Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal

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Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 10 ° 26'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Management Community : Dolmar salt bridge
Height : 297 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.59 km 2
Residents: 1248 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 223 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 98617
Area code : 036949
License plate : SM, MGN
Community key : 16 0 66 049
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Einhäuser Str. 3
98617 Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal
Website : www.obermassfeld-grimmenthal.de
Mayor : Martin Hofmann
Location of the municipality of Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district
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Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal is a municipality in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the Franconian south of Thuringia and a member and branch of the administration of the Dolmar-Salzbrücke administrative community .

geography

Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal is located in the Werra valley southeast of Meiningen . The place and today's community are made up of the former place of pilgrimage Grimmenthal and the town of Ober Maßfeld to the west .

history

The community was first mentioned in 837 as Mahesfeld . The current church was built between 1600 and 1612 .

The district of Grimmenthal (old name: Grinthal) was a place of pilgrimage at the end of the Middle Ages (since 1498). A picture of Mary that was there earlier is said to have worked miraculously. In 1498 a pilgrimage chapel was consecrated. The Werra Bridge, for example, was built from the proceeds. The place of pilgrimage came to an end with the Reformation around 1536. Immediately afterwards, a hospital for the poor was created. After 1945 it was turned into an after-work home that existed until 1990.

Grimmenthal was hit by the persecution of witches in 1627 : The widow Barbara Urff (Oerff) got into a witch trial and was beheaded. In Ober Maßfeld, there were persecutions of witches from 1602 to 1658: five people were charged. The first victim was Stahlmart (Margaretha Stahl) in 1602. The outcome of a process is unknown.

  • Church and "Friedenslinde" (planted in 1648) in Ober Maßfeld

  • Aerial view of Ober Maßfeld

  • Werra Bridge from 1534

  • Former pilgrimage and Grimmenthal train station

  • Steam locomotive in the morning mist at Grimmenthal station

  • View of the KfL factory (1980)

politics

Municipal council

The local council from Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal is made up of 12 councilors. The last local election took place on May 25, 2014. [obsolete] The result is as follows:

  • CDU 2 seats
  • Free voters 4 seats
  • Citizens' council 3 seats
  • FFW upper dimension field 1 seat
  • Sports club SC 1921 1 seat
  • Ober Maßfelder Schützenverein 1 seat

mayor

The honorary mayor Dieter Heinrich was elected in a runoff election on July 11, 2004 and resigned on March 7, 2006. The new mayor is Martin Hofmann.

traffic

Grimmenthal is located on the Werra Railway and the Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway line . The station is served by the Mainfranken-Thuringia Express , among others .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Kai Lehmann : Exhibition "Luther and the witches". Grimmenthal area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244, (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).
  3. ↑ Kai Lehmann: Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 270 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Ober Maßfeld area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244, (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).
  4. ↑ Announcement on the determination of the results of the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , accessed on January 19, 2018

literature

  • Ludwig Bechstein : Grimmenthal. Romantic time image from the sixteenth century. Kesselring, Hildburghausen 1833, ( digitized ).
  • Johannes Mötsch (ed.): The pilgrimage to Grimmenthal. Documents, invoices, miracle book (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-412-14004-X .
  • Grimmenthal . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, pp. 454–457.

Web links

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