Möhra
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Möhra
Community Moorgrund
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| Height : | 292 (270-300) m |
| Residents : | 577 (December 31, 2017) |
| Incorporation : | November 4, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 36433 |
| Area code : | 03695 |
 Location of Möhra in Moorgrund
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 In the center of the village
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Möhra is part of the municipality of Moorgrund, formed in 1994, in the Wartburg district ( Thuringia ).
history
The village of Möhra was first mentioned in a document in 1257:
“In the name of the saints and the indivisible Trinity. Since human memory is ephemeral and weak, and forgetting can cause harm, be endurable by a written testimony. The present and future will be made aware that out of love and special favor we, Heinrich von Frankenstein ( Burg Frankenstein ), on the advice of our father, the noble Mr. Ludwig, and in accordance with the legal situation, the monastery of Kreuzberg, in to whom our daughter is taken in and at home, the Vogtei over Gut Thalhausen and ten talents of pure wax, which were paid to us by Rapoldis and Drakenhuve, and we make it public that we are going to the monastery in Kreuzberg ( Kreuzberg monastery in the Rhön) left the unrestricted and free legal right to the possession and that this fact is confirmed on the present document by the seal of our father Ludewig and by our seal. Our witnesses to this determination are: Reinhardus von Salzhungen ( Bad Salzungen ), the brothers Rupertus and Conradus von Willebrectherode ( Wildsprechtroda ), Bertholdus von Leimbach , Conradus von More (Möhra) and other equally honorable people. Put on record in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1257. Ysinwalt von Volcershusen ( Völkershausen ), Ekkehardus von Creinberc ( Krayenburg ), Boto Marscalus, Geracus von Cralocke, Hartunc von Borsa. "
Local history Möhra
In the 9th century the place Moor (Möhra) is said to have belonged to the parish of Oettenhausen ( Ettenhausen ad Suhl ). The place was originally owned by the Hersfeld Monastery . The Lords of Frankenstein , whose ancestral seat was Frankenstein Castle , received the administration of the area from the monastery. In 1330 Möhra came to the Counts of Henneberg and from these in 1353 to the House of Wettin . In 1680 Möhra came to the Principality of Saxony-Meiningen with the office of Salzungen .
The 750th anniversary was celebrated in 2007. On the outskirts of Möhra, preparations for a small settlement began in March 2012. The complex is intended to expand the existing Buddhist center and serve as a residential complex.
Möhra as Luther's headquarters
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Möhra is considered the Thuringian ancestral home of the Martin Luther family , the family clan has been traceable there since the 14th century. Luther's parents were the farmer, miner, mine owner and later councilor Hans (1459–1530), who came from Möhra, and his wife Margarethe, née. Lindemann (1459–1531), born in Neustadt an der Saale .
The family had different surnames: Lüder, Luder, Loder, Ludher, Lotter, Lutter or Lauther . It can be traced back to the knight Wigand von Lüder, who had lived in Möhra since around 1302 and came from the von Lüder family from Großenlüder . This place was also alternately called Luodera, Lutra, Luttura and Lutar.
Martin Luther chose his last name form around 1512. He derived it from Duke Leuthari II or from the Greek word ἐλεύθερος (free) and temporarily used the derived form “Eleutherios” (the free).
In the Möhraer Flur there was a farmstead called Hof-Luter, also called Lutera, and a second called Luterbach . Heinz Luther still owned this farm in 1527, a later Heinz Luther appears in the hereditary registers of the Salzungen office as the owner of the old pond mill .
Hans Luther and his wife Margarethe, b. There is evidence that Lindemann lived with their first-born son (name unknown) in Möhra until the summer of 1483. They are said to have married around 1483 in front of the Husenkirche , which is still in ruins today, in nearby Bad Salzungen and were consecrated in this church.
Hans Luther left Möhra with his family in 1483 for Eisleben. The circumstances of this sudden change of location were only associated with a mysterious death in the 19th century. Allegedly Hans Luther killed a neighbor in a dispute and without witnesses, so he had to go abroad.
Luther moved with his heavily pregnant wife (main argument of the escape theory) to the Mannsfelder Land to work as a miner in the copper mining industry.
