Neuhaus am Rennweg
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ' N , 11 ° 8' E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Sonneberg | |
| Fulfilling municipality : | for Goldisthal | |
| Height : | 830 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 108.22 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8975 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 83 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 98724 | |
| Primaries : | 03679, 036701 | |
| License plate : | SON, NH | |
| Community key : | 16 0 72 013 | |
| LOCODE : | DE NAR | |
City administration address : |
Kirchweg 2 98724 Neuhaus am Rennweg |
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| Mayor : | Uwe Scheler (The Left) | |
| Location of the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg in the Sonneberg district | ||
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Neuhaus am Rennweg is a small town in Thuringia in the Sonneberg district .
geography
The city is located in the Thuringian Slate Mountains , directly on the Rennsteig , which is called Rennweg here . Neuhaus is one of the highest places in Thuringia . When Neuhaus was a district town, it was considered the highest district town in the GDR. The part south of the Rennsteig is drained to the Steinach , while the northern part lies in the catchment area of the Schwarza .
Neighboring communities
Clockwise, starting in the north: Meura , Saalfeld / Saale , Gräfenthal , Sonneberg , Lauscha , Steinach , Frankenblick , Schalkau , Eisfeld , Goldisthal , Katzhütte , Cursdorf , Deesbach .
City structure
According to the main statute of the city of Neuhaus am Rennweg from March 14, 2019, the city of Neuhaus am Rennweg consists of the eight districts Neuhaus am Rennweg, Steinheid , Limbach , Neumannsgrund , Scheibe-Alsbach , Siegmundsburg , Lichte and Piesau . The district Neuhaus am Rennweg consists of the districts Neuhaus, Hedgehog and Schmalenbuche , Scheibe-Alsbach from the districts Scheibe and Alsbach , and Lichte from the districts Lichte , Bock and Teich , Wallendorf and Geiersthal . All other districts each form a district.
climate
The climate in Neuhaus is very harsh with very snowy winters and cold, humid summers. Since May 1996 the place has held the German record for the longest continuous foggy period with 242 hours (ten days).
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Temperature and precipitation means
Source: DWD, 1989-2018 (precipitation), 1990-2018 temperature
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history
Narrow beech, hedgehog and the manor house "Neuhaus"
The Neuhaus area appeared for the first time in 1366 when a border tree “Schmalenbuche” and a neighboring hunting lodge “Vogelherd” were mentioned in a Schwarzburg registry. Already at this time the old ridge path ran over the Rennsteig between the still original forests.
The building of a wild stable in 1571 established the breeding of horses. The required forest meadows and fallow land developed as a result of charcoal burning and the first glassworks founded. These areas were unsuitable for arable farming because the crops could not ripen. From 1668 to 1673 Count Albrecht Anton von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had the “Neues Haus” hunting lodge built alongside a small baroque church. Capercaillie and red deer were still to be hunted frequently at this time. Horse breeding was expanded and raised to a count's stud. Next to the manor house, a riding arena was created for training the horses and demonstrating riding exercises.
In 1607, the Schmalenbuche glassmaking settlement was established by granting a concession to build a glassworks not far from the count's complex . The Lauscha glass master Christoph Müller, whom the ruling count Albrecht VII in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had imprisoned about 15 years earlier under circumstances unknown today, acquired with his sons Stephan and Hans on June 15, 1607 from his son, Count Karl Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, 115 acres of forest. They built the glassworks, three houses, a shed and a stamping mill and thus established the town of Schmalenbuche. 1607 is the official founding year for the community.
In 1732 the village of Igelshieb emerged from one of the scattered charcoal burner settlements that are said to have emerged after a forest fire in 1624. At the time of its creation, the place belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and came to Saxe-Meiningen in 1735 . In 1736, glass masters Stephan and Johann Greiner from Lauscha built the Glashütte Glücksthal on a remote parcel of land in Saxony-Meiningen, south of the Rennsteig, closer to the settlement at the New House in Schwarzburg on the north side of the Rennsteig . Hedgehog and Glücksthal were parish in Lauscha. In 1740 Hedgehog was pastured to Neuhaus, in 1841 back to Lauscha. In 1840 Hedgehog was given a school. Before that, the children were trained in Schmalenbuche. In 1850 Hedgehog had 2 main buildings, 50 houses and 376 residents. The climatically unfavorable location offered no possibility of agriculture here either, the residents were, besides wood farmers, forest workers and charcoal burners, toy makers and glass blowers who made a living from the manufacture of glass beads (fish beads) for the manufacturer Friedemann Greiner.
The place around the manor house above Schmalenbuche was given the right to hold a fair in 1729. The market town at the Neuer Haus - later Neuhaus for short - attracted more forest workers, in 1775 Neuhaus had already built 53 houses, mostly as log houses. The residents made use of all forest management options that were common at the time: In addition to charcoal burners, potash burners and glassmakers, there were also soot burners, resin scrapers, custard oil makers (turpentine extraction from spruce cones), carpenters and lumberjacks. Carters, an innkeeper, a baker and a butcher took care of them.
The glass industry promised the highest yields, so after the Greiner subsidiary, Glücksthal, which was abandoned in 1838, the Bernhardsthaler Tafelglashütte was established in 1829. The company in Bernhardsthal was still in use until 1853, when the residents left both remote locations and the buildings were demolished.
A stoneware factory had started in Neuhaus as early as 1809, from which the Neuhaus porcelain industry developed. The local glassblowers had specialized in the production of glass bottles for essences and perfumes (flacons), the bottles decorated with colored glass threads were in demand. The “glass industry” that emerged in the 19th century mainly took place in small workshops in the homes of the Neuhäuser. Publishers took over the sale of the goods in the big cities. In 1862, the Thurn und Taxische Postgesellschaft opened a post office in Neuhaus, on the Saalfeld – Sonneberg post route. The first union groups and workers 'sports clubs did not come into being until around 1900, and in 1913 the gymnastics club joined the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association. Annual gymnastics festivals offered the Neuhäuser the opportunity to exercise.
Until 1920 Neuhaus and Schmalenbuche belonged to the district court district of Oberweißbach, from 1832 to Amt Oberweißbach , in the princely Schwarzburg district office of Königsee ( Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter suzerainty ). Like the abandoned Bernhardsthal property, Hedgehog was part of the Sonneberg district in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . On April 1, 1923, Schmalenbuche, Igelshieb and Neuhaus merged to form the Neuhaus am Rennweg-Igelshieb community and incorporated into the Sonneberg district. In 1933 the place, now officially called Neuhaus am Rennweg, received city rights .
The city of Neuhaus am Rennweg
From 1929 on, Otto Engert , a member of the KPO , was mayor of the village until he lost his office in 1931 due to ordinances from the National Socialist Interior Minister Thuringia, Wilhelm Frick . A street name has been remembering him since the 1970s. Engert's successor was Willy Schreier , who served as mayor until 1945.
Since 1932 the Protestant pastor Paul Friederich, who belonged to the Confessing Church (BK) , worked in the village . After defamatory attacks by the NSDAP , he was forcibly transferred to Leislau by the German-Christian church leadership in 1935, later arrested and released from the regional church . His successor Hans Brunotte continued the work of the BK by giving Christian instruction and worship in the Waldhaus restaurant . Brunotte was also persecuted and expelled from the country by the Gestapo in 1937 . After the Waldhaus was closed , services were held in a factory shed.
As part of the upgrade of the Armed Forces one was from 1935 to 1937 Telefunken - electron tube factory . The group, at that time the leading German arms company in the field of electronic warfare, made use of the technological experience of the region's glassblowers for the emerging radar technology . During the Second World War , more than 600 men and women from Russia , Ukraine , Poland , France , the Netherlands , Belgium and the Czech Republic had to work in the electron tube factory of Telefunken GmbH , in the glass factory Müller & Co. , the city administration and at the company Rudolf Heinz & Co. perform forced labor .
