Limbach (Neuhaus am Rennweg)

Limbach City of Neuhaus am Rennweg Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 33 ″ N , 11 ° 4 ′ 8 ″ E
Incorporation :	1850
Incorporated into:	Steinheid
Postal code :	98724
Area code :	036704
Location of Limbach in Thuringia
	Grave chapel of the Greiner family on the northwest slope of the Petersberg in Limbach

Limbach is a district of the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia .

location

Limbach is a place on the ridges in the Thuringian Slate Mountains and is located on the Rennsteig . The place between Steinheid and Siegmundsburg is crossed by the federal highway 281 .

history

Porcelain sculpture beggar woman and child from Limbach, around 1785

The place was first mentioned in a document between 1358 and 1362 ( Regesten Schaumberg II 127 ). Limbach has belonged to the Steinheid community since the middle of the 19th century. As part of Steinheid, Limbach was incorporated into the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg on December 1, 2011.

Glass making

In 1731 the brothers Johann Gottfried, Martin and Gottlieb from the Lauscha glassmaker family Greiner and their brother-in-law Michael Gundelach, founder and owner of the Siegmundsburg glass and faience works , built a glassworks. Gotthelf Greiner , born in Alsbach in 1732, invented porcelain after 1757, independently of Johann Friedrich Böttger and with a slightly modified chemical composition in years of research. In 1772 he founded a porcelain factory in Limbach, which existed until 1939. In 1945 large parts of the factory were destroyed.

During the GDR times, Christmas tree decorations in particular were produced in Limbach.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 248.
↑ Thomas Schwämmlein: Landkreis Sonneberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Vol. 1). E. Reinhold, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 541.

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 248.

[2] Thomas Schwämmlein: Landkreis Sonneberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Vol. 1). E. Reinhold, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 541.