Nonnenberg (Thuringia)
| Nonnenberg | ||
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 View from Schwarzhausen to the Nonnenberg |
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| height | 439.7 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Forest | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '5 " N , 10 ° 29' 34" E | |
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The Nonnenberg is a partially wooded mountain between Bad Tabarz and Waltershausen , district of Fischbach in the district of Gotha .
With a height of 439.7 m above sea level. HN , the Nonnenberg forms the eastern boundary of the Emsetal in the municipality. The eastern summit is marked on the maps as "Wachkuppe" and has a height of 475.9 m above sea level. HN . Also known under the name Nonnenberg was a row of houses immediately northeast of the village of Cabarz , which was probably built in connection with the Tabarz fire of 1821, but which temporarily became politically independent in the municipality of Cabarz as early as 1866.
In the Middle Ages, at a crossroads, 500 m north of Cabarz, there was a special hospital on the Altstrasse to Fischbach and Waltershausen in the "Heilig Kreuz" corridor, it was named "Nonnenberg" because it was fortunate to own forest on the Nonnenberg. The nuns fled during the Peasants' War and the hospital now had to be financed by the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha . The oldest news reports that the forest was donated to the Gotha Kreuzkloster by a gentleman from Döllstädt. The forest was also mentioned in old documents with the field name das Utticheroda , whereby the field name was to be understood with high probability as the property of the Lords of Uetterodt and not as a desert .
The Tabarz street name "Mönchhof" refers to the monastery courtyard belonging to the Reinhardsbrunn monastery, which was probably built around 1400 when this monastery came into the possession of the villages of Cabarz and Großtabarz and the deserted area of "Uttichrodt" (also Utterodt). As a result of the peasant uprising of 1525, the Reinhardsbrunn monastery and associated farms were attacked and looted. The secularization of the state-owned monastery properties resulted in the sale of the monastery courtyard (Mönchehof) to the von Ütterodt family, who were in ducal service and who were already enfeoffed in the surrounding towns and with the Scharfenstein Castle. Around 1600 the Ütterodts ceded this splinter property to the sovereign under unknown circumstances. At the beginning of the 17th century, the forest fell to the Winterstein line of the Lords of Wangenheim .
In the 18th century the building complex served as a “country poor house ”.
At the turn of the century, a beautification association founded in Tabarz created an extensive network of walking and hiking trails, which also included the Nonnenberg. On its eastern slope, “Rundweg 3” was led over the Wachkopf and a “Ottiliensruh” viewing point with a pavilion was set up. In the 1960s, the sanatorium for the FDGB was built in this area . An associated boiler house was built on the windy northeast corner of the mountain, roughly where the infirmary is said to have once stood.
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.
- ↑ Christa von Schemm-Müller: Festschrift 600 years Cabarz, 725 years Mönchhof . Ed .: Municipal administration Tabarz. Druckerei Löhr, Ruhla 1997, p. 11-14 .
- ^ Luise Gerbing : The field names of the Duchy of Gotha and the forest names of the Thuringian Forest between the Weinstrasse in the west and the Schorte (sluice) in the east; on behalf of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. and ed. by Luise Gerbing . Jena G. Fischer, 1910 ( archive.org [accessed May 23, 2020]).
- ^ Friedrich Hermann Albert von Wangenheim, Contributions to a family history of the Barons von Wangenheim (..) on the basis of the previous two document collections , Huth Göttingen 1874. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf