Ritschenhausen

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Management Community :	Dolmar salt bridge
Height :	310 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.45 km 2
Residents:	328 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98617
Area code :	036949
License plate :	SM, MGN
Community key :	16 0 66 057
LOCODE :	DE RSH
Association administration address:	Zella-Meininger Str. 6 ; 98547 Schwarza
Website :	www.vg-dolmar-salzbruecke.de
Mayor :	Felix Jacob Winkel
Location of the municipality of Ritschenhausen in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Ritschenhausen is a municipality of the Dolmar-Salzbrücke administrative community in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia with around 300 residents.

geography

Ritschenhausen is located in a hilly forest landscape about eight kilometers south of Meiningen in the Jüchse valley between Eichelberg in the east and Zehnerberg in the west.

Neighboring places are Untermaßfeld and Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal in the north, Einhausen and Neubrunn in the east, Wölfershausen in the south and Grabfeld in the west.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 906. The name of the place is derived from the female name Ruothswinda. Initially, Ritschenhausen was owned by the Fulda monastery , from 1411 until the end of the Henneberg counts, the place belonged to their property. Between 1500 and 1806 the village was in the Franconian Empire . Since 1680 the place belonged to Sachsen-Meiningen ( Amt Maßfeld ).

Ritschenhausen was affected by the persecution of witches from 1658 to 1667 : three women and a man got into witch trials and were executed. The first victim was Margaretha, Georg Seifert's widow.

In 1817 the dialect local poet Paulus Motz was born in Ritschenhausen .

In 1874, Ritschenhausen received a train station on the (Bavarian) railway line Schweinfurt – Meiningen . The current station building was built shortly after the railway line opened. With the completion of the (Prussian) Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway in 1884, Ritschenhausen became an important border station between the Bavarian and Prussian state railways .

In 2006 Ritschenhausen celebrated its 1100th anniversary.

traffic

Ritschenhausen is on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line (KBS 815) and the Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway line (KBS 570).

church

The church tower of the fortified churchyard shows defensive possibilities on all sides. The pyramid-shaped top of the church tower was built in 1594. The nave of the current church was added in 1769. The parish of Ritschenhausen also included the Henneberg castle chapel and the towns of Bibra, Ober Maßfeld, Sülzfeld and Wölfershausen. The local rectory, a half-timbered building, was also a tavern from 1499 to 1768, in which the pastor also held the office of innkeeper.

Currently, three hard cast iron bells are ringing in the church tower on strongly cranked yokes with counterweight clappers. They were cast in Morgenröthe diamond wreath by Schilling & Lattermann and sound in the notes as ′ c ′ es ″.

Partnerships

There has been a partnership with Rütschenhausen in the Schweinfurt district since the fall of the Berlin Wall .

Aerial photo July 2005
Former Bavarian-Prussian border station
Village view
Former mill
The rectory
Ritschenhausen Church

Paulus Motz

Paulus Motz , a German dialect poet born in Ritschenhausen in 1817, wrote the following about his place of birth, inspired by the imposing construction of the Ritschenhausen train station:

After word - I'll bet ten thousand thalers! -
Ons Duerf more ummer meä more central,
Onn would be on Enn enn Manninger Lahnd
Noch Houptschtahd, 's eat schu zont
Enn whole döütsche realm, it färn
The very highest döütsche lord:
Ons Crown Prince Bismarck ah -
Through Retschehause zont - Hurray! -
Gatt Achting nähr - then honestly
Manning still has to go wrong,
ban it over time so would hate
Off Postpaket - on letter - Address:
(Bärr thinks it's Schpahs, Bär thinks it's Flause ?!)
Enn Manninge at Retschehause! "

Then - I'll bet 10,000 thalers! -
Our village is still more and more central,
And in the end
it is still the capital in Meininger Land , it is already known
throughout the German Empire, the
highest German gentlemen are driving :
Our Crown Prince Bismarck as well -
Through Ritschenhausen now - Hurray! -
Just
watch out - because Meiningen must surely have to hide away,
If it gets called that over time
On the postal package - and letter address:
(who thinks it's fun, who thinks it's nonsense ?!)
In Meiningen near Ritschenhausen !

Even today, the East Franconian Henneberg dialect is still predominantly spoken in Ritschenhausen .

Individual evidence

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

↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 292 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Ritschenhausen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244, (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).

↑ Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 210.

^ Entry on the churchyard fortifications in Ritschenhausen in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved April 23, 2020.

^ The church on www.kirchenkreis-meiningen.de. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Topographia Franconiae: Ritschenhausen - Sources and full texts

Ritschenhausen on the website of the VG Dolmar salt bridge. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 292 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Ritschenhausen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244, (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).

[3] Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 210.