Saalburg (Saalburg-Ebersdorf)

Saalburg City of Saalburg-Ebersdorf Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	440 m above sea level NN
Residents :	762  (Jan. 1, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 2003
Postal code :	07929
Primaries :	036647, 036640
Bleilochtalsperre and Hotel Kranich

The Saalburg town hall

The Saalburg city church

Saalburg is a district of the city of Saalburg-Ebersdorf in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

geography

Saalburg is located on the eastern bank of the Bleilochtalsperre , the reservoir with the largest capacity in Germany. The city is well connected with the surrounding area via the state road 1095, the federal road 2 and the federal highway 9 . The city hallway has many natural attractions. Geologically, the area belongs to the Southeast Thuringian Slate Mountains . The mean altitude of the city is 575 m above sea level.

traffic

With the lines 610 and 730 of the KomBus transport company , Saalburg has connections to the cities of Schleiz , Bad Lobenstein , Lehesten and Tanna .

history

Saalburg was first mentioned in documents in 1216 and as a town in 1313. To control the Saale crossing of the old trade route from Nuremberg to Leipzig the Lobdeburgers built a castle before 1216. The castle was on the right bank of the Saale, on the site of the later castle. 1913 plunged keep one. Remnants are still there. In 1313 at the latest, Saalburg came into the possession of the bailiffs of Gera , who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross near the village . The city rights probably go back to the Lords of Gera.

Between 1647 and 1666, Saalburg was the seat of the Reuss- Saalburg rulership. On October 8, 1806, the first battle of the Fourth Coalition War between France and Prussia took place on the banks of the Saale . The Saalburg marble factory was founded in 1888 . During the Second World War , prisoners and foreign workers had to toil in the plant.

In 1930 the Schleiz – Saalburg railway was opened by Schleizer Kleinbahn AG. In 1995 the traffic was stopped. In 1932 the Saale was dammed, so that Saalburg became a town on the Bleilochtalsperre reservoir .

On April 13, 1945, the Wehrmacht blew up the Saale bridge to prevent the Allies from advancing. The reconstruction took place from 1963 to 1967.

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

Stone rose near Saalburg - a geological specialty

Today, Saalburg is a state-approved resort .

The SonneMondSterne Festival (SMS for short) has been taking place in Saalburg since 1997, one of the largest open-air festivals for electronic dance music in Europe.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Zacharias Liebhold von Solbergk (1552–1626), town clerk of Silberberg in Silesia and theater poet

• Carl Christoph Eckner (1743–1807), medic
• Fedor Schuchardt (1848–1913), psychiatrist

Other personalities

• Hermann I von Lobdeburg (unknown – 1254), 1225–1254 Bishop of Würzburg, 1216–1225 co-regent in the Saalburg line of the House of Lobdeburg
• Joachim Murat (1767–1815), fought in the Fourth Coalition War on October 8, 1806, to cross the Saale near Saalburg
• Christian Heidecke (1837–1925), architect, co-founder of the Saalburg marble works
• Bodo Ramelow (* 1956) has had a secondary residence in Saalburg since 2016

tourism

Saalburg is the tourist center on the Bleilochtalsperre with passenger ships, water sports, a summer toboggan run, a fairytale forest , a climbing forest , hotels, restaurants and cafes. The place is on the Euregio Egrensis long-distance cycle path , the Saale cycle path and the Eisenach – Budapest long-distance hiking trail .

Attractions

• Church of St. Mary
• Remains of the city wall with the only surviving city gate in the Saale-Orla district
• Bleilochtalsperre
• Reservoir "Bridge of Peace" (240 meters long)
• Stone rose

Web links

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

Wikisource: Topographia Superioris Saxoniae: Salburg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Saalburg-Ebersdorf No. 1/2017
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 , p. 243.
3. ^ Werner Mägdefrau : Thuringian cities and city federations in the Middle Ages. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2002, ISBN 3-936030-34-0 , p. 66.
4. ↑ T. Hecklau: the rule of Saalburg in the interplay of forces between royalty, Lobdeburgers, Ludowingers, Wettins and the bailiffs in the 13th and early 14th centuries, in: Yearbook of the Museum Reichenfels-Hohenleuben 64 (2019), p. 48.
5. ↑ Reinhard Kübrich: Bridges on the Saale cascade blown up 70 years ago. April 11, 2015, accessed on February 4, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Saalburg on the website of the city of Saalburg-Ebersdorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on November 16, 2011  
7. ^ German biography: Liebholdt, Zacharias - German biography. Retrieved February 13, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Peter Hagen: Celebrity growth in Saalburg: Prime Minister Ramelow has acquired bungalow. April 21, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2020 (German). 
9. ^ Saalburg-Ebersdorf. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .