Oberland on the Rennsteig
Oberland am Rennsteig was a municipality in Thuringia in the Sonneberg district . It was created on January 1, 1997 in parts of the Sonneberg Oberland through the merger of the Engnitzthal and Haselbach community and was incorporated into the city of Sonneberg on December 31, 2013 .
geography
The municipality was in the transition area from the Thuringian Slate Mountains to the Franconian Forest and touched the Rennsteig in the north . The municipality had an area of 39.42 km² with an extension of 13 km and consisted of several, previously independent municipalities or places.
Former neighboring communities
Clockwise, starting in the north: Piesau - Gräfenthal - Tettau - Judenbach - Sonneberg - Steinach - Lauscha .
Community structure
The community consisted of the districts:
- Haselbach with Hohenofen and Vorwerk , seat of the municipal administration
- Eschenthal , zip code 96523, with Friedrichsthal and Georgshütte (in the Ölsetal)
- Hasenthal , zip code 96523, with cutting mill (in the oil valley )
- Hüttengrund , zip code 96515, with a tin hammer (in Steinachtal )
- Spechtsbrunn , zip code 98743, (on the Rennsteig)
history
The community was created on January 1, 1997 through the merger of the single community of Engnitzthal, which has existed since 1994, and the community of Haselbach. In 1994 the municipality had 2951 inhabitants, in 2012 it was still 2200.
On December 31, 2013, the municipality of Oberland am Rennsteig was dissolved and the municipality has belonged to the city of Sonneberg ever since.
The nature park information center "Cold Kitchen" offers a shop window for the region.
With the erection of a memorial on the Schildwiese, directly on the state border, the Rennsteigkirchentag, which was held in 2009, would like to carry on its motto "Believe without borders".
politics
Municipal council
After the last local election on June 7, 2009, the Oberland municipal council on Rennsteig consisted of 14 members.
Culture and sights
The Rennsteig Festival on the last weekend in April commemorates the reopening of the Rennsteig on April 28, 1990, which was no longer passable for almost four decades due to the division of Germany.
Dialects
The Itzgründischen dialect is spoken in Haselbach, Blechhammer and Hüttengrund, the Thuringian dialect is at home in Hasenthal and Spechtsbrunn .
Culinary specialties
- Semolina and starch dumplings (made from boiled potatoes, with semolina and potato starch )
- Roast rabbit (Hosenküh) - almost every household kept rabbits
- Sauerkraut, which is thickened with grated raw potatoes
- Different "Brüh" and "Zamet". "Brew" is a kind of soup that is (but no potatoes) cooked in beef broth and wild mushrooms or vegetables and Zamet is served, for example Schwammebrüh = mushroom soup made from mushrooms, leeks-brewing (leek soup), Bannebrüh (a type of bean soup). "Zamet" is a special kind of mashed potatoes made from potatoes, potato starch and milk
- Öwaschicharuhm un Mahlpflöck (kohlrabi soup with dumplings)
- Schnibbl-Soup (a vegetable soup made from chopped fresh vegetables)
- Spint (a kind of slaughter plate made from kettle meat, corrugated meat, carved meat)
- Flat, round pancakes (Pfaakuchn) with a thick rim and no filling
- Deer horn cake (a flat cake baked with deer horn salt, with a chocolate coating)
Economy and Infrastructure
In the municipality of Oberland am Rennsteig several companies in the medium-sized and craft sector have settled. The production profile includes the glass and plastics processing industry, the packaging industry and mechanical engineering. The largest industrial area is in Spechtsbrunn.
The infrastructure also included the Hasenthal State Primary School, a kindergarten run by the Diakoniewerkes Sonneberg and Hildburghausen / Eisfeld, two AWO kindergartens, three local volunteer fire brigades , two youth clubs, and several supply facilities for everyday goods. Craft businesses in various industries are often used by the citizens. 17 registered associations and other interest groups, especially in the senior sector, maintain cultural, sporting and social life in the towns.
The Berggasthof Brand is an excursion destination in the former municipality . The secluded property is located directly on the Rennsteig.
traffic
Country roads of the first and second order connect the villages with each other and lead to Steinach , Sonneberg , Piesau and Lichte , Kleintettau and Tettau and to Gräfenthal . The Südthüringenbahn between Sonneberg and Neuhaus / Rennweg also includes the places Blechhammer and Hüttengrund with stops.
nature
Fire salamanders and newts were still common in the 1960s and are now rare.
Rare plant species grow on the mountain meadows, which have often been designated as fauna and flora habitats . Even decades after the fall of the Wall, the former border strip still harbors a number of protected plants and animals. The nature park information center offers a backpack school "From the death strip to the living space" and an audio route in the green belt of the former border strip.
Former community center in Haselbach
Haselbach, Hohe Warte
Hohenofen
Matthäuskirche zu Spechtsbrunn
Hasenthal, well-preserved farmhouse from 1783
Climbing garden at Blechhammer with the Ernst-Hartwig via ferrata
Eschenthal
Berggasthof Brand
literature
- Between Rennsteig and Sonneberg (= values of our homeland . Volume 39). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986.
- The district of Sonneberg, history in words and pictures , Wolfgang Wiegand, Hanns Arthur Schönau, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, 1st edition, 1991, ISBN 3-89264-635-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
- ^ Merger with the city of Sonneberg on January 1, 2014
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2013
- ^ History of the Berggasthof Brand. Retrieved January 5, 2016 .
