Höhn (Neustadt near Coburg)

Heck Large district town Neustadt near Coburg Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 19 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	460 m above sea level NN
Area :	98 ha
Residents :	107
Population density :	109 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1968
Incorporated into:	Mountain village
Postal code :	96465
Area code :	09568
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Höhn is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Neustadt bei Coburg in the Coburg district .

location

The scattered settlement Höhn is about eleven kilometers northwest of Coburg on a small plateau, about 110 meters above the valley of the Itz in the west and the Röden in the east and south. The district road CO 14 from Fischbach to Neustadt runs through the village. Neighboring places on the plateau are Brüx , Rüttmannsdorf and Weimersdorf . The four villages in the Coburg region are also known as the mountain villages.

history

Höhn was first mentioned as Hayn in 1317 in the Urbarium , a list of possessions of the Henneberger when the New Rulership was acquired. It is a derivation of Hain, which was also used as a name for a fenced place. The Mönchröden monastery owned an estate in Höhn that Kunz Zentgraf zu Coburg had bequeathed to him in 1463. In 1558 ten feudal people of Hans von Schönstedt lived in Höhn.

Belonging to Meeder in the Middle Ages , Höhn was looked after by the Neustadt parish from 1529. In 1906 a cemetery was set up on the road to Brüx and the mountain church was consecrated there in 1910. In 1912 the parish was changed to Mönchröden .

The Höhner children initially went to school in Neustadt, five kilometers away. From 1743 the four mountain villages had a preceptor who alternately taught in one of the farmhouses and had board and lodging there. From 1842 there was a school in the forester's house. On September 13, 1902, a new school building was inaugurated. In 1969 the school was closed and in 1971 the school house was sold. From 1969, lessons took place in the Mönchröden-Einberg School Association. After all, he has been in Neustadt since 1977.

In a referendum on 30 November 1919 five Höhner citizens to join the agreed State of Coburg the Thuringian State and 37 against it. From July 1st, 1920, Höhn also belonged to the Free State of Bavaria .

Five Höhner soldiers lost their lives in World War I and ten in World War II. Plaques in the church commemorate them.

On July 1, 1968, the four towns of Brüx, Höhn, Rüttmannsdorf and Weimersdorf merged to form the new Bergdorf community, which was dissolved on May 1, 1978 and incorporated into the town of Neustadt bei Coburg . Since then Höhn has been a district of Neustadt.

In 1905 there were 20 residential buildings in Höhn, in 1987 there were three more.

Population development

year population 1910 112 1933 121 1939 117 1950 152 1987 106 2013 107

Mountain church in Höhn

Mountain church

The Evangelical Lutheran mountain church was inaugurated on October 30, 1910. It was the last new church to be built in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg . The church was built under the direction of the Coburg government and building councilor Artur Philibert based on a drawing by the church builder Robert Leibnitz from Berlin in the historicizing style. The secret councilor Renné from Berlin bore the construction costs.

The church has a 16 meter high tower with three bells hanging in it, and a rectangular nave spanned by a wooden cask. The north-east facing choir is not drawn in and polygonally closed. The ground plan consists of five sides of an octagon, which is spanned by a folded structure . Four stained glass windows show Christ, Johannes, Duke Carl Eduard and his wife Viktoria Adelheid .

Web links

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

• Isolde Kalter: Höhn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, Neustadt bei Coburg 1989, p. 28
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Isolde Kalter: Höhn
4. ^ Coburger Zeitung, issue no.280 from December 1, 1919
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 679 and 680 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Scheuerich: History of the City of Neustadt near Coburg in the Twentieth Century, Second Volume, 1993, p. 128
7. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
8. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).