Rottenbach (Königsee)

Rottenbach City of Koenigsee
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	280 m above sea level NN
Area :	52.26 km²
Residents :	1848  (December 31, 2011)
Population density :	35 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 2012
Postal code :	07426
Area code :	036739
Location of Rottenbach in Thuringia

Rottenbach is part of the town of Königsee in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district ( Thuringia ).

geography

Rottenbach is about 300 meters above sea level in the Rinnetal at the tributary of the Rottenbach to Königseer Rinne . To the south the landscape rises to about 400 meters and then drops steeply into the Schwarzatal . The plateau between the Rinnetal in the north and the Schwarzatal in the south is unforested and used for agriculture. To the north of Rottenbach is the Ilm-Saale-Platte , which is predominantly forested, with elevations up to 500 meters high. From a geological point of view, Rottenbach is located at the transition from the Ilm-Saale-Platte in the north ( Muschelkalk ) to the Thuringian Slate Mountains in the south ( slate ).

history

Rottenbach was first mentioned in 1253 in a document from the Paulinzella monastery . The town was divided into Oberrottenbach and Unterrottenbach in 1411. Oberrottenbach was the western part of the town and belonged to the Paulinzella monastery (later the Königsee department ), Unterrottenbach was the eastern part of the town and belonged to the Blankenburg department , later to the Rudolstadt department . The two places were only reunited in 1908. They belonged to the sovereignty of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt until 1920 , then to Thuringia .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Storchsdorf was incorporated.

The municipality of Rottenbach was organized from 1994 to 2012

The unitary community Rottenbach was formed in 1994. The following places belonged to it:

District	population	First documentary mention
Rottenbach	688	1071
Hengelbach	80	1106
Leutnitz	163	1411
Milbitz	460	1196-1210
Paulinzella	120	1106
Quittelsdorf	220	1275
Solsdorf	273	0842-856
Stork village	60	1380
Thälendorf	140	1227

On December 31, 2012, the Rottenbach community merged with the city of Königsee to form the new city of Königsee-Rottenbach. This renamed itself on January 1st, 2019 to "Königsee".

politics

mayor

The last full-time mayor, Volker Stein, was elected on June 27, 2004 and re-elected on June 6, 2010 (he was honorary mayor from April 27, 2003 to June 2004). On December 30, 2012, his office ended due to the merger of the municipality with Königsee. In the run-off election for the new mayor on April 28, 2013, Volker Stein received 53.80% of the valid votes and was then mayor of the municipality made up of Rottenbach and Königsee for one term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 20, 1995 by the Thuringian State Administration Office.

Blazon : “Quartered; Field 1: in silver a blue, diagonally right wavy bar, field 2: in green a silver, diagonally left wavy bar; Field 3: in blue a golden column capital with a shield, which is covered with two further shields, field 4: in silver a blue mill wheel. "

The coat of arms was designed by Manfred Fischer from Goßwitz .

Culture and sights

The Paulinzella monastery ruins , which are one of the most valuable monuments of Romanesque architecture in Germany, and the museum on monastery, forest and hunting history in the Paulinzella hunting lodge are among the special sights of the community .

The St. Jacobus Church in Rottenbach houses a Johann Friedrich Schulze organ from 1850. The altar from 1498 comes from the workshop of Valentin Lendenstreich from Saalfeld, a student of Tilman Riemenschneider, and reflects medieval life in Rottenbach.

More Schulze organs can be found in the municipality

• in the St. Wenzel Church in Quittelsdorf (by the Milbitzer organ builder Johann Andreas Schulze, a two-manual organ with 22 registers, a valuable late baroque work)
• in the St. Nikolaus Church in Milbitz (built by the Milbitz-based organ builder Daniel Schulze, two-storey in the middle and again divided into five sections according to height)
• in the Thälendorf church, probably built by Johann Daniel Schulze from Milbitz in 1752

There are other Schulze organs in the immediate vicinity: namely in Allendorf, Königsee and Horba .

Memorials

Since 1985 a stele on Bechstedter Weg has been commemorating the prisoners on a death march from the subcamp Ohrdruf SIII of the Buchenwald concentration camp , who were driven through the village in April 1945.

economy

In Rottenbach, on the one hand, agriculture and forestry are important and, on the other hand, there is an industrial park west of the town on federal highway 88 , where various larger companies have settled. Furthermore, the tourist development is of great importance. In addition to a 125 m² outdoor pool, there is an extensive, well-marked network of hiking trails. The Rinnetal-Radweg, which connects to the Saale- and Ilmtal-Radweg , runs through the municipality . The most important attraction is the Paulinzella monastery ruin, which attracts a large number of visitors every year.

traffic

Entrance building of the Rottenbach train station

In Rottenbach, the Stadtilm country road , which runs through the Rottenbachtal, meets the federal highway 88 (running in the Rinnetal), which runs from Ilmenau in the west to Rudolstadt in the east.

Rottenbach is still a railway junction today. The first railway line that reached the place was the line from Arnstadt to Saalfeld in 1895. It is served by the Erfurt Railway , whose regional trains run every hour from Erfurt to Saalfeld. In Rottenbach, branching off from this line, another railway line was built in 1899 to Königsee , seven kilometers to the west . This line was closed on August 1, 1966. The last railway line was the Schwarzatalbahn , which was built in 1900. This line runs from Rottenbach to Katzhütte and is also used every hour today. Rottenbach is thus also a transfer point for passengers to and from the Oberweißbacher Bergbahn .

Personalities

• Theodor Muther (1826–1878), lawyer
• Otto Langguth (1892–1944), Social Democrat from Milbitz who was executed in Brandenburg-Görden
• Kurt Bachor (1916–1990), from East Prussia, resided in Paulinzella after 1945 as a forester and writer
• Elvira Heide (* 1937), the only honorary pastor in Thuringia, has shaped church life in the two districts of Thälendorf and Solsdorf since the 1st Advent in 1992 (ordination 1993). The Rottenbach community granted her honorary citizenship on August 10, 2007 on the occasion of her 70th birthday. On March 18, 2008 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia.

regional customs

Straw bear from Milbitz near Rottenbach

Every year on December 27th, the straw bear roams the Milbitz district.

Customs performers are the youth and homeland association Milbitz eV.

literature

• Karlheinz Schönheid: Quittelsdorf Thuringia. Local history . Heimatverein Quittelsdorf eV, Quittelsdorf 1992, p. 64 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures according to the Rottenbach community website, accessed on February 14, 2011
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , pp. 240, 118, 164, 181, 217, 226, 266, 276, 283.
3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012
4. ↑ Official Journal 07/2007 of the Rottenbach community of July 27, 2007 ( Memento of the original of May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Rottenbach (Thuringia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the former Rottenbach community
• Link catalog on Rottenbach at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )