Oberrod (Schleusingen)
Oberrod
City of Schleusingen
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 12 ″ N , 10 ° 48 ′ 22 ″ E
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Height : | approx. 400 m above sea level NN |
Residents : | 65 (2016) |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1962 |
Incorporated into: | Waldau |
Postal code : | 98553 |
Area code : | 036878 |
Oberrod is a district of the town of Schleusingen in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .
location
The place is about 400 m above sea level. NN in the south of the Thuringian Forest Nature Park . It is located south of the federal motorway 73 and east of the Ratscher dam northeast of Hildburghausen.
history
The place arose at a ford that was part of an old road from Hildburghausen over the lock . Oberrod was first mentioned in a document on September 10, 1299. Until 1815, the place belonged to the Henneberg or Electoral Saxon office of Schleusingen . From 1815 to 1945 Oberrod belonged to Prussia and administratively to the Schleusingen district . There is an old chapel in the village, which is dedicated to Saint Wolfgang. In 2016, 65 people lived in Oberrod.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 209
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Schleusingen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).