Erlau (Schleusingen)

Erlau City of Schleusingen Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 11 ″  E
Height :	about 408 m
Residents :	1260  (2009)
Incorporation :	3rd October 1991
Incorporated into:	St. Kilian
Postal code :	98553
Area code :	036841
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Erlau is a district of Schleusingen in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

geography

Erlau is located on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest southeast of Suhl in the lower valley of the Alder and is surrounded by about 600 meters high mountains. The Vessertal biosphere reserve begins near the village .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1144 and belonged to the county of Henneberg and its office Schleusingen . In addition to the landlords, the Veßra monastery also had local rights. After agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry predominated in the Middle Ages, there were several cutting and grinding mills from the 16th century. In 1611 there were 489 inhabitants. During the Thirty Years' War the place suffered a lot, the number of houses decreased from 80 in 1631 to 48 in 1659, the population loss was around two thirds. It was not until the early 19th century that the losses of the war were made up again.

In 1714, a former cutting mill became the Eisenhammer Erlau , which offered work to many residents during the time it was in operation until 1884. Another important modern branch of business was wool weaving, which 25 of 55 craft businesses in 1841 were engaged in. After 1853 the glassworks between Raasen and Schleusingen offered work, and in 1914 a glassworks was also built in Erlau.

In 1815 the place came with the Electoral Saxon Office Schleusingen to the Schleusingen district of the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony , where it remained until 1945. During the Second World War , 91 women and men, mainly from Poland, had to do forced labor in agriculture in Erlau . During the GDR era, Erlau was particularly a location for lighting production. From 1967 onwards, after the construction of a forest pool, a campsite and several holiday bungalows, the place gained importance as a recreational area.

On October 3, 1991, Erlau was incorporated into the parish of St. Kilian . This was incorporated into Schleusingen on July 6, 2018.

traffic

State road 3247 leads through Erlau to Schleusingen and Suhl .

You can reach Hirschbach , Suhl, Schleusingen and Hildburghausen every hour on weekdays (sometimes every half hour) on the Werrabus GmbH bus line 200 or 203 . There are individual connections to the other parts of the municipality, except on weekends, via line 809.

The Friedbergbahn has been closed since 1997, but the Dampfbahnfreunde Mittlerer Rennsteig eV plan to use it in museum traffic.

Attractions

• Waldbad Erlau
• Cross mark

Personalities

• Johann Caspar Kummer (1795–1870), flautist, composer and music teacher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945 , series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 132 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
2. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
3. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018
4. ↑ Timetable of the WerraBus line 200 ( memento of the original from March 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Horst H. Müller: travel guide Thuringian Forest and peripheral areas . 1977, p. 314 ff.

Web links

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