Schaala

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Schaala
City of Rudolstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 55 "  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 35"  E
Height : 242 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 07407
Area code : 03672
Village church
Village church

Schaala is a district of the city of Rudolstadt in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .

geography

Schaala is located west of Rudolstadt, which is getting closer and closer to the village. Surrounded to the right and left by wooded mountains, the place is notched in a fertile and climatically favorable valley of the Schaalbach. This location was a traffic problem for a long time, as state road 1048 squeezed through the town, its neighboring towns and through the narrow passages.

history

The first documentary mention of the village of Schaala was archived in 1071. In the 14th century the lords of Schaala were mentioned, who probably built the fortified church with the population. The tower still shows a defensive character.

The local farmers gradually lost their land for the settlement of the city. The best arable land was lost to residential buildings, barracks and industrial sites.

Until 1918 the place belonged to the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

The Voigt family had a porcelain factory in the village until 1925 . It was located on the site of an old noble residence that fell to the Vitzthum family in the 15th century . After 1792 GH Macheleidt - a Thuringian manufacturer and re-inventor of porcelain - built an earthenware factory here. Its production stopped in 1805 and porcelain has been made here since 1842. In 1844 the factory had 31 employees, 1907 - 90, 1920 - 45. During the Second World War, prisoners were quartered in the factory; one of them was the future president of France François Mitterrand . He managed to escape on March 5, 1941. In 1996 a memorial plaque was placed on the building for him. After the war, the former factory was inhabited by the Soviet officers. The building was finally abandoned in 1998.

traffic

To get north from the Saalebogen near Rudolstadt, one of the paths was via the Kerbtalllage from Schaala up to Schönefeld near Groschwitz . However, this favorable location created by nature has always been a problem of transport policy. From 2007 to 2009, the provincial road 1048 was built to bypass the so-called bottleneck Schaala for 2.06 km with one-way lanes over a bridge and through the Pörzberg tunnel. With this measure, the aim is to enable road users from the Saale valley and beyond better access to the federal highway 71 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 246.
  2. Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 218-219.
  3. Irmgard Gasda: The Voigt porcelain factory in Schaala. In: Rudolstädter Heimathefte. Vol. 53, Issue 9/10, 2007, ISSN  0485-5884 , pp. 236-243.
  4. L1048 New building bypass Schaala on the website of the Free State of Thuringia. Query on October 8, 2011
  5. ^ Schaala on the website of the city of Rudolstadt.Retrieved on October 8, 2011

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