Plotting

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Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 11 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Orla district
Management Community :	Lake district
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.24 km 2
Residents:	259 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07907
Primaries :	03663 and 036648
License plate :	SOK, LBS, PN, SCZ
Community key :	16 0 75 083
Association administration address:	Schleizer Str. 17 07907 Oettersdorf
Mayor :	Achim Leithiger
Location of the municipality of Plothen in the Saale-Orla district

Plothen is a municipality in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

geography

The village is the main town in the area around the Plothener ponds . It is located to the west of the federal motorway 9 and to the east of the lake area in the densely wooded southeast of the Thuringian slate mountains . The state road 1077 passes north with connection to the federal road 2 . The area also belongs to the Schleizer Oberland . The Neudeck district belongs to Plothen .

history

According to ancient traditions, the place name Plothen comes from the Slavic word Plotina . That means swamp or pond, perhaps also by lot for hedge. The Plothenwald is first mentioned in 1349, the village in 1378 as Villa Plote . The Plothenbach coming out of the ponds is said to have been called Blutenbach earlier . The legend tells of a pagan place of sacrifice from which the blood of the victims flowed so strongly that the color of the stream water was completely red. In the vernacular it is still called Bluten and Blutenbach today. The reference to a former sacrificial site has not been refuted.

The brook, already listed as Plotawasser in 1264 , probably transferred its Slavic name Blotna (swamp brook ) to the place. For centuries the Plothenbach separated the districts of Neudeck and Plothen , the Orlagau and the Wisentaland . Until after the First World War it separated politically and partly also culturally the Russian areas from the Saxonly influenced areas.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31st each) :

1994: 323 1995: 319 1996: 311 1997: 321 1998: 318 1999: 305

2000: 310 2001: 325 2002: 324 2003: 326 2004: 317 2005: 305

2006: 317 2007: 318 2008: 306 2009: 293 2010: 286 2011: 286

2012: 289 2013: 287 2014: 275 2015: 277 2016: 266 2017: 266

2018: 263

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Worth seeing

House pond and stilt house

The stilt house in the house pond

As a landmark Plothens the 300-year-old is considered stilt house in the house pond, the 28 hectares of the largest Plothener ponds. Its construction is unique in Thuringia. It has been extensively renovated in recent years, and today it houses a small museum. The house or Plothenteich, first mentioned in 1511, is the largest pond in Thuringia with a size of 28–32 ha (depending on the water level) and a circumference of 4 km. In summer it is the paradise of many wild ducks and other sometimes rare water birds.

The fishing is not done with nets, but by lowering with a dock. Their cross-section is one meter. Drainage takes 4 to 6 weeks. In the past, the empty pond was sown with oats every few years. The pond mud served as a valuable fertilizer. The house pond house, which was once built on stilts, is the landmark of the region, the construction date of which is not certain. The legend ascribes its origin to a brotherly dispute that had flared up over the use of the pond dam. This 600 meter long and up to 5.5 meter high colossus with its formerly 500 trees measures between 5 and 15 meters in width. It is the visible sign of the immense effort that was once connected with the creation of the pond area. So while the victor claimed the dam for himself, the loser built his home on stilts. Mentioned in a document from 1611 to 1612, the house pond house served as a church during the plague epidemic, where weddings were also held.

Until 1878 the house and the pond belonged to the Prince of Greiz, who organized duck hunts there. The stilt house with its three rooms and cooking facilities served as an extremely unusual and representative hunting lodge. Then the ensemble came into the possession of the Knau manor . Until the Second World War, the house was a popular Sunday outing. After the manor was smashed by the Soviet occupying power, the house pond became public property.

Dreba-Plothener pond area

Under the slogan: “The ponds are our new territory”, the Agricultural Academy made unsuccessful attempts to cultivate millet. From 1958–1990 the house was the equipment room and warehouse of the VEB Binnenfischerei Knau, the new manager of the pond area. After turning the front pond came into the possession of the land and the now very dilapidated stilt house in 1991 under monument protection . First, an initiative group led by Jürgen Auerswald secured the ailing building stock. In 1995 a traditional and homeland association was founded in Plothen with the declared aim of renovating the house pond. The final restoration then took place after numerous collecting campaigns, by local companies with the help of many volunteers from Dreba and Plothen.

The Traditions- und Heimatverein eV has been the tenant of the stilt house since 1997, with the aim of protecting the building and keeping it open to everyone. There a museum invites you to take a trip into the history of ponds and fishing. It is open depending on the season.

Church in Plothen

church

The winter church , in the middle of the village on a small hill that has now been leveled, was built in 1866–1867. Designed as a neo-Romanesque hall church with a round apse and choir rectangle, it is modeled on a Byzantine basilica. The main portal is lavishly designed, the west tower is crowned with a helmet. A comprehensive and attractive restoration of the church took place in 1997. The oldest bell, cast by Schleizer master Markus Rosenmeyer in 1520, had a diameter of 80 cm and was labeled: "vox mea vox vite vos voco ad sacra venite". That means something like: "My word is life, come, I call, to the holy place."

The previous building from the 13th century, a very simple clapboard building with few windows, was of rare simplicity, from the door lock to the figures of saints. The former pulpit in the Renaissance style with a massive admixture of Baroque (after 1650) was similar to that in Neundorf and is partly incorporated into the pulpit altar from 1879. The church field by the church was abandoned in 1611 at the time of the plague, a new one was laid out on the south side of the village. The litter box there with its ancient roof and tower button was not built until 1930.

Personalities

• Next to the church is the former schoolhouse from 1912. The teacher and local researcher Martin Müller (1891–1978) lived in the teacher's apartment above .
• The two brothers Johann Gottlieb Steingräber and Christian Heinrich Steingräber were born around 1800 on the farm of the current inn "Zum Plothenteich" . They dedicated their lives to music and instrument making.
  • Christian Heinrich was the father of the piano manufacturer Eduard Steingräber ( Steingraeber & Sons ). Richard Wagner later brought him to Bayreuth, where he founded his piano factory. The grand piano he made on which Wagner composed his Parsifal and the instrument for playing the Grail bells still stands in the Bayreuth Festival Hall . There is also a stone grave piano in the inn.
  • The son Johann Gottlieb, on the other hand, is considered to be the founder of Theodor Steingräber Musikverlag in Leipzig, which became famous not least for its classic editions. In 1868, under the synonym Gustav Damm, he brought out the textbook Damm-Klavierschule, which has accompanied generations of students in their lessons.
• The Reichstag member Julius Arnold (1847–1926) was born in Plothen.

literature

• Collective of authors: Where there was once a swamp ... The story of Plothen, Schleiz, 1999.
• Alexander Blöthner: Fabulous walks in the land of 1000 ponds. Nature, culture and history of the region between Orla and Wisenta, Jena, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).

Web links

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

• privately operated site about the place