Menzengraben

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Menzengraben
Dermbach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 265 m
Postal code : 36466
Area code : 036965
The Menzengraben mining settlement
The Menzengraben mining settlement

Menzengraben is a district of Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

The small settlement is located about two kilometers northwest of Stadtlengsfeld an der Felda and the state road 1022 , which leads from Dorndorf to federal road 285 and to Dermbach. The geographic height of the place is 265  m above sea level. NN .

The place has a restaurant and a pond. The place can be reached by regional transport or on hiking trails from Stadtlengsfeld.

Menzengraben had a breakpoint on the Feldabahn ( Dorndorf - Kaltennordheim ). The line was closed in 1997 and the tracks between Weilar and Kaltennordheim dismantled in 2008.

history

View of the location of the former Schrammenhof
A mine building under renovation in 2009

The Schrammenhof was the oldest building in Menzengraben and can be documented as the outbuilding of the Stadtlengsfeld castle until the 13th century. The farm, built as a three-sided farm, was located in the meadow of the Felda, about 50 m from the river and 200 m from the pits. Within sight of the homestead, the cutting mill - today a sawmill - was built on the right Feldaufer just a few meters above the Feldabahn bridge in Menzengraben, this half-timbered building also belonged to Stadtlengsfeld.

The reason for the establishment of the miners' settlement Menzengraben in 1911 was the construction of the "Grand Duke of Saxony II and III" pits in the northern corridor of Stadtlengsfeld. These shafts, which belong to the Werra potash district , had their own “Menzengraben” stop on the Feldabahn as well as track systems for transporting material and potash.

In the vicinity of the shaft with the winding tower, machine house and other technical systems stood the administration building and an office for officials. Several houses were built next to the road for hired miners who worked as employees of the union.

Because of the geological peculiarities in the seam of the two shafts in Menzengraben with a dangerous accumulation of gas inclusions, mining was stopped in 1958 in response to a serious mine accident with six deaths. From then on, the shaft systems were used as supply shafts for importing materials. Remnants of the old shafts from the early days of the town were placed under protection as technical monuments in the 1990s.

On January 1, 2019, Menzengraben came to be part of the municipality of Dermbach as part of the incorporation of Stadtlengsfeld.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. ↑ The unified municipality Stadtlengsfeld . In: District Office Wartburgkreis (Ed.): District journal . Issue 15. Bad Salzungen 2010, p. 11-12 .
  3. ↑ Jan Eik and Klaus Behling : classified. The greatest secrets of the GDR . Publishing house Das Neue Berlin. Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-360-01944-8 . P. 68
  4. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 18, 2019

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