Haselbach (Sonneberg)

Haselbach City of Sonneberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 11 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	500-530 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	January 1, 1997
Incorporated into:	Oberland on the Rennsteig
Postal code :	96515
Area code :	036762
Location and extent of Haselbach and neighboring settlements (around 1850)

Haselbach is a district of Sonneberg in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia .

location

Haselbach is located in the Haselbach mountain valley on the south side of the Thuringian Slate Mountains on state roads 2657 and 2658 and county road 32.

history

Cemetery chapel

Haselbach was named after the small body of water of the same name. Long before the settlement, foresters, forest workers and charcoal burners may have called this watercourse the “brook near the hazel bushes”.

Haselbach is a comparatively young settlement that was first mentioned in a document on February 16, 1601. The place dates back to 1682. In the 18th century the actual village was built. The inhabitants lived in poor conditions from agriculture and woodwork. The proximity of the Baumann blast furnace also provided wages and bread. The Bock brothers' knife factory was established in the middle of the 19th century. Fine and expensive products went on sale. More than 100 years later, a straight-through caliber for pencils was invented in this factory, which was very popular in the domestic pencil industry. With the decline of the iron industry, stylus production came to Haselbach due to the nearby slate quarries of the stylus slate . Since the end of the 18th century, the villagers also made toys. The first school building was built in 1865, but was sold in 1877 to a Christian Langhammer, who set up a beer tavern in it. In contrast, the community bought the Bocksche Wirtshaus and built two classrooms there.

In 1896 Joseph Schuller founded a pipe glassworks in Rögitzgrund. It first produced glass tubes, glass marbles and packaging jars, later fiberglass and fabric, and was the basis of Haselbach's working life for many decades. Today we find the modern company Vitrulan there.

Hohenofen , part of the Saalfeld district, was incorporated into Haselbach on October 1, 1922.

During the Second World War , 41 women and men from Russia , Ukraine and Poland had to do forced labor at the Wernerhütte glass factory . At the former school in Haselbach, a memorial plaque commemorated the victims of the death march of the Sonneberg concentration camp prisoners of the Sonneberg concentration camp external command .

After the Second World War, uranium mining took place, as evidenced by a bismuth dump at the edge of the forest .

There was smoke damage in the forests due to the exhaust gases from industrial plants. Attempts have been made to counteract this by planting other trees such as red oak, larch and the smoky-hard Omorika spruce . The agricultural use consisted mainly in the use of the mountain meadows as green and pasture land. Even today, grazing animals can be found in the meadows. The shaggy highland cattle are popular, as they get along well with the climatic conditions here.

During the division of Germany, Haselbach was temporarily in the border area of the GDR and could only be entered with special ID cards. After it was separated from the exclusion zone in 1972 , part of the forest remained within the exclusion zone, u. a. the popular foal house on the Großer Först was no longer freely accessible. Today the traditional Foal House Festival takes place on Whitsunday every year.

Haselbach had its own cinema until the beginning of the 1970s, which was later used as a sports hall. A local brass band played serenades. The Haselbacher Kärwa took place every year. The members of TSV 1921 have been trying to revive the old tradition for a few years. Until shortly after reunification , Haselbach had an eight-grade school with two school buildings. Most of the students in the higher grades attended the school in Steinach . A children's holiday camp with a swimming pool at the former Pechgraben hut was also popular with local children.

A supermarket, a kindergarten and the volunteer fire brigade can be found in Haselbach. Today's economic structure is mainly influenced by glass production. Above all, the industrial glass production but also the production of Christmas tree decorations in medium-sized companies and in family businesses should be mentioned here. Ornate glass sculptures from Haselbach are also in great demand.

Several craft businesses, as well as gastronomy, service and trade were able to distinguish themselves in Haselbach.

On January 1, 1997, Haselbach merged with the neighboring community of Engnitzthal to form the unitary community of Oberland am Rennsteig . With the dissolution of this, the place came to the city of Sonneberg on December 31, 2013.

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  Haselbach, 1940s, probably 1942, in the background: cemetery chapel

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  The same main street in 2009, now Karl-Marx-Straße, it forks here in the direction of Sonneberg (Rögitzstraße) and in the direction of Hasenthal

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  Haselbach, approx. 1999, former school - was replaced by a community center a few years after it was closed

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  former community center

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  Haselbach, Hohe Warte

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  Herrenteich in Haselbach, on the outskirts of the village on the road to Hasenthal

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  Well near the former community center

Attractions

• Listed cemetery chapel

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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. 11.