today.

antiquity

It is not yet known whether the area around Eisenärzt was inhabited in prehistoric times. Politically, the area belonged to the Celtic Kingdom and was after the submission in 15 BC. Incorporated into the Roman Empire as the province of Noricum. After the end of Roman rule, the country was repopulated by the Bavarians who had immigrated since 535.

Late Middle Ages

An iron hammer (hammer forge) had stood there since the end of the 14th century, the ore came from the small ore mountain southwest of the village, where it can still be seen today where the iron was mined at the time. The ore was later obtained from the Kressenberg. Until 1855, these hammer mills were operated by a trade union made up of community members. The shares of the 18 tradesmen were linked to real estate. The tradesmen were characterized by a sense of community, they showed their charity for the poor, school and church for almost four centuries. From around 1640 they had a school in Eisenärzt with a teacher who was also the trade union's accountant. In 1341 Eisenärzt was first recorded as an ore mining and smelting company. As a result, experiments in mining on the so-called Erzberg and Sulzberg were made under the von Hundt family. Last but not least, the former castle of the Ravensteiners (today Rabenstein at the end of the Diesselbach valley) should be mentioned. From 1524 to 1808 Eisenärzt Hofmark was the Bavarian dukes. The actual center of the Hofmark, the 3 sinter forges, have been named by the sources since 1560. Eisenärzt was mentioned in a document in 1671, belonging to the electoral office of Traunstein, and in 1737 Eisenärzt was also the seat of the sovereign's court. In 1613 the Seeon Monastery north of the Fürberg acquired three alpine estates and in 1635 had the pilgrimage church Maria Eck, built around 1626/27 as a rectangular chapel, redesigned to the current building with an onion dome by the Traunstein builder Wolfgang König. The layout of the choir is based on the example of the Salzburg Cathedral. The monastery inn was built in 1664. With the construction of the brine pipeline from Reichenhall to Traunstein at the beginning of the 17th century and the immense need for firewood associated with the operation of a saltworks in Traunstein , logging and the profession of lumberjack became increasingly important. In 1752, the Hofmarks district included the village of Eisenärzt, with 25 small, unoccupied properties and three hammer smiths, but without real estate.

1800 until today

At the time the church was founded, in 1845, there were 446 inhabitants. In 1874 the voluntary fire brigade was founded, which had already been preceded by a "hut fire brigade" from 1808. With the end of the ironworks at the turn of the last century, more precisely in 1886, it became quiet in the village. The construction of the railway line from Traunstein to Ruhpolding in 1895 brought new life. As a result, tourism gained enormous importance and was one of the pillars of the community until the 1960s. For many years, Eisenärzt was an independent community full of pride, with at least 524 hectares of community space and almost 1,100 inhabitants. On January 1, 1972, Eisenärzt gave up his independence and it was incorporated into today's large community of Siegsdorf. The iron doctors have nevertheless retained their pride and their idiosyncrasies in many areas of village life, thanks in part to the Siegsdorf community, which made this possible. This is shown not least in the wide range of the various local associations.

Population development

year	1845	1933	1961	1970	2017
Total population	446	617	945	1011	1420
additional second homes					0116

geography

Eisenärzt (in dialect: "Eisenarzt" or just "doctor") belongs to the political community of Siegsdorf, to the Roman Catholic parish association Siegsdorf-Eisenärzt-Hammer and to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ruhpolding, Sprengel Siegsdorf. The next larger town is Traunstein , approx. 10 km to the north. By Eisenärzt flowing white Traun , resulting in Siegsdorf with the Red River Traun to Traun combined, continues to flow through Traunstein and Altenmarkt in the Alz (further leads runoff over Salzach - Inn - Danube to the Black Sea ). Neighboring towns along the valley of the Weißen Traun and the parallel state road 2098 are in the north towards Siegsdorf , approx. 3 km away and in the south direction Ruhpolding , approx. 5 km away.

Coat of arms and flag

Eisenärzt had its own municipality coat of arms and its own municipality flag since 1965. The coat of arms is divided by silver and green, above two diagonally crossed black hammers, below a silver edelweiss. The flag is striped lengthways with the color sequence black, white, green.

The coat of arms documents the economic development through iron ore mining and iron ore processing through the black forge hammers. The silver edelweiss in the lower green field indicates the location of the municipality in the Bavarian or Chiemgau Alps and its importance for tourism. The flag was derived from the dominant colors of the coat of arms, with silver being replaced by white.

Transport and infrastructure

Eisenärzt is located on State Road 2098 , which connects Siegsdorf with Ruhpolding , and on the local railway line Traunstein – Ruhpolding with the Eisenärzt stop . Regional trains of the Südostbayernbahn stop every hour . The start of construction for the barrier-free expansion of the station was planned for summer 2018. The station building had to give way.

The long-distance water pipeline for the drinking water supply of the large district town of Traunstein and other places runs underground in the middle of the former municipality of Eisenärzt in a south-north direction , from the source near the Ruhpolding district of Laubau to the elevated reservoir in the Traunstein district of Einham. The place is elevated in a side valley of the course of the former Reichenhall-Traunstein-Rosenheim brine pipeline . This was used by Eisenärzt to bring water for the brine lift in the Siegsdorf district of Himmelreich via a water pipe. The »Brunnweg« above the Traun along the slopes of the Doktorberg and Scharams still reminds of this today.

Community institutions

Current

• Community Kindergarten Eisenärzt (opened in autumn 1991, 2 groups)
• Municipal cemetery with funeral hall, bell tower, urn wall and public toilet (opened in spring 1991)
• House of clubs (project name »multi-purpose hall«, built in 1982) with a separate and integrated garage complex
  • Fire station (3 vehicle parking spaces, separate garages, 60 crew lockers in the vehicle hall, classroom, office, workshop, washroom, storage room and fuel chamber)
  • Shooting range, lounge (which is also the fire department's classroom) and kitchen of the Eisenärzt shooting club
  • Changing rooms (originally for football department) and lounge (formerly for ice shooting department) of the ski club iron doctor
  • shared toilets
  • Caretaker's apartment
  • In the garage complex there is a transformer station of the local EVU, garages and storage rooms for caretakers, ski club and fire brigade, as well as the garden festival storage room for the iron doctors village associations.
• Adventure playground in Hörgering
• Elevated tanks of the Siegsdorf drinking and service water supply in Eckhof, Lichtsberg and Maria Eck
• Several rain retention basins in the Siegsdorf sewage network

Former

• Municipal kindergarten in the rear part of today's Gasthof Alpenrose (at the time of the 3rd Reich, from around the end of the 1930s)
• Waldschwimmbad Eisenärzt (1950s to early 1990s)
• Eisenärzt primary school (built in 1895, used as a primary and secondary school until the mid-1960s, building also housed the volunteer fire brigade until the move to the club house, demolished in 1988)

Other public institutions

• Holzwurm forest kindergarten (at the former forest swimming pool, 1 group)

Church institutions

• Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Church in Hörgering (consecrated on November 21, 1976, built as a replacement for the "old" St. Joseph's Church)
• Former Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Church (located between the train station and the old schoolhouse, consecrated on November 14, 1926, the wooden structure previously served as an emergency church in Freilassing, demolished at the end of the 1970s)
• 14-Nothelfer Chapel (consecrated on April 21, 2013, built under the auspices of the Eisenärzter Heimatverein in the village community's own contribution, stands on the site of the former St. Joseph's Church)
• Monastery of the Franciscan Minorites in Maria Eck
  • Pilgrimage church
  • Monastery inn
  • St. Antonius chapel (in the monastery), Franziskusklause (hermitage), forest chapel, Mittereggstadl, Seehuberhaus (former economic wing)

societies

There are local associations

• Bauerntheater Eisenärzt eV
• Club of the old
• Volunteer fire department iron doctor
• Tourist Association Eisenärzt (dissolved 2017)
• Heimatverein Eisenärzt
• Warrior and soldier comradeship Iron doctor
• Schützenverein Eisenärzt
• Skiclub-Eisenärzt eV (SCE) with the departments
  • Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing / Nordic, mountain biking, football, running club, ice stock sport (formerly)
• Trachtenverein GTEV "D'Arztberger" iron doctor
  • Children's group, active boys and dirndls, doctor Goaßlschnalzer, age department

Under the leadership of the Heimatverein, the former woodworker's accommodation "Diesselbachstube" was leased on a long-term basis by the forest administration, extensively renovated in-house and can now be used by the local iron doctors' associations.

Leisure and sports facilities

Current

• Football pitch at the club house
• Gym in the club house
• In winter, cross-country trails on the sports field with floodlights. Cross-country trail connection to Spatzreit near Siegsdorf.
• Asphalt or ice rink at the club's house is also used as a skate rink (including halfpipe, quarterpipe, etc.), basketball hoops are available
• Mountain bike race track (forest road) to the Zinnkopf (the legendary »Zinnkopfrennen« has been held there since the late 1980s)
• Nordic walking routes from the former forest swimming pool car park to the Diesselbachtal

Former

• Toboggan run from Sulzberg (forest path branches off from Buchecker Straße)
• Ski run from Sulzberg (Buchecker Köpfl to Bucheck)

Spa and tourist facilities

• Various hiking trails and mountain bike routes along the Trauntal and to the surrounding mountains and peaks
• Kneipp facility near Höpfling
• Marienheim Eisenärzt (nurses' home of the "Congregation of the Poor Franciscan Sisters of Mallersdorf" until 2015, until the mid-1990s with an attached senior citizens' home. Now asylum seekers' home owned by the Siegsdorf community)
• Bayernpark Feriendorf (formerly the holiday village of the “Stiftung Hilfswerk Berlin”, then initially owned by the Dutch Roompot Group, subsequently owned by the Max Aicher Group, demolished in 2017 to create a residential area there, part of which was bought back by the municipality to realize a "local model" there)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the village of Eisenärzt

• Ernst Reiter (* 1962), biathlete ( biathlon world cup winner , world championship and Olympic medalist , competed for the Eisenärzt ski club)

Persons associated with iron doctor

• Franz Xaver Holzhey (* 1885, † 1945), captain and "bravery officer" of the First World War , who threatened the destruction of the Eisenärzt military hospital in the last days of the Second World War by putting up a Red Cross sign at both entrances prevented and was executed for it
• Elisabeth Flickenschildt (* 1905, † 1977) was a German stage and film actress
• Theodor Tolsdorff (* 1909, † 1978), last lieutenant general of the Wehrmacht , bearer of the " oak leaves with swords and diamonds for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross " executed Franz Xaver Holzhey , who had been sentenced to death by himself shortly before the court . two hours before US troops moved in, for alleged "cowardly surrender" by hand
• Marianne Hoppe (* 1909, † 2002) was a German actress
• Walter Flemmer (* 1936), German author and director, longtime deputy television director and cultural director of Bavarian Broadcasting
• Armin Wirth (* 1971), music producer and label manager

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 581 .
2. ↑ Festschrift of the volunteer fire department Eisenärzt on the 125th anniversary of the founding in 1999, p. 36, author Robert Göllner
3. ^ The station building is being demolished - Traunstein district - Traunsteiner Tagblatt . ( traunsteiner-tagblatt.de [accessed on January 12, 2018]).