Knottenhof (Bad Salzungen)

Knottenhof City of Bad Salzungen Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 34 ″  E
Height :	275 m above sea level NN
Residents :	10  (Jun 30, 2009)
Postal code :	36460
Area code :	036963
Location of Knottenhof in Bad Salzungen
The local location Knottenhof

The Knottenhof is a small settlement belonging to the Frauensee district of the city of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia and consists of three neighboring houses.

The Knottenhof is about one and a half kilometers south of the Frauensee location on county road 106 near the junction of this road with federal road 84 (section Dönges - Kieselbach ) at Schergeshof . The geographic height of the place is 275  m above sea level. NN .

The Knottenhof is one of a group of around 20 settlements that have been created as clearing in the Frauensee Forest since the 13th century in the vicinity of the Cistercian convent Frauensee . The majority of these small settlements were already deserted in the 16th century when the monastery was abolished , including the original Knottenhof. After the suppression of the peasant uprising of 1525, the monastery and that as pledged property were confiscated by the Hessian landgrave Philip the Magnanimous , and at the same time he ordered his new subjects to convert to the Protestant creed. The appointed administrator Michael Flach carried out the secularization of the monastery on behalf of the landgrave . In 1536 the Frauensee monastery was considered dissolved, from which the Frauensee office emerged as an exclave in the territory of the Saxon dukes. In 1673 the homestead was first mentioned in a document. Its name is probably derived from the flax production carried out in this area until the early 20th century . In 1797 the farm worker Scholl received the approval to build a new house on the Knottenhof; it existed until 1973. In 1803 the farmer Mey built another house on Schergeshof. The old main building was dismantled in 1994 and moved to Alsace .

An underground water tunnel ends about 500 m north of the Knottenhof, which was dug into the rock from 1771 by Hessian miners from the neighboring Richelsdorf Mountains to create an artificial drainage for the nearby Frauensee . The total length is given as 1500 meters.

As of June 30, 2009, 10 people lived in Knottenhof.

Web links

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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. ↑ Manfred Oertel: Vitzeroda and his church. P. 114f
3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 149
4. ↑ ^{a b c} When flax was still in fashion in Frauensee , Südthüringer Zeitung , local edition Bad Salzungen from February 12, 2020
5. ↑ Festschrift 800 years of Frauensee . Frauensee 2002.