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Mihla: View of the sand property, in front of it the former ferry house and the hydropower plant on the Werra (2009)

The sand estate is a former manor in the Mihla district in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The location of the Vorwerk Sandgut was known as the parish Münsterkirchen until the 16th century .

location

The former Vorwerk Sandgut is located at the level of the Mihlaer Werra power station, on the left bank of the Werra in a flood- protected location at the foot of a hill. The majority of the existing buildings were not built until after 1990.

history

The medieval history of settlement in the Werra valley around Mihla was made accessible by the Mihla local researcher and mayor Rainer Lämmerhirt through the analysis of archaeological finds and archive material. The corridor area opposite the historical center of Mihla with the water castle Graues Schloss was the settlement area of ​​the place Münsterkirchen. The settlement, spread out on the southern slope of the hill, was connected to the settlement of Wesse (field name Wesseberg) located about one kilometer to the west and the neighboring village of Scherbda via Hohe Straße . The small settlement of the former Probstei Freitagszella , only two kilometers away, is also closely connected to Münsterkirchen. The existence of a chapel in Münsterkirchen is reported from 1506, the bell of which is said to be in St. Martin's Church in Mihla today . Münsterkirchen was a Fulda fiefdom , parts of the high medieval town of Mihla belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz, which also had a fortified administrative seat and Fronhof in the area of ​​today's Red Castle . The chapel is still mentioned in Fulda Lehnbriefe in 1796 to establish tradition and as a topographical reference point.

The brothers Hermann and Friedrich von Harstall enfeoffed the deserted Münsterkirchen from the Fulda Monastery and revived the site as a sand estate , which was called Vorwerk from 1827. Until the construction of the first bridge over the Werra in 1870, the Vorwerk was connected to Mihla by a ferry . From this the former ferry house - today a ruin in danger of collapsing - has been preserved.

The Mihla hydroelectric power station was built right next to the ferry house. A concrete weir was placed in the river to regulate the water flow. On the western edge of the Münsterkirchener Flur, the route of the Schwebda – Wartha railway line , which went into operation in 1907, was laid down. The sand property owned by the Harstalls was expropriated and nationalized after 1945 during the times of the GDR dictatorship. The Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG Werratal) founded in June 1958 used it to cultivate the fields and pastures in the Werra bend. The construction of a training base and apprentice dormitory began around 1962, the first groups of young people from the Eisenach district were involved in the construction of the building; the inauguration took place on September 1, 1964. The successor to the LPG now runs a country inn there.

After 1990, the community tried to make the northern bridgehead more touristy and had the Mihla open-air swimming pool near the Sandgut modernized.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Lämmerhirt, P. Botzum: Wüstungen in the Hainich area. Mihla 2004; Overview of the settlement genesis of the Werra valley and the Hainich around Mihla.
  2. ^ R. Lämmerhirt: Mihla - from the history of a village in West Thuringia. Mihla 1993.
  3. ^ R. Lämmerhirt: The Harstall family in West Thuringia. (1990) - a family chronicle.
  4. ↑ R. Lämmerhirt: Mihla - from the history of a village in Westthüringen ... .
  5. ↑ Landgasthof Sandgut , Agricultural Company Mihla, accessed on January 31, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 52.3 ″  E