Oberlind (Sonneberg)

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Oberlind
City of Sonneberg
Oberlinder coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '26 "  N , 11 ° 10' 51"  E
Height : 363 m
Residents : 4500
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 96515
Area code : 03675
Oberlinder market square
Oberlinder market square
Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Aegidien

Oberlind is a district of the city of Sonneberg in the district of Sonneberg in Thuringia .

location

Today's Sonneberg district of Oberlind lies on a plain in front of the southern slope of the Thuringian low mountain range on the Steinach river .

history

Oberlind was first mentioned in 1225 as "Lind". On January 29, 1931, the market town was raised to the status of town by the Thuringian Minister of the Interior, Frick . The well-preserved fortified church of St. Aegidien from 1455 is a special attraction in Sonneberg-Oberlind. Its beginnings go back to the 12th century. A moat ran around the church. The defensive wall is still in good condition and some of the mounting holes for the wooden perimeter are still present on the inside. Until 1761 the dead of the community were buried within the defensive wall next to the church.

There was a castle in Oberlind that burned down in 1778 and was leveled. It was built by the noble von Kemmaten family , which went out in 1600 when the last Kemmater was executed in Coburg for the murder of his son. Duke Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg first enfeoffed the von Wolfskeel family , then Georg Hartmann von Erffa zu Unterlind took over the property. 1699 is named bailiff Johann Prieffer von Miespach on Gut Kemmeten. From 1767 onwards, the castle was the seat of the forestry department , which was relocated to the Oberamtshaus in the old town of Sonneberg after the fire .

Dishwasher from VEB Elektroinstallation Oberlind in the GDR Museum Pirna

In the middle of the 19th century, industrial development began in Oberlind , which overlaid the village character of the small town. In historical retrospect, apart from the predominant toy manufacture in the Sonneberg area, the Siemens-Schuckertwerke production facility from 1913 (today the EIO company ) and the Dorst machine factory , which emerged from a forge in 1867, should be mentioned. The famous son of the Dorst family was the writer Tankred Dorst . In 1922 Oberlind was forcibly incorporated into Sonneberg. In 1924, the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior reversed this after objections. On July 1, 1950, Oberlind was again incorporated under the official name Sonneberg 2 after Sonneberg.

Oberlind was occupied by US troops in April 1945 , which were replaced by the Red Army in early July . Between November 1945 and March 1946, the Soviet secret service NKVD arrested 27 young people aged 16 and over from the small town and sentenced them to death by shooting or to long-term labor camps by a military tribunal on charges of “ werewolf ” ; four death sentences were carried out. Nine other young people died in camps or on the way to the Soviet Union.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Oberlind
Blazon : "Divided by pewter cut in silver (white), inside a five-petalled, stylized, growing green linden tree and red, inside a lying silver (white) sword with a golden (yellow) handle."
Crest Reason: Designed in the Thuringian colors red and silver coat goes with the stylized Linde talking one on the place name. The pewter cut is reminiscent of both the defensive wall built in 1455 around the village church of St. Aegidien and the castle of the local aristocratic family Kemmaten, which burned down in 1788 . The silver sword stands as a symbol for fairness in the market.

Architectural monuments

Born in Oberlind

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Brückner : Regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen. Part 2: The topography of the country. Brückner and Renner, Meinigen 1853, p. 449 ff.
  2. Thomas Schwämmlein: Double names shaped the first reform. In: Free Word , February 14, 2013.
  3. Benno Prieß : Shot at dawn. Arrested, tortured, convicted, shot. “Werewolf” fates of young people in Central Germany. 2nd, expanded edition. Self-published, Calw 2002, ISBN 3-926802-36-7 , pp. 122–123.
  4. ^ Coat of arms of Oberlind

Web links

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