Neuhaus-Schierschnitz
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Neuhaus-Schierschnitz
community Föritztal
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| Height : | 350 m | |
| Area : | 23.2 km² | |
| Residents : | 3103 (December 31, 2016) | |
| Population density : | 134 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 6th July 2018 | |
| Postal code : | 96524 | |
| Area code : | 036764 | |
Location of Neuhaus-Schierschnitz in Thuringia |
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Neuhaus-Schierschnitz is a district of the municipality of Föritztal in the district of Sonneberg in the Franconian south of the Free State of Thuringia . From April 1, 1923 to July 5, 2018, there was a municipality of the same name, the four districts of which were incorporated into the newly founded municipality as part of the Thuringian municipal reform in 2018 .
geography
Neuhaus-Schierschnitz is located in a southern tip of Thuringia between the Franconian Forest in the north and the Main Valley in the south. The place is in a side valley of the Föritz . To the west of Neuhaus-Schierschnitz rises the 406 meter high Schottenberg, to the east lies the 465 meter high Wirtemberg, over which the Thuringian - Bavarian border runs. Neuhaus is on the east side of the valley, Schierschnitz on the west side.
Local division
The place Neuhaus-Schierschnitz consists of the districts Buch , Gessendorf , Mark , Neuhaus and Schierschnitz .
In addition to Neuhaus-Schierschnitz, the municipality of the same name had three other districts:
All four districts were incorporated separately into the new Föritztal community.
history
The castle Neuhaus was a freelance possession of the nobleman Eberhard von Schaumberg first mentioned in documents in 1310, but already in 1315 it was a fief of the Counts of Henneberg . They gave the castle back to the Schaumbergs in 1319. Later the fortress was occupied by Saxon governors. In 1532 Hans Georg was enfeoffed by Gotsmann . During the Thirty Years War the castle burned down to the gate tower in 1634. The banker Hermann Walther had it reconstructed around 1903/04. Today it is empty.
The new castle had been a colliery from 1932 and 1862–80 the residence of the mine director Richard von Swaine . Today the buildings are a sanatorium for the German Red Cross.
In the 18th and 19th centuries there were numerous coal mines in the area . Many residents of the places were then active in mining. The municipal area with the market town Neuhaus in the center belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen until 1920 . Neuhaus-Schierschnitz was created on April 1, 1923, when the towns of Neuhaus and Schierschnitz and the smaller neighboring towns of Gessendorf, Mark and Buch were combined.
With the onset of National Socialism , the persecution of political opponents began, but communist residents also began to do resistance work, who were prosecuted for this in 1935. In the same year, a supraregional Kirchentag of the Confessing Church (BK) took place in the church , whereupon the preacher and the local pastor Friedrich Schnittger lost their office for a short time. During the Second World War , 981 men and women from Russia , France, Ukraine , Poland and Yugoslavia had to do forced labor in the Siemens-Schuckert isolator factory.
The forced separation from the Franks that surround the town was not accepted without being contradicted by the residents, especially in the first years of the GDR's existence. The authorities in the Sonneberg district reported to the Central Committee of the SED in May 1952 about two incidents in the region before the border regime was tightened. One in Mengersgereuth-Hammern, one in the area of today's Sonneberg district. Footballers from Neuhaus-Schierschnitz and Heidersdorf [sic!] - meant by the apparently non-local party officials, probably Heinersdorf - had agreed to meet a Franconian team from a neighboring town. When the border authorities of the GDR refused to allow the Franks to cross the Green Border directly, and demanded a detour via the Probstzella border crossing, vehement protests against the state broke out. Protesters gathered in front of the border police building and cursed the officers as "rags". Members of the FDJ took off their blue shirts and trampled them with their feet. Socialist banners were also trampled on. Policemen who tried to calm the crowd and approached with the greeting "friendship" were rejected with the counter-cry "hostility".
On July 6, 2018, the community was dissolved and the districts incorporated into the community of Föritztal.
politics
Former councilor
The last municipal council consisted of 16 council members after the local elections on May 25, 2014 :
| List name | Share of votes | Seats |
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| CDU | 55.5% | 9 |
| The left | 18.8% | 3 |
| FW | 15.2% | 2 |
| SPD | 10.4% | 2 |
coat of arms
Blazon : "Fourth of silver and black, in 1 a left-turning, growing, rising red ibex , in 2 a golden eagle's head , in 3 a golden mallet and iron and in 4 a red inclined left double-toothed bar ."
