This list is based on the book Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany - Cultural Monuments in Thuringia / District of Sonneberg by Thomas Schwämmlein with the status of registration on May 30, 2005. The following information does not replace the legally binding information from the monument protection authority.
The homestead, consisting of a residential building with an adjoining stable and ancillary building, was built in 1910. The gable-facing residential building with a gable roof is exemplary designed for the region and time with the entrance to the center on the eaves side, the corridor arrangement and the stable area at the rear. It has a basement floor made of sandstone masonry, a ground floor made of brick masonry and sandstone structure and a half-timbered upper floor, which is clad with two-tone stencil slate with decorative shapes.
Hallstrasse
The memorial stone commemorates the death march of presumably 467 prisoners from the Sonneberg concentration camp external command . The prisoners worked in the Reinhardt machine factory and were sent to the Czech Republic at the beginning of April. Few survived the march. The SED district leadership in Sonneberg had the memorial stone erected in 1982.
At the junction of the district road 32 to Haselbach from the state road 1150 is the signpost and distance column made of sandstone. It dates from the second half of the 19th century and is provided with directional arrows and information on distances to Haselbach, Sonneberg and Gräfenthal.
Alte Schulstrasse 4 (until 2015 Schulstrasse)
The former schoolhouse was built in 1898/99 according to plans by the Sonneberg builder Bernhard Brückner on the eastern slope of the Loosbrand. In 1950 the building was expanded and the school was closed in the 1970s. It was used as a cultural center with a restaurant. The two-storey solid building has a basement with a façade made of greywacke with sandstone structures. The upper floors have a brick facade. The upper end is formed by a developed hipped roof with a roof turret in which a steel bell hangs. The symmetrically designed east facade is characterized by a slightly protruding central risalit with the main entrance, framed by pillars and triangular gables, and a sgraffito arch field with the Saxon coat of arms and the inscription “Community School 1899”.
Steinacher Strasse
The iron hammer shaft was found in 1929 during excavation work on the site of the former puddling iron rolling mill Bernhardshütte. It was built around 1840 and was erected as a technical monument by the National Socialist movement in 1934. The giant shaft was manufactured in a transitional period when iron machine components replaced those made of wood.
Steinacher Strasse 33
The memorial plaque commemorates the death march of presumably 467 prisoners from the Sonneberg concentration camp external command. The prisoners worked in the Reinhardt machine factory and were sent to the Czech Republic at the beginning of April. Few survived the march. The SED district leadership in Sonneberg had the memorial plaque put up in 1982.
Eschenthal
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Two prisoners of the Sonneberg concentration camp external command were shot and buried near Eschenthal on April 4, 1945 on the death march from Sonneberg towards the Czech Republic. After they were found on July 19, 1945, they were buried in the cemetery. The gravestone, a block of natural stone, used to have a plaque with the inscription “Die Toten admon”.
Haselbach
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The Protestant cemetery chapel was built in neo-classical forms in 1924/25 . From 1922, the Haselbach community pursued the construction of a morgue with an attached chapel for church services at the cemetery, for which the Thuringian Evangelical Church granted a loan. The building manager Friedrich Gläser from Steinach designed a morgue with a large prayer room, which could also be used for church services, with a sacristy and a choir entrance. The interior was renovated in the mid-1970s. Failure to repair the roof and exterior walls led to the chapel being closed from 1988 onwards. In 1992 the church was inaugurated again after extensive renovation. The solid construction has a gable roof with a central, cross-crowned roof turret. The northern gable side is characterized by an apse , the eastern eaves side by a flat extension, the mortuary. The other two sides of the building with the entrance portals structure pilaster strips , architraves and triangular gables.
Hasenthal
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Saalfelder Strasse 26
According to a designation on the lintel bar of a door, the stable house probably dates from 1753. Dendrochronological investigations indicate a renovation in 1790. In 1955 the block construction of the stable area was replaced by padded half-timbering, corresponding to the living area. The single-storey half-timbered building is characterized by a base storey with padded compartments, slated gables and a developed, slated gable roof . The floor plan typical for the region is characterized by a house entrance on the eaves side and a hallway between the living area and the stable area.
Rödelbergsstraße 4 (until 2015 Steinacher Straße)
The memorial plaque commemorates the death march of presumably 467 prisoners from the Sonneberg concentration camp external command. The prisoners worked in the Reinhardt machine factory and were sent to the Czech Republic at the beginning of April. Few survived the march. The SED district leadership in Sonneberg had the memorial plaque put up in 1982.
