Gehlberg
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Gehlberg
City of Suhl
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| Height : | 720 m |
| Area : | 20.43 km² |
| Residents : | 502 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 25 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 98528 |
| Area code : | 036845 |
 Location of Gehlberg in Suhl
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Gehlberg is a district of the independent city of Suhl in Thuringia in Germany . The place is in the Thuringian Forest .
geography
Gehlberg is located on the northern slope of the Thuringian Forest on a plateau between the valleys of Wilder and Zahmer Gera in the Thuringian Forest. The place extends from about 680 to 750 meters in height. The district of Gehlberger Grund, which is separated from the rest of the village, is located at an altitude of about 600 meters in the valley of the Langen Bach . The Rennsteig runs two kilometers south of the village. About one kilometer to the west is the 978 meter high Schneekopf , the second highest mountain in Thuringia. Gehlberg is surrounded by extensive spruce forests; During hurricane Kyrill in January 2007, there was sometimes very severe forest damage here.
In addition to the Schneekopf u. a. also the decorations .
Neighboring places
Gehlberg is surrounded by large areas of spruce forest. The next cities or municipalities in clockwise direction, starting in the north, are: Geratal , Elgersburg , Ilmenau , Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig , Goldlauter-Heidersbach , Suhl and Oberhof .
The distance to the nearest neighboring town of Gräfenroda is just under ten kilometers by road, making Gehlberg one of the most isolated places in Germany.
history
Gehlberg was founded in 1645 in the course of the construction of a glassworks privileged by Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha in the Black Forest . The first glassworks in the village was founded by the two glass masters from Fehrenbach , Hans Holland and David Schmidt. The place, which initially consisted of only two houses with a bakery and brewery as well as a cutting mill , is the youngest place to be founded in today's Ilm district . In 1793 there were 169 inhabitants, in 1820 there were 230. After the construction of a hollow glass factory in Gehlberg was approved in 1821, sheet glass was produced there from 1842 . The factory became the town's main employer. In the 19th century, Gehlberg became a center for the manufacture of thermometers and technical glass items for measuring instruments. Specially shaped glass was the prerequisite for X-ray tubes and comparable electron beam tubes that were initially still manufactured by hand . In this area, too, Gehlberg companies (Gundelach) initially had a high market share. In 1875 120 of the 450 inhabitants were employed there. Industrial glass production was continued in its own glassworks during the GDR era and was not discontinued until 1990. To this day Gehlberg is considered a glassmaker's place.
Gehlberg belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha until 1918 , to the Free State of Saxony-Gotha until 1920, to the Thuringian district of Arnstadt between 1922 and 1952 , to the district of Suhl-Land until 1994 and to the Ilm district and the administrative community of Upper Geratal until 2019 .
After the municipal council had already decided in January 2018 to join the independent city of Suhl and the city council of Suhl also voted for the incorporation of the municipality on March 21, 2018, 219 of 383 Gehlbergers (57.3 %) for a change to Suhl. The integration was completed on January 1, 2019.
Population development
Development of the population:
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Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values from December 31st
politics
Former councilor
The former council of the community of Gehlberg consisted of eight councilors.
- Schneekopfverein Gehlberg e. V .: 2 seats
- Fasching voter group and Kirmesverein Gehlberg: 1 seat
- Voting group per Gehlberg: 5 seats
(As of June 16, 2017)
Former mayor
In the election for the honorary mayor of Gehlberg on June 5, 2016, Rainer Gier emerged as the winner with 71.4% of the votes. Before that, he held the post of deputy mayor for a term. Rainer Gier was the successor to Hans Lehrke, who had previously been the mayor of Gehlberg for two terms.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on May 14, 1992.
Blazon : “In green a raised, curled golden tip, in it a green spruce growing on a green hill; at the top in front a golden blossom, at the top behind a golden goblet. "
The history of Gehlberg began in 1645 with the establishment of a glassworks, which formed the basis for economic development. Spruce and arnica blossom refer to the forests around the place.
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .
Local partnerships
- Breuna in Hesse
Culture and sights
A leaflet from the tourist information office provides information about some of the town's historical buildings.
