Friedrichshöhe (ice field)

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Friedrichshöhe
City of ice field
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 42 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 786 m above sea level NN
Residents : 60  (2012)
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Incorporated into: Sachsenbrunn
Postal code : 98678
Area code : 036704
Thuringian Forest Nature Park Center
Thuringian Forest Nature Park Center

Friedrichshöhe is a district of the city of Eisfeld in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

location

Friedrichshöhe is located on a high plateau in the Thuringian Slate Mountains north of Eisfeld and southeast of Masserberg am Rennsteig . The village is in the middle of mountain meadows, framed by forests at 800 meters above sea level. There is a traffic connection via an access road to federal highway 281 .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document on September 1, 1725. It was founded by glassmakers from Fehrenbach and Stützerbach and was named after the sovereign Duke Ernst Friedrich I of Saxony-Hildburghausen . Until the fall of the Wall , the village with 32 inhabitants was the smallest independent town in the GDR . Friedrichshöhe has belonged to the Sachsenbrunn community since 1994 . In 2012, 60 residents lived in 30 houses in the district.

On January 1, 2019, Friedrichshöhe came to the city of Eisfeld as part of the incorporation of Sachsenbrunn.

Web links

Commons : Friedrichshöhe am Rennsteig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 80
  2. ^ Friedrichshöhe on the Sachsenbrunn website.Retrieved January 28, 2017
  3. Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 20, 2019