On April 11, 1945, shortly before the end of the war, the old town center was completely destroyed in the artillery fire of the advancing troops of the 11th Panzer Division of the 3rd US Army . With the town hall a further 33 houses went up in flames, 10 people died.
From 1952 to 1994 Neuhaus was the district town of the Neuhaus district , until 1990 in the Suhl district . It was the highest and smallest district town in the GDR . On the site of the destroyed town center, the buildings of the district administration and the SED district leadership as well as a cultural center were built. In 1980 the inauguration of the swimming pool "Am Rennsteig" followed, in 1988 the district hospital was completed.
The VEB tube factory " Anna Seghers ", later VEB Mikroelektronik Neuhaus, emerged from the Telefunken electron tube factory . It employed workers and employees from all over the district, at times up to 3,000 employees, and attracted specialists from other parts of the GDR and contract workers from Hungary , Cuba and Vietnam , which is what the regime called friendly socialist countries . With the opening of the markets in the course of reunification, the microelectronic products of the GDR were exposed to international competition and could no longer be sold, the factory was closed. As a legacy of the former district town, there is a grammar school, an indoor swimming pool and the Medinos hospital in Neuhaus, as well as several rest homes.
On December 1, 2011, the formerly independent municipality of Steinheid with its districts Limbach and Neumannsgrund was incorporated. On January 1, 2013, the communities of Scheibe-Alsbach and Siegmundsburg were incorporated, and on January 1, 2019, the districts of Lichte and Piesau, which were previously part of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, were incorporated into the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg.
politics
The town of Neuhaus am Rennweg is a fulfilling community for the community of Goldisthal . In the 2004 state development plan , Neuhaus is shown as a partially functional medium-sized center Neuhaus am Rennweg / Lauscha . In the course of the Thuringia regional reform in 2018 and 2019 , the cities of Lauscha and Neuhaus began to examine the conditions for the formation of a unified community. However, a merger was declared to have failed at the beginning of 2017 in view of the high debt levels of both cities, although the country had promised almost 2 million euros in aid.
City council
The council of Neuhaus am Rennweg consists of 20 councilors.
| Political party | Seats |
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| CDU | 7 (+1) |
| LEFT | 5 (−3) |
| AfD | 3 (+3) |
Rennsteig free voter community |
3 (−1) |
| FDP | 1 (± 0) |
| SPD | 1 (± 0) |
- Lichte: Holger Koch (non-party), 54.0% ( mayoral election on June 5 and 19, 2016 )
- Scheibe-Alsbach: Jens Rothe (CDU), 93.0%
- Siegmundsburg: Sigrun Greiner (Free Voting Association Rennsteig), 63.9%
- Steinheid / Limbach / Neumannsgrund: Roman Koch (CDU), 92.2%
- Piesau: Siegfried Lippmann (Alternative '99 / BI), 89.8%
(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )
In the election of the mayor on April 15, 2018 , a runoff election between Daniela Reissmann, candidate of the CDU, and Uwe Scheler, candidate of the left, was required. Uwe Scheler prevailed in the runoff election on April 29, 2018 with 58.5% of the vote. The turnout was 52.9% in the first ballot and 49.2% in the runoff election.
Town twinning
A partnership with Dietzenbach in Hessen has existed since 1990 .
coat of arms
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Blazon : "A growing, rooted, black-rimmed, golden beech tree in gold, touching the upper edge of the shield, accompanied by a black '16' at the front and a black '07' at the back." |
| Foundation of the coat of arms: The beech and the year 1607 stand for the foundation of the place. |
Culture and sights
In the city area, the city church, consecrated in 1892, is one of the sights, it is one of the largest wooden churches in Thuringia. The Museum Neuhaus am Rennweg shows the historical development of the city and the local history museum Geißlerhaus , in the birthplace of Heinrich Geißler , a pioneer of glass apparatus construction, vacuum technology and electricity, deals with the history of local glass processing and processing to this day.
