Hummelshain

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 11 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Southern Saale Valley
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.36 km 2
Residents:	608 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07768
Area code :	036424
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 042
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 23 07768 Kahla
Website :	www.hummelshain-schmoelln.de
Mayor :	Stephan Tiesler ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Hummelshain in the Saale-Holzland district

New Castle ( location → )

Hummelshain, the old castle ( location → )

Village church ( location → )

Hummelshain is a municipality with the district Schmölln in Thuringia , Germany .

geography

The village is located in the south of the Saale-Holzland district and is part of the southern Saale valley administrative community . Neighboring places are in the northwest Groß- und Kleineutersdorf , Lindig and the district Schmölln, in the northeast Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf , in the southeast Lichtenau and Neustadt an der Orla , in the south Langendembach and in the west Orlamünde . The state road L 1110 ( Kahla - Neustadt an der Orla) runs through the village from east to west , and in the center of the village the L 1111 branches off to the northeast in the direction of Trockenborn. In the east of the village, a developed forest path branches off the L 1110 in a southerly direction to Langendembach.

history

Hummelshain and Schmölln were probably created when the forest areas were cleared around the year 1000. Hummelshain is younger among the places in the area and the first documentary mention is from 1349/50. The region around Hummelshain was under the rule of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde until the 14th century . This was followed by the Margraves of Meissen, also as Thuringian Landgraves, who named themselves Wettin after their ancestral castle. They were masters of the area around Hummelshain until the 20th century. At the beginning of their rule they established a princely hunting farm. The construction of the Rieseneck hunting grounds in the 17th and 18th centuries became a cultural monument and an open-air museum on the history of hunting. Other changes and buildings followed. The New Hummelshain Hunting Lodge was planned as one of the last castles in 1880 and built in neo-renaissance style. The tower of the castle is 48 meters high and can be seen from afar.

During the Second World War , the National Socialist armaments company REIMAHG set up a hospital for its forced laborers here , in the form of six barracks with 89 beds each in the castle grounds. Under catastrophic hygienic conditions and constantly overcrowded, the death rate was correspondingly high among the total of 1,088 patients, including 980 foreigners. A total of 175 slave laborers died in this hospital, most of them from Italy . The dead were buried in a field east of the cemetery.

After the founding of the GDR , a youth workshop was set up in the new hunting lodge . In 1967 young people from the Jugendwerkhof erected a memorial made of 175 stones from the former armaments factory for the slave laborers who died here.

Today the so-called Old Castle (which essentially dates back to the middle of the 17th century) as well as the New Hunting Castle are privately owned. The old castle has been restored and modernized. Renovation work began on the New Palace in 2017 to stop the historic building from falling into disrepair.

religion

In 2011 37% of the population were Protestant and only 1% were Catholic. The Lutheran parishes of Hummelshain (around 170 members) and Schmölln (around 20 members) are assigned to the parish of Trockenborn in the Eisenberg parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The few Catholics belong to the parish of St. Elisabeth (Gera) in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen , whose next branch church is St. Nikolaus (Kahla) .

Attractions

• Old and new hunting lodge
• Town center with the Evangelical Church of John the Baptist (Hummelshain)
• Residence village museum "Tante Irma Museum" Hummelshain. Interactive exhibition on the subject of "100 years of living, living and working in Thuringia".
• Former ducal tea house for events of all kinds with a very beautiful hunting frieze. The tea house can be rented from the municipality.
• South of the village is a small rampart , the so-called Fliehburg - also known as the old church in the vernacular.
• Not far from Hummelshain in the forest is the Rieseneck hunting ground

coat of arms

Description : “Quartered in silver and green with a red heart shield, inside a golden tower with a pointed roof and pointed turrets at the sides; in fields 1 and 4 a green fir tree, in fields 2 and 3 a five-ended stag pole with rose bush. "

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Paul Kress (1677–1741), lawyer and professor at the University of Helmstedt
• Rudi Milatz (1903–1979), crop scientist

Web links

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

• Hummelshain on the website of VG Südliches Saaletal

literature

• Wilhelm von Kügelgen : memories of an old man's youth , ed. by Philipp von Nathusius . W. Hertz , Berlin 1870. Also available as an audio book.
• Rahel Marie Vogel: On the way to new people. Re-education to become a “socialist personality” in the youth workshops in Hummelshain and Wolfersdorf (1961–1989) (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. 1075). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60259-1 (At the same time: Berlin, Humboldt University, state examination work, 2008 under the title: Re-education to a “socialist personality” in the GDR youth work yards Hummelshain and Wolfersdorf (1961 -1989). ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Claudia Hohberg, Rainer Hohberg : The Hummelshainer hunting castles and the Rieseneck hunting grounds. Hohberg, Hummelshain 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022763-9 , p. 12.
3. ↑ Claudia Hohberg, Rainer Hohberg: The Hummelshainer hunting castles and the Rieseneck hunting grounds. Hohberg, Hummelshain 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022763-9 .
4. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 .
5. ↑ Claudia Hohberg, Rainer Hohberg: The Hummelshainer hunting castles and the Rieseneck hunting grounds. Hohberg, Hummelshain 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022763-9 .
6. ↑ census database
7. ↑ Official Gazette of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany 12 (2020), No. 1 , p. 21.
8. ↑ Michael Köhler : Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 184.
9. ^ Heinrich Bergner : Ring walls and castle ruins in the district of Kahla. In: Messages from the Association for History and Antiquity to Kahla and Roda. Vol. 6, 1908, ZDB -ID 514703-7 , pp. 25–36, here pp. 26–28 , (reprint, supplemented by Hansjürgen Müllerott: ring walls and castle ruins in the district of Kahla and the archeology and history of the Schauenforest, a résumé to the archaeological excursions 2004 and 2005. Thuringian Chronicle-Verlag HE Müllerott, Arnstadt 2012).