Oberschönau (Steinbach-Hallenberg)

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Oberschönau
Coat of arms of Oberschönau
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 520 m
Area : 16.12 km²
Residents : 783  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 98587
Area code : 036847
Oberschönau from the front Möstfelsen

Oberschönau is a district of the town of Steinbach-Hallenberg in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .

geography

Geographical location

Oberschönau is a state-approved resort and is located in the Thuringian Forest in the Schönau valley , which is part of the Werra catchment area . In its upper course, which flows through Oberschönau, the river is also often called Hasel or Haselbach .

history

Oberschönau is one of the younger places in the area and was built around the cutting mill called Canzlersmühl in 1555 , which is already documented in the 15th century. The location of the mill was first named Öbern Schonau in 1548 . In 1585 a village is first documented at this point. The Haselbach, which flows into the Schönau in the village, once formed the border between the Hallenberg (Grafschaft Henneberg-Römhild) and Schmalkalden (Grafschaft Henneberg-Schleusingen and Landgraviate Hessen), so that the place was between two rulers until 1619 and then between two Hessian ones Offices was divided before he came in 1791 to the office of Schmalkalden of the Hessian rule Schmalkalden .

In addition to forestry and wood processing, the most important earlier line of business was iron processing after a pipe, grinding and drilling mill was built in 1688, the products of which went to the Schmalkalder rifle manufacture. Although the pipe mill closed in 1805, other metalworking companies were established in the village: in 1790 a wire smelter, in 1804 a pipe hammer. Due to the geological conditions, no agriculture worth mentioning developed on the site; rather, in the course of industrialization, the place became a distinct industrial village for metal processing. During the GDR era, there was a metal processing company incorporated into the VEB Werkzeug-Union Steinbach-Hallenberg and the metal processing company VEB Nageno founded in 1972.

The historical population of Oberschönau from the 16th to the 20th century is documented in a local family book.

The municipality of Oberschönau was incorporated into the city of Steinbach-Hallenberg on January 1, 2019. Before that, Oberschönau belonged to the Haselgrund administrative community .

politics

Municipal council

Local election 2009
Turnout: 63.7%
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
56.7%
29.6%
13.7%
FWG OS
Gains and losses
compared to 2004
 % p
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
+ 12.6  % p.p.
-9.9  % p
-2.7  % p
FWG OS

The local council from Oberschönau was composed of 8 councilors:

(As of: local elections on June 7, 2009 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Claudia Scheerschmidt was elected in the runoff election on July 11, 2004.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Home parlor
  • Nail smithy, is operated as a show workshop.

Monuments

Above the development, on Möststrasse, there is a small park with the memorial to commemorate those who fell in the First World War . A large stone arch can be seen from the village. From the park side, a copper plaque with a warning inscription is attached in the arch.

Natural monuments

  • The 867 m high Großer Hermannsberg with the Knüllfeld in front rises south of the village .
  • Southeast of Oberschönau is a rocky mountain area with free-standing rock towers. She is called the Twelve Apostles. The name indicates a cult site.

Sports facilities

The ski jumping facility in Kanzlersgrund , which is often counted as part of the town of Oberhof , is partly located on the territory of the municipality of Oberschönau.

Churches

The local Protestant church was built between 1700 and 1727. As part of the Schmalkalden parish, the parish belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck as an exclave for historical reasons .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

People related to the community

literature

Web links

Commons : Oberschönau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Dieter Kind, Uwe Scheerschmidt: Local family book Oberschönau in the Thuringian Forest (= personal history writings. 7 = German local family books. 881). Society for Family Research in Franconia, Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-929865-64-6 .
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 254.