Schleid (Rhön)

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 9 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Wartburg district
Fulfilling municipality :	Geisa
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.72 km 2
Residents:	1019 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36419
Area code :	036967
License plate :	WAK, SLZ
Community key :	16 0 63 068
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	City administration Geisa Marktplatz 27 36419 Geisa
Mayoress :	Manuela Henkel (independent)
Location of the community Schleid in the Wartburg district

View of Schleid

Schleid is a municipality in the Wartburg district in the German state of Thuringia . The fulfilling municipality for Schleid is the city of Geisa .

geography

The municipality Schleid is located in the upper Ulstertal in the Vorderen Rhön . It is also part of the Thuringian Rhön Biosphere Reserve .

Community structure

The districts of the municipality Schleid are:

• Schleid
• Motzlar with
  • Röderkirchhof ,
  • Unterrothhof and
  • Oberrothhof (together 13 inhabitants)
• Crane gaps
• Tremor (53 EW)

Available population figures as of June 30, 2009 have been added in brackets.

The municipality Schleid also includes the originally independent settlement Kohlbachshof - as a result of the forced resettlement of the inhabitants, which was completed in 1972, this place has become deserted , as has the Weidhof , which belongs to Motzlar, and the hamlet of Langwinde .

Neighboring places

The municipality of Schleid borders the districts of Apfelbach , Geismar , Wiesenfeld and Bremen of the city of Geisa in the west and north , followed by the municipality of Gerstengrund and the district of Brunnhartshausen of the municipality of Dermbach and the district of Andenhausen of the city of Kaltennordheim to the east . The Hessian-Thuringian border runs in the south, the neighboring town is the town of Tann (Rhön) in the Fulda district .

mountains

View of the church tower and Bocksberg

In the district of Kranlucken are the mountains Roßberg ( 693.6  m above sea level ), Spielberg ( 488.4  m above sea level ) and Zinkberg ( 423.1  m above sea level ).
The Rockenstuhl ( 528.5  m above sea level ) and the Arnberg ( 440.4  m above sea level ) are included in the Motzlar district .
The community also borders the Bocksberg ( 422.5  m above sea level )

Rivers

The river Ulster with its tributaries Apfelbach and Kohlbach forms the water system .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1186 as Sleitaha . Later mentions are Sleyta (1442) and Schleida . It belonged to the Geisa office of Fulda . In the Middle Ages Schleid was the ecclesiastical center of the Ulster area, even before Geisa. The place was ravaged by famine, plague and acts of war in the 17th century.

Population development

Development of the population:

Year 1823: 1,099 inhabitants, of which: Schleid 254, Motzlar 379, Kranlucken 305, Zitters 70, Oberrothof 22, Unterrothof 19, Langzüge 18, Röderkirchhof 13, Kohlbachshof 12, Hof Rockenstuhl 7.

Year 1874: 1,177 inhabitants Year 1900: 1,168 inhabitants Year 1913: 1,152 inhabitants Year 1995: 1,155 inhabitants Year 2000: 1,174 inhabitants Year 2005: 1,127 inhabitants Year 2010: 1,064 inhabitants Year 2011: 1,028 inhabitants Year 2012: 1,025 inhabitants Year 2013: 1,030 inhabitants Year 2014: 1,007 inhabitants

Year 2015: 1,014 inhabitants Year 2016: 1,015 inhabitants Year 2017: 1,020 inhabitants Year 2018: 1,028 inhabitants

Data source 1823 - 1913: State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values ​​from December 31st

politics

The fulfilling municipality for Schleid is the city of Geisa .

Municipal council

Schleid's municipal council consists of 12 councilors.

• CDU 12 seats

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Manuela Henkel was elected on May 31, 2015.

Culture

Regular events

The snow festival is celebrated every year. The “Maria Schnee Festival” in Schleid was first celebrated on August 5th, 1626 - in the middle of the Thirty Years' War - on the basis of a pledge . It is probably the most famous and popular “betrothed day” of the former Fulda monastery . The plague raged terribly in Geisaer Land in 1626 as a result of troops moving through, a bad harvest in the previous year, hunger and the heat. According to the records of the Schleider pastor Johannes Gutwein, 430 people died in Schleid and Kranlucken, which at that time still belonged to the Schleid parish, from May to August, a third of the population. When the need was great, Pastor Gutwein advised a solemn pledge to the Mother of God, the patroness of the parish church. The festival of Maria Schnee on August 5th, the parish festival of the largest Roman Church of St. Mary, Santa Maria Maggiore , was chosen .

The vow of the Schleider and the Kranluckener was laid down in the “Snow Festival Letter”, which is still read every year on the Sunday before the festival in the service. The six points of the letter state that the feast of Maria Schnee is to be celebrated on August 5th forever.

Prince Abbot Bernhard Schenk von Schweinsberg approved this pledge on May 16, 1627 and stipulated that the named localities “should not be subject to any complaints or court proceedings” on that day. As can be seen from Pastor Gutwein's notes, Heaven's help after the pledge was evident: the plague subsided noticeably and died out completely at the end of the year. When the “Black Death” hit the village of Ketten in the following year , the festival of the old plague patron Sebastian was “engaged” there on January 21st. Similar engagements were made in the other villages of the Ulstertal, following the Schleider model. But no other has achieved a reputation like the Schleider Snow Festival.

Traditionally, the snow festival starts the day before in Schleid, Kranlucken and Motzlar at 1 p.m. The engagement stipulates that from then on all work in and outside the home has to rest. The feast day is rung at 8 p.m. with the church bells in the three locations.

The memory of Schleid's engagement is not least kept alive by Schleid's Snow Festival song, which is played every year in the parish church (here the 1st stanza):

When, in the old days of suffering,
great hardship surrounded us
and death
went through all the streets with a thousand plagues ,
you graciously stood by us
on the people's cry for help:
Holy Mother Mary of the Snow,
heal us wounds and woes.

(Text and melody: Ludwig Nüdling , 1874–1947)

At the beginning of every September, the Schleider fair takes place on the sports field.

In addition, a musical was performed in Schleid every two years .

Sightseeing and tourism

Schleid parish church

Village church, around 1910

• The castle ruins and chapel on the Rockenstuhl near Motzlar. Rockenstuhl Castle was already the seat of a Franconian count with the name Roggo in 783 , who had to administer the area known as Tullifeld . The high medieval Rockenstuhl castle was first mentioned in 1185 and served as a protective castle and official seat of the Fulda bishops for four centuries. The castle complex was demolished from 1699, with the exception of small remains, and the official seat was moved to Geisa.

• The baroque parish church Maria Schnee , which was built according to the design of the Italian court architect Andrea Gallasini between 1743 and 1746 under the master builder Gallus Diemal. It is a successor to at least two previous churches, one attested as early as 1327, a second built around 1500. In the tower, which has been partially preserved from this period, is the former choir, which is now used as a sacristy, on the lowest floor.

• Wayside shrine in the village of Kranlucken - The wayside shrine cleared from Kohlbachshof in 1972 was re-erected in 1987 at Kranlucken at the crossroads to Motzlar and Märles . The original location was until 1912 at Hof Hochrain, part of Gerstengrund . The baroque picture stone, mounted on a slender stone column, has a small wrought-iron cross on the top. The wayside shrine shows the Holy Trinity on the east side, the Holy Family on the west side, and Mary with the child and John of Nepomuk on the narrow sides .

The following cycle paths lead through the municipality :

• The Hessen Railway Cycle Route leads from Hanau on former railway lines for approx. 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön and ends in Bad Hersfeld .
• The Ulstertal cycle path as part of the Rhön cycle path . This has a total length of 180 km and leads from Bad Salzungen to Hammelburg , through all three federal states of the Rhön : Bavaria , Hesse and Thuringia .

Historical personalities

• Eugen Büchel (1874–1954), Jesuit, missionary, linguist and ethnologist
• Ludwig Nüdling (1874–1947), Catholic priest and local poet

literature

• Adelbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön. 3. Edition. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 .
• Bruno Leister: On the history of the Kohlbachhof in the Geisa office . Resch-Druck, Meiningen 1998.

Web links

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

• Information from the city of Geisa
• Schleid in the Rhön Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Information .. In: District Office Wartburgkreis (Hrsg.): Official Gazette of the Wartburgkreis from 10 August 2010 . Bad Salzungen 2010, p. 14 .
3. ↑ TA border hike: Pastor Vogt on life at borders . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , August 17, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2012
4. ↑ Wolfgang Christmann / Bruno Leister The hamlet of long winds - In: For your own safety? History of the looped courtyards and their residents in the Geisaer Amt, Burghaun and Meiningen 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-034850-1 . P. 223 ff.
5. ^ Thuringian Land Survey Office Wartburgkreis and District Free City Eisenach , Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-86140-250-5
6. ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office TK25 - sheet 5225 Geisa , TK25 - sheet 5226 Stadtlengsfeld , TK25 - sheet 5325 Spahl and TK25 - sheet 5326 Tann (Rhön)
7. ↑ History Schleids , Rhoen lexicon called on June 4, 2019
8. ↑ City council election 2019 in Thuringia - preliminary result. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 4, 2019 . 
9. ↑ http://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wjahr=0000&habenErg=GEM&wknr=063&gemnr=63068
10. ^ Adelbert Schröder: The Office Rockenstuhl - In: Land on the street, Leipzig 1989. ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 . Pp. 17-22
11. ↑ Bruno Leister On the history of the Kohlbachhof in the Geisa office . Meiningen 1998 p. 11f.