Friedrichsthal (Sonneberg)

Friedrichsthal City of Sonneberg Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 58 ″  E
Incorporation :	1901
Incorporated into:	Eschenthal
Postal code :	96515
Area code :	036762
Location and extent of Friedrichsthal around 1850

Friedrichstal is a district of the city of Sonneberg in the district of Sonneberg in Thuringia .

location

The village of Friedrichsthal is located in the upper Ölsetal on the southern roof of the Thuringian Slate Mountains . The high areas are characterized by mountain meadows and forests as well as rivers. There is a traffic connection with the state road 1150 and the state road 2658 . Down in the valley to the south is the border with Bavaria . Tettau lies further east behind Spechtsbrunn .

Friedrichsthal

history

The mountain village was first mentioned in a document on December 8, 1660. The place name Friedrichsthal was created in honor of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxony-Altenburg . In 1661, the builders of the iron hammer mill received the concession to build the hammer mill.

The Baumann family owned the hammer for a long time. Rows of houses and other things were created for the workers. In 1808 Gottlieb Mylius, whose father was married to Baumann's daughter Juliane Friederike, had copper coins of 2 and 24 kreuzers minted, which circulated as full-value money in many places in the area until the introduction of the imperial currency (1873). In 1837 the hammer mill went down. The grandson, Heinrich Mylius, who was born in Friedrichsthal, made a name for himself as a bourgeois democrat, dialect poet and inventor of the pedal crank bicycle.

On both sides of the Ölse and at the foot of the Hammer- and Zinnberg, rows of houses were built, they were called "Oberfriedrichsthal" and "Gräfenthaler Friedrichsthal", the Ölse served as a border marker. Oberfriedrichsthal belonged to the Sonneberg administrative office, the other to Graefenthal. The river later divided the districts of Sonneberg and Saalfeld.

In 1901 Friedrichsthal, Eschenthal and Georgshütte merged to form the municipality of Eschenthal . In 1994 it was incorporated into the municipality of Engnitzthal , in 1997 into the municipality of Oberland am Rennsteig and finally in 2014 into the city of Sonneberg. The cutting mill Friedrichsthal was operated until the introduction of the exclusion zone by the authorities of the GDR . A breeding operation for highland cattle was established on the site at the beginning of the 21st century.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 80.
2. ^ Georg Brückner : Regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen. Part 2: The topography of the country. Brückner and Renner, Meinigen 1853, p. 590 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrichsthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files