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Coat of arms of Lichte
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 32"  E
Height : 580 m
Area : 19.35 km²
Residents : 1526  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 79 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 98724
Area code : 036701
Elisabeth Church in Lichte-Wallendorf (built 1734)
Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur , 2006
Leibis-Lichte Dam (102.5 m)

Lichte is a district of the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia (Germany) on the Thuringian Porcelain Route .

geography

Lichte is located in the Thuringian Slate Mountains near the cities of Coburg , Ilmenau , Saalfeld and Sonneberg . The entire place and the surrounding mountains are part of the Thuringian Forest Nature Park . The Rennsteig and the former inner-German border run only a little south.

Lichte extends far into the valleys of the Lichte and the Piesau . Both rivers and the mountain streams of the surrounding valleys feed one of the largest drinking water reservoirs in Germany, the Leibis-Lichte reservoir with the Deesbach reservoir , located directly at the northern exit of Lichte (Geiersthal).

Over the millennia, Piesau and Lichte formed deeply cut valleys with steep mountain slopes. Especially in the lower reaches of the Lichte, the differences between the valley floor and the ridge are up to 200 meters, which is quite remarkable for low mountain regions.

The mountain streams in the area are considered to be the gold-richest in Germany.

mountains

Mountains near the municipality of Lichte
designation Height above sea ​​level direction Specialty
Pointed mountain 790.3 m NNO ( ⊙ ) Coniferous forest
Rough hills 801.9 m NO ( ⊙ ) Observation tower, transmission mast
Mutzenberg 770.0 m NO ( ⊙ ) Coniferous forest
Petersberg 646.0 m NO ( ⊙ ) with refuge
Kirchberg 685.6 m SO Ascent Wallendorf, Kirchsteig
Mittelberg 803.6 m SSO ( ⊙ )
Apelsberg 785.3 m SW ( ⊙ )
Rückersbiel 755.6 m W ( ⊙ ) Coniferous forest
Hahnberg 685.3 m W ( ⊙ ) Pasture area
Sow hill 721.7 m W ( ⊙ )
Geiersbachkopf 717.6 m W. Headwaters Geiersbach, tributary Lichte

Subdivision breakdown

The district of Lichte consists of the following localities:

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1414.

Porcelain was already being produced in Lichte in 1764, making the Wallendorfer porcelain factory one of the oldest in Europe . Wallendorfer porcelain quickly gained popularity far beyond the national borders of the time. In 1822, Johann Heinrich Leder founded another porcelain manufacture in Lichte, today's Lichte Porzellan GmbH. Although the new company was in competition with Wallendorf, it quickly opened up its own markets, which it has been able to maintain to this day, even though the two world wars and the isolation of the GDR during the GDR era were hardly beneficial.

Until 1920 the place was divided along the Lichte : the east belonged to the Sachsen-Meiningischen Kreis Saalfeld , while the west belonged to the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischen Landratsamt Königsee ( Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter Oberherrschaft ).

During the Second World War , workers from Poland had to do forced labor in Wallendorf , as four graves in the cemetery there remind of. A memorial plaque in the cemetery of Lichte commemorates two victims of the death march of prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, who were found in Finsteren Grund at the railway viaduct .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Bock and Teich , Geiersthal and Wallendorf were incorporated.

From 1922 to 1952 the community belonged to the district of Saalfeld , between 1952 and 1994 to the district of Neuhaus and between 1994 and 2018 to the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt . On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Lichte was incorporated into the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg as a district and thereby moved from the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt to the district of Sonneberg.

politics

Local council and district council

The council of the municipality of Lichte consisted of twelve councilors including the mayor, the first local council consists of 9 members.

Local council 2009 and 2014, local council 2019
Election year CDU Citizens' Initiative (BI) total
2009 5 7th 12 mandates
2014 7th 5 12 mandates
2019 9 9 mandates

The district mayor is Holger Koch.

State election 2014

Lichte was noticed by the nationwide lowest voter turnout of all Thuringian municipalities. Of 1369 eligible voters, 392 (28.6%) voted. They gave 379 valid second votes. The high percentage of votes of the AfD with 24.4% was remarkable .

coat of arms

Description : "In green with a golden angle shield base, a silver candlestick with a golden flame and rays arranged in the shape of a stand in the shield head, surrounded by four silver maple leaves."

Lichte's coat of arms picks up on an older seal motif, thus continuing a local tradition of representation and standing for the centuries-long tradition of porcelain production in the Piesau and Lichte valleys. The maple leaves symbolize the four districts and a tree species characteristic of the municipal corridors. Together with the shield color green, they refer to the location of the municipality in the Thuringian Forest, the “green heart of Germany” .

Culture and sights

Piesau Viaduct Lichte , landmark of Lichte
  • Local history museum Lichte (Geiersthal district)
  • Wallendorf Church - built in 1733 in the style of the peasant baroque
  • Railway viaduct in the area of ​​the Hammerwiesen zu Lichte, ten arches, L = 258 m, H = 34 m - spans the valley, the federal road 281 and the Piesau in the area of ​​the Hammerwiesen at the former Lipfertshammer
  • Finstergrund viaduct over the Kleine Lichte , exit Lichte (Waschdorf)
  • Drawing and modeling school, founded in 1862 (Geiersthal district in the Lichte-Geiersthal holiday complex next to the Waldhotel Feldbachtal)
  • Swimming pool in Geiersthal

→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Neuhaus am Rennweg

Memorials to those who died in the world wars

  • in Lichte (Ascherbach / Waschdorf)
  • in Lichte (Bock-und-Teich), B 281 Saalfelder Str. , confluence with Piesauer Str.
  • in Lichte (Geiersthal) on the Dürrer Berg
  • in Lichte (Wallendorf) on Kirchweg

World War II monuments

  • Cemetery in Lichte (Wallendorf): individual graves in memory of four Polish forced laborers
  • Friedhof zu Lichte (Dorst): memorial plaque to two victims of the death march in April 1945 from Buchenwald concentration camp (found at Finstern Grund under the railway viaduct).

Recurring events

Lichte (Wallendorf), porcelain princess with 3,000 coffee and teapots (2010)
  • Porcelain market on the last weekend in July with the coronation of the porcelain princess
  • Porcelain Christmas on the 1st of Advent
  • Lichtner Kirmes - goes back to a permission from the Prince (1825) to be allowed to hold annual markets before Michaelmas (September 29) (Thür.St.Archiv Rudolstadt: A / XVII, C.1.Nr.49; F / LXXII, Nr .21)

Deserving citizens

Memorial stone in honor of CM Hutschenreuther

Economy and Infrastructure

The economy of light is (typical for the Thuringian Slate Mountains) shaped by tourism, glass, porcelain and wood industries.

traffic

The place is on the B 281 ( Saalfeld / Saale - Eisfeld ), the ascent to the Rennsteig (850 m above sea level ) begins here. Other roads lead to Oberweißbach and Gräfenthal . In 1899 the place received a railway connection to the Frankenwaldbahn near Probstzella and in 1913 to Neuhaus am Rennweg. The Probstzella – Neuhaus am Rennweg railway line has been out of service in the Probstzella – Ernstthal section that runs through Lichte since 1998 and has been shut down for good since June 2006. The train stations Lichte (East) and Lichte (Thür.) Are in the village . The largest structures on the railway line through the Lichtetal are the Hammerwiesen viaduct in Lichte (Wallendorf) and the Finsterer Grund viaduct at the exit of Lichte (Waschdorf) towards Ernstthal.

Established businesses

Educational institutions

In Lichte there is a regular school location, the school district of which has so far included the places Lichte and Piesau as well as the districts Schmiedefeld and Reichmannsdorf in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, belonging to the city of Saalfeld. The regular school in Lichte is the only school in the district of Sonneberg where school pilots are trained and are used to ensure road safety on the B281.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Lattermann: Lichte in Thuringia. Wallendorf, Bock and Teich, Lichte, Geiersthal. Origin and development. Administrative community Lichtetal am Rennsteig, Lichte 1996, p. 27.
  2. ^ A b Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 237.
  3. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - Lichte
  4. ↑ District Council Lichte (decision). neuhaus-am-rennweg.de, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Mayoral election 2016 in Thuringia - Lichte
  6. ↑ The coat of arms was approved on July 15, 1995 by the Thuringian State Administration Office.
  7. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Kirsche: Railway Directorate Erfurt 1882-1993. VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933254-76-0 , p. 64.
  8. ↑ According to the list of monuments of the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 629 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / file.kreis-slf.de
  9. ↑ Heiko Haine (Ed.): Old Masters en miniature - Thuringian Porcelain Plate Painting (= writings and catalogs of the Otto Ludwig Eisfeld Museum. 1, ZDB -ID 2635991-1 ). Museum Otto Ludwig, Eisfeld 2011.

literature

  • Markus Schade: Gold in Thuringia. Thuringian Forest, Slate Mountains, Franconian Forest. Origin - formation - localities. Thuringian State Institute for Geology, Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-9806811-3-0 .

Web links

Commons : Lichte  - collection of images, videos and audio files