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Well of luck City of Bad Liebenstein Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	330 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	36448
Area code :	036961
Location of Glücksbrunn in Bad Liebenstein
Ruins of the former worsted spinning mill.

Glücksbrunn is part of the Schweina district of Bad Liebenstein in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

The core is the Glücksbrunn monument ensemble, consisting of the Glücksbrunn Palace, the Glücksbrunn Park, the so-called Alten Bau (or Langen Bau ) and the historic Lindenmühle. Immediately adjacent are the Altenstein park and castle as well as Bad Liebenstein .

history

The brook Schweina was first mentioned in 933 as "Swinaha" (brook of the swineherd). Three settlements were named after the brook, "Wenigen Schweina" (also "Kleinschweina", today's Marienthal ), the "Dorf Schweina" and "Hohen-Schweina" (today's Glücksbrunn). In 1330 numerous places, including Wenigen-Schweina, Schweina and Hohen-Schweina, went to Berthold von Henneberg.

In Hohen-Schweina, the ores from the Altenstein and Schweina copper mines mentioned for the first time in 1441 (cf. Trebsdorf, 1935, 17) were smelted, so that the name “Hüttenhof” or “the hut” was transferred to the settlement.

Copper mining was carried out in the Altenstein, Schweina and Gumpelstadt areas until the Thirty Years' War . However, during the Thirty Years War, mining came to a complete standstill. From 1682 mining was again operated. In 1686, Duke Bernhard joined the mining union. In 1693 Bernhard's eldest son, Hereditary Prince Ludwig, took over part of the shares. In April 1701, the ducal house leased the mine including the Hüttenhof to Johann Friedrich Trier and his brother, the Ilsenburg mountain and hut administrator Georg Siegfried Trier.

In 1702 the Trier brothers bought the Hüttenhof. In 1703 a first mansion for the Trier family was built in the area of ​​today's castle from the stones of the Frankenstein ruins. This manor house existed until 1722. A baroque garden in the area of ​​the current garden, designed according to formal principles, also belonged to it . On May 29, 1706, the Hüttenhof was renamed Glücksbrunn by Duke Ernst Ludwig von Sachsen-Meiningen as a hopeful expression of the wish for a happy success of the mining and smelting works . In 1714, Trier discovered the cobalt deposits in the Glücksbrunn district. In 1715, 30 miners from Saxony who were familiar with cobalt extraction were settled. The first heyday of cobalt mining was from 1715 to 1719. The associated blue color work was created with the Glücksbrunn works . The use of water power (stamp mills, color grinding mills) was an important prerequisite for the further processing of the cobalt rock. In 1717 the Lindenmühle was forcibly sold in favor of the Glücksbrunn Mining Union (Trier family).

Considerable sums of money were made from cobalt mining and the blue paint works; There is talk of up to 40,000 Reichstalers annually. Between 1722 and 1725 a new, baroque mansion, the current Glücksbrunn Palace , was built for the owners of the mine and blue paint factory, the Trier family. The second heyday of cobalt mining was from 1730 to 1760. 150 miners and the same number were employed in the blue paint works in the 23 pits. The central building for the final production of the coveted cobalt blue was the Lange Bau. In 1747 copper slate mining was completely stopped. The main reason was the scarcity and price increases in the wood required for smelting. In 1772 the cobalt tunnels were completely empty. In 1783 the Trier family sold the plant to Krauss, a businessman from Eisenach . In 1789, a Walch councilor auctioned the Glücksbrunn blue paint factory, which at that time consisted of 2 glass ovens , 7 paint mills, 4 stamping mills and 3 washes. In 1794, Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha acquired Glücksbrunn and operated the now unprofitable blue paint factory until 1818.

In 1818 the ducal house of Saxony-Meiningen acquired Glücksbrunn. On May 8, 1824, the Glücksbrunn manor and the ancillary facilities were sold to Johann Christian von Weiß (1779-1850) from Langensalza . The entrepreneur, ennobled in 1836, set up Germany’s first mechanical worsted wool spinning mill in the “Long Building” and used the manor house for his own residential purposes. The "long building", which was previously made in a half-timbered construction, was adapted to the new requirements and converted into the massive clinker building that has been preserved to this day. The first steam engine was acquired in 1827. Under the rule of the von Weiß family, the now out-of-date baroque garden was also redesigned in a scenic manner. At the end of the 19th century, the spinning mill moved into new buildings below the hut pond. The "Long Building" was only used as a warehouse.

In 1909 a nephew of the von Weiß family, a Freiherr von Swaine, inherited the castle. It was used by his family as a summer residence until the end of the Second World War. Emergency apartments were set up in the castle in 1918 (despite being used as a summer residence), and they were used until 1994.

