Jumping (Bad Salzungen)

Leap City of Bad Salzungen Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 8 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 6 ″ E
Height :	270 m above sea level NN
Residents :	130 (Jun 30, 2009)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Incorporated into:	Frauensee
Postal code :	36460
Area code :	036963
	Jump in the northwest of the city area
	In the local situation (2012)

Springen is a district of the city of Bad Salzungen in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

location

The state road 1022 connects the Springen district, which is surrounded by forest and is located in a valley between the Gertenberg in the northwest and the Springer Höhe in the southeast, with the core community of Frauensee. During the GDR era, the village was near the German-German border , which is now the border between the federal states of Thuringia and Hesse . The geographic height of the place is 270 m above sea level. NN .

history

Jumping was first mentioned in a document on December 17, 1330.

In search of potash deposits, test drillings were carried out in the area of Springen and the neighboring towns at the beginning of the 20th century, followed by shafts I (west of Springen), II and III (south of Springen) and IV and V (near Möllersgrund ) of the union Heiligenroda (later Wintershall AG) built. A potash plant was built at shafts II and III, to which some of the potash salts extracted from the surrounding shafts were brought by small cable car routes. For the removal of the potassium salt which was the factory jumping Kaliseilbahn jumping-Dorndorf the loading station Dorndorf built and put into operation 1913th The appearance of the village changed through mining, industrial buildings and miners' houses were built. During the Second World War, there was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Springen, where prisoners of war had to work in the mine. A memorial stone is dedicated to the victims of forced labor in Springen today. With the political change in the GDR , potash mining in the Thuringian part of the Werra potash district ended in 1990 , the potash shafts around Springen were shut down and most of the surface facilities demolished; the population decreased.

Springen belonged to the Frauensee community until September 24, 1961 , after which it became an independent community. On January 1, 1974, Springen was incorporated back into Frauensee. As of June 30, 2009, 130 people lived in the village. The community of Frauensee was again incorporated into Bad Salzungen on July 6, 2018.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 270

[TK10-2-1] Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.

[2] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 270