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| Height : | 365 m |
| Area : | 12.23 km² |
| Residents : | 371 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 30 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 99330 |
| Area code : | 036205 |
Liebenstein is a district of the rural community Geratal in the Ilm district in Thuringia in Germany .
geography
location
Liebenstein is located in the Wild Gera Valley between Plaue and Graefenroda in the northern foreland of the Thuringian Forest . In Liebenstein the Gissel flows into the Wilde Gera. The north side of the valley rises steeply to the Gossel plateau . The 508 meter high Gräfenrodaer Berg lies south of Liebenstein .
Neighboring places
Clockwise, starting in the north: Gossel - Plaue - Angelroda - Geschwenda - Gräfenroda - Frankenhain - Crawinkel
history
Liebenstein was first mentioned in a document in 1303 . In 1434 the Lords of Witzleben came into the possession of Liebenstein Castle through an exchange . In 1746, Liebenstein Castle and the towns of Liebenstein, Frankenhain and Rippersroda, which belong to its judicial district, came to the ducal-Württemberg State Minister Heinrich Günther Reinhard von Röder zu Geschwenda . State sovereignty over the Witzlebischen places of jurisdiction came in 1640 to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha , in 1672 to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg and in 1826 to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha . Since 1920 the place has been in the state of Thuringia .
By 1884 construction of the Neudietendorf-Ritschenhausen railway line , which runs through Liebenstein. A second track followed in 1894. 1939 Construction of a waterworks in connection with the Lütsche dam built in 1935–1938 .
In the First World War, Liebenstein had 31 dead and missing in the Second World War.
In 1944 a US bomber crashed in the area , one crew member survived. In March 1945, a German fighter plane that had been shot down over Zella-Mehlis crashed on the Hohenberg . On the night of April 10-11, 1945 and in the morning, Liebenstein was under US artillery fire . The church tower was destroyed and several buildings were hit - without a fire. The railway facilities were also badly damaged towards the end of the war. American troops moved in on April 11th .
In 1955, an open-air theater was built below the castle. In 1956 the LPG "Neue Zeit" was founded. The stench caused by the concentration of the stables on the "Hahnwiesen" was problematic. In the 1970s a home parlor was built, which was redesigned in 2001 by the "Heimatverein Liebenstein eV". In 1992 Liebenstein could be connected to the natural gas network. In 1995 the water supply was stabilized with the construction of a new pressure vessel.
Liebenstein has been part of the Ilm district since 1994. As early as 1993 it merged with other municipalities to form the Upper Geratal administrative community . With the dissolution of this, it became a district of the rural community Geratal on January 1, 2019.
In 1999 the castle ruins were extensively renovated.
Population development
Development of the population:
- 1843-278
- 1939-873
- 1989 - 526
- 2005 - 412
- 2010 - 377
- 2015 - 355
Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values from December 31st
politics
(District) mayor and district council
The district mayor of Liebenstein is Jörg Becker (independent). Together with four other members, it forms the local council. On June 5, 2016, Becker was elected honorary mayor of the then still independent municipality; after the incorporation in Geratal, he will hold the office of local mayor for the rest of his term of office. Before that, Albrecht Dürer was from 1994 to 2004 and again from 2010 to 2016 and Reinhard Dzillak from 2004 to 2010 as honorary mayors of Liebenstein.
Culture and sights
- Liebenstein Castle , built around 1270, is located on the northern slope of the Wild Gera valley . Its mighty square tower is still preserved. From there you have a wide view of the Geratal, the Reinsberg mountains and the Thuringian Forest .
- Röderschlösschen
- Johanneskirche in the village center. Current construction from 1841. Tower destroyed by US artillery fire in April 1945. Newly built in 1961.
Memorials
A communal grave with a memorial stone in the local cemetery commemorates 14 prisoners from a death march from the Ohrdruf SIII subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp and an unknown soldier who was shot as an alleged spy towards the end of the war.
Economy and Transport
Liebenstein is an agricultural place. The fields are on both sides of the device. There were once a lot of mills on the Wilder Gera in and around Liebenstein.
The place is on the road from Plaue to Graefenroda . The Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway also runs along the valley, but Liebenstein does not have its own train station. The closest train station is Gräfenroda, about 1.5 km southwest of Liebenstein.
Personalities
- Max Hauschild (1914–1997), urban planner, born in Liebenstein
- Wilhelm Römer (* 1938), agricultural scientist, born in Liebenstein
literature
- 700 years of Liebenstein . Liebenstein (Thuringia) 1303-2003. From the Käfernburg-Schwarzburg castle to the village in the Ilmkreis. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of its first mention. Edited by the community of Liebenstein in the Ilm district. gb-Druckerei Arnstadt 2003
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Günther Reinhard von Röder on genealogy.net
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 1, 2019
- ^ Source for Schwarzburgische and Saxon places: Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843. Available online from Google Books . Source for Prussian places: Handbook of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population figures. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Population development since 1989 (TLUG) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 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; 18 kB)
- ↑ Municipality of Geratal: Official Journal, Volume 1, No. 12-14 June 2019, accessed on August 31, 2019 .
- ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Elections in Thuringia, mayoral elections in Liebenstein. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
