Meileshof

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Meileshof
community Gerstungen
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 17 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 280 m above sea level NN
Incorporated into: Marksuhl
Postal code : 99834
Area code : 036925
Meileshof (Thuringia)
Meileshof

Location of Meileshof in Thuringia
Partial view from the southwest (2008)
Partial view from the southwest (2008)

The Meileshof is a district of the Gerstungen community in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

The Meileshof is located about 1.5 kilometers east of the local area of ​​Marksuhl and about 11 kilometers (as the crow flies ) from the district town of Bad Salzungen .

history

The Meileshof belongs to a group of courtyards and small settlements ( Baueshof , Clausberg , Lutzberg , Kriegersberg , Hütschhof , Frommeshof , Rangenhof , Mölmeshof , Lindigshof , Josthof and others) that have been in the area of ​​the Frankenstein counts and their home monastery Frauensee since the high Middle Ages in the Buntsandstein- Hill country near Marksuhl were founded.

In the middle of the 19th century the Meileshof had 5 houses and 24 residents. The place had always been parish and schooled in Marksuhl. Immediately north of the village is the Marksuhl stop of the Werra Railway .

Since the 1990s, the industrial site, which was already used as a tank farm and agrochemical center in the GDR era, has been expanded considerably. The Marksuhl industrial area Am Meilesfeld was built at the Meileshof . In addition to craft and industrial businesses, a wind turbine was also built on the Meileshof.

traffic

Meileshof industrial area

The Meileshof is located on the Burkhardtroda - Marksuhl road. at Kreisstrasse K 9. The bus line L-52b runs to Meileshof on the Eisenach - Förtha - Marksuhl - Burkhardtroda - Kupfersuhl route operated by the Wartburgkreis transport company.

literature

  • Erich Winter: The village settlements of the Eisenacher Land between Werra, Hainich and Thuringian Forest . Jena 1932, p. 78 .
  • W. Döpel: History of Marksuhl , printing and publishing house of the Hofbuchdruckerei Eisenach H. Kahle, Eisenach 1909

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ Erich Winter The village settlements of the Eisenacher Land between Werra, Hainich and Thuringian Forest . Jena 1932.
  3. ^ C. Kronfeld, Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879. p. 48

Web links

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