Hohenleuben

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 12 ° 3'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Greiz
Fulfilling municipality :	Langenwetzendorf
Height :	395 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.53 km 2
Residents:	1403 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	147 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07958
Area code :	036622
License plate :	GRZ, ZR
Community key :	16 0 76 029
City administration address :	Freedom Square 4 07957 Langenwetzendorf
Website :	www.hohenleuben.de
Mayor :	Dirk Bergner ( FDP )
Location of the city of Hohenleuben in the district of Greiz

Hohenleuben is one of the smallest cities in eastern Thuringia . The village of Brückla also belongs to the urban area . The fulfilling municipality for Hohenleuben is Langenwetzendorf . Due to its small population, Hohenleuben is a country town .

geography

Hohenleuben, part of the district of Greiz, is located on a hill in the Thuringian slate mountains , the Bergaer Sattel, near the Leuba river, which was dammed up to form the Leubatalsperre .

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities are Auma-Weidatal , Weida , Langenwetzendorf and the city of Zeulenroda-Triebes .

history

Market with town hall and town church

Hohenleuben was first mentioned in 1267 as Luben ( Sorbian : "Bast"). A source from 1868 derives Loibe from Slavic, which means "dense forest": "Even now part of the area around Suhl is called" the Suhlaer Loibe ". The German word Laube is related. (However, this contradicts the information in the Duden dictionary of origin). In 1356 the name of Reichenfels Castle can be found in a marriage contract between the bailiffs of Weida and Gera . Reichenfels was the official seat of a small administrative area that roughly encompasses the area between Hohenleuben and Zeulenroda . The hole or lock mill was also located there. In 1356, the castle and the Reichenfels care facility were first mentioned by contract by the bailiffs. There was already a grinding and cutting mill for the associated estate area. The miller was in the service of the rulers. In 1917 a miller from Saalfeld bought the castle mill. In 1961, a Magdeburg company converted it into a children's holiday camp. In 1992 the Treuhand sold the property to private individuals from Hessen. As experts in water management, they rely on hydropower for energy conversion. A millstone in the castle garden reminds of the mill.

In 1744 the Neumühle an der Leuba was first mentioned in a document. Until 1965 the water wheel drove the mill when the Leuba water level was good. On December 28, 1958, the miller got one leg into the transmission while adjusting the run of the millstones. Death resulted from excessive blood loss. The cooperative farmers in the area supported the substitute miller and the LPG looked after the fields. The mill ran until the dam construction made it necessary to dismantle the mill. In 1981 the dam reached the full dam and everything that was left of the mill sank in the floods. The last residents met in 2001 for the 230th anniversary of the mill's operation and commemorated their ancestors.

In 1786 the foundation stone was laid for the church. In 1883 Hohenleuben was given a railway connection, which, due to the relatively large distance between the station and the town, did not have the positive economic impact that had been hoped for. On August 21, 1928 Hohenleuben received city rights.

On May 15, 1935, the new women's prison began operations. The first director, Johanna Weitz, later worked against the NS authorities for reasons of conscience , was tortured and ill-treated in the Berlin Gestapo prison at Prinz-Albrecht-Straße and placed under house arrest in her last place of residence, Oettern . In 1941, five women were shaved and pilloried on the market square for “forbidden contact with foreigners ”.

In 1945 the Americans occupied the place after artillery bombardment, later Soviet troops took over the occupying power in Thuringia. In Hohenleuben there was a closed special children's home " Erich Weinert " of the youth welfare of the GDR, into which children were forcibly placed. The home was about 1 km from the outskirts.

In 1994 Hohenleuben came to the district of Greiz as part of the regional reform in the state of Thuringia and declared that it would join the future administrative community of Leubatal . This was dissolved on December 31, 2013 and the city is from now on fulfilled by Langenwetzendorf . A branch office of the administration is still located in Hohenleuben.

Hohenleuben Castle

In 1703 Georg Wilhelm von Müffling sold the castle and rule (care) of Reichenfels to Count Heinrich XXIV. Von Reuss - Köstritz . The latter moved the seat of the office to Hohenleuben. The Hohenleuben Castle was built or already existed for this purpose.

The care (rule) Reichenfels and Hohenleuben remained in the possession of the Princes of Reuss until 1945 . The diplomat Heinrich XXXI. Reuss zu Köstritz (1868–1929), a son of Heinrich LXXIV. Reuss zu Köstritz , has held the title of Prince von Hohenleuben since his morganatic marriage in 1918 .

The princely crypt was laid out in the town church of Hohenleuben in 1741 and used until 1878. The crypt could still be viewed in the 1990s on request at the rectory.

The Hohenleuben Castle, about which there is a small exhibition in the Reichenfels Museum, was located on the area of ​​today's Hohenleuben correctional facility . Today only the name "Schloßstraße" reminds of the castle. There was also a small park-like castle garden next to the castle. In 1986 the ruinous castle was torn down during the GDR dictatorship. Its demolition stones were filled in some former quarries around Reichenfels. Some rescued objects from the castle are in the Reichenfels Museum (near the Reichenfels castle ruins ).

Parish Court Hohenleuben

Hohenleuben was always the main place of care (administrative unit) Reichenfels and encompassed this in its entirety. Zeulenroda, Mehla, Brückla, Kauern, Lunzig, Hain and the two Wolschendorf also belonged to this care. Branches of the church of Hohenleuben were also Weißendorf, Langenwetzendorf and Triebes.

