Kaltenborn (Bad Salzungen)

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Kaltenborn
City of Bad Salzungen
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 5 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 296  (290-310)  m
Residents : 500
Incorporation : 1973
Postal code : 36433
Area code : 03695
map
Kaltenborn in the south of the city area
View from the south into the historical location.
View from the south into the historical location.

Kaltenborn has been a district of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia since 1973 .

geography

Kaltenborn is three kilometers (as the crow flies) south of Bad Salzungen. In addition to the core village, it also includes the Sorghöfe in the north . The training area of ​​the Werratal barracks in Bad Salzungen extends right up to the site . The shooting ranges and practice areas required for training characterize the landscape today. The federal highway 285 runs near the village . The southern part of the district is forested and at the same time forms the southern edge of the Werra valley . The highest point is the Schneckenberg ( 528  m above sea level ). The Polsambach stream also belongs to the water network, on whose upper course there was a forest workers settlement of the same name until the 19th century, the origins of which go back to the high Middle Ages.

history

Kaltenborn was first mentioned in a document on March 22, 1323. In addition to a forest settlement on the Polsambach and the Sorghöfen, not far from Kaltenborn, the Hunburg rose on a protruding hilltop - probably a fortification that was important in prehistoric times, but which has not yet been scientifically investigated because of the restricted military area. Later, the sex of the Lords of Frankenstein determined the place, which was also taken into account in the 1330 document (so-called "Frankenstein sales letter").

Little is known about recent history. During the Thirty Years' War, the place fell victim to several marching armies and burned down. The parish church and school were in Langenfeld. According to Walch Kaltenborn's research, around 1810 there were 28 houses and 160 residents.

Today around 500 people live in the village, who mainly work in the nearby city center. The construction of the military area east of the district, which was laid out in the GDR era and now belongs to the Werratal barracks , had an impact on the agricultural use of the meadows and fields. A large part of the area was declared a restricted area by the shooting ranges. After 1990, more than 50 new buildings were built on the outskirts.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. District of Gotha, Wartburg district, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ^ 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 , p. 136.

literature

  • Ernst Julius Walch: Historical, statistical, geographical and topographical description of the royal and ducal Saxon houses and lands in general and the Saxon-Coburg-Meiningian house and its lands in particular. Schneider and Weigel, Nuremberg 1811, pp. 240–241 .
  • Hartmut Ruck et al .: Bad Salzungen with a chronological excerpt from the city's history and city center map, important information about the city and company portraits. ETRO-Verlag et al., Bad Sooden-Saalmünster o. J. (approx. 2000), p. 72.