Josthof

Josthof community Gerstungen Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	275 m above sea level NN
Incorporated into:	Marksuhl
Postal code :	99834
Area code :	036925
Josthof in the south of the municipality
Partial view (2008)

The Josthof is a district of the Gerstungen municipality in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

The Josthof is located about three kilometers southwest of the local area of ​​Marksuhl and about eleven kilometers (as the crow flies ) from the district town of Bad Salzungen . The Josthof is located in a wooded area on the Mölmesbach, a left tributary of the Suhl . There is a small fish pond at the height of the locality.

history

The Josthof belongs to a group of courtyards and small settlements ( Baueshof , Clausberg , Lutzberg , Kriegersberg , Hütschhof , Frommeshof , Rangenhof , Meileshof , Mölmeshof , Lindigshof and others) that have been in the domain of the Frankenstein counts and their home monastery Frauensee in the Buntsandstein- Hill country near Marksuhl were founded. Not far south of the village is the site of a destroyed medieval Siechenhof chapel St. Justus , which apparently contributed to the founding of today's Josthof.

traffic

The Josthof is located on the local connection road Baueshof - Mölmeshof - Josthof, which branches off from Landstraße 1023 at the Baueshof. There is no direct bus connection to the Josthof. The nearest stop is at the building's yard, it is part of the L-52 bus on the Eisenach –Förtha – Marksuhl – Berka / Werra – Dankmarshausen – Großensee bus operated by the Wartburgkreis transport company.

Culture and sights

• The Josthof is located on the ecumenical pilgrimage route in the section from Eisenach via Frauensee, Vacha to Bad Hersfeld and Fulda .
• The varied landscape is ideal for adventure tourism. The Circle M Ranch has been located at Josthof since the 1990s - a family business specializing in horse riding tourism.
• The Posteiche is a well-known natural monument on the way to Frauensee.

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  Josthof, location

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  Location of the St. Justus Chapel

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  The Posteiche on the way to Frauensee

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  At the CIRCLE-M ranch

literature

• Erich Winter: The village settlements of the Eisenacher Land between Werra, Hainich and Thuringian Forest . Jena 1932, p. 78 .
• W. Döpel: History of Marksuhl , printing and publishing house of the Hofbuchdruckerei Eisenach H. Kahle, Eisenach 1909

Web links

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

• Circle-M-Ranch website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ↑ Erich Winter The village settlements of the Eisenacher Land between Werra, Hainich and Thuringian Forest . Jena 1932.