Motzlar

Motzlar Schleid municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 46 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 50 ″ E
Height :	310 m above sea level NN
Residents :	342 (2012)
Incorporation :	June 30, 1994
Postal code :	36419
Area code :	036967
	In the center of Motzlar.

Motzlar is a district of Schleid in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

Motzlar is located on the Hessian- Thuringian border in the Rhön biosphere reserve on the federal road 278 from Tann to Geisa via Schleid. The geographic height of the place is 310 m above sea level. NN . The Ulster flows through the village . In the west of the village you can see the 529 m high Rockenstuhl .

history

Motzlar was first mentioned on September 9, 1186. For centuries it belonged to the Geisa / Rockenstuhl Office of Fulda .

The place was and is characterized by agriculture. The location directly on the inner German border had a strong influence on the development of the place from 1945 to 1990. During this time the place lost its connection to the Ulstertal Railway, which had existed since 1909 . On October 3, 1961, the " Aktion Kornblume " was carried out in Motzlar ; many families have been forcibly evacuated. The hamlet of Langwinds , which belongs to the municipality , was depopulated in 1972 and demolished in the course of border security. The same happened to other looped farms such as the Mückenhof ( Lage ), the Weidhof (also: Waidhof), the Kohlbachshof in neighboring Schleid and the more than 1000 year old Seeleshof (summer 1973) east of Walkes ( Lage ). 50,681 10,06350,643 9,958

During the GDR , the farmers worked in the LPG type III Karl-Liebknecht based in Bremen in plant production and in the LPG type III Vorderrhön in Geisa in animal production. After the political change , the farmers reoriented themselves.

In 1994 the villages of Kranlucken , Motzlar, Zitters and Schleid merged to form the unified municipality Schleid. In June 2011, a tidal wave caused damage to the village as a result of a storm. 342 inhabitants lived in the village in 2012.

Attractions

Not far from the Rockenstuhl is the 5 m high wooden cross of the Geiserämter ( Lage ), a memorial with a basalt slab , on which the razed places and courtyards of the region are noted. 50.6855 9.945

St. Valentinus Church

In the center of the village rises the neo-Gothic church with the bell tower still preserved from the previous building. In the place of today's church there was previously a fortified church that dates back to 1479 and of which a key notch on the tower has been preserved. The late Gothic treasures of the house of God include the crucifix and the small Pieta in the tower, a figure of St. Valentinus in the sacristy and depictions of the Virgin and St. John on the left side altar. In the course of its history, the church was reshaped in baroque style. The life-size figures of St. Valentine and St. Barbara on the side walls are from this time. In the early 19th century, the leaking roof of the church became a constant problem. In the 1860s, two violent storms hit the church roof and in 1879 lightning struck. On October 5th, 1909, after only 15 months of construction, the renewed church was consecrated with a pontifical office by Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt . In 1968 the neo-Gothic high altar, the pulpit and the communion bench were removed and the church was repainted. The sacrament house (around 1480) from the tower was let into the choir on the right. In 1995 extensive work was carried out on the outer walls, roof and tower. In 2002 it was decided to undergo a thorough renovation. The statics were improved, plastering and painting work carried out, the floor renewed and the side altars overhauled. During the redesign, the former altar reliefs of the removed high altar were honored again. The new altar table was designed by the sculptor Elmar Baumgarten from Ebersburg. The extensive renovation work was supported financially and in numerous work assignments by the local residents.

Natural monuments

The village linden , a Dutch linden tree , was designated as a natural monument in 1957 .

Personalities

Conrad Lautenbach (1534–1595), theologian, pastor, librarian, translator and writer

Web links

Commons : Motzlar - collection of images, videos and audio files

Motzlar on the website of the city of Geisa

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.
^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 185
^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Kranlucken, Motzlar, Schleid and Zitters of March 1, 1994 (GVBl. P. 308)
↑ (m): Covered by mild gifts. The 100th birthday of the church is being celebrated in Motzlar ... Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), September 26, 2009, accessed on September 30, 2012 .
^ Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 95

[TK10-2-1] 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] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 185

[3] Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution and amalgamation of the municipalities of Kranlucken, Motzlar, Schleid and Zitters of March 1, 1994 (GVBl. P. 308)

[STZ20090926-4] (m): Covered by mild gifts. The 100th birthday of the church is being celebrated in Motzlar ... Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), September 26, 2009, accessed on September 30, 2012 .

[5] Biedermann: Natural monuments in the Wartburg district; District Office Wartburgkreis, 2014, page 95