Declaration of coat of arms: Mallets and iron in field 3 represent the importance of mining in local history, the other figures come from coats of arms of important families.
Former mayor
The following people have been mayors of Neuhaus-Schierschnitz since 1990:
- 1990–2012: Hennrik Oberender (CDU)
- 2012–2018: Andreas Meusel (CDU)
Meusel became the first mayor of the new municipality of Föritztal.
Attractions
- Trinity Church
- Neuhaus Castle and Castle with Park
- Neuhaus-Schierschnitz Local History Museum
- Gessendorf natural spring
- Hard coal hiking trail in the forests to the east and south-east around Neuhaus-Schierschnitz
- Old sand pit "Bienenwald" and "Jägerhäuschen" near the district of Mark
- see also list of cultural monuments in Föritztal
Economy and Infrastructure
In 1906 Armand Marseille founded another porcelain factory in Neuhaus due to suitable sand deposits . In 1913 he sold this company to Siemens-Schuckertwerke , which produced technical porcelain for energy supply in the Neuhaus district of Sonneberg porcelain factory. 1733 people were employed there in 1939. After the Second World War, the plant was converted into a Soviet stock corporation (SAG), transferred to German administration in 1950 as VEB Porzellanfabrik Neuhaus-Schierschnitz and continued as VEB Keramische Werke Neuhaus (KWN) and later under VEB Elektrokeramische Werke Sonneberg (EKS) . The economic upheaval after reunification made production unprofitable and the plant had to be closed in 1990. Parts of the factory have since been demolished. Only the spark plug production , which was sold to the BERU company in November 1991 , continued to exist with 60 employees. In 2006, the Beruwerk employed 180 people.
Due to its location on the former inner-German border (1 kilometer east), only a small amount of industry was settled in the place by the GDR regime. Many people left Neuhaus-Schierschnitz, just like the other border villages, during the GDR era. After 1990 an industrial park was established in the south of the village.
traffic
Until 1945 Neuhaus-Schierschnitz had a train station on the continuous railway line between Sonneberg and Stockheim . The section to Sonneberg had passenger traffic until 1967 and freight traffic until 1970. The place is on the B89 , which also runs between Sonneberg and Kronach .
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Adolf Wicklein (1886–1945), communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
- Karli Coburger (* 1929), from 1984 to 1989 head of Department VIII of the Ministry for State Security, responsible for observation, investigation and arrests
Personalities who have worked in the place
- Richard Swaine , von Swaine from 1858 , Baron von Swaine (1830–1902) from 1874 , industrialist, landowner and member of the Reichstag
- Manfred Kiedorf (1936–2015), set designer, draftsman and miniaturist, is training as a toolmaker here in the porcelain factory
Others
Itzgründisch is spoken in Neuhaus-Schierschnitz , a Main Franconian dialect .
Web links
- Neuhaus-Schierschnitz on the website of the municipality of Föritztal
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Späth: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 141 Coburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1987. → Online map (PDF, 5.0 MB)
- ↑ Thomas Bienert Medieval Castles in Thuringia Wartberg Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 297 u. 298
- ↑ Castle
- ↑ Thomas Schwämmlein: Double names shaped the first reform . In: Free Word , February 14, 2013
- ^ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945 . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser . Volume 8. Thuringia, Erfurt 2003, p. 286, ISBN 3-88864-343-0
- ^ Report of the SED district leadership of the Sonneberg district on incidents on the demarcation line to the SED Central Committee of May 15, 1952, in: Bennewitz, Inge / Potratz, Rainer, (ed.), Forced resettlements on the inner-German border. Analyzes and Documents, 4th edition, Berlin 2012, p. 250
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ 2014 local elections in Neuhaus-Schierschnitz. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Martin Backert: "Thank you, Kelly". In: mein-amadeus.de. April 4, 2013, accessed December 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Mayoral election 2018 in Föritztal. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .