Grimmelshausen

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Hildburghausen
Management Community :	Field stone
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.21 km 2
Residents:	170 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98660
Area code :	036873
License plate :	HBN
Community key :	16 0 69 016
Association administration address:	Mauerstr. 9 ; 98660 Themar
Website :	www.vg-feldstein.de
Mayor :	Bodo Dressel
Location of the community of Grimmelshausen in the district of Hildburghausen

Grimmelshausen

Grimmelshausen is a Thuringian municipality in the administrative community Feldstein in the Frankish coined Hildburghausen .

geography

The clustered village of Grimmelshausen is located on both sides of the Werra above the confluence of the lock about 500 m from the federal road 89 , which leads from Meiningen to Sonneberg and Kronach .

Since 1990 the Werra has been dammed by a retention basin, which resulted in the settlement of rare bird species. Hiking trails have been laid out and the Werratal cycle path from Reurieth via Themar to Henfstädt leads through Grimmelshausen.

history

In 1177 Grimmelshausen was first mentioned in a document under the name Grymoltushusen . The family tree of the originally noble, moderately wealthy von Grimmelshausen family in Thuringia can be traced back to this year. The family castle on the upper Werra was located near the village. The von Grimmelshausen family moved to the imperial city of Gelnhausen an der Kinzig around 1571 . The well-known Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was born there.

During the Thirty Years War, the place was partially destroyed by marauding soldiers in 1634.

In terms of lordship, the place in the Themar office initially belonged to the county of Henneberg , after 1583 to various Saxon duchies and from 1826 to 1918 to Saxony-Meiningen . In 1920 he came to the state of Thuringia .

Population development

development	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents
	1994	207	2001	204	2008	193	2015	185
	1995	214	2002	206	2009	181	2016	176
	1996	209	2003	207	2010	180	2017	177
	1997	205	2004	200	2011	183	2018	174
	1998	207	2005	199	2012	176	2019	170
	1999	208	2006	193	2013	176
	2000	211	2007	198	2014	170
Population figures according to the respective area as of December 31. Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Municipal council

The local council in Grimmelshausen consists of six council members who were elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014:

Free voters: 4 seats
Citizens' initiative for Grimmelshausen: 2 seats

Culture and sights

Formerly a chapel, from 1801 a school, later the parish hall

The home parlor in the parish hall can be visited after registration. A former hunting lodge with interesting half-timbering dominates the view of the village from the Werra.

There is an old well with a pump in the village. Both have been restored in recent years.

Personalities

Sebastian Abesser (1559–1616), electoral and princely Saxon master game and hunter master
Margarete Braungart (1947–1998), writer and museologist

Individual evidence

Web links

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

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

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