Kieselbach (Krayenberg community)
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Kieselbach
Municipality of Krayenberg municipality
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| Height : | 235 m above sea level NN |
| Incorporation : | June 30, 1994 |
| Incorporated into: | Merkers-Kieselbach |
| Postal code : | 36460 |
| Area code : | 036963 |
 Location of Kieselbach in the Krayenberg community
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 Town view from the north (2012)
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Kieselbach is a district of the Krayenberg community in the Wartburg district in western Thuringia .
Geography and location
Kieselbach is located in the Werra valley and extends on the lower reaches of the approximately 6 km long Schergesbach , a tributary of the Werra. The summit of the Krayenberg ( 428.3 m above sea level ), which towers conically from the Werra Valley, with the Krayenburg castle ruins is only 840 m as the crow flies southeast of the town center ("Beim Brauhaus"). Opposite him, in the north-west of the village, are the Eichkopf ( 366 m above sea level ) and the Hechberg ( 357.9 m above sea level ) with the side knoll Eierberg ( 335 m above sea level ).
The B 84 ( Eisenach - Vacha ) runs in the north-west of the village . In the marshy floodplain north of the village, three ponds - leaf, sheep and choice ponds - were created; they were used for fish farming and are also important for nature and species protection today.
history
Kieselbach was first mentioned in a document in 1155. The text in villa nostra Kiselbach, que sita est in radice montis et castri nostri Creienberg ( German : in our village Kieselbach, which is located at the foot of the mountain and our Krayenberg castle ) can be found in a document by Abbot Willibold von Hersfeld. This document, which is now kept in the Marburg State Archives , testifies that the place was under Thuringian sovereignty at the time, but already belonged to the Hersfeld Monastery .
The original settlement of the place is probably related to the nearby Krayenburg and the old trade route from Erfurt to Frankfurt am Main . The Fulda monastery and the Frankenstein, who temporarily sat on the Krayenburg, owned the site . The hinterland of Kieselbach was settled after the Frauensee monastery was founded . In the 13th and 14th centuries , around 20 clearing settlements and farmsteads known by name were established in the Frauenseer Forest , which had once extended to the banks of the Werra near Kieselbach. The majority of these settlements were farms and used the Kieselbach market as a supply option.
The Kieselbach Church is one of the oldest buildings in the village, it was built in the Gothic style and stands on the edge of the forest, on a footpath to the Krayenburg. The defiant tower now shows a weather vane with the year 1522. The church was initially subordinate to the Dorndorf parish as a subsidiary church. With the increasing population around 1900, Kieselbach was granted its own parish, the rectory on the village green has an idiosyncratic architectural style.
Kieselbach belonged to the office of Krayenberg , after 1815 to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , later to the district of Eisenach .
For a long time the place was predominantly agricultural, in 1925 a trade list showed 131 farms with a size of less than 2 ha, 51 with a size of 2 to 5 ha, 20 farms had a size of 5 - 10 ha and three farms were up to 20 ha big. As subordinate trades, there was also a forge, three sheep farms and the threshing machine with a Lanz locomobile as a drive, acquired in 1910 as a cooperative property.
At the beginning of the 20th century, potash mining became of paramount importance, which was also continued during the GDR era. The 3.5 km long Springen – Dorndorf potash ropeway, opened in 1913, connected the potash shafts in Springen with the Dorndorf loading station to remove the extracted raw potash . The unusual structure with 55 supports and the non-stop moving 280 lorries was decommissioned and dismantled in 1990. In full load operation, the means of transport could carry a daily output of 6100 t of crude salt, the rope speed was 2.3 m / s.
37 residents had to pay for their participation in the First World War and 112 in the Second World War, and the memorial near the church commemorates the dead of the First World War. During the Second World War, the lack of labor in the factories and farms was replaced by forced laborers from the occupied territories. For the victims of tyranny, memorials were set up in various places in the area (Springen, Vacha, Bad Salzungen) after 1950. After the end of the war, groups of homeless people, who had been expelled from the former German eastern areas, also found their way to the Kieselbach community. Emergency quarters were created in the former Kambachsmühle powder factory to help these people. In 1952 Kieselbach came to the Bad Salzungen district .
The municipal area reform of 1994 led to the merger with Merkers and Kambachsmühle to form the municipality of Merkers-Kieselbach . In 2013 the municipality of Merkers-Kieselbach was dissolved and the districts merged with the municipality of Dorndorf to form the Krayenberg municipality .
Attractions
- Probably the most striking attraction of the place is the building ensemble of the Protestant church with the cemetery, the rectory and the village green enclosed by an arched wall. To replace the dead village linden tree, a new village linden tree was planted in the square that was renovated for the local anniversary.
- The Lutherlinde is not far from the church . It was probably planted on November 10, 1883 on the occasion of the 400th birthday of Martin Luther and designated as a natural monument in 1954 .
- The "Country Club Kieselbach" in an old quarry not far from the town became known throughout Thuringia. The former sandstone quarry was lovingly converted into a western village by the Kieselbach Country Club. Country concerts take place there several times a year, the highlight being a big festival every year on Ascension Day.
- The local history museum is located at the primary school and has a collection of tools and products from typical local trades. Pictures and texts explain recent history and potash mining around Merkers.
- The traditional inn “Zur Krone” is located on the main street opposite the museum.
- Today's village school was built in 1926 as a striking Wilhelminian-style building on the outskirts, and a small gymnasium was built in the schoolyard during the GDR era.
- The spacious sports field was inaugurated in 1954 as the “Stadion am Krayenberg” and is located on the south-western edge of the community. In 1964 the sports center was also completed - the first football team, supported by the Kieselbach youth, was promoted from the second district class (1958) to the district league (1961). The local athletes were also happy about the GDR-open athletics competitions held in their stadium.
- In the local area you can still find numerous historic half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries. A currently vacant multi-storey residential and commercial building, built in the Franconian half-timbered style, is located as a building that characterizes the townscape on the western edge of the town. Nearby is also the homestead of the former forester's house, which is currently being renovated - a building complex also built in half-timbered construction.
literature
- Merkers-Kieselbach municipality (ed.): Commemorative publication for the local jubilee 850 years Kieselbach . Merkers-Kieselbach 2005, p. 62 .
- Georg Kühn (Eisenach): Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach: Dermbach administrative district: Vacha, Geisa, Stadtlengsfeld, Kaltennordheim and Ostheim vd Rhön district court districts . In: Georg Voss, Paul Lehfeld (eds.): Building and art monuments of Thuringia . Booklet XXXVII. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1911, p. 44-47 .
Web links
- Website of the Bad Salzungen-Dermbach church district
- Website from Krayenberg.de
- Official website of the municipality of Merkers-Kieselbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b c d e f Municipality of Merkers-Kieselbach (ed.): Commemorative publication for the local jubilee 850 years of Kieselbach . Merkers-Kieselbach 2005, p. 62 .
- ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Kieselbach and Merkers of January 20, 1994 (GVBl p. 234), a) § 5 amended by ordinance of April 6, 1994 (GVBl. P. 410)
- ↑ View of the village green with the village linden tree (around 1900)
- ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 55