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Municipality of Krayenberg municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 3 ″ E
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| Height : | 232 (225-255) m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 1500 |
| Incorporation : | June 30, 1994 |
| Incorporated into: | Merkers-Kieselbach |
| Postal code : | 36460 |
| Primaries : | 036969, 036963 |
 Location of Merkers in Krayenberg municipality
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Merkers is a district of the Krayenberg community in the Wartburg district in western Thuringia . The village on the Werra has around 1500 inhabitants.
location
The place is on the northern edge of the Thuringian part of the Rhön . In the north is the 431 m high Krayenberg . The geographic height of the place is 225 m above sea level. NN .
history
Merkers was first mentioned in 1308 when the "Ronnmühle" was sold to the Frauensee monastery . In the 15th century the place was mentioned as a desert. Before the outbreak of the Thirty Years War , 28 families lived in Merkers, and after that there were twelve. The place belonged to the office of Krayenberg .
On June 24, 1878, the groundbreaking ceremony for the first meter-gauge Feldabahn near Merkers took place. In 1910, the mining of potash salts began in the Merkerser Schacht , and in 1925 the Merkers potash plant was opened. This led to a rapid increase in the population from just over four hundred to ten times. In 1929 the church of the previously churchless place was consecrated. In 1938, a carbon dioxide eruption in the Merkers shaft claimed 11 lives.
During the Second World War, 700 prisoners of war as well as women and men from numerous occupied countries performed forced labor in the potash pits I and II of Merkers and in the pits I and II of the neighboring towns of Kaiseroda and Hämbach .
At the end of the Second World War, Merkers came into the limelight in May 1945 when the US Army discovered large amounts of gold, money and art treasures in the mine that the National Socialists had hidden in the mine. The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe and later US President General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the site and the mine to inspect the find. This is the theme of the US feature film Monuments Men - Unusual Heroes .
The municipal reform of 1994 led to the amalgamation of the Kieselbach and Merkers municipalities. In 2013, the Merkers-Kieselbach community merged with Dorndorf to form the Krayenberg community based in Dorndorf.
Attractions
- The Merkers adventure mine is known nationwide . It is the anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage .
- In Andreas Fack House , the birthplace of the Rhon song -Dichters Andreas Fack this honor a small museum has been set up.
- The local church was consecrated in 1929.
Adventure mine
Andreas Fack House
church
Economy and Infrastructure
Mining
As the world's largest potash factory , the Merkers potash mine of Wintershall AG started operations in 1925. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, large parts of the gold holdings of the Reichsbank (including Nazi gold ), cash in Reichsmarks and many art objects (including from the Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) and the bust of Nefertiti ) were discovered by American troops.
In the GDR era, the potash mine belonged to the Kali Kombinat and was managed and shut down by the Treuhandanstalt after the end of the GDR . Since the end of the promotion in 1993 trunks to securing work in the pit area flag and the mine serve as mine .
industrial Estate
The Merkers business park is located on the eastern outskirts of Merkers on a part of the site of the former mine. It has a total area of approx. 75 ha (as of 2014).
traffic
The federal highway 62 leads in a west-east direction through the place. A local road connects Merkers with Kieselbach . Merkers had a stop on the disused Bad Salzungen – Vacha railway line . The station building has since been demolished. Bus routes operated by the Wartburgmobil transport company and its partners connect Merkers with the neighboring towns.
Personalities
- The poet of the Rhön song , Andreas Fack , was born on March 1, 1863 in Merkers.
- In 1957 the football player Martin Iffarth was born in the village.
- The doctor Günther Deilmann was given honorary citizenship of the Merkers / Kieselbach community on October 3, 1995 for his 91st birthday. In honor of Günther Deilmann, part of the Lengsfelder Weg in Merkers was renamed to Dr.-Günther-Deilmann-Straße.
Web links
- Website for the 700th anniversary with historical information
- Merkers Adventure Mine
- Crystal salt chimney in the Merkers Adventure Mine, description of the geotope by the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG)
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.
- ↑ Ilga Gäbler: Three who experienced the gas accident. May 24, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 327 , ISBN 3-88864-343-0
- ^ A b Greg Bradsher: Nazi Gold. The Merkers Mine Treasure. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
- ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Kieselbach and Merkers of January 20, 1994 (GVBl p. 234), a) § 5 amended by ordinance of April 6, 1994 (GVBl. P. 410)
- ↑ Business parks in the Wartburg region. (No longer available online.) In: Wartburgkreis.de. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015 ; accessed on October 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