Mountain church
The mountain church was built in 1751 as probably the last work by the Gothic master builder Johann Erhard Straßburger . The foundation stone was laid on September 15, 1749. The architect could not hear the first sermon on April 19, 1754 because he had died in Gotha three months earlier.
In 1857 the church received a new organ from the workshop of Friedrich and Guido Knauf . In 1859 the wooden shingle roof was exchanged for a slate roof. In 1938 a new gallery painting was created with flora and fauna motifs of the Thuringian Forest; the winged altar by the painter Ludwig Treß dates from 1952 and shows biblical motifs. A wooden house ( House for Faithfulness to God ), which later served as a parish and parish house, was given to the parish in 1962 by the Lutheran Church of Finland ; since the place no longer has its own pastor's office , it is now used as a kindergarten (Haselbrunnstrasse). The parish belongs to the parish of Graefenroda .
At the end of the Second World War , in April 1945, the fire control tunnel was to be blown up. The Reichsbahn chief secretary Ernst Kallert (1901–1947), whose gravestone in the cemetery in Gehlberg bears this information, is said to have made a significant contribution to the fact that the project was not implemented.
Museums
- Museum of Gehlberg Glass Tradition in the center of the village
- Poaching Museum
Excursion destinations
- In four kilometers away is located at the Rennsteig belonging to Gehlberg decorations . At 916 meters above sea level, the excursion restaurant is the highest inn on the Rennsteig.
- After the withdrawal of Soviet troops in the early 1990s, the 978-meter-high Schneekopf with a lookout tower that was rebuilt in 2007/2008 and the mountain hut that opened in 2010 are among the most important hiking destinations in the Gehlberg area . Every year the Schneekopffest and the Jägersteinfest take place there, for which thousands of guests gather on the summit.
- The Gehlberg nature and adventure trail was laid out and signposted between Gehlberg and the Gabelbachskopf .
Economy and Transport
Gehlberg has been a glassmaking village since it was founded. The glass industry existed until 1990, today there are still some artisan glassblowers . During the GDR era, Gehlberg was a heavily frequented FDGB vacation spot. As a state-approved resort , the community has several hotels and pensions; Tourism is the most important industry in the place.
Gehlberg is on the Schmücke - Gräfenroda road , although the road connection is very detouring due to the topography. The distance on the road to Ilmenau, nine kilometers east (as the crow flies), is 23 kilometers and to Suhl, ten kilometers southwest, 25 kilometers. The place also has a train station on the Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen line , which is a section of the connection between Erfurt and Würzburg. The station is about one kilometer north in the Wild Gera valley in Gehlberger Grund , just before the portal of the Brandleitetunnel , which ends at the Oberhof station , which has been closed since December 2017 .
Personalities
- Hans Kehr (1862–1916), surgeon , founder of biliary tract surgery in Germany, worked as a patron in Gehlberg, where he built a summer residence in 1908, the “little bell in the valley”, which still exists today. Kehr's grave is also on the property. In commemoration, a lookout rock northeast of Gehlberg on Bettelmannskopf was renamed "Hans-Kehr-Stein". For a number of years there has also been a memorial plaque donated by a doctors' symposium in Suhl.
literature
- Hans von Minckwitz: A village in the forest. The history of Gehlberg. Otto Böhmer publishing house, Arnstadt 1939.
- Wilhelm Stieda: Thuringian glassworks in the past. Leipzig 1910 (in it: The Gehlberg glassworks. )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tabular overview of Gehlberg thermometer manufacturers etc. (PDF; 380 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 23, 2009 ; Retrieved June 16, 2010 . 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.
- ↑ Gehlberg: The majority votes for a move to Suhl . In: Südthüringen.de . Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, October 28, 2018 ( insuedthueringen.de [accessed November 15, 2018]).
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 1, 2019
- ^ Source for Schwarzburgische and Saxon places: Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843. Available online from Google Books . Source for Prussian places: Handbook of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population figures. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Population development since 1989 (TLUG) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 18 kB)
- ^ New Thuringian Wappenbuch, Volume 2, page 10; Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen e. V. 1998, ISBN 3-9804487-2-X .
Web links
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