Friedebach (Krölpa)

Friedebach Krölpa municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 27 ″ N , 11 ° 30 ′ 15 ″ E
Height :	281 m
Residents :	200 (1996)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1997
Postal code :	07387
Area code :	03647

Friedebach is a district of the municipality of Krölpa in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

Location and transport links

Friedebach is an approximately 2.7 kilometers long, very loosely built forest hoof village in the Heide , a forest area in the southwest of the Saale-Elster sandstone slab . The church (assumed center of the village) is about five kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the Krölpa village. However, due to the relief of the terrain, about nine kilometers must be covered on the road between the two places. The main street "Am Krebsbach" rises from the entrance to the town from about 245 meters to about 300 meters above sea level. The Wüstenhofsmühle farm is located about one kilometer south of the village . The place with its only small fields and pastures is completely surrounded by forest and the Krebsbach flows through it along its entire length . This brook rises at Johannihut about five kilometers from Friedebach, feeds several carp ponds and flows into the Saale at Zeutsch .

The state road 1107 Zeutsch - Langenschade - Saalfeld originally ran through Friedebach . It was released from the state's sponsorship until 2009 and rededicated from the Wüstenhofsmühle campsite to Reichenbach as a forest road . For this purpose, the bitumen cover was largely removed; Delineator posts and station signs (without street numbers) were retained. The place is therefore only accessible from the north for public motor vehicle traffic. District road 204 to Krölpa also begins at the northern entrance to the village ( Riethe intersection ) .

The Zeutsch stop of the Saale Railway is about six kilometers from the town .

history

The place Friedebach was first mentioned in a document in 1071. Friedebach later belonged to the Saalfeld district in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , which continued in the state of Thuringia until 1952. In that year Friedebach was assigned to the newly founded Pößneck district , which was added to the Saale-Orla district in 1994. Despite its small number of inhabitants (95 inhabitants on December 31, 1990, making it the third smallest municipality in the district), Friedebach remained independent until the end of 1996. On January 1, 1997, the place was incorporated into Krölpa.

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

1910: 126
1933: 133
1939: 124

1990: 95
1994: 272
1995: 190
1996: 200

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Economy and tourism

There are only a few fields and pastures in the immediate vicinity. In contrast, the extensive coniferous forests in the area are used for forestry purposes. In the 1990s in Friedebach the restaurants and guesthouses that still existed no longer exist today (2019). There is a closed permanent campsite and a managed fishing pond near the Wüstenhofsmühle .

Tourist destinations in the vicinity are:

St. Nicholas Church
Hiking area Vordere and Hinterheide with marked trails (suitable for running and cycling) and refuges
Töpfersdorf desert with church ruins
Uhlstädter Heide nature reserve with information points