Rangenhof

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Rangenhof
City of Eisenach
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 21 ″  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 370 m above sea level NN
Residents : 10
Postal code : 99817
Area code : 03691

The Rangenhof is an isolated district of Stedtfeld and belongs to the independent city of Eisenach in Thuringia. The population is less than 10 people.

location

The Rangenhof is located on the ridge of the Thuringian Forest , the highest point is the Lerchenkuppe ( 394.2  m above sea level ). The Rangenhof is 4.5 kilometers away from the start of the Rennsteig hiking trail near Hörschel . The village, which is a cleared island in the forest, has a hostel and popular excursion restaurant, but only has an unpaved access road and is therefore difficult to reach in snowy winters. Historically, the Rangenhof belongs to Stedtfeld, which is about 3.5 kilometers northeast in the Hörsel valley . There is no public road connection to the Eisenach districts of Stedtfeld, Neuenhof , Hörschel and Göringen , the distance to the outskirts of Eisenach is about 9 km (via the Gerstung district of Clausberg ). The geographic height of the place is 370  m above sea level. NN .

history

The Rangenhof

By Emperor Henry II. The was the monastery of Fulda the wild spell in the Thuringian Gau and Mark Lupenzo (to Großenlupnitz appropriated). The area around the Rangenhof also falls within the boundaries of this area. Around 1155 to 1180, when the neighboring Stedtfeld gained importance with the construction of the first castle, the area was owned by the Fulda monastery. Just five kilometers northwest of the Rangenhof are the Brandenburg ruins , which at that time had its own burgraviate.

The clearing carried out in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the High Middle Ages as part of the so-called state expansion led to the emergence of some isolated farms and small settlements in the vicinity of Stedtfeld, Eisenach and Oberellen , including: Neuenhof, Hütschhof, Frommershof, Dachsberghof, Schnepfenhof, Ramsborn, Deubachshof and the Klause am Rennsteig (Clausberg). The majority of these farms can be found as secular fiefdoms in the so-called "Frankensteiner Sales Letter" from 1330, in which the impoverished Counts of Frankenstein also have to cede large parts of their former possessions to the landed gentry. In Stedtfeld the landgrave ministerial family of the Hofmeister sat. Half of the place, which Heinrich Hovemeister had inherited, went to Hermann von Boyneburgk through his daughter Adelheid in 1420 , who also bought shares from his father-in-law and was enfeoffed by Hersfeld in 1454

"... with the castle and village of Stedtfeld along with the courtyards and desolations Rangen (Rangenhof), Deubach (Hermann von Boyneburgk had redeemed this from Balthasar von Nesselröden ), Neuendorf , Schnepfenthalshof (Schnepfenhof), with all their courts and rights, spiritual and secular, top and bottom, with taverns, drifts, hunts, in utility, honors, freedoms, dignity and justice, they are in wood, fields, fields, meadows, water, pastures, ponds, pits (mines), and with all justice, so the pen (Hersfeld) in the Stedtfeld court and the surrounding villages. "

The current isolated location of the Rangenhof is a result of the street layout that was not changed until the 19th century. A deep ravine over the Kellerberg is considered a section of the Via Regia ; the old road to Gerstungen and into the Säulingswald, which passes here at Rangenhof , was protected by the escort of Brandenburg.

In the 15th century, miners began their search for minable ore deposits. Mining soon became very important for the Rangenhof, only 500 meters to the east, extensive mining facilities were built around 1500. The farmers of the surrounding farms were needed for the food supply and the transport of timber and the resulting ore transports. The mining took place mainly in the area of ​​the Boyneburgker, who owned two manors in Stedtfeld. The Boyneburgers also acquired the adjoining farms in order to lower their operating costs for mining, in this context the Rangenhof is regarded as a foreworks of the Stedtfeld manor. The economic importance of mining ends in the 19th century.

Only in the late 19th century did the construction of a road on the eastern side of the Werra valley near Göringen and Neuenhof begin. Before that, the towns had to take a long detour to get their agricultural products to the Eisenach market. The construction of the street deprives the Rangenhof of its remaining importance as a street station.

After the Second World War , the Stedtfeld manors were expropriated in the course of the land reform and fell to the state of Thuringia. The Rangenhof was particularly disadvantaged due to its remote location near the border and was not given any attention when it came to allocating road construction funds.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ^ Heinrich Hess: The limits of the Mark Lupnitz . In: Communications from the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research . Born in 1905. Thienemannsche Hofbuchhandlung, Gotha 1905, p. 112-118 .
  3. ↑ a b Lehfeldt / Voss architectural and art monuments of Thuringia booklet XXXIX: Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Vol. III. 1. Department Eisenach S. (as reprint ISBN 3-89557-183-0 )
  4. ↑ Lothar Kappherr - Der Stedtfelder mining history and stories in: Heimatblätter. EP report 2. Marburg 1992. ISBN 3-924269-94-7