On his way home from the Reichstag in Worms, Martin Luther made a detour from Eisenach to Möhra in 1521 and preached there on May 3rd on today's Lutherplatz.
Attractions
Luther Church
The village has had a small chapel since the 15th century, which was gradually expanded from 1560 to become today's Luther Church .
The small chapel that stood here on the Kirchberg at that time was only as big as the current chancel. From this old chapel only the stone table top of the altar with 5 carved consecration crosses has been preserved.
The first expansion of the church took place in 1560. Today it consists of the late Gothic choir and a baroque nave with a wooden barrel vault (1699–1704). In 1724 the gallery parapets were painted, and in 1794 the wooden barrel ceiling was painted with an illusionistic painting.
You can get to the church through a stone churchyard gate, which was built in 1615. It is still adorned today by a Saxon coat of arms.
In the chancel there are three stained glass windows, donated in 1907 by a relative of Martin Luther's. They show next to the preaching Jesus and the apostles Peter and John; Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon.
In the Luther Church there is also an organ with 15 stops on 2 manuals and a pedal . Built in 1983 by Rudolf Böhm in Gotha . The splendid baroque prospectus with wooden pipes covered with silver foil to simulate metal pipes was bought by the Trinity Church in Ruhla in 1686 .
The parish of Möhra belongs to the superintendent of Bad Salzungen-Dermbach.
Luther House
The actual ancestral home of the Luther family no longer exists.
There were several Luther houses in Möhra, but it is now assumed that Martin Luther's ancestral home must have been located near the church.
Georg Luther, known as "George the Fat" (1602–1656) already owned the house on what was then Sorggasse in 1656, which was long mistakenly considered the actual Luther family home.
The table that can be seen in the Luther room on the Wartburg comes from this house. According to the Salzungen official register, the house of Georg Luther (a great-grandson of Klein Hans Luther, the reformer's uncle) was rebuilt on the foundations of the old house in 1618, probably after a fire.
Luther monument
On the Lutherplatz - the former village square not far from the Lutherhaus - stood a linden tree under which Martin Luther visited his relatives in Möhra on his return journey from Worms to Wittenberg and is said to have preached on May 4, 1521.
On the occasion of the Luther anniversary celebrations in 1846, it was decided to erect a Luther memorial in Möhra. The larger than life statue shows three stations in the life of the reformer on the motif panels attached to the base. On June 25, 1861, the inauguration took place with numerous choirs and military musicians.
Liet tree
The linden tree "Lietebaum" is a landmark at Möhra. The tree veteran is visible from afar on the Herzeberg and originally served as a hat tree . The name was taken from the corridor "An der Liete". The distinctive 200 to 250 year old winter linden tree was designated as a natural monument in 1994 , as well as the over three hundred year old breakfast oak in the Möhraer Flur.
Poultry park
The Möhra Poultry Park is a touristic exhibition area for traditional Thuringian poultry breeds. The idea developed by the local pedigree poultry breeders' association in Möhra was supported by the Wartburg district as a LEADER project.
Suitable aviaries and open-air areas were created on the site of a former allotment garden. In addition to Steinbacher fighting geese, Thuringian bearded chickens and the Thuringian colored pigeons, all poultry and rabbit breeds bred in Thuringia are presented. In 2012, a “veterinary herb garden” will be opened as a further exhibition facility. One would like to convey to the visitors the knowledge about medicinal herbs and gentle treatment methods in veterinary medicine, which has been accumulated for centuries.
Regular events
- Traditional costume fair in Möhra
- Large Reformation Market / Pummpälzfest in Möhra on Reformation Day (October 31)
Transport and infrastructure
State road 1023 runs through the village from Waldfisch via Möhra - Ettenhausen - Marksuhl to Berka / Werra . To the south branches off from this the state road 2895 to Bad Salzungen and a district road in the direction of Tiefenort . At Waldfisch there is a connection to the federal highway 19 in the Eisenach - Breitungen / Werra - Meiningen section . A local connecting road leads north to Kupfersuhl. The closest connection points for the A4 are about 20 kilometers away at Eisenach and Gerstungen . There is a connection to rail traffic in Ettenhausen / Suhl, two kilometers away, with a stop on the South Thuringia Railway . Line 191 of the Wartburgmobil transport company connects the town with the district town of Bad Salzungen .
coat of arms
Description: Gold a torn blue leafy Linde with applied Luther Rose . The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Uwe Reipert.
