Kuehndorf

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the district of the Central Franconian market town of Lehrberg, see Kühndorf (Lehrberg) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '  N , 10 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Management Community :	Dolmar salt bridge
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.04 km 2
Residents:	909 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98547
Area code :	036844
License plate :	SM, MGN
Community key :	16 0 66 038
Address of the municipal administration:	Christeser Strasse 29 98547 Kühndorf
Website :	www.vg-dolmar-salzbruecke.de
Mayor :	Tobias Gebel (independent)
Location of the community Kühndorf in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Kühndorf is a municipality in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the Free State of Thuringia, which is part of the Dolmar-Salzbrücke administrative community .

geography

Kühndorf is located southwest of the Thuringian Forest not far from the Werra Valley between Meiningen and Zella-Mehlis . To the northwest of the village is the 739.5 meter high Dolmar .

history

With its first mention in 795, Kühndorf is the oldest settlement in the historically significant Henneberg district of Schleusingen-Suhl. Kühndorf temporarily formed the seat of the County of the Lords of Kühndorf before it successively belonged to the County of Henneberg, Saxony and finally Prussia. Until 1815 Kühndorf was the seat of the electoral office of Kühndorf , to which the towns of Christes , Dietzhausen , Dillstädt , Mäbendorf , Rohr and Wichtshausen belonged. From 1816 to 1944 the place belonged to the administrative district of Erfurt of the Prussian province of Saxony , before it subsequently became part of the state of Thuringia . From 1949 to 1990 it belonged to the GDR and from 1952 was in the Suhl district .

Kühndorf was affected by the persecution of witches from 1603 to 1660: Ten people were involved in witch trials , at least three women were executed, two women were sentenced to expulsion from the country, the outcome of four trials is unknown. The first victim in 1603 was Margaretha Jacob.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1728: 492 1765: 507

1994: 1,198 1995: 1,196 1996: 1,197 1997: 1.210 1998: 1,197 1999: 1,192

2000: 1,185 2001: 1.170 2002: 1,152 2003: 1,134 2004: 1,118 2005: 1.101

2006: 1,097 2007: 1,097 2008: 1,080 2009: 1,052 2010: 1,042 2011: 0998

2012: 1.001 2013: 0985 2014: 0981 2015: 0945 2016: 0933 2017: 0928

2018: 924

Data source: first column :, remainder: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Kühndorf's municipal council consists of 12 members, all of whom have been provided by the Pro Kühndorf voter community since the 2009 local elections .

The non-party mayor Thomas König was last elected on May 21, 2006. He resigned in January 2018 after unsuspectingly sealing the papers of “ Reich citizens ”.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Entrance of Kühndorf Castle (Johanniterburg)

Church in Kühndorf

• The town's landmark, visible from afar, is the Johanniterburg Kühndorf . It was built between 1291 and 1315 by knights from the Order of St. John and is the only Johanniter castle from the 13th century preserved in the German-speaking area and the only private property on Thuringia Castle Road . In the summer months from March to October, the castle can be visited on Wednesdays to Saturdays, otherwise on request; a guided tour is also offered on Saturdays from March to October. In the private castle there are also rooms and holiday apartments as well as event rooms. The castle is owned by the von Eichborn family .
• The historic castle barn from 1538 serves as the town's cultural center.
• The Protestant parish uses the Dionysius Church, newly built around 1520, with an octagonal baptismal font from 1576.

Museums

• A cemetery church from 1617 in the well-tended cemetery, which serves as a cemetery museum, can be visited after registration. The dilapidated church was expanded into a sepulchral museum in the 1990s and houses a number of exhibits such as mortuary tablets, grave crosses and stones, burial cloths, burial clothing , skulls and much more.
• In the home parlor, rural life from different epochs is vividly presented.

Natural monuments

Kühndorf in front of the Dolmar

The local mountain of the place and namesake of the administrative community is the 739.5 m high Dolmar , which is a prominent hilltop in front of the Thuringian Forest.

Regular events

• A baking house festival takes place every year in the bakery.
• In the castle barn of the Johanniterburg, a "Pentecost dance" is held every Whitsun festival.
• At the beginning of September Kühndorf celebrates the traditional fair with dance and costume parade.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Kühndorf is the location for the Gröschel bus company. As a subcontractor, Gröschel complements local transport in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district with its fleet of vehicles , in cooperation with the Meiningen bus company . Other resident businesses include an agricultural cooperative and a car workshop.

traffic

Kühndorf is located on the district road 581 (formerly B 280) Meiningen - Zella-Mehlis and is connected by this with the motorway junction Meiningen-Nord of the motorway 71 .

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education

The Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, as the school authority, maintains the “Am Dolmar” elementary school in Kühndorf, which is located on Schulstrasse. The school profile of the elementary school includes, among other things, the titles of “Environment School in Europe” (since 1998/99) , “Media interested elementary school” and “Movement-friendly elementary school”.

Personalities

• Johann Kaspar Schade (1666–1698), Lutheran preacher, author and poet

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 187; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition “Luther and the Witches”, Kühndorf area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 253, (also: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000); Manfred Wilde : The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-10602-X , pp. 518-522, (At the same time: Chemnitz, Technical University, habilitation paper, 2002).
3. ↑ Carl Gottlob Dietmann : Brief Church and School History of the Prince Count Henneberg, Electoral Saxon Antheils. Karl Wilhelm Ettinger, Gotha 1781, ( digitized ).
4. ↑ Mayor resigns because of seals for imperial citizens. MDR THÜRINGEN, January 25, 2018, accessed on January 29, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Johanniter Castle Kühndorf. Retrieved January 18, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Kühndorf cemetery museum

Web links

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

Wikisource: Kühndorf in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• thueringenfotos.de - Photos from the village from 1988
• thueringenfotos.de - Photos from the village from 1989
• Picture-book churches: Church in Kühndorf ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Official information page for the cemetery church and the cemetery museum