The parish in Hohenleuben had possessions and fiefdoms in Hohenleuben, Triebes and Kranich , Niederböhmersdorf , Mehla , Langenwetzendorf , Kauernmühle , Hainsberg and Zeulenroda . This was linked to the patrimonial jurisdiction in the form of inheritance jurisdiction. The pastor himself exercised this parish court in Hohenleuben until 1635, after which a court administrator was employed. The patrimonial court was repealed in late 1854.

The right of patronage over the parish was exercised alternately from 1689 by the owners of the manors Reichenfels and Hohenleuben. Since 1703 the owner of the Paragium Reuss-Köstritz was patronage.

Population development

In 1840 Hohenleuben had 2,103 inhabitants who lived in 223 houses. By 1947 the place had grown to 2,512 inhabitants, of which around 25% were resettlers. In 1971, 2,349 people lived in the city and the district of Brückla . In 1992 the population of Hohenleuben had dropped to just 1,958, dropping below 2,000 for the first time in decades.

Further development of the population (December 31) :

1994 - 1960 1995 - 1.965 1996 - 1,961 1997 - 1,937 1998 - 1,950 1999-1956

2000-1956 2001 - 1,905 2002 - 1,863 2003 - 1,820 2004 - 1,837 2005 - 1,802

2006 - 1,784 2007 - 1,753 2008 - 1,687 2009 - 1,675 2010 - 1,667 2011 - 1,646

2012 - 1,628 2013 - 1,607 2014 - 1,589 2015 - 1,537 2016 - 1,474 2017 - 1,461

2018 - 1,425 2019 - 1,403

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

City council

The city ​​council elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014 has the following composition:

• FDP / Citizens for Hohenleuben: 9 seats (77.2%)
• Citizens' Union Hohenleuben: 3 seats (22.8%)

The Left , which was represented with three seats until 2014, although it could have occupied five, did not run again in 2014. The turnout was 50.0% (−3.2% p).

mayor

Mayor Dirk Bergner has been in office since 2010, which he exercises on a voluntary basis.

Culture and sights

Water tower

• The Hohenleuber Taubenmarkt, held for the first time in 1869, is the town's most traditional event and takes place annually. The initiator of the festival was the then newly established pigeon and poultry breeders' association, today the Rassegeflügelzuchtverein (RGZV) 1869 Hohenleuben. In addition to other market offers, valuable breeding pigeons and pedigree poultry are also offered at the pigeon market. The pigeon market, which takes place in February, is linked to a costume festival as an attraction for the children. The children's walks through the town are also documented.
• The castle ruins of Reichenfels , which date back to the 12th century, and the associated museum of local history are well worth seeing . In addition to the exhibition of its collections, the events of the Vogtland Antiquities Research Association Hohenleuben (VAVH), whose publications are distributed across the region, take place here .
• The church of Hohenleuben has housed the restored monumental altar painting Calvary by Gotha painter Paul Emil Jacobs since 1998 , which he created for the Augustinian church in Gotha in 1844 and which was removed and stored there in 1939 when the church was being renovated .
• The city has a 25 meter high water tower , which was in operation from 1906 to 1973 and was built in the style of a defensive tower. The capacity of the elevated tank is 70 cubic meters.
• In the town church of Hohenleuben, a princely crypt of the Reuss-Köstritz house was laid out in 1741 and used until 1878. The crypt could still be viewed in the 1990s on request at the rectory.

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  Ascent to the Reichenfels castle ruins

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  Inside the Reichenfels castle ruins

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  General view of the castle ruins

leisure

In the vicinity of Hohenleuben there is the Leubatalsperre and the Reichenfels castle ruins , which are close to the Hohenleuben railway station.

Economy and Infrastructure

Hohenleuben's economy is shaped by the Hohenleuben correctional facility , which is the city's largest employer. In addition, there are small traders in the village. Furthermore, until 1993, the Zeha company produced sports shoes in the village , which were also used by several national teams.

Personalities

• Karl Christian Gottlieb Sturm (1780–1826), agricultural economist active in Jena and Bonn-Poppelsdorf
• Karl Friedrich Alexander Freiherr von Görschen (1738–1818), major general in the imperial army of the Habsburg monarchy
• Friedrich Fischer (politician, 1815) (1815–1874), 1851–1874 mayor of Hohenleuben and member of the state parliament
• Paul Köttnitz (1875–1954), bay. Government councilor, local researcher and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ August Beck: The History of the Gothaischen Land , Volume I, History of the Regents, Gotha, 1868. P. 52
3. ↑ Günter Steiniger: Mühlen an der Auma, der Triebes, der Leuba and in Güldetal Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86777-296-9 , pp. 143-148, 185-188
4. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 115 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
5. ^ Burgruine Reichenfels - A hike through history and landscape, Museum Reichenfels, City of Hohenleuben, probably published around 1992, p. 22
6. ^ Reichenfels Castle Ruins - A hike through history and landscape, Museum Reichenfels, City of Hohenleuben, probably published around 1992, p. 58
7. ^ Burgruine Reichenfels - A hike through history and landscape, Museum Reichenfels, City of Hohenleuben, probably published around 1992, p. 26 u. 49
8. ^ "The Christianization of the Principality of Reuss", inaugural dissertation by Friedrich Priegel 1872, publication from 1908, page 25
9. ^ Rudolf Diezel: Overview of the holdings of the Greiz State Archives, 1963, pp. 117–118
10. ↑ 2014 city council election , accessed on August 6, 2014.
11. ↑ 143. Taubenmarkt in Hohenleuben. In: Thuringian regional newspaper. Retrieved January 11, 2013 . 
12. ^ Reichenfels Castle Ruins - A hike through history and landscape, Museum Reichenfels, City of Hohenleuben, probably published around 1992, p. 58