A little outside in the direction of Steinheid, in Bernhardsthal, on the area of the former Greiner glassworks, founded in 1829 near the Rennsteig, is the outdoor pool. Not far from there, deep in the forest, you will find the Glücksthal desert . Not far from there, in the valley of the Steinach , the brook to the Wächtersteich is dammed. The damming of the Steinach served to raft logs to Unterlauscha.
Memorials
- Memorial chapel for the fallen and missing of both world wars in the city church . The name plaques made of natural stone for the hedgehog blowers who fell in World War I were saved when the memorial was demolished during the GDR era and restored in 2008 and embedded in the floor of the memorial chapel. The names of the other fallen soldiers from all parts of Neuhaus can be found on panels on the walls of the chapel.
- Both an allotment garden with its name " Otto Engert " and a memorial stone erected there commemorate the communist mayor and resistance fighter who was murdered in Dresden in January 1945.
- The victims of fascism are commemorated in a park on Eisfelder Strasse with a memorial .
- The French grave is located on the Großer Mittelbach ( 50 ° 31 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 29.3 ″ E ), 2.5 kilometers northwest of Neuhaus. It is the resting place of an unknown French soldier who was found dead by woodcutters there in 1813 and buried on the spot. While the date of the last day of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig is on the tombstone on November 19, 1813, the Katzhütte church book records November 29, 1813 as the death entry.
music
After the Second World War, a lively cultural and music scene developed around the “Anna Seghers” pipe work. The Röhrenwerk folk dance ensemble was the largest and most successful in the Suhl district and still exists today as a folklore ensemble. In the 1980s, amateur rock and pop bands such as “ von oom ” and “JoJo” emerged, and folk music formations such as the “Gruppe Kantholz” and the “teacher double quartet”, later “Rennsteigvocalists Ernstthal”, were formed around the Neuhaus am Rennweg music school. Today there is a wide range of folk music interpreters such as " Hans im Glück ", the party bands "Die Herrnhäuser", "Black-X-Miller", the "Kirsch-Formation" and the "Partyband Hess" ( Siegmundsburg ), the "Rock-Tigers" and “Cornamusa” to the alternative rock band “ Revolving Door ”.
The venue is the Kulturhaus Neuhaus am Rennweg.
Economy and Infrastructure
Neuhaus was created in connection with the establishment of a glassworks. The glass industry has always been the city's most important industry. Tourism also plays an important role. Neuhaus is a state-approved resort .
traffic
Neuhaus is on the federal road 281 , which leads from Saalfeld to Eisfeld . There are also roads to Katzhütte , Oberweißbach and Lauscha . There is a central bus stop directly at the train station, from which several bus routes are operated, including to Saalfeld, Steinach, Katzhütte and Goldisthal. A city traffic line opens up the Schmalenbuche district and the neighboring village of Ernstthal am Rennsteig.
Since 1913 Neuhaus has had a railway connection via the Probstzella – Neuhaus am Rennweg line. The Neuhaus am Rennweg station is 830 m above sea level. NN the highest station in Thuringia and one of the highest standard gauge stations in Germany. Passenger traffic was initially suspended on March 16, 1968. In August 2001, the Thuringian Railway (ThE), as the infrastructure operator, acquired the station and its premises from Deutsche Bahn AG and began renovating the reception building and the former goods shed, as well as redesigning the tracks and building new platforms. The train station is one of the few in Germany that is owned by a private railway infrastructure company. It is also the first train station operated by ThE in Thuringia . Since December 14, 2002, the station has been served by the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn via Ernstthal to Sonneberg again according to the timetable.
Healthcare
In the city there is the Regiomed Klinikum Neuhaus and an ambulance station of the clinic association.
Educational institutions
There are primary schools in Neuhaus and Steinheid. A community school , a grammar school and a state, regional support center are also located in Neuhaus.
