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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ' N , 10 ° 52' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Hildburghausen | |
| Height : | 445 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 58.99 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2735 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 46 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 98667, 98666 (Bieberau) |
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| Area code : | 036874 | |
| License plate : | HBN | |
| Community key : | 16 0 69 042 | |
| Community structure: | 5 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Eisfelder Strasse 11 98667 Schönbrunn |
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| Mayor : | Heiko Schilling (Free Voters Schleusegrund) | |
| Location of the community Schleusegrund in the district of Hildburghausen | ||
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The municipality Schleusegrund is located in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia . It was founded in 1994 and is based in Schönbrunn . It is named after the lock that flows through parts of the community on the southern edge of the Thuringian Forest .
geography
The central village of the municipality is Schönbrunn, which was created in 1950 by merging the villages of Schönau , Gabel , Untersteubrunn and Oberneubrunn and extends over about 3.5 kilometers in the valleys of Schleuse and Neubrunn . The Schönbrunn dam lies above this village . Furthermore, the northeast, higher Gießübel belongs to the community. The Rennsteig runs not far from this village . Steinbach and Langenbach are located west of Schönbrunn in a side valley of the lock. Southwest of Schönbrunn is the valley of the beavers , in which Lichtenau , Engenstein , Biberau , Biberschlag and Tellerhammer form a village unit about 4.5 kilometers in length. Steep mountains rise between the villages, which tower over the valleys by almost 400 meters and are mostly covered with spruce. The north-eastern municipality boundary is also the district boundary to the Ilm district and follows the course of the Rennsteig to Dreiherrenstein . Neighboring communities are Frauenwald , Neustadt am Rennsteig and Großbreitenbach north of the Rennsteig, Masserberg and its districts in the east and south and the city of Schleusingen in the west.
Higher mountains in the municipality are the Kalte Staudenkopf (768 m, on the Schmiedswiesenkopf 784 m), the Schwefelkopf (774 m) and the Schmalegrundskopf (770 m).
Community structure
The districts of the municipality are:
- Biberau (with Lichtenau , Engenstein , Biberschlag and Tellerhammer )
- Pouring evil
- Langenbach
- Schönbrunn (with Schönau , Unterneubrunn , Oberneubrunn , Gabel and Ernstthal )
- Steinbach
The coats of arms of the districts:
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history
The inhospitable forest valleys of the community were not settled until the late Middle Ages. The basis of life was the timber and forestry. The Saxon Landwehr , a medieval border protection system, began near Biberau . The Thuringian Forest glass industry was founded in 1525 with the first glassworks in Langenbach. The glass industry formed the livelihood of the inhabitants for the centuries that followed.
In the districts of Schleusegrund: Biberschlag, Langenbach, Oberneubrunn, Schönau and Steinbach, 13 people got into witch trials from 1612 to 1673 .
Until 1946 the community was divided along the lock. The places east of the river belonged to Saxony-Meiningen and from 1920 to the state of Thuringia , while the villages to the west were part of the Prussian district of Schleusingen .
Incorporations
In 1904 Ernstthal became a district of Untersteubrunn and in 1922 Engenstein a district of Lichtenau. In 1952 Lichtenau, Biberschlag and Tellerhammer were merged into Biberau and Schönau, Unterneubrunn and Oberneubrunn to Schönbrunn, which Gabel also joined in 1969. In addition, the places Steinbach and Langenbach merged to form Steinbach-Langenbach. These three municipalities merged on April 14, 1994 with Gießübel to form today's municipality of Schleusegrund.
Population development
The population of places in the Thuringian Forest has mostly been declining since the 1950s, as is the case in Schleusegrund.
The table shows the development of the population of the individual districts. A (P) stands for formerly Prussian and a (T) for Saxony-Meiningische or Thuringian villages.
| District | 1910 | 1939 | 1975 |
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| Schoenau (P) | 521 | 593 | 2.174 |
| Oberneubrunn (T) | 736 | 763 | |
| Untereubrunn (T) | 773 | 811 | |
| Fork (T) | 81 | 47 | |
| Pouring bucket (T) | 1,210 | 1,267 | 1,051 |
| Beaver strike (T) | 517 | 490 | 912 |
| Lichtenau (T) | 204 | 357 | |
| Engenstein (T) | 98 | ||
| Plate hammer (T) | 65 | 80 | |
| Steinbach (P) | 260 | 325 | 315 |
| Langenbach (P) | 215 | 281 | 200 |
| total | 4,680 | 5,014 | 4,652 |
- 1994: 3,823 inhabitants
- 2000: 3,665 inhabitants
- 2006: 3,314 inhabitants
- 2015: 2,819 inhabitants
politics
Heiko Schilling (FWS) has been mayor since 2012.