The former forester's house was built in 1925/26 and is exemplary for the region. The two-story, gable-end building has a natural stone basement. The facade of the upper floors of the half-timbered building and the gable roof are slated, the gables are paneled. At right angles to the main house is an outbuilding, originally the stable, with an arcade.
At break 1
On stylus slate quarry after nationalization in 1891 Langenbach was managing the Ducal pen quarries of Saxe-Meiningen 1903 to 1906, to a design by architect Hermann Schubert domain from Meiningen, build a large hut. It served the industrial processing of the broken pen slate into writing pens. Production ended in 1952 and the property was used as a children's recreation facility. A restaurant followed in 1990, and private use after it was vacant. The two-story main building is a solid construction with a facade made of quarry stone on the ground floor and of brick on the upper floor. A mansard gable roof forms the upper end. Next to it is a single-storey low-rise building with a skylight that was used for production. To the north of the Großhütte are the former opencast mine and tunnels, to the east the heap.
Langebachsgrund
The former rafting pond was built in 1737 for log rafting, like other rafting ponds in the side valleys of the Steinach since 1569. For this purpose, the Langebach, a tributary of the Ölse, which flows into the Engnitz and finally the Steinach, was dammed by an earth dam with a clay seal. The pond was used for rafting until 1877.
Hohenofen
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Hohenofener Strasse 1
With the construction of the Marienthal glassworks near the village of Hohenofen in 1828/29, the manor house was built above the hut. Around 1900 it was converted into a restaurant with a hall extension. The two-storey half-timbered building stands on a high base and has a slate facade and a gable roof. The symmetrical south facade is structured by a central risalit and octagonal corner towers with tented roofs on both sides. The building-related equipment is still largely preserved. This also applies to the hall extension with its Art Nouveau forms, where, among other things, a double-wing connecting door to the manor house has etched glass panels with allegorical depictions of the four seasons.
Hönbach
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Wildenheider Strasse
In 1949, according to plans by Rudolf Jäger and Viktor Koch, the cemetery chapel was built in the style of national tradition on the communal cemetery newly laid out by the city of Sonneberg in Hönbach in 1948. The massive building is characterized by a steep, slate-covered gable roof . A polygonal chancel extension, a segmented arch portal and an extension with a roof turret and a bronze bell from 1952 are further features of the chapel. The cemetery was between the border signal and barrier fence and the border fence on the inner-German border . A visit was only possible after prior registration.
Hüttensteinach
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Spitzbergstrasse 3
The representative villa was built by the Hüttensteinach porcelain manufacturer Carl Günther Schoenau according to plans by Albert Schmidt in 1883/84 on the southwest flank of the Spitzberg in an exposed location. The three-storey solid building has a façade made of greywacke on the ground floor, which is framed by embossed blocks at the edges of the house. On the upper floors, the facade is characterized by bricks with sandstone structures. A developed cripple / half-hipped roof with a roof turret forms the upper end. The building is structured by a tower-like extension on the south facade, a polygonal staircase risalit on the north facade and a staircase on the east front, limited by arcades and a wooden roof. The tower-like extension has an octagonal floor plan and a tent roof. The upper floor is designed like a bay window with glazing and a balustrade with stone pillars. The building-time equipment with wooden reliefs as door crowns of the living room and extensive wooden fixtures in the family room show in neo-renaissance forms. Rock cellars on the eastern slope of the Spitzberg replace the missing basement.
Steinacher Strasse 88
The residential and commercial building was built in 1903. The two-story solid building stands on a base made of greywacke and has a saddle roof with a knee stick . The facade consists of red and ocher-colored facing bricks and is divided on the street front in the middle by a balcony and a dwarf house, with the year of construction decorated with number anchors.
Köppelsdorf
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Friedrich-Engels-Strasse 175
Homestead, marked 1851 and 1901
Friedrich-Engels-Strasse 180
Main building of the former Engelhardt mill, slated half-timbered building with a mansard hipped roof, marked 1812
Köppelsdorfer Strasse 151
Villa, solid construction with hipped roof, around 1900
Köppelsdorfer Strasse 197a
Villa, solid construction with hipped roof, around 1890, probably by Albert Schmidt
Neuhäuser Strasse 3
Bell and clock tower, probably 1883, with fittings
Neuhäuser Strasse 3
The memorial plaque commemorates the death march of presumably 467 prisoners from the Sonneberg concentration camp external command. The prisoners worked in the Reinhardt machine factory and were sent to the Czech Republic at the beginning of April. Few survived the march. The SED district leadership in Sonneberg had the memorial plaque put up in 1982.