Daughters and sons
- Johann Wolfgang Trier (1686–1750), lawyer and university professor
- Ferdinand Senft (1810–1893), geologist, soil scientist and botanist
- Paul Friedrich Richard Türk (1846–1886), teacher in Möhra (1865–1886), grave slab as a memorial stone in the cemetery in Möhra
People who worked on site
- Martin Luther (1483–1546), theological author and one of the teachers of the Reformation
Others
- The fairy tale poet Ludwig Bechstein wrote a poem about Möhra and concluded with the following lines:
“Oh Möhra, so happy and so abandoned.
You have a right to rejoice as to complain.
The poor miner has moved away.
Perhaps to get lucky in a foreign land.
You - your star was carried away in your womb. "
- In the former vacation home “Kosmos”, two kilometers outside the village to the north, there has been a center for teaching Tibetan Buddhism since 2005 . The Dharma Center Möhra is now the headquarters for the followers of the Dhagpo Kagyu Mandala within the Karma Kagyu School in German-speaking countries. Karma Kagyu is one of the four main directions of Tibetan Buddhism.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.moorgrund.de/scripts/angebote/3676?ortsfilter=39008&main_aktiv=main_aktiv2&sub_aktiv=sub_aktiv6
- ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the communities Moorgrund, Möhra and Kupfersuhl of October 7, 1994 (GVBl p. 1169)
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994
- ↑ After Gotha diplomatica first Th.S.135, Mohra was present already in the beginning of the eighth century; According to (unconfirmed) legends, Bonifatius founded several churches in Thuringia, including that of Möhra.
- ↑ 750th anniversary celebration in Luther's home town Möhra. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; Retrieved March 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Start of construction for Buddhist residential area. Südthüringer Zeitung, local page Bad Salzungen, March 17, 2012, accessed on March 19, 2012 : “ Construction work has started on the outskirts of Luther's home town. In the next few years around 30 residential units for followers of the Buddhist faith are to be built here. "
- ↑ A. Rübsam: Relations between the von Lüder family and the Fulda monastery in the Middle Ages (Fulda 1907)
- ↑ Horst Herrmann: Martin Luther. Heretic and reformer, monk and husband. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-572-10044-5 , p. 14
- ↑ On the Luther meadow, the father of Martin Luther, Hans jun., Is said to have killed a herding farmer in affect with his own bridle. According to K. Luther: Martin Luther ancestors (Wittenberg 1867) this news is said to have already reported this news to Johann Martin Michaelis in the "Description of the mining and smelting works in Kupfersuhl".
- ↑ http://www.moehra.de/index.php?section=luther Martin Luther
- ↑ http://www.moehra.de/index.php?section=kirche The church in Möhra
- ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 48 f.
- ^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 46
- ↑ Partnership in rural areas. The LEADER development project in the Wartburg district. (PDF; 1.2 MB) (No longer available online.) Thuringian Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation, Environment and Forests, February 9, 2006, p. 15 , archived from the original on January 4, 2011 ; Retrieved April 6, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ Poultry park for Thuringian native breeds in Luther's home town Möhra. Geflügelpark Möhra eV, April 6, 2012, accessed on April 6, 2012 .
- ↑ Zwergreichshuhn on the podium. Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), May 14, 2012, accessed on May 15, 2012 : “The Möhra breeders, headed by the association and district chairman Siegmar Kallenbach, are tirelessly beautifying the park that was opened in 2005 and currently has around 250 geese, ducks, chickens and pigeons and rabbits also live. ... a "veterinary herb garden" (currently being built) in the middle of the complex ... For this purpose, four beds with boxwood and a cloister were created on an area of twelve by twelve meters. This is the best way for visitors to inspect the natural pharmacy, which was already well received at the opening of the season ... June 3, 2012 is announced as the opening date. "
- ↑ Website of the traditional fair in Möhra with fair chronicle ( memento of the original from January 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. .
- ^ Thuringian Land Survey Office Wartburgkreis and District Free City Eisenach , Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-86140-250-5
- ↑ homepage of the Dharma Center