After the end of the Second World War, the building became the property of the community of Schweina. In 1966 the roof of the palace was re-roofed. In 1968 the palace facades were restored. A youth club was established in the castle in the 1980s.

From 1994 to 2004 the long building and the castle were empty. In 2004 and 2005, the Lange Bau, the Lindenmühle and the castle were sold to various private individuals, and extensive restoration work has been carried out on all buildings since then.

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Personalities

• Richard von Swaine (1830–1902), industrialist, landowner and member of the Reichstag

literature

• Michael K. Brust: The Altenstein Cave - A Contribution to the History of Discovery. Development and exploration of the oldest show cave in Thuringia. (2002), In: Thüringer Landesanstalt für Umwelt und Geologie (Hrsg.) (2002): The show cave Altenstein in Schweina - nature and cultural history of a geotope. (Series of publications of the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology No. 55) Jena. Pp. 3-34.
• Dr. Fritze: History about Bad Liebenstein, Schweina, Steinbach and Atterode. Eisenach (self-published by the author, 1925), reprint Elch-Verlag, Bad Liebenstein (Ed. Holger Munkel), 1999, supplemented with illustrations
• Hans Groß: Water pipe domain or Gut Schweina. (1995), In: Altensteiner Blätter Yearbook 1995, Ed. Ortschronik Schweina e. V., Barchfeld and Bad Hersfeld. Pp. 124-128.
• Gustav Hartmann: History of the worsted yarn spinning. (1937, unv. Manuscript of a teacher who dealt with the Schweina history, owned by Mrs. Ida Henkel, Schweina)
• House fire: Contribution to the history of the blue paint factories. (1936), In: Zeitschrift für das Berg-; Metallurgy and saltworks in the German Empire. Published in the Reich and Prussian Ministry of Economics. Year 1936. Volume 84 Issue 12. pp. 517-545.
• Horst Wilhelm Hossfeld: The Schweinaer mills. (undated), In: Hossfeld Buch. o. J., o. O. (owned by architect Burkhardt Hossfeld, Schweina, among others)
• Institute for Monument Preservation Berlin (Ed.): Monuments in Thuringia. Their maintenance and care in the districts of Erfurt, Gera and Suhl. Developed at the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments Erfurt. Weimar 1973, (Series: Writings on the Preservation of Monuments in the German Democratic Republic. Published by the Berlin Institute for Monument Preservation)
• Fritz Kühnemund: Sensational find from the Altensteiner cave. In: Altensteiner Blätter Jahrbuch 1999/2000., Ed. Ortschronik Schweina e. V. Schweina and Immelborn, pp. 24-27
• Friedrich Mosengeil: The Bad Liebenstein and its surroundings. Meiningen 1815
• Edith Raddatz: Schweinaer mill history. In: Altensteiner Blätter Yearbook 1995., Ed. Ortschronik Schweina e. V. Barchfeld and Bad Hersfeld. Pp. 129-163
• Emil Rückert: Altenstein's past. Hildburghausen 1852, reprint Elch – Verlag, Bad Liebenstein (Ed. Holger Munkel), 1999
• Ralf Schmidt: Contribution to the history of cobalt mining in Glücksbrunn near Schweina / Thür. In: Publications Natural History Museum Schloß Bertholdsburg Schleusingen. Volume 11, 1996, Schleusingen. Pp. 77-95.
• Gerhard Seib: An unknown view of the blue color works Glücksbrunn near Schweina by the Meiningen court painter Carl Wagner (1796–1867). In: Meiningen museums in the Meiningen Cultural Foundation (ed.) (N.d.) [around 1999]: Südthüringer Forschungen No. 30, contributions to art and cultural history. No. 30. Meiningen. Pp. 30-35
• Ludwig Storck: Glücksbrunn and Schweina. , In: Friedrich von Sydow (Hrsg.) 1839: Thuringia and the Harz with their curiosities, folk sagas and legends. 1st volume Sondershausen. P. 226 [quoted here. after Seib, undated, pp. 34–35]
• Fritz Trebsdorf: History of copper shale, cobalt and iron stone mining in the Altenstein district of the former Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. 1935

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lindenmühle
2. ^ Rückert, 1852, pp. 10 & 17
3. ^ Rückert, 1852, pp. 10 & 17
4. ↑ Trebsdorf, 1935, and Schmidt, 1996
5. ↑ Beyschlag, 1898 quoted. according to Schmidt, 1996, p. 80 f.
6. ^ Schmidt, 1996
7. ↑ Trebsdorf, 1935, p. 38
8. ^ Schmidt, 1996
9. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation, 1973, p. 369

Web links

Commons : Schweina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Current and historical pictures, short films, overnight stays, etc.
• Site of the castle