Solz (Rippershausen)

Solz Community Rippershausen Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 20 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	343 m above sea level NN
Residents :	200
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	98639
Area code :	03693
church

Solz is a district of Rippershausen in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .

location

The district of Solz is located northwest of Rippershausen in the Vorderen Rhön . The district road 2520 to Rippershausen opens up the district in terms of traffic.

history

The first documentary mention of the village took place from 1159/60. Solz gradually came to the county of Henneberg- Schleusingen from Hesse-Thuringia ownership in the 16th century . In 1521 the Landgraviate of Hessen ceded a quarter of its fiefdom to Henneberg ( Casimir Treaty ).

The place belonged until the division of the county of Henneberg among the Saxon princely houses in 1660 to the Zent Wasungen and was then attached to the office of Maßfeld , whereby the place became part of the duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from 1680 . From 1825 until its dissolution in 1829, the place belonged to the newly organized Meiningen Office . In 1920 the place came to the newly founded state of Thuringia .

In 2012, 200 people lived in the district.

church

A document from the Fulda monastery mentions that land on the Solzer Mark was donated to this monastery. It is assumed that there was a previous church on the site of the current one in earlier times. However, the date of the laying of the cornerstone of the current church is unknown. In its oldest parts, the church is pre-Reformation , as recently discovered wall paintings show, which date from the first half of the 16th century at the latest. Before the Reformation, the church had three altars, two of which were demolished in 1555, according to old church records. The year 1583 is the oldest year that can be found in the church building, it documents the construction of the gallery . The arched gate on the south side dates from 1601. The rebuilding of the church tower in 1630 suggests that extensive alterations were made to the church in the first half of the 17th century. The flat coffered ceiling was probably replaced by a wooden barrel vault in the 18th century , which corresponded to the baroque taste of the time. In 1740 the master craftsman Johann Ludwig Heim came to Solz. From then on, the history of the village and its church was shaped by his family. His son, the famous doctor Ernst Ludwig Heim , is "immortalized" with an inscription on the parish chair of the church. The local history museum Wasungen , in the women's abbey there, houses numerous portraits and a plaster bust of the doctor on loan. The women's monastery itself was founded by the canoness Luise Heim. At the end of the 19th century she donated a Kühn organ to the church and, in 1890, the church tower clock, which is still working today. In 1901, 1953 and 1971 the church tower received a new slate roof. In 1935 the church was renovated inside and out. The bronze bell, the striking bell and the bronze chandelier unfortunately had to be sold to the armaments industry in the 1940s. In the 1970s the organ was moved from the east to the west gallery. In 1988 the building police closed the church temporarily until the danger of collapse could be averted by an emergency renovation. Four years later, in 1992, the Solz church was placed under monument protection. In 1994 the roof structure and roof were completely renewed and the statics of the nave were strengthened. The electrics and interior plastering were renewed in 1995. This was followed by the renewal of the floor, the overhaul of the organ and the renovation of the interior. In 1998 the pulpit was restored and in 2000 the tower was reloaded. Further renovation measures are being planned (renewal of the outer doors and the restoration of the crucifix above the altar). The church belongs to the parish of Unterkatz .

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Personalities

• Johann Ludwig Heim (1741–1819), theologian, mineralogist and geologist, born in Solz
• Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747–1834), doctor, honorary citizen of Berlin, born in Solz

Web links

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

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. 266.
2. ↑ Ulrich Heß: Research on the constitutional and administrative history of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Meiningen. 1680-1829. Volume 3: Authorities and civil servants. 1954, p. 174 f. and 179, (PDF; 4.52 MB).
3. ↑ Church chronicle.
4. ↑ Solz Church on www.kirchenkreis-meiningen.de. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .