Masserberg
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ' N , 10 ° 58' E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Hildburghausen | |
| Height : | 780 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 36.07 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2188 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 61 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 98666 | |
| Area code : | 036870 | |
| License plate : | HBN | |
| Community key : | 16 0 69 061 | |
| LOCODE : | DE MS9 | |
| Community structure: | 5 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Hauptstrasse 37 98666 Masserberg |
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| Mayor : | Denis Wagner ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the community of Masserberg in the district of Hildburghausen | ||
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Masserberg is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in the Free State of Thuringia , which was awarded the rating of climatic health resort in 1999 .
geography
Geographical location
The community is located in the western part of the Thuringian Slate Mountains on the tongue of the Thuringian Forest that extends to the southeast. The Rennsteig runs directly south of the village of Masserberg and leads over the 841.5 m high Eselsberg with the Rennsteigwarte. The other districts are all located south of the Rennsteig and, with the exception of Schnett, follow the course of the Biber , whose source is on the saddle between the Eselsberg and its secondary peak, Fehrenberg .
Districts
All districts are in higher areas of the upper forest area :
- Masserberg at 740–803 m on the north slope of Eselsberg
- Fehrenbach at 600–630 m on the upper reaches of the Biber
- Heubach at 550–700 m on the middle course of the Biber to the southeast slope of the Höheberg
- Schnett at 680–720 m on the southern slope of the Simmersberg
- Einsiedel at 530–550 m on the middle course of the Biber
The source of the Werra and the rocky Fehrenbacher Schweiz lie in the area of the district of Fehrenbach . At Schnett you will find the Simmersberg , which is worth a visit because of its all-round view .
history
Masserberg was founded at the end of the 17th century. This makes the place one of the youngest settlements in the Rennsteig area.
Forest workers settlement
Since the Middle Ages, the Schwarzburg counts had the right to hunt in the Masserberg district, and in 1665 they had a new hunting lodge built on the Rehberg. This was sold to Hans Glaser from Lauscha in 1692 . An enterprising charcoal burner from Wildenspring had obtained the concession to build a hostel and tavern in the neighboring forest village of Breiter Born and began construction work in the spring of 1686. Several forest workers who wanted to start a new life in the area helped to build the hostel and were given accommodation there. In the following years, more log houses were built, and the settlement was supplied with goods and food by Hans Glaser as the head of the community. The lease agreement with the count's administration contained provisions relating to the preservation of the count's hunting grounds, the use of the forests and police powers. The later town of Masserberg was close to the state border and should not be used as a refuge for smugglers. While Masserberg belonged to the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ( Oberherrschaft ) until 1918 , the other districts were in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , with the Rennsteig forming the border there. This division was retained even after the state of Thuringia was founded in 1920. Masserberg was in the Arnstadt district and the other places belonged to the Hildburghausen district .
From 1688 the small street settlement "Uffn Maßerberge" had grown due to the influx of more forest workers' families, and the right was granted to hold a fair . This gave the place an advantage over neighboring forest workers' settlements, as a result of which the population of Masserberg grew continuously. When the formerly flourishing inn and inn Zum Alten Frosch burned down to the ground in 1744, interested parties were immediately found who built a new and even larger inn on the square, and in 1746 the inn Zur golden Gabel was opened. The construction of the first church took care of the spiritual well-being of the community, it was a branch church of Oelze . The construction work dragged on for five years, while the new inn was ready for occupancy in a few months. In 1758 the church could be consecrated. With the establishment of a forestry in 1758, the unchecked forest crime by charcoal burners, lumberjacks, resin scrapers and glassmakers should be put to an end. In addition to these forest trades, box makers, cowherds, blacksmiths and builders lived in the village. In 1832 270 people lived in 43 houses in the village of Masserberg. The year 1856 went down in the village chronicles as the first terrible year: A major fire could have extinguished the place in a storm, but fortunately only three of the 62 houses burned out. In 1879 the typhus epidemic raged in the town. Of the 125 sick people, 23 died. In 1880, a second major fire destroyed 13 houses and the church, arson was believed to be the cause. The newly built church was consecrated in October 1883. A deaconess sister took care of the medical care.
Beginning of tourism
In 1897 the hygienic conditions could be improved by building a drinking water pipe. The modern Gasthof Zum Rennsteig was also opened in 1897. Masserberg had thus become a stage stop for Rennsteig tourism. With the support of the Thuringian Forest Association , a viewing tower was built near the village and inaugurated in 1899. Hiking trails to Masserberg were laid out from various locations and numerous shelters and lookout points were created. In 1906 the first Kurhaus was opened by Heinrich Zitzmann. There were also pensions (Haus Waldeck, Hertha, Köhler, Emerling), cafés, the Hotel Waldfrieden and a hospice. The strongest impetus for tourism came with the construction of the Rottenbach-Katzhütte railway line and the Werra Railway. Until 1918 the place belonged to the sovereignty of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .
Winter sports and ski tourism reached Masserberg with the founding of the Oberhof winter sports club. Now, even in the barren winter months, new income opportunities could be created through accommodation and boarding for the athletes. In 1924 Masserberg received its first ski jump. In 1921 a new observation tower - the Karl-Marien-Turm - had to be built, as the statics of the previous tower were assessed as unstable.
Masserberg becomes a climatic health resort
As a result of industrialization in the 1870s to 1930s, the need for climatic health resorts in the German Reich skyrocketed. In Masserberg, still in a wooded area, the clean and clear air offered itself as a treatment factor, which is why AOK Gehren approved the construction of a convalescent home in 1929. A spa park and a spa house were built with the consent of the municipality. The place was connected to the power grid as early as 1924, and the first petrol station was opened.
Second World War
After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, functionaries and members of the workers' parties were persecuted and imprisoned. The glassblower and KPD parliamentary group leader in the city council, Edmund Heinz, died of torture in “ protective custody ”, a street in the Fehrenbach district commemorates him.
During the Second World War , Masserberg became the refuge of war-threatened families from the Rhineland and Berlin area. The place was heavily overpopulated by these billets. Many Masserbergers lost health or life in the war. In their place, more than 50 women and men, mainly from the Soviet Union, had to do forced labor in the Marienhütte glass factory and in the forestry .
On April 10, 1945 Masserberg was taken by a command of the American troops. The German commander surrendered Masserberg without a fight and saved the lives of so many residents and refugees. On July 1, 1945, the occupation regime over Thuringia was handed over to the Red Army by the Americans in accordance with the contract .
GDR time
With the division of the country into districts in 1952, the districts were reorganized: from then on, Masserberg belonged to the Hildburghausen district in the Suhl district . This continued even after the state of Thuringia was reorganized in 1990. In 1949 Georg Lenz, chief physician at the Jena University Eye Clinic, set up a branch in Masserberg. The FDGB holiday service made Masserberg a spa and tourist resort for the GDR workers. Every year 15,000 guests were welcomed to the Masserberg guest houses and spa facilities. The improvement of the tourist infrastructure resulted in the new construction of the observation tower in 1954, and it was renamed the Rennsteigwarte . Its inauguration was then celebrated every year with the tower festival. In 1964 and 1969 a new ski jump and sports facility were built. Downhill slopes were created in the loosely built-up location.
present
On April 1, 1997, the previously independent municipalities of Fehrenbach , Heubach , Masserberg and Schnett merged to form the unitary municipality of Masserberg. Einsiedel was incorporated into Heubach on April 1, 1974. At the end of 2013, the district of Masserberg had 609 inhabitants.
The insolvent rehab clinic was taken over by the Regiomed clinics .
Population development
Development of the population (December 31) :
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- Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Masserberg consists of 14 council members:
| Party / list | % | Seats | G / V |
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| CDU | 43.8 | 6th | + 3 |
| FW | 24.3 | 4th | + 1 |
| BI-OW | 16.7 | 2 | - 3 |
| The left | 8.0 | 1 | ± 0 |
| SPD | 7.3 | 1 | - 1 |
(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )
Attractions
- Masserberg mountain church
- The Masserberg bathhouse, which opened in the mid-1990s, was closed at the end of 2015. It is to be renovated.
Memorials
A grave with a memorial stone in the churchyard commemorates two French prisoners on a death march from the subcamp Großer Gleichberg of the Buchenwald concentration camp , who were murdered by SS men in the spring of 1945 .
Personalities
- Heinrich Schmidt (1874–1935), archivist and professor
- Wilhelm Seyffert (1924–2008), geneticist, professor of quantitative and population genetics at the University of Tübingen
- Heinz Hergert (* 1936), soccer player
- Peter Kowald (1944–2002), double bass player and tuba player in the field of free jazz / improvised music
traffic
The Nuremberg – Erfurt high-speed line runs east of Masserberg in the Rehberg tunnel and northeast in the Masserberg tunnel .
literature
- Horst Golchert: Masserberg. History and stories . green heart, Ilmenau 2006, ISBN 978-3-935621-28-1 , p. 120 .
- Masserberg is the setting and namesake of a novel by Else Buschheuer from 2001, which was filmed for Das Erste in 2010 by Bavaria Film on behalf of MDR , BR and ARD Degeto .
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ↑ Reiner Ehrhardt: 325 years of Masserberg - 115 years of the Thuringian Forest Association Masserberg (Part I) . In: Hörselberg-Bote . Issue 83.Wutha-Farnroda 2010, p. 384-385 .
- ↑ a b Reiner Ehrhardt: 325 years of Masserberg - 115 years of the Thuringian Forest Association Masserberg (Part II) . In: Hörselberg-Bote . Issue 84.Wutha-Farnroda 2011, p. 10-12 .
- ↑ a b Reiner Ehrhardt: 325 years Masserberg - 115 years Thuringian Forest Association Masserberg (Part III) . In: Hörselberg-Bote . Booklet 85.Wutha-Farnroda 2011, p. 12-14 .
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser, Volume 8, Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p 127f., ISBN 3-88864-343-0
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ https://www.rehaklinik-thueringen.de/impressum/
- ↑ Local elections in Masserberg 2019. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Local elections in Masserberg 2014. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
Web links
- official homepage
- Location description with photos ( memento from February 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Homepage of the Schnett district
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