Mellenbach-Glasbach

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Mellenbach-Glasbach
Rural community town of Schwarzatal
Coat of arms of Mellenbach-Glasbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 370 m
Area : 8.82 km²
Residents : 930  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 105 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 98744
Area code : 036705

Mellenbach-Glasbach is a district of the rural community Schwarzatal in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt ( Thuringia ).

geography

Mellenbach-Glasbach is a street village that extends more than five kilometers in the Schwarzatal . The altitude of the place in the lower Schwarzatal is about 380 meters, mountains to the right and left of the valley rise to an altitude of 600 meters. Overall, the valley is only very narrow, so that it is filled with the road, the Schwarza, the railway line and two rows of houses. The five small districts from which the former municipality was formed in 1923 are lined up in the Schwarzatal. In the direction of flow of the Schwarza these are: Zirkel , Blumenau , Mellenbach , Glasbach and Obstfelderschmiede . The district of Mellenbach is only in its lower third in the Schwarzatal, the upper parts are in a right side valley of the Schwarza, through which the Mellenbach flows and rises steeply to Oberweißbach . In the vicinity of the municipality, the steep valley slopes are wooded with spruce, while the plateaus are unforested.

Neighboring towns are clockwise, starting in the north: Oberhain - Unterweißbach - Oberweißbach / Thuringian Forest - Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle - Böhlen - Wildenspring - Herschdorf - Dröbischau .

history

Mellenbach was first mentioned in a document as Melnbach in 1315. The names of the districts of Mellenbach and Glasbach are derived from streams of the same name. The hamlet of Obstfelderschmiede was first mentioned in 1456 as smitte an der nedirn swarctze (smithy on the lower Schwarza) and was given its current name after the Obstfelder family, who were occupied from 1528 onwards. On October 16, 1923, the villages of Zirkel, Blumenau, Mellenbach, Glasbach and Obstfelderschmiede were combined to form the Mellenbach-Glasbach community. Mellenbach-Glasbach was part of the Rudolstadt district until 1952 , then moved to the newly formed Neuhaus district and, with the Thuringian district reform in 1994, to the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district .

From 1993 Mellenbach-Glasbach belonged to the administrative association Mittleres Schwarzatal based in Sitzendorf . On January 1, 2019, it merged with two other municipalities to form the rural municipality of the town of Schwarzatal.

politics

Former mayor

Kathrin Kräupner was the last mayor of the community.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on May 25, 1993.

Blazon : "Under a golden shield head, inside a blue wavy band, in red two silver birds facing each other on a silver branch bar."

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .

Culture and sights

The valley station of the Oberweißbacher Bergbahn is located in the Obstfelderschmiede district .

Historical monuments

The grave memorial for a Soviet forced laborer in the cemetery commemorates the people from the Soviet Union who, among others, worked for the Heinze junior company during the Second World War . Had to do forced labor .

church

View of Mellenbach, the church in the foreground (photo from 1969)

Today's Mellenbacher church, the Katharinenkirche , was built in the style of historicism and inaugurated on October 10, 1889 with a festive service and a parade.

In 1640 the Mellenbach church was destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt in 1641 with the help of the merchant and businessman Mathias Sommer. In 1739, all the books, files and documents that were still in existence were destroyed in a parsonage fire. In 1862 the church was closed for a short time due to disrepair and finally demolished in 1888.

The Katharinenkirche in Mellenbach and the rectory have been a listed building since 1991 . The church is structurally in poor condition. The current financial situation, however, allows all pending construction work only in sections.

Economy and Transport

The economy of Mellenbach-Glasbach has always been characterized by mining and ore processing. So all districts emerged from hammer mills along the Schwarza. There, various ores were "boiled out" and then forged. The glass and wood industries were added later in the village:

  • The Krannich company (founded in 1835 by Johann Michael Krannich as a craft business) for the production of consumer goods made of wood (wooden sleeves and wooden boxes), the first steam engine in the village was put into operation here in 1867
  • Sawmills in Obstfelderschmiede, as well as in the "Rote Mühle" and "Blauen Mühle" (near Schwarzmühle)

With the opening of the Schwarzatalbahn in 1900, industry and handicrafts experienced a significant boom:

  • Construction of a glassworks (founded around 1900 by the businessman Eduard Bornkessel, Sternglas GmbH from 1939, closed in 1993 and then demolished)
  • Company Oskar Heinze jun. (1900) - today pharmacy and laboratory building Heinze jun.
  • Rudolf Schierer KG
  • Bornkessel-Brenner and Glasmaschinen GmbH (merged to form measurement technology in 1956)
  • Staschen thermometer factory (around 1910)
  • Coffin factory in the Schottleite
  • Fritz Langbein (wood goods factory)
  • Emil Langbein (Pharmacy, Hienfong)
  • Diabase quarry from Gebrüder Fischer KG (1911, closed in the 1970s)
  • Company for electrical measuring instruments (founded in 1931, later VEB Messtechnik Mellenbach, today MTM Power GmbH)

When the American occupiers offered entrepreneurs to relocate their businesses to Bavaria in the early summer of 1945, no one accepted this offer. Up until the 1970s, the companies were gradually nationalized.

After 1989, the Mellenbach company was privatized. In 2006 there were two larger companies in Mellenbach: MTM Power (manufacturer of transformers, inverters and other electrotechnical devices) with over 160 employees and Oskar Heinze jun. GmbH (manufacturer of pharmacy furniture) with around 50 employees.

Another important economic factor is the Oberweißbacher Bergbahn , the valley station of which is in the Obstfelderschmiede district and attracts numerous tourists every day.

The municipality's most important traffic artery is the road in the Schwarzatal, which leads from Bad Blankenburg in the north to Neuhaus am Rennweg in the south. In the center of the village, a road branches off into the Mellenbachtal, which leads up to Oberweißbach . In the district of Zirkel, a road leads through the Finkenbachtal up towards Gehren . Since 1900 the place had three train stations ( Bf Mellenbach-Glasbach , Hp Obstfelderschmiede and Hp Zirkel ) on the Schwarzatalbahn , which leads from Rottenbach to Katzhütte . The Zirkel stop was abandoned by the railway after 1990 and the building was sold.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mellenbach-glasbach.eu. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 15th Implementing Ordinance on the District Division Act of September 27, 1923 - Collection of Laws for Thuringia 1923, p. 685
  3. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 6, 2019
  4. ↑ 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, ISBN 3- 88864-343-0
  5. ↑ mellenbach-glasbach.eu. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  6. ^ Richard Ernst Lorenz-Mellenbach at Artnet

Web links

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