Paulinzella

Paulinzella City of Koenigsee Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	358 m above sea level NN
Residents :	92  (December 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	April 9, 1994
Incorporated into:	Rottenbach
Postal code :	07426
Area code :	036739
View of Paulinzella

Paulinzella is a district of the town of Königsee in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in central Thuringia . The place is known for the Paulinzella Monastery , one of the largest Romanesque monastery ruins in Germany.

geography

Paulinzella is located in the valley of the Rottenbach , about five kilometers northwest of Rottenbach and eleven kilometers south of Stadtilm between Ilmenau in the west and Rudolstadt in the east. The village is surrounded by extensive forest areas, the Paulinzellaer Forst , in which there is a village Hoykenhayn (desert) ; and which separates Paulinzella from the neighboring villages of Gräfinau-Angstedt in the west, Singen , Gösselborn and Hengelbach in the north, Solsdorf in the east, Milbitz in the southeast and Horba and Königsee in the south.

A geographic landscape unit Paulinzellaer Vorland is named after the place, which forms the northern mountain foreland to the eastern Thuringian Forest and the western Thuringian Slate Mountains .

history

Paulinzella monastery ruins around 1897

The Paulinzella monastery , which was founded around 1102 by the Benedictine nuns , is characteristic of the small village . In 1542 it was dissolved as a result of the Reformation in the Grafschaft Schwarzburg and transferred to the Paulinzella office . Soon afterwards, a small hunting lodge of the princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was built on the former monastery grounds .

Friedrich Schiller visited Paulinzella in 1788, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was not interested in the building for many years, although the ruins are not far from Ilmenau, where he often stayed. It was Sulpiz Boisserée who first drew Goethe's attention to the ruin, in 1817 Goethe also visited Paulinzella and noted in his diary:

"For forty years, having wandered all over Thuringia by cart, horse and foot, I had never come to Paulinzella ..."

It was not until the 19th century, in the age of romanticism, that the beauty and grandeur of this Romanesque ruin were recognized. The Arnstadt – Saalfeld railway line with a stop in the village was built in 1895.

Until 1918 Paulinzella belonged to the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

→ See also Paulinzella Monastery Church

traffic

Paulinzella is on the Arnstadt – Saalfeld railway line . The stopping point located southeast of the town is served every two hours by the Erfurt – Saalfeld regional trains of the Erfurt Railway .

Personalities

• Johann Friedrich Schulze (1793–1858), master organ builder from a family of organ builders who worked for several generations in Milbitz and Paulinzella.
• Wilhelm Nöller (1890–1964), veterinarian, pathologist and parasitologist, lived in the village.
• Kurt Bachor (1916–1990), author, lived and worked in Paulinzella

literature

• Ernst Anemüller : Goethe and Paulinzelle . In: Willy Flach (Ed.): Festschrift Berthold Rein on his 75th birthday. Research on the Schwarzburg history . Frommann, Jena 1935, p. 198-206 .

Web links

Commons : Paulinzella  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about Paulinzella on the website of the city of Königsee-Rottenbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https: //cms.königsee-rottenbach.de/index-func-view-t1-36-t2-45-t3-31-d-1.html
2. ^ Heinrich Pleticha : Thuringia Cultural Landscape. With color pictures by Wolfgang Müller. Flechsig, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-333-4 , p. 152.