Honorary citizen
- Albin Kuhles (1905–1972), local politician, honorary citizenship 1969
- Albin Schaedel (1905–1999), glass artist, honorary citizenship 1994
- Engelbert Schoner (1906–1977), painter and stamp designer
- Kurt Wallstab (1920–2002), glass designer, honorary citizenship 1995
Personalities
- Friedrich Zange (1846–1931), educator and Protestant theologian
- Max Kröckel (1901–1986), German athlete in the Nordic ski disciplines
- Gotthold Bley (* 1929), legal scholar at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR
- Stefan Stannarius (* 1961), ski jumper
- Andreas Kramß (* 1962), track and field athlete
- Mark Kirchner (* 1970), biathlete
- Manuela Henkel (* 1974), cross-country skier
- Ronny Hornschuh (* 1975), ski jumper, trainer
- Torsten Ziegner (* 1977), soccer player, coach
- Mark Weschenfelder (* 1982), jazz musician
- Toni Wachsmuth (* 1986), soccer player
literature
- Wilhelm Engel: The memorandum of Nikolaus Molwitz. A mercantilist view of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt at the beginning of the 18th century. In: Thüringer Fähnlein, monthly journals for the Central German homeland, 4th year. Issue 2, February 1935, pp. 84-100. (on p. 92–93 information about the Schmalenbuche glassworks ).
- Neuhaus . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 7th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1820, p. 57 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Mayoral elections in Thuringia
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Neuhaus am Rennweg from March 14, 2019 (PDF; 2.41 MB) In: Stadtkurier Neuhaus. Official journal of the city of Neuhaus am Rennweg and the community of Goldisthal. No. 4/2019. City of Neuhaus am Rennweg, April 12, 2019, pp. 3–7 , accessed on May 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Weather records Germany - Wetterdienst.de . In: Wetterdienst.de . ( wetterdienst.de [accessed on April 19, 2018]).
- ↑ DWD
- ↑ a b c Klaus Apel: Lauscha, Neuhaus a. Rwg., Steinach . In: Tourist-Wanderheft . VEB Tourist Verlag, Leipzig 1980, p. 35-36 .
- ↑ Gerhard Greiner: Glass was her life - glass was her fate, family history and life's work of important glassmaking families in Thuringia , D. Gräbner, Altendorf bei Bamberg 1996, p. 37
- ^ Prof. G. Brückner: Landeskunde des Herzogthums Meinigen , Volume 2: The topography of the country , Verlag Brückner and Renner, Meinigen 1853, p. 475 f.
- ^ Idsteiner Zeitung . Volume 75, No. 285. Idstein, December 7, 1973, p. 9.
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933-1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, p. 285f ., ISBN 3-88864-343-0
- ↑ Norbert Moczarski et al .: Thuringian State Archives Meiningen. Department of the Regional Economic Archive South Thuringia in Suhl . A brief inventory overview. Ed .: Thuringian State Archives Meiningen. 1st edition. Druckhaus Offizin Hildburghausen, 1994, Development of traditional industrial areas in South Thuringia until 1990, p. 16-24 .
- ↑ Thuringian law on the voluntary restructuring of municipalities belonging to the district in 2011. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Free State of Thuringia. November 17, 2011, p. 293ff , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 1, 2011 (§§ 1–13).
- ↑ Local elections in Thuringia - election results 2019
- ↑ Local elections in Thuringia - election results 2014
- ↑ Ministry of Building and Transport Thuringia (Ed.): State Development Plan 2004 (PDF; 2.8 MB)
- ↑ Lauscha newspaper. (PDF file: 0.2 MB) City of Lauscha, May 13, 2016, p. 1 , accessed on June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ mdr.de: Lauscha and Neuhaus cancel voluntary engagement, now forced merger threatens MDR.DE . May 26, 2017 ( mdr.de [accessed July 20, 2017]).
- ↑ suehnekreuz.de
Föritztal | Frankenblick | Goldisthal | Lauscha | Neuhaus am Rennweg | Schalkau | Sonneberg | Steinach
Lichte (consisting of Bock and Teich , Geiersthal , Oberlichte with Ascherbach , Waschdorf and Hügel as well as Wallendorf with Lamprecht ) | Limbach | Neuhaus am Rennweg with hedgehog and narrow beech | Neumannsgrund | Piesau | Scheibe-Alsbach with Alsbach and Scheibe | Siegmundsburg | Steinheid