Grumbach (Wurzbach)

Grumbach City of Wurzbach Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 45 ″ N , 11 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	701 m
Residents :	172
Incorporation :	July 1, 1999
Postal code :	07343
Area code :	036652

Grumbach is a settlement in the town of Wurzbach in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia with 172 inhabitants.

geography

The district of Grumbach is up to 724 m above sea level and the place is on Landesstraße 2373 and partly on Rennsteig . The high valley in the Thuringian Slate Mountains is located just before the northern roof of the Franconian Forest .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1616. The settlement arose around a glassworks that glassmakers Christoph Müller and Peter Greiner from Lauscha had built in 1615 as a hiking glassworks in Dürrenbach an der Hohen Tann near Wurzbach, in what is now the district. The resulting place was called Glashütte.

In 1713 the residents built a school. In the same year the settlement was first referred to as Grumbach. In 1737 the actual town was founded. Slate extraction, forest work, tourism and winter and summer sports were the main sources of income for the residents.

The place belonged to the Reussian rule Ebersdorf at times of the lines Reuss-Lobenstein and Reuss-Ebersdorf . In 1848 the place came to the Principality of Reuss Younger Line , from 1852 to the Schleiz District Office and in 1919 to the People's State of Reuss . The place has belonged to Thuringia since 1920.

literature

Robert Hänsel: The glassworks and creation of the village of Grumbach in glassworks in the Russian Oberland , Schleiz 1925

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ 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. 104.
^ Website of the community of Wurzbach , accessed on November 13, 2011
^ Johann Ernst Fabri : Geography for all estates. Part 1, Volume 4: Which contains the continuation and the resolution of the Upper Saxon Circle. Schwickert, Leipzig 1793, p. 882 .
^ The Schleiz district office in the municipality register 1900

[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. 104.

[2] Website of the community of Wurzbach , accessed on November 13, 2011

[3] Johann Ernst Fabri : Geography for all estates. Part 1, Volume 4: Which contains the continuation and the resolution of the Upper Saxon Circle. Schwickert, Leipzig 1793, p. 882 .

[4] The Schleiz district office in the municipality register 1900