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Graves of the Diez and Dressel families (around 1872), the Armand Marseille family (around 1925) and the Ernst Heubach family (around 1927)
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Malmerzer Strasse 21
Homestead, 19th century
Malmerzer Strasse 31
Former mill (Obere Mühle), 16th to 20th century
Malmerzer Strasse 48
Residential house, solid and half-timbered building with a gable roof, marked 1824 and 1834
Mürschnitz
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Teufelsbach area
The Teufelsbachtal Viaduct was built in 1909 as part of the construction of the single- track Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway line as a quarry stone construction with 5500 cubic meters of sandstone clad with sandstone rust. In April 1945 the Wehrmacht blew up the two eastern vaults. In 1947 the structure was restored. Repairs followed in 1966/67. The viaduct, which is curved in plan, is 171 meters long and spans the Teufelsgraben with eight vaults, each 17 meters wide. The pillars are structured by ashlar cornices at height, coat of arms-shaped blending fields and vaulted vaults in the arches.
The garden school was built in 1909 and today serves as a nursery school for the Sonneberg-Oberlind state primary school. The two-storey schoolhouse has a natural stone plinth on which a brick facade stands, which is symmetrically structured by colossal iron, rows of windows and plastered fields. The front is characterized by a central projection with a tail gable and the main entrance. At the rear there is a staircase risalit and an adjoining toilet building. The upper end is formed by an extended hipped roof . Opposite the school building is the gymnasium, which was built in 1928/29 in the New Building style based on plans by Franz Boxberger and Ernst Herbart. The single-storey solid building has a hipped roof and is spanned by a field ceiling with wooden beams and secondary beams.
Friedrich-Engels-Strasse 1
The building was built in 1741 for the captain and later major Justus Friedrich von Grießheim as a representative living area. Conversions and expansions followed at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century and in 1880. The corner house had a massive basement on which a two-story, plastered / slated half-timbered building with a mansard hipped roof stood. In the 2000s, the so-called majors house was demolished.
Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 7
The predecessor building already existed in 1573. It was extensively rebuilt in the 19th century and got its current shape in the first half of the 19th century. From 1896 teachers' apartments were housed in the house. The two-storey solid and half-timbered building has an expanded gable roof and stands on a base made of sandstone blocks. The wooden corner pilasters on the ground floor adorn corner frames.
Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 9
The community of Oberlind had the representative market school built in 1890/91 according to plans by Albert Schmidt . In 1991/92 an expansion followed on the rear front. The building now houses the Sonneberg-Oberlind state primary school. The two-storey schoolhouse has a natural stone base on which a brick facade with sandstone structures stands. A slate-covered gable roof forms the upper end. The main facade, which is curved according to the course of the street, is symmetrically structured and characterized by round arches at the windows, portals and cornices. In the middle of the facade is a three-storey, polygonal tower with a Welschen dome and a lantern. In the tower there is a two-storey vestibule spanned by a star vault with an adjoining staircase. Corner projections form the side of the main facade, the gable of which is adorned with the coat of arms of the Wettins and the town of Oberlind.
Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 9
The memorial plaque commemorates the death march of presumably 467 prisoners from the Sonneberg concentration camp external command. The prisoners worked in the Reinhardt machine factory and were sent to the Czech Republic at the beginning of April. Few survived the march. The SED district leadership in Sonneberg had the memorial plaque put up in 1982.
Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 15
The building was built in 1907/08 for the town of Oberlind as a town hall according to plans by Ernst Kessel and Sons. Half of the house was used by the Reichspost with a post office. In 2000, it was repaired and converted into a residential building. The two-storey former town hall has a natural stone base on which a representative brick facade with sandstone structures stands. The upper end is a slate-covered, expanded mansard roof with a fore. The four-axis street facade is symmetrically structured, with the risalit-like center emphasized by a curved bent gable and the entrance portal with an outside staircase.
Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 16
The house was built before 1723 as a so-called drip house next to a manor. At the end of the 19th century, the merchant Christian Schindhelm arranged for a renovation to be carried out, with a shop being built in and a manor building as an extension to the rear. The two-storey eaves side house is a half-timbered building that stands on a base and has a half-hip roof. The facade is plastered or slated. The higher house entrance is accessed via a platform with stairs on both sides and equipped with a wrought iron railing. The separately standing outbuilding is a brick building with a gable roof.
Kirchwallstrasse 15
The core of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Aegidien consists of a previous building which was replaced or expanded in 1455 by a late Gothic building. The tower was raised in 1617 and received its current shape with a pointed helmet and four oriel turrets. In 1697 the nave was raised and the galleries and a wooden barrel with a half-hipped roof installed as the roof structure. In addition, a stair tower with a Welscher hood and lantern was built on the south side. In the 19th century, parts of the church were Gothicized. After the wooden stair tower was replaced by a massive construction in 1900, the organ, the nave windows with pointed arches and the roof, which was designed as a mansard roof with a structure for the organ room on the west side, followed from 1912 to 1914. The hall church with the choir tower has a retracted choir with a groin vault. The galleries have painted parapets. They are four-story on the side walls of the nave and three-story on the west side and are spanned by a barrel-vaulted field ceiling with paintings in a stucco frame. The defensive wall consists of ashlar masonry with sandstone. Its core dates back to the 15th century and was expanded in the 16th century.
Köppelsdorfer Strasse 95
The residential and commercial building with enclosure and warehouse was built in 1923/24 for master plasterer Albin Reimann according to plans by Franz Boxberger and Ernst Herbart from Sonneberg. The two-storey solid building with an expanded, slate-covered hipped roof has a symmetrically structured plastered facade. The street front is characterized by a central dwelling and four window axes with reliefs in the intermediate fields. The architectural ornamentation in the Art Deco style with figure representations is present several times outside and inside. The house entrance with vestibule and stairs are at the rear. The former business premises on the ground floor are accessed via a separate entrance on the west side, decorated with a relief with stucco tools.
Long way 2
The unevenly and roughly hewn stone made of sandstone with a square cross-section and rounded apex is a heavily weathered cross stone. According to legend, a woman who was accused of child murder and who could have freed from the death penalty by carrying the stone from the quarry to Oberlind, collapsed under the weight of the stone.
Oberlinder Strasse 121
The residential building, which was built around 1900, is a two-story solid building with an extended mansard roof with a fore. The facade is characterized by a rusticated base and ocher-colored facing bricks with red sandstone structures. The symmetrical street front with framed windows is characterized by a central projection with a crooked hip roof with an open space. On the north-west side is the staircase projection, which has a vestibule and an Art Nouveau front door.
Lower bridge
The lower bridge spans the Steinach with three arches at the site of an old ford . The sandstone structure was built in 1722. It is the oldest solid bridge in the Sonneberg district. The structure is founded on oak piles and the piers have heads upstream as ice breakers. The railing dates from 1981.
Unterlinder Strasse 38
The lower mill goes back to a hammer mill from 1441. From 1601 it was used as a grinding, beating and fulling mill. After a fire, a new building was built in 1652, which was expanded to include a cutting mill and the main house in 1811. The cutting mill ceased operations after the Second World War , the grinding mill in 2002. The main building is a two-storey eaves side house facing the mill ditch. It has a gable roof, a slate half-timbered upper floor and a solid plastered ground floor with a ribbon squaring in the street front.
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The grave of the family of the entrepreneur Nikol Dorst was built around 1930. It consists of a stele with the portrait of Nikol Dorst and tombstones on both sides. The grave of the entrepreneur Max Dorst dates from 1931. It is designed in the Art Deco style and is characterized by a three-part wall made of cast iron plates and two grieving female figures. The Schubert family was established for the soldiers Heinz and Günter Schubert, who died in 1940. The tombstone is made of black granite and has a semicircular end with an eagle's head relief.
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On the Winterberg
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Matthew Church is in the center of the village of Spechtsbrunn. Its core goes back to a chapel that was looked after by the parish of Marktgölitz in the late Middle Ages . The chapel is documented by a picture in the atlas of the geographer Paul Pfinzing from 1595. In 1722 the parish became independent and in 1746/47 a new church was built. In 1790 a new colored version of the interior followed. Repairs had to be carried out in 1845 and 1851. As part of a comprehensive church renovation in 1911, Curt Steinberg redesigned the interior of the church in a colorful way, whereby the original baroque version was preserved, reconstructed and supplemented. In addition, a new organ from Sauer was installed. The extensive renovation, which began in the early 1990s, took around 17 years. The hall church has a mansard roof , which is closed on the south-west gable by a gable tower with an octagonal lantern and a Welsch hood . Below is the entrance building with a curved roof. The interior is spanned by a mirror ceiling with a ceiling painting. A two-storey gallery stands on three sides of the wall.
Steinbach
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Friedensstrasse 64
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Michael was built in 1905/06 to a design by the Saalfeld building councilor Karl Rommel. Before that, in 1904 the parishes of Köppelsdorf, Steinbach, Hüttensteinach, Mönchsberg and Jagdshof had separated from the parish of Oberlind and united in the new parish of Köppelsdorf. The neo-Romanesque hall church has an outer wall made of slate, which is structured by sandstone elements, and slate-covered roofs. The nave with its three-sided galleries is spanned by a wooden ceiling with multiple trusses under a gable roof. The stilted apse in the east is vaulted. The tower, standing on the south-west corner, has a sloped roof top with a Welsch hood and a lantern crowned with a keuz. The main portal is in the cross-crowned west facade. The lead glazing in the apse and gallery windows from the period of construction shows a figurative glass painting. The organ from 1908 comes from Wilhelm Sauer . The neighboring, two-story rectory was also planned by Karl Rommel.
Jagdshofer Strasse 11
The single-storey eaves-standing stable house dates from the 19th century. It has a gable roof and a cellar with a barrel vault under the half-timbered living area . In the stable area, the pillar plank construction with horizontal planks was used. There is a barn with a gable roof. The outer walls are protected from the weather by template slate and sheet metal shingles or vertical formwork made of wood. The roof was covered with tiles from Oeslau .
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The grave of the family of the porcelain manufacturer Carl Günther Schoenau was built around 1904. It consists of an aedicule with neo-Romanesque columns and triangular gable and the inscription panels. In front of it there is a terrace accessible via two stairs, under which the crypt is located. The grave of the von Berg and Hammerschmidt families, who were toy manufacturers, was built around 1924 in the Art Deco style . In the niche the aedicule has an urn with a drapery and a domed roof with a cross. A metal fence with leaf relief surrounds the tomb.
Unterlind
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Local road 71
The Castle Unterlind goes back to an estate of the late Middle Ages. The building was erected in 1710 for the imperial general field master Georg Hartmann von Erffa as a representative residence. In 1890 the Sonneberg merchant Gustav Luge acquired the approximately two hectare property, which in 1946 was transferred to Caritas in a will. From 1947 to 1999 the castle was used as a retirement and nursing home. Then a Hamburg entrepreneur bought it. The castle is a two-storey solid building standing on a base with an expanded, slate-covered hip roof. The symmetrically structured facades on the long sides of the building have nine window axes. The middle three axes are accentuated by diaphragm houses with triangular gables. An octagonal roof turret with a Welscher hood and lantern as well as two bronze bells is arranged in the center of the building. Of the building-related furnishings, there are still stucco ceilings that are attributed to the brothers Bartolomeo and Carlo Domenico Luchese , and in the living room on the upper floor there is a fireplace with a cartouche decorated with trophies. A fence made of sandstone blocks surrounds the park with its historical plant population, which was designed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Vorwerk 13
The former forestry office was built in the second quarter of the 19th century as a replacement building with an extensive farm wing. There were conversions in 1923 after a room fire. The single-storey solid building stands on a high basement and has a saddle roof. Central projections divide the east and west facade. The gables as well as the door and window frames have neo-Gothic shapes. The utility wing is built on to the north and is largely a half-timbered construction.
State boundary stones of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and the Kingdom of Bavaria stand on part of the district boundaries of Bettelhecken, Hasenbach, Hönbach, Mürschnitz, Spechtsbrunn and Unterlind. The whole of Plänckner's Rennsteig stands on part of the Hasenthal and Spechtsbrunn municipal boundaries.
Soil monuments
In the Neufang district there is a late medieval and early modern whetstone quarry on the western slope of the town mountain.
In the Spechtsbrunn Arnsbachtal Hammern there is the rampart of an old castle.
