Rohr (Thuringia)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 10 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Management Community :	Dolmar salt bridge
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.96 km 2
Residents:	925 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	66 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98530
Area code :	036844
License plate :	SM, MGN
Community key :	16 0 66 058
Address of the municipal administration:	Meininger Str. 24 98530 Rohr
Website :	www.vg-dolmar-salzbruecke.de
Mayor :	Siegmar Kleffel ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Rohr in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Rohr is a municipality in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . The community belongs to the administrative community Dolmar-Salzbrücke .

View from the “Am Stein” lookout point to Rohr and the Dolmar

geography

At the junction of the roads to Suhl , Meiningen , Zella-Mehlis and Ober Maßfeld is about 340 m above sea level. NN the village of Rohr.

Community structure

The Rohr monastery settlement also belongs to the actual village of Rohr , where a vocational training center and the Rohr (Thür) stop are located.

Neighboring communities

In the west behind the Rohrer Berg lies the district town of Meiningen , in the north the community Kühndorf , in the northeast Schwarza , in the east Dillstädt , south the communities Ellingshausen , Einhausen and Belrieth .

history

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Rohr was first mentioned in a document in 815 when a Benedictine monastery was founded . While the monastery only existed for a short time, an imperial court developed in the place , which was repeatedly the residence of German kings. After the surprising death of Emperor Otto II on December 7, 983 in Rome , Willigis , the Archbishop of Mainz , called his widow Theophanu and Adelheid , Otto II's mother, from Italy to Germany. At a Reichstag in Rara (di Rohr) in 984 Heinrich von Bayern (the brawler), the closest male relative of the ruling dynasty, who therefore raised claims to guardianship and regency, handed over the underage three-year-old Otto III , who had already been crowned king . to Theophanu.

A Benedictine convent was built south of the village in 1206, which was closed in the course of the Reformation and became privately owned in 1833.

In the Middle Ages, Rohr was on an important trade route that led from Mainfranken via Mellrichstadt , Jüchsen an der Salzfurt , Einhausen an der Werrafurt , via the Zeller- Leube into the Thuringian Forest . For a long time, the most important branch of business was agriculture, and from the early 20th century also the building trade.

The place originally belonged to the Hennebergischen Amt Schwarza and was between 1500 and 1806 in the Franconian Empire . He came to Sachsen-Naumburg-Zeitz in 1660 , to the Kühndorf office in 1680 , to Kursachsen in 1718 , to Prussia (from 1816 Schleusingen district ) in the province of Saxony .

On April 29th ^July / May 9th 1607 ^greg. A storm in Rohr claims seven lives.

Rohr was 1602 - approx. Affected by witch hunts in 1628 : seven women and one man were caught in witch trials , three women were burned. The first victim in 1605 was Barbara, Wolf Krech's wife.

During the Second World War , around 100 prisoners of war from France as well as women and men from Poland and the Soviet Union had to do forced labor : on the monastery property , in the forest and in the sawmill . Victims of forced labor including their children were buried in the cemetery.

Surname

The settlement has four names in the old documents of the Middle Ages: rara, rora, rore and ror. The Great German Local Register lists seventeen localities with the same name in German-speaking countries. The place name is derived from the reed that still grows in abundance in the river plains today. The reed also appears in the village's coat of arms, alongside the Benedictine cross as a reference to the history of the monastery , as well as the hen, the heraldic animal of the former county of Henneberg .

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 986 1995: 1,032 1996: 1,050 1997: 1,080 1998: 1,085 1999: 1,084

2000: 1,089 2001: 1,077 2002: 1,062 2003: 1,062 2004: 1,046 2005: 1,044

2006: 1,028 2007: 1.008 2008: 992 2009: 990 2010: 986 2011: 972

2012: 979 2013: 978 2014: 975 2015: 980 2016: 960 2017: 951

2018: 946

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Attractions

Hazel Bridge

• The old fortified church Michaeliskirche was built as a monastery church of a Benedictine monastery between 815 and 820. Today's village church with the crypt is the only monumental building in eastern Germany that has largely been preserved from the Carolingian era.
• In the well-preserved historic town center there are half-timbered houses in the Franconian half-timbered style and a local parlor near the church castle.
• Near the train stop is the former Rohr monastery , of which the remains of the former monastery wall and the building of the Johanniskirche have been preserved.
• The stone arch bridge (Haselbrücke) spans the Hasel river (tributary of the Werra ) near the district of Kloster. At around 500 years old, the bridge is said to be one of the oldest stone arch bridges in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district .

economy

The Hotel zu Kloster is located in the Kloster Rohr settlement.

The Rotes Tal industrial park includes the Schleicher car recycling, towing and recovery service Sascha Paes, IHP Stefan Döll pallets / packaging, EZM Profilverarbeitung GmbH, Rohrer Getränkeevertrieb, AiR Abfall ist Rohstoff GmbH and the dog place Character Paws.

Town center made of half-timbered houses

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Sebastian Abesser (1581–1638), Protestant theologian
• Paul König (1867–1933), captain and 1916 in command of the first commercial submarine U-Deutschland .
• Theodor Krech (1877–1932), architect

People connected to the place

• Gottfried Adolf Kinau (1814–1887), was a pastor in Rohr from 1851 to 1861 and an astronomer. A moon crater is named after him.

traffic

Rohr (Thuringia) has a stop on the Neudietendorf – Ritschenhausen railway line with train connections to Erfurt, Schweinfurt and Meiningen. The Meiningen-Nord junction of the federal motorway 71 is two kilometers to the west .

literature

• Gunther Mai: The 'Peace Pilgrimage' in Rohr 1983. On the relationship between the state and the churches in the GDR. In: Stefan Gerber, Werner Greiling, Tobias Kaiser, Klaus Ries (eds.): Between City, State and Nation. Middle class in Germany. Part 2. Göttingen 2014, pp. 695–711.

Web links

Commons : pipe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed history of the site ( Memento from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 149 kB)
• Funeral sermon for the victims of the water flood of 1607 (PDF file; 14.2 MB)

Individual evidence

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. 295 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Rohr 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 , p. 253, (also: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000); Manfred Wilde : The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, pp. 518-522, ISBN 3-412-10602-X (also: Chemnitz, Technical University, habilitation paper, 2002).
3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 256.