Herges-Auwallenburg
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Herges-Auwallenburg
City of Brotterode-Trusetal
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 10 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 29 ″ E
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| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 |
| Incorporated into: | Truse Valley |
| Postal code : | 98596 |
| Area code : | 036840 |
 Location of Herges-Auwallenburg in Brotterode-Trusetal
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 In the Herges district
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Herges-Auwallenburg is part of the Trusetal district of the town of Brotterode-Trusetal in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . It emerged from the places Herges-Vogtei and Auwallenburg .
location
Herges-Auwallenburg is located in the north-western Thuringian Forest on the state road 1024 from Brotterode to Fambach and the state road 1126 to Bad Liebenstein between the districts of Laudenbach / Elmenthal and Trusen / Wahles in the center of the former municipality of Trusetal . The Truse flows along the valley to the south . The Schmalkalden – Brotterode railway ran via Herges-Auwallenburg. Furthermore, a narrow-gauge railway , the Trusebahn , ran from Wernshausen to Herges-Auwallenburg, which was closed in 1968.
history
Gerdrode
Below the Wallenburg a clearing settlement Gerdrode was mentioned in 1185 , then in 1249 with the castle Waldenburch cum villa Gernoteshagen in a settlement document of Ludwig von Frankenstein. Gerdrode is considered to be the origin of the later town of Auwallendorf and, together with other courtyards, formed the economic basis of the medieval castle complex Waldenburg . The place name does not appear in later documents, which indicates destruction or desolation .
Auwallenburg
In 1416, the Hörigensiedlung at the foot of the castle is now called Aue . The place name often used in Germany had to be supplemented: from 1720 the place names Au-Wallenburg and 1832 Aue-Wallenburg became common. As early as the end of the 16th century, 52 households in the valley floor were mentioned, and agriculture and charcoal making still determined the lives of forest farmers. A small quarry was used for self-supply with building materials. A barite quarry was the first mine in the local area, due to the rapidly expanding mining operations, the center of Auwallenburg merged with the neighboring Herges in the 18th century. In the Hühn mountain area , the miners were able to locate six minable iron-barite-containing ore veins. At Eichberg and Michelsberg , mining was not carried out professionally until 1911, and in the Hühn district since the 1920s. The complicated geological conditions were also evident when the Schmalkalden – Brotterode railway was built . At the former Auwallenburg train station, you can see a geological window in a concrete retaining wall built in 1917.
Herges
The Herges district was first mentioned as "Herigest" on February 17, 1185. The origin of this district was in the meadow area Alt-Herges , through which the Truse (Drusandra = the end of the shower) originally flowed. As a result of a diversion of the Truse through a dam, the location was abandoned due to lack of water and relocated to Herges-Vogtei - today Herges-Auwallenburg. There was an iron smelter in Herges-Vogtei, which was managed by the smelter Hünenvogt on behalf of the Herrenbreitungen monastery . The iron ore from the Gommel and Klinge pits was smelted in the smelter and the pig iron, forged in rod form, was sold to the blacksmiths' guilds . In 1522 there was great excitement in the mining office, they had been presented with lumps of ore containing gold and silver. The hopes for the great mountain treasure were not fulfilled. In 1541 the hammer was mentioned in Hergots and another in Trusen. At the end of the 16th century, copper mining began around Herges-Vohtei and Auwallenburg. The copper and saiger smelter was in operation from 1687 to 1713, and the iron hammers in Herges-Vogtei also had plenty of work to do with the annual processing of up to 1,310 t of iron ore, which was mainly supplied by up to 40 miners from the Mommel mine and smaller shafts to do. Through technical improvements and more productive ore veins, the production of the Stahlberg, Mommel and some side pits was increased to 5500 t around 1850. This marked the heyday of iron ore mining. In 1874 there were 7 iron ore, 12 spar and 3 alabaster gypsum pits in the valley plus 4 spade mills. With the population growth, the demand for work increased, entrepreneurs from Schmalkalden founded the first metal goods factories in the village in 1871, and the mining districts of Trusetal quickly became industrial communities. The growth phase during the Wilhelminian era was followed by social tensions, the first strike was organized in 1907, political agitation among the workers increased and a local branch of the SPD was founded (a KPD cell was not founded until 1925). The government of Sachsen-Meiningen reacted immediately and in 1907 initiated the construction of a police station (gendarmerie post).
Community merger with Trusetal
The community of Trusetal was founded on July 1, 1950 by the merger of the towns of Herges-Auwallenburg, Trusen , Elmenthal and Laudenbach . In 1994 Wahles was added. In 2011, Brotterode was incorporated into Trusetal.
In the GDR era, the large community of Trusetal with 4600 inhabitants was developed into a health resort and tourist resort of the FDGB, the industrial companies VEB Stahl- und Schneidwaren Trusetal and VEB Kunstgewerbe Trusetal and an upholstery PGH were the main employers in the place.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heimatverein Trusetal (ed.) Leaflet on the history of Auwallenburg, self-published, around 1980.
- ^ 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 , pp. 119 and 22.
- ↑ a b Harry Gerlach : Brotterode, Pappenheim, Trusetal, Steinbach near Bad Liebenstein (= Wanderheft . Volume 10 ). 3. Edition. VEB Tourist-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1987, ISBN 3-350-00202-1 , p. 25-30 .