Municipal council
The Schleusegrund community council consists of 14 elected members plus the mayor. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , it has been composed as follows:
| Party / list | Seats | +/- |
| FWS | 9 | ± 0 |
| CDU | 4th | - 1 |
| BZH | 1 | + 1 |
For the 2019 local elections, the right-wing extremist Bündnis-Zukunft-Hildburghausen (BZH) entered the local council for the first time .
Culture and sights
museum
There is a spice museum in Schönbrunn, which was created with the support of the former Schönbrunn consumer spice mill.
theatre
- Natural theater Steinbach-Langenbach , Thuringia's largest natural theater with around 3000 seats
Buildings
- In the district of Biberschlag, on the village square, which was completed in 2011, the “Musikantenbrunnen” is an eye-catcher. The core of the original water feature consists of a decommissioned tuba.
- Schönbrunn dam
Historical monuments
- A boulder erected in 1981 on Masserberger Strasse commemorates four victims of the death march from the Römhild “ labor education camp ” .
- In Oberneubrunn, a plaque commemorates the birthplace of the famous Thuringian historian Georg Brückner.
nature
Through the Dachsbachtal you get to the Dachsbachkanzel, the Langertfelsen, the Schröderfelsen and the Nadelöhr. These rock formations are known as Gießübeler Switzerland.
Economy and Transport
Today the economy of the municipality is mainly determined by small businesses and tourism. The glass industry has always been important. By far the largest employer in the region is the Schönbrunn-based spice factory of Fuchs Gewitze GmbH, with more than 800 employees one of the largest spice factories in Europe. In 2006, 751 people worked in companies with over 20 employees in the community. They received an average gross wage of EUR 21,743 per year. The debt was 300,000 euros or 90 euros per inhabitant and the tax revenue was 2.2 million euros or 640 euros per capita. In 2005, 947 holidaymakers visited the community (1975: 12,700 holidaymakers). Schleusegrund is a state-approved resort .
The community is located away from the main traffic routes and can be reached via the state road from Schleusingen to Katzhütte . In Schleusingen there is a connection to the federal highway 73 ( Erfurt - Nuremberg ). District roads lead from Schleusetal via Steinbach to Frauenwald and through Bibertal to Masserberg and Eisfeld .
From 1890 to 1967, narrow-gauge passenger trains (1000 mm) ran through the Schleusetal on the Eisfeld – Schönbrunn railway line. Freight traffic was stopped in 1973.
Personalities
- Hans Greiner IV. (* Around 1550 in Langenbach; † 1609 in Lauscha), founder of the glass industry in Lauscha
- Johann Salomon Hattenbach (1650–1699), doctor and radical pietist
- Georg Brückner (1800–1881), geographer and historian
literature
- Oliver Heyn: The history of the lower Bibertal - from the medieval settlement to the middle of the 19th century (Lichtenau - Biberschlag - Engenstein - Tellerhammer) . Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-939611-50-9 , pp. 144 .
- Ernst Koch: The former Langenbach glassworks near Schleusingen, the mother of the Fehrenbach and Lauscha glassworks (1525–1589). Verlag Brückner & Renner, Meiningen 1908, 72 pp.
- Wolfgang Lösch: Dialect dictionary of Biberschlag in the Thuringian Forest. (approx. 8500 entries) . Nora-Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-935445-70-9 , p. 278 .
Individual references, sources
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ↑ Sources for the districts.
- ↑ Local council election 2019 in Thuringia - final result - District 069 Hildburghausen - community 69042 Schleusegrund. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
- ↑ 2014 municipal council election in Thuringia - final result - district 069 Hildburghausen - community 69042 Schleusegrund. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
- ↑ CDU leaves feathers in runoff elections , insuedthueringen.de of May 6, 2012
- ↑ Water gushes out of the tuba. In: insuedthueringen.de. Retrieved June 4, 2011 .
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945, series Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser, Volume 8: Thüringen. Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , pp. 130f.
- ↑ New Thuringian Illustrated . May / June 2007, No. 5, p. 71
- ↑ TLS
Web links
- Website of the municipality Schleusegrund
- Information on the Gießübel district
- Information on the district of Langenbach
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