Emstadt

Emstadt City of Schalkau Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 17 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	486 m above sea level NN
Residents :	26  (2016)
Incorporation :	March 8, 1994
Postal code :	96528
Area code :	036766
Emstadt in Schalkau
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Emstadt is a district of Schalkau in the district of Sonneberg in Thuringia , together with the hamlets of Görsdorf and Truckendorf, which are supervised by the municipality .

location

The small farming village is located southwest of Schalkau and is on the border with Bavaria . The border town is surrounded on three sides by Bavarian territory. The nature reserve Magerrasen near Emstadt and Itzaue is in the immediate vicinity.

history

The place was probably mentioned for the first time in 1205. 33 residents live in the hamlet in 2012.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Görsdorf and Truckendorf were incorporated.

During the time of the division of Germany, the place was shaped by the measures taken by the GDR authorities to guard the inner-German border . In 1976 the face of the village was greatly changed by the demolition of a large number of abandoned courtyards. What remains of this time is the natural remainder of the former border strip.

dialect

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of nature reserves in Thuringia
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. 69.
3. ↑ The location on the website of the city of Schalkau ( memento from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on April 22, 2012.

Web links

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