Neustadt am Rennsteig
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Neustadt am Rennsteig
Rural community town of Großbreitenbach
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| Height : | 785 m |
| Area : | 17.03 km² |
| Residents : | 918 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 54 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 98701 |
| Area code : | 036781 |
Neustadt am Rennsteig is a district of the rural community town of Großbreitenbach and a resort in the Thuringian Forest , which belongs to the Ilm district .
geography
Neustadt is located at 805 meters above sea level on a plateau on the Rennsteig . It is one of the highest places in Thuringia . The slopes to the Schleusetal fall to the southwest, and the Wohlrose catchment area lies to the northeast . Mountains in the area are the 817 meter high Großer Burgberg and the 816 meter high Edelmannskopf.
The Rennsteig as a high-altitude hiking trail leads through the village over a length of one kilometer. Neustadt is one of the few places through which the Rennsteig runs completely; it is located approximately in the middle of the 169 km long high-altitude hiking trail.
Local division
Kahlert , a small district about two kilometers south on the Rennsteig, belongs to Neustadt .
The Dreiherrenstein is located near Neustadt .
Neighboring places
Clockwise, starting in the north: Ilmenau , Großbreitenbach , Altenfeld , Schleusegrund , Frauenwald and Stützerbach
history
As old shafts and heaps prove, there was already a mining settlement on the site of Neustadt in the Middle Ages. The place was first mentioned in a document from 1453. However, this settlement seems to have died down again; the origin of today's place was the founding of a glassworks in 1698. This makes Neustadt one of the youngest places in the Ilm district . Woodcutters and charcoal burners settled around the glassworks on both sides of the Rennsteig.
The place was divided into two parts until 1920. The part northeast of the Rennsteig belonged to the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ( suzerainty ), the southwest part belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen ( Eisfeld District ). From 1739 to July 1, 1855, the two places formed a church and school community. After the separation in 1855 a second church was built, there were two schools, two volunteer fire departments , etc.
The glassworks in Neustadt was given up again in 1819. Other branches of the economy were not very profitable either, so that as early as 1755 the resettlement of the residents to Mecklenburg was considered. In the 19th century, matches were made in particular in Neustadt. After industrialization, a match factory was built after 1900, which ceased operations in 1927. After the Second World War, matchmaking regained economic importance for a short time, but tourism , which emerged in the 1930s, soon predominated .
From 1920 to 1952 Neustadt belonged to the Arnstadt district , which was divided in 1952. From 1952 to 1994 the place was assigned to the Ilmenau district . In 1994 Neustadt came to the Ilm district and the administrative association Langer Berg . With the dissolution of this on July 6, 2018, the place became part of the Großbreitenbach administrative community . On January 1, 2019, this was converted into the rural municipality of Großbreitenbach.
Population development
Development of the population:
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Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values from December 31st
politics
Local council
The local council of Neustadt am Rennsteig was elected for the first time in the local elections in Thuringia on May 26, 2019. Previously, the former members of the municipal council had acted as local councils since the formation of the rural community Großbreitenbach.
In addition to the local mayor, the local council has six other members:
- Interest group Neustadt am Rennsteig: 4 seats
- CDU / open list : 2 seats
Town Mayor
Dirk Macheleidt (independent, nominated by IG Neustadt am Rennsteig) is the local mayor of Neustadt am Rennsteig. Macheleidt had been the honorary mayor since 1999 and was last re-elected on June 5, 2016 in the first ballot with 63.3% of the valid votes cast in the then still independent municipality. After the formation of the rural community Großbreitenbach, he held the office of mayor for the rest of his term of office.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on January 22, 1992.
Blazon : “obliquely square; Field 1: in blue a golden double-tailed lion with a knocked-out red tongue growing out of the left division; Field 2 and 3: in gold, a green spruce with roots and a black trunk and black roots; Field 4: in blue on a green mountain, a golden stone, covered with a black 'R'. "
The community, located on a plateau, is cut through by the ridge path of the Thuringian Forest. The old country divide is marked in the corridor with numerous old boundary stones. A Rennsteig stone with the characteristic capital letter "R" appears in the coat of arms. The lion stands for the historical influence of the Schwarzburger. The two rooted spruces symbolize the location of the place on the ridge of the Thuringian Forest and the role of the forest as a traditional source of income for the place.
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .
Local partnerships
- The partner municipality of Neustadt is Ehringshausen ( Lahn-Dill district ) in Hesse. The partnership has existed since October 26, 1990. On May 11, 1991 the official twinning took place.
- Neustadt is a member of the Neustadt in Europa working group , in which (currently) 37 cities and municipalities named Neustadt from Germany , Austria , Hungary , the Czech Republic , Poland , Slovakia and the Netherlands have come together. In 2004 the 26th New Town Meeting took place here.
traffic
- From Neustadt roads lead to Ilmenau over the Dreiherrenstein, to Großbreitenbach over the Hohe Tanne and over Kahlert to Masserberg , Gießübel and Altenfeld .
- Between 1883 and 1998 Neustadt had a railway connection on the Ilmenau-Großbreitenbacher Railway . The station was three kilometers east of the Hohen Tanne and was called Neustadt-Gillersdorf Station .
Culture and sights
- Michaeliskirche (Neustadt am Rennsteig)
- Rennsteig Museum: In the community center at Rennsteigstraße 46
- One of the sights was the 130-year-old memorial church of the Blackburg princes . The church was consecrated in 1887 after a total of 22 years of construction. The wooden house with a slate roof served as a mourning hall after 1945 and was de-dedicated in 2005 . After that no buyer was found, the church fell into disrepair and was most recently in danger of collapsing, so that it had to be demolished in November 2016. The repair costs would have been more than 750,000 euros.
economy
In addition to limited agriculture, there were two branches of industry in Neustadt: the glass industry and tourism . After the collapse of the GDR , nature and hiking tourism and especially winter sports are paramount. There are numerous pensions and hotels in the village.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Karl Otto Beetz (1859–1940), educator
- Willy Schmidt-Gentner (1894–1964), film composer
- Dietmar Beetz (* 1939), fiction writer
- Heinz Schmidt (* 1948), ski jumper
People connected to the place
- Fritz Binde (1867–1921), preacher and evangelist, grew up in Neustadt
- Oskar Schmidt (1894–1945), resistance fighter and anti-fascist. A memorial stone was erected in his honor in 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on January 3, 2019
- ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 14/2018 p. 795 ff. , Accessed on January 3, 2019
- ^ Source for Schwarzburgische and Saxon places: Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : Lexicon of all localities of the German federal states . Naumburg, 1843. Available online from Google Books . Source for Prussian places: Handbook of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population figures. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Population development since 1989 (TLUG) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 18 kB)
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Landgemeinde Stadt Großbreitenbach No. 9/2019 of June 9, 2019
- ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Elections in Thuringia. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
- ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Thüringen eV (Ed.): Neues Thüringer Wappenbuch, Volume 2. 1998, ISBN 3-9804487-2-X , p. 15
- ↑ Rennsteig region - Neustadt am Rennsteig with the district Kahlert on ilm-kreis.de, accessed on March 26, 2015
Web links
Allersdorf | Altenfeld | Bohlen | Friedersdorf | Gillersdorf | Großbreitenbach | Herschdorf | Neustadt am Rennsteig with Kahlert | Wildenspring | Willmersdorf