Lempertshausen

Lempertshausen City of Bad Rodach
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	325 m above sea level NN
Residents :	138  (2004)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	96476
Area code :	09564
The village fountain

Lempertshausen is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Bad Rodach in the Coburg district .

location

The village is located on the western edge of the Long Mountains , around two kilometers north of Bad Rodach, on the Bavarian border with Thuringia . The Grundbach, a tributary of the Rodach, flows through the place, which is connected by communal roads with the neighboring towns of Bad Rodach, Heldritt and Roßfeld as well as the Thuringian Massenhausen .

history

Lempertshausen was first mentioned in documents in 1152 as "Lemphrideshusen".

In 1321 the Veilsdorf monastery acquired the right to collect taxes from Herman von Luther, the Vogt of Strauf Castle . The monastery exercised feudal rights in Lempertshaussen until the Reformation. Later the feudal rights probably passed to the Lords of Hessberg. The parish and school location has been Rodach since 1350 and 1355 respectively.

At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War Lempertshausen had 17 houses. In 1642 no more people lived in the deserted place. In 1658 two new houses were built and in 1678 30 people lived in the place again. In 1856 Lempertshasen had 153 inhabitants and 31 houses.

In a referendum on November 30, 1919, six citizens of Lemperthausen voted for the Free State of Coburg to join the Thuringian state and 31 against. From July 1, 1920, Lempertshausen also belonged to the Free State of Bavaria .

On April 10, 1945, Lempertshausen was shelled by US troops after eleven Waffen-SS soldiers opened fire from a position on Hopfenberg. 13 houses and 17 barns burned down. Eight people and 122 animals died. In a new coat of arms from 1954, red and gold flames and a flying dove of peace remind of the destruction and the subsequent reconstruction of the village. From 1945 to 1989 the inner-German border separated Lempertshausen from its neighboring village in Thuringia, Massenhausen. In 1958 a new parish hall was built. In 1968 the community won the competition “The more beautiful village” and received a fountain designed by the Coburg sculptor Ernst Köhler. Carved out of gray granite, it shows the mythical phoenix as a symbol of destruction and reconstruction .

On January 1, 1975 Lempertshausen was incorporated into Rodach near Coburg. The mayor at that time was Hermann Morgenroth.

Since June 1998 there has been an approximately five meter high church bell tower in Lempertshausen, in which a former Absberg bell hangs, which calls to the evangelical services in Bad Rodach.

Population development

year population 1678 30th 1693 69 1856 153 1910 159 1933 157 1939 145 1975 142

literature

• Irmhild Tschischka: leafed through the chronicle of the Bad Rodach districts; A piece of Bad Rodach's city history . Writings of the Rückertkreis Bad Rodach eV, Issue 29, Bad Rodach 2005, ISBN 978-3-943009-29-3 , pp. 54-61

Web links

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

• Local journal from 1861

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2007. Verlag de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-00-042206-5 .
2. ^ Coburger Zeitung, issue no.280 from December 1, 1919
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 442
4. ↑ ^{a b} stele in the local history museum
5. ^ Christian Pack: Hunt for the church bells . www.np-coburg.de, published January 10, 2013
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Irmhild Tschischka: leafed through the chronicle of the Bad Rodach districts; A piece of Bad Rodach's city history . P. 57
7. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
8. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).