Masbach

Masbach City of Vacha Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 26 ″ N , 10 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ E
Height :	403 m
Residents :	14 (2009)
Incorporated into:	Wölferbütt
Postal code :	36404
Area code :	036965
	Location of Masbach in Vacha
	Masbach (2012)

Masbach is a hamlet-like district of Vacha in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

Masbach is located on the southern slope of the Dietrichsberg southwest of Wölferbütt and west of Mariengart on the district road 102. Further south is the Arzberg . The geographic height of the place is 403 m above sea level. NN .

history

Masbach was first mentioned in a document on June 1, 1299. A manor is said to have operated here in the past.

In 1924, basalt mining began on the Dietrichsberg. A basalt works was built near Masbach to process and transport the recovered material, and a loading track was built on the Wenigentaft-Mansbach-Oechsen railway line . The basalt works of the Thuringian hard stone works (from 1926: Heinrich Hagemeier GmbH Masbach (Rhön) ) became the largest employer in the Ulster - Felda region after the Unterbreizbach potash works in the 1920s . The quarry and the factory were connected by a cable car. Hagemeier GmbH was expropriated and nationalized in the GDR in 1951 , and the Wenigentaft-Mansbach-Oechsen railway was shut down in 1952. The basalt works near Masbach was shut down at the end of 1961, then served as an LPG stable and road maintenance depot and was largely dismantled in 1999.

On June 30, 2009, 14 people lived in Masbach.

literature

Olaf Ditzel, Walter Höhn: Vacha and the neighboring communities in the Oechsetal . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg / Fulda 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-121-8 , p. 27 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 176.
↑ Harald Rockstuhl : From the history of the Wenigentaft-Mansbach - Oechsen railway line 1912–1952. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2000, ISBN 3-932554-00-0 , page 39

[TK10-2-1] Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.

[2] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 176.

[3] Harald Rockstuhl : From the history of the Wenigentaft-Mansbach - Oechsen railway line 1912–1952. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2000, ISBN 3-932554-00-0 , page 39