Rathsfeld
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Rathsfeld
Community Kyffhäuserland
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '43 " N , 11 ° 4' 30" E
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| Height : | 379 m above sea level NN | |
| Postal code : | 06567 | |
| Area code : | 034671 | |
Location of Rathsfeld in Thuringia |
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Rathsfeld belongs to the Steinthaleben district of the Kyffhäuserland community in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .
location
Rathsfeld is located about 5 kilometers north of the city of Bad Frankenhausen on a cleared plateau of the Kyffhäuser Mountains . The federal road 85 leads past Rathsfeld, the state road 2292 connects the town about 4 kilometers west of the main town Steinthaleben with Rathsfeld.
history
Archaeological finds from the Rathsfeld corridor indicate a first settlement period in the pre-Roman Iron Age, an important old road led over the heights of the Kyffhäuser Mountains. The original name of the clearing settlement in the castle district of the Reichsburg Kyffhausen is unknown. On February 25, 1268, the Rathsfeld deserted area was given away to the Walkenried monastery by Count Friedrich von Beichlingen .
The Beichlinger counts were as Viscount of Reichsburg also administrator of the royal forest district on the Kyffhäuser that occupied the plateau of the mountain. In 1341 Count Friedrich von Beichlingen announced that he had sold half of Rathsfeld to Count von Schwarzburg. The Counts of Schwarzburg used the permanent weakness of their rivals to gain influence in the northern Thuringian region as well. The result was the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen dominion .
The name "Rathsfeld" suggests a relationship with the nearby town of Frankenhausen , the town may have acquired usage rights for the pastures and fields. The frequent lack of water is given as the reason for the abandonment of the settlement. A farmyard was built by the monastery on the Rathsfeld. After the Reformation this fell into the possession of the Schwarzburg counts. The buildings were abandoned after the Peasants' War and were used by the counts to build a hunting lodge. The hunting lodge Rathsfeld offered plenty of opportunity for " Boar Hunt ", the neighboring villages had to provide drivers for wild boar hunting in the 19th century.
The winding Kyffhäuserchaussee between Frankenhausen and Kelbra was built between 1839 and 1842; it replaces an old road that was important in prehistoric times, which is still recognizable with numerous hollow paths in the area and is named as a salt road (via salaris) in medieval documents.
A building complex was built between 1936 and 1939 as a youth camp for the Hitler Youth . After the Second World War , the counts' large estates were expropriated. The main buildings were used as a forestry office until 1952. The infrastructure of the youth camp has been rededicated to the location of the pioneer camp " Thomas Müntzer " since the 1950s , next to which a vacation spot for the Erfurt industrial company VEB Optima Erfurt and the company vocational school for forest workers in the Erfurt district were created under the auspices of the former State Forestry Company (StFB) Sangerhausen. After 1990 it became known that the facilities of the Rathsfeld should be used as an internment camp for opposition members in the event of a "voltage case" .
After the fall of the Wall, the Oldisleben Forestry Office in Thuringia took over the building complex. The Rathsfeld youth forest home was opened on November 15, 1991.
Rathsfeld came to Kyffhäuserland on December 31, 2012 with Steinthaleben.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Max Prell: The Salzweg in Kyffhäuser - a forerunner of today's Kyffhäuserstraße from Frankenhausen to Kelbra . In: Kreisheimatmuseum Bad Brankenhausen (Hrsg.): Contributions to the Kyffhäuser landscape . No. 6 . Bad Frankenhausen 1980, p. 59-71 .
- ^ Dolle, Josef (arrangement): Document book of the Walkenried monastery. Volume 1. From the beginnings to 1300. Hanover, 2002, ISBN 3-7752-6010-2 .
- ↑ Liselotte Pflaumenbaum: Relationships between man and forest in the Kyffhäuser, a contribution to the history of the forest until 1800 . In: Kreisheimatmuseum Bad Brankenhausen (Hrsg.): Contributions to the Kyffhäuser landscape . No. 6 . Bad Frankenhausen 1980, p. 27-28 .
- ↑ Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure palaces of the 17th and 18th centuries in Thuringia. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , p. 360/361
- ^ Rathsfeld Youth Forest Home. Landesforstverwaltung Thuringia, 2012, accessed on June 16, 2012 .
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012