Ridge town

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Ridge town
City of Bad Rodach
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 32 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 430 m above sea level NN
Residents : 210  (2005)
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Incorporated into: Langenbergen
Postal code : 96476
Area code : 09564
Coat of arms stone
Coat of arms stone
Ridge town from the west

Grattstadt is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Bad Rodach in the Coburg district .

geography

The place is about 16 kilometers northwest of Coburg on the Long Mountains and is laid out as a clustered village with a corridor . The district boundary in the north corresponds to the state border with Thuringia . The Ortsbach, a source brook of the Habergrund , which flows to the Werra , crosses the village. The district road CO 4 connects Grattstadt with Bad Rodach and Meeder .

history

Barrows on the Long Mountains are evidence of early settlement. The first documentary mention as Grazzestat comes from the year 815, when the nobleman Erlwin donated his possessions in Grattstadt to the Fulda monastery. From the 14th century the Veßra monastery owned nine farms in the village. From 1305 at the latest, Grattstadt was under the rule of the Hennebergers . In 1353 the place with the Coburg Land came by inheritance to the Wettins and was thus part of the Electorate of Saxony from 1485 , from which the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg later emerged.

Before the Thirty Years War , Grattstadt had over 200 residents who lived in 40 houses. In 1650 there were only four residents and three houses that had not been destroyed. Among other things, the imperial troops under General Graf Lamboy had their winter quarters in the western offices of the Coburg in 1634 and also plundered Grattstadt. In February 1637, the general Johann Ludwig Hektor von Isolani and his Croatian body regiment looted the area .

In 1670 the unmarried maid Elsa Henneberger was arrested for witchcraft . It was only thanks to the intercession of her former employer that she survived and was expelled from the country.

After the land survey of 1675 in the entire Rodach area, the measured land was recorded in a land register in 1711. During the ducal division of the country in 1680 , a forestry was established, which was dissolved in 1850. The ducal office had a forester's house rebuilt in 1742/43. In 1728 Grattstadt was ecclesiastically united with Ahlstadt . In 1904 the parish of Elsa was placed under subordination , from 1921 to 1977 that in Oettingshausen and then together with Oettingshausen that in Elsa. A new school building was put into operation in 1780. Extensive renovations followed later. In 1970 the school was closed.

In 1805 there were 54 oxen, 36 cows, 26 young cattle, 200 sheep and five breeding pigs in Grattstadt. In addition to mainly grain, wheat and spelled , flax was grown on the poorly productive soils . Three linen weavers had settled down. The choral society was founded in 1887. There were 13 casualties in each of the two world wars.

Through the union of the Free State of Coburg with the Free State of Bavaria on July 1, 1920, the community became part of the Coburg District Office , later the Coburg District . Grattstadt was mainly oriented to the north. From 1945 to 1989 the inner German border separated the place from its three neighboring Thuringian villages Hetschbach , Harras and Veilsdorf . In 1968 the village was connected to the drinking water network.

On July 1, 1971, the communities of Grattstadt and Heldritt merged to form the community of Langenbergen . On May 1, 1978 Langenbergen was dissolved and Grattstadt a district of the city of Rodach.

Population development

year population
1740 169
1802 183
1861 301
1890 288
1910 265
1933 289
1939 252
1946 363
1970 269
1990 242
2005 210
Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul

church

The core of the Pauluskirche was built in 1686 as a replacement for a chapel destroyed in the Thirty Years War. In 1755, the simple, box-shaped church was given its present-day appearance with a roof turret and onion dome. The last major repair took place in the early 1980s. The historic organ comes from the organ builder Hofmann from Neustadt.

literature

  • Ortwin Großmann: Grattstadt 1175 years; 815-1990 . Coburg 1990.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Irmhild Tschischka: leafed through the chronicle of the Bad Rodach districts; A piece of Bad Rodach's city history . Writings of the Rückertkreis Bad Rodach eV, issue 29, Bad Rodach 2005, ISBN 978-3-943009-29-3 , pp. 43-46
  2. ^ Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 62
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ortwin Großmann: Grattstadt 1175 years; 815 - 1990. Coburg 1990.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 442 .
  5. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 679 f .
  6. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  7. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria in the period from 1840 to 1952 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB  451478568 , p. 140 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized ).