Friedrichroda
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Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ' N , 10 ° 34' E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Gotha | |
| Height : | 430 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 36.88 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 7195 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 195 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 99894 | |
| Area code : | 03623 | |
| License plate : | GTH | |
| Community key : | 16 0 67 019 | |
| LOCODE : | DE FDR | |
| City structure: | 3 districts | |
City administration address : |
Gartenstrasse 9 99894 Friedrichroda |
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| Mayor : | Thomas Klöppel ( independent , for SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Friedrichroda in the Gotha district | ||
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Friedrichroda is a small town in the Gotha district . The city is one of three state-approved climatic health resorts in Thuringia . In today's area of the city of Friedrichroda (together with the towns of Ernstroda and Finsterbergen, which were incorporated on December 1, 2007 ), 7,392 inhabitants lived on December 31, 2012.
Geography and city structure
In addition to the city center, Friedrichroda includes the districts of Cumbach , Ernstroda and Finsterbergen as well as Reinhardsbrunn Castle with its outbuildings.
Friedrichroda is located in a small side valley in the north-western Thuringian Forest , which was formed by the reed water . In the south rise the Körnberg , the Gottlob , the Burgberg ; the Wolfsstieg , the Gänsekuppe and the Abtsberg adjoin them to the west . To the north of the city are the Klosterberg , Reinhardsberg and Kiefernkopf . The Dachsberg , Querberg and Ringberg enclose the place in the east. The landmarks also include the prominent elevations on the Rennsteig - Heuberg, Spießberg and Regenberg. Between the mountains one encounters the notched valleys Ungeheurer Grund , Kesselgraben and Kühles Tal . The Cumbach ponds have existed since the Middle Ages, the fish ponds managed by the Reinhardsbrunn fishing cooperative have a total area of around 26 hectares. In addition to their economic importance (carp rearing), they are an important wetland habitat and migration area for migratory birds.
history
With the construction of the Schauenburg by Ludwig with the Barte around 1044, today's Friedrichroda was founded. His son, Ludwig the Springer , built the Wartburg near Eisenach and founded the Reinhardsbrunn Monastery in 1085, which was an intellectual and cultural center of Thuringia for many years. The bailiwicks of the Reinhardsbrunn Monastery, the Hersfeld Monastery and other monasteries were of great importance for the development of the Ludowingian rule . The house monastery was not only sponsored by the landgrave, but also by other noble families. Therefore, the monastery was able to set up several branches such as in Zscheiplitz , in the provost office Zella St. Blasii , in the provost office Dietenborn , in Bonnrode and Oberellen . The mother monastery set up the provost. Landgravine Jutta was a special benefactress of the monastery community .
First mention
The first documentary mention was made in 1114 as Friderichesrot . The place was in the center of the regional development of the Thuringian Landgraves, for this purpose new settlers were attracted from the overpopulated villages of Central Thuringia and asked to found new farms.
Reinhardsbrunn Monastery
After the Ludowingers became extinct, the Reinhardsbrunn Monastery grew in importance for the place. The monks promoted agriculture and had numerous fish ponds built. In an ordinance of the monastery, the Friedrichrodaers were forbidden to keep geese; the meadows in question by the streams were needed as bleach, since the monastery was also active in the textile business. The manufacture of thread and linen fabrics was important in the village, in 1546 there were 43 thread dealers.
Development of the place since the Middle Ages
Friedrichroda was important as a road station due to its location on an important pass road over the Thuringian Forest; pre-tensioning services were required for the steep ascent to the Rennsteig . With the increasing volume of transport, many citizens therefore chose the carter's life as their livelihood. The first hammer mills and mills were built on the source streams south of the village . These were part of a complex mining landscape on the northern edge of the mountains. During the Peasants' War , the Reinhardsbrunn Monastery was stormed and plundered by rebellious farmers and day laborers from the surrounding areas, the monks fled. The monastery was secularized and became the property of the state . The former monastery locations were combined in the Reinhardsbrunn office . Friedrichroda received market rights in 1595 and town rights in 1597 . There was evidence of a municipal council that had no jurisdiction since 1605. The place was badly hit and plundered during the Thirty Years War in 1634 .
City hall and half of the buildings fell victim to a large fire. However, the place recovered quickly from this event. In addition to forest use, weaving, thread trade, dyeing and bleaching, iron mining was carried out in the mining town . Copper mining experienced its first heyday in the 15th century, around 100 miners found an income. During the search for other ores and rocks, the Marienglashöhle was discovered in 1784 . Commercial mining ceased around 1840. A show mine was founded in 1967/68.
19th century
At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, one of the most important sources of income was yarn bleaching and weaving . In 1813, 240 of the 272 dwellings had bleaching places. Because of the risk of contamination of the bleaches by ducks, chickens and geese, keeping poultry was prohibited by ordinance in 1521. During the retreat of the defeated French army in the autumn of 1813, Lützower hunters and Russian cavalry known as Cossacks marched through the town on the fringes of the mountains , in order to prevent the reorganization of the French units, which were in random flight, through constant attacks. There were many individual battles, the dead were mostly in the French graves marked mass graves buried.
In 1807 and 1836, large fires again caused numerous damage and homeless people. In the 19th century Friedrichroda was also by the neighboring Schnepfenthal resulting Salzmannschule known. The pupils referred to as pupils, who also included some princes and aristocrats, liked to visit Friedrichroda on their excursions and in their free time. The Zöglingsweg circular hiking trail between Waltershausen, Friedrichroda and Schnepfenthal was recently created as a reminder .
In 1827 the Reinhardsbrunn monastery was redesigned by the Gotha dukes as a country palace with a park in the English style. In 1828, Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann from Friedrichroda built a mouth-blowing instrument at the age of 13. The instrument was a cube-shaped box with blow holes, in which reeds were built, and thus resembled the harmonica . A little later, under the guidance of his father, he built the first terpodion with a tongue register. He and his father are the inventors of this instrument.
In 1837 the Gotha bookseller Friedrich Christoph Perthes came to Friedrichroda as the first spa guest to recover from the consequences of a serious illness. In 1841 he became an honorary citizen of Friedrichroda. Friedrichroda only got its real reputation as a climatic health resort when the doctor Ferdinand Keil settled down in 1844 and drew the attention of other medical professionals to the place. In 1852 there were already 333 people looking for relaxation, in 1892 there were 9381. Today, numerous buildings dating from the Wilhelminian era, built as spa pensions and hotels, shape the cityscape.
The railway line to Fröttstädt was built in 1876 and the line to Georgenthal , which was closed in 1947, was built in 1896 . Since 1929 the city has been a station of the electric Thuringian Forest Railway Gotha – Bad Tabarz.
At Whitsun 1890, the influential General German Teachers' Association was founded in Friedrichroda, which is important for the women's movement . The founding members include Marie Loeper-Housselle , Helene Lange and Auguste Schmidt .
20th century
In the course of industrialization, factories for furniture, flashlights, batteries and plastic products were created. Up-and-coming tourism attracted around 15,000 guests a year before the First World War .
In 1918, the group of employees and friends around the Protestant cultural magazine Die Christliche Welt under the direction of the Marburg theology professor Martin Rade set up a club house in one of the typical local villas on Schreibersweg (No. 6) , which was used as a place for regular larger get-togethers and as a guesthouse until the thirties Years existed. Today the house, which has now been structurally altered, is used for private living.
In 1933 the Friedrichroda Hospital was renamed "Max Küstner Hospital and Recreation House" after the honored mayor (term of office 1904–1919). Before the First World War, Max Küstner took care of the construction of the municipal hospital and did a lot for hygiene in the area with water supply, sewerage, sewage treatment and compulsory toilets for every house . This also ended the typhus endemics that otherwise occur twice a year.
Bettina Brenner had also been running a Jewish hostel on Schreibersweg since 1931 , which was the target of anti-Semitic attacks during the November pogrom in 1938 . Since 1939, over one hundred men and women from the countries occupied by Germany had to do forced labor in hotels, pensions, in the hospital and in the Eka furniture factory . Between 1942 and 1943, the residents of the “Judenhaus” on Alexandrinenstrasse were deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. A memorial in the city park has been commemorating the victims of fascism since 1949 . The communist Käte Duncker lived in Friedrichroda for some time, and a memorial stone was dedicated to her in the park.
On February 24, 1944, a downed heavy, four-engined US bomber of the Liberator type crashed on the Körnberg (Salzschlag).
→ Main article: Air raid on Friedrichroda
On February 6, 1945, Friedrichroda suffered an American air raid with the dropping of "120,500 pounds of bombs and 10 leaflet units". 135 dead (including 29 children), 74 totally destroyed and 350 damaged houses were the result. The victims were buried in a communal grave in the cemetery, which was given a memorial by Günter Reichert in 1989. Friedrichroda was a hospital town, there was no air defense or adequate shelters. During the occupation by the US Army on 7./8. In April 1945 the place was shelled by artillery, whereby the dominant Kurhaus ( Kurhaus Friedrichroda ) , located on a hill, was particularly destroyed. 40 deaths occurred on the German side during the occupation.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Gothaer Waggonfabrik had a branch in the village, in which the pre-series production of the revolutionary flying wing jet fighter Ho 229 (Ho IX) by the Horten brothers began. When the Americans reached Friedrichroda in April 1945, in addition to the design documents, they also came across the almost finished third prototype of this aircraft, which they dismantled and shipped to the USA.
On July 3, 1945, the US Army was replaced as an occupation by the Red Army . Thus Friedrichroda, like all of Thuringia, belonged to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) and from 1949 to the GDR .
Friedrichroda - with its 5,000 inhabitants - took in around 2,000 refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions in 1945/46 . These included over 1,700 northern Bohemia . The Gablonz among them, who had nothing but their specialist knowledge to bring with them, set up a center for the jewelry industry in Friedrichroda and neighboring towns. The "Thuringian jewelry" has an origin here.
In the period after 1949 until the turn of 1989 Friedrichroda was one of the most popular tourist destinations in Central Germany and was regarded as the second largest resort of the GDR . The FDGB holiday home "Walter Ulbricht" had existed since 1954 (instead of the Kurhaus which was destroyed in 1945), which was renamed " Ramada Friedrichroda" after 1990 . On the outskirts of the city, on the Reinhardsberg, the striking FDGB vacation home “August Bebel” was built in 1980 , which was mainly visited by privileged GDR citizens. After the fall of the Wall it was renamed Berghotel Friedrichroda and belongs to the Ahorn Hotels chain .
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In 1966 the 10th World Championships and in 1967 the European Championships in sled racing were to be held on the Friedrichrodaer Spießbergbahn ; Due to unfavorable weather conditions, however, both competitions could not be held. However, in the run-up to the 1966 World Cup, the GDR had issued a series of stamps with three motifs.
In 1970 the orienteering world championships took place in the area around Friedrichroda and Eisenach .
21st century
On December 1, 2007, the communities Ernstroda and Finsterbergen were incorporated into Friedrichroda.
Population development
Development of the population (from 1960 December 31 ) :
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- Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
City council
Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the 20 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
| Party / list | Seats | G / V |
| CDU | 6th | - 3 |
| Solidarity community "Bürgerwille - Friedrichroda" | 5 | + 3 |
| SPD | 3 | ± 0 |
| United Citizens' Initiative Friedrichroda | 3 | + 1 |
| The left | 2 | - 1 |
| FDP | 1 | ± 0 |
P / L = gain or loss compared to the previous municipal election in 2009
coat of arms
Blazon : “A black-clad farmer standing in a golden field on green ground with his legs apart, with a heavy, black, red hat, red belt and red shoes. In his right hand he holds a silver hoe with a black handle, in his left hand a green tree with green leaves and silver roots. "
The time of origin of the coat of arms can no longer be determined due to arson in the Thirty Years War. In a preserved file there is an invoice from 1645, on the seal of which a farmer is depicted with a hoe and a tree. Apparently it is a talking coat of arms. The city decided to keep the historical coat of arms on April 3, 1951.
Town twinning
Friedrichroda maintains a partnership with the following cities and municipalities:
- Nouvion-sur-Meuse , France , since October 24, 1964, renewed on July 14, 1990
- Bebra in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg , Hessen , since January 12, 1990
- Bad Zwesten in the Schwalm-Eder district , Hesse (from the partnership with Finsterbergen), since July 12, 1991
- Heiligenblut am Großglockner , Austria , since October 24, 2008
Culture and sights
Cityscape
- One of the most famous sights of the health resort is Reinhardsbrunn Castle, built on the ruins of a former monastery, with the associated landscape park, in which there are numerous exotic trees and the 800-year-old monk linden . In the park there is also an exhibition about the life of Elisabeth of Thuringia .
- Grenzeichen with a chest height of 6.37 m (2014).
- In the south one encounters the remains of the Schauenburg , the excursion points Gasthaus Tanzbuche (the clearing at the Tanzbuche is said to have been a place for the summer solstice festival), Heuberghaus , Spießberghaus am Rennsteig , the Marienglashöhle and the nearby Ungeheuren Grund .
- The townscape is characterized by numerous villas and holiday homes that have been built since the late 19th century; they are dominated by the Berghotel Friedrichroda (a former FDGB holiday home from 1954).
- On the northern outskirts is the Pushkin Park - a spa park with a pavilion and promenade. From here you can get to the municipal swimming pool and other sports facilities in the area.
- The mountain theater and the Spießbergbahn on the southern edge of the city are of seasonal importance .
- The Thuringian dumpling has its own theater in Friedrichroda, Hauptstraße 4, with Thuringian dumpling dishes for plays.
- The Friedrichrodaer Tunnel and the former Fürstenbahnhof , a station building at the Friedrichroda-Reinhardsbrunn stop that has been decaying since 1990, are worth seeing for railway enthusiasts . (See → Friedrichrodaer Bahn )
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Blasius dates from 1770, the late Gothic tower is left over from the previous church and dates back to 1511. The building is on the market square and faces east-west, with the square tower forming the western end of the rectangular nave . A relief stone with the year 1511 is embedded on the south-west side of the tower. The consecration in honor of Saint Blaise probably took place in 1527, three years before the Reformation reached the place. The church received the two galleries and the pulpit altar in 1719, the font from the previous church dates from 1589. In the 1960s and 1970s, the upper gallery fell victim to various changes and the wooden barrel vault was converted into a vaulted coffered ceiling . In 1999 parts of the interior were restored, revealing a fresco from the 16th century, the time of the previous church. Tower button and weather vane were renewed in 2000. Inside, but also on the outside wall of the church, some grave slabs have been preserved. The organ comes from Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden and was installed in 1961; its prospectus dates from 1780, presumably from the previous organ created by the Schmiedefeld organ builders, the Wagner brothers. A memorial plaque in the church commemorates all groups of victims of the Second World War in and from Friedrichroda. Inside is u. a. a panel painting by the Gotha court painter and Cranach student Michael Käseweis , which was created for the Friedrichroda consul and mayor Johann Hoffmann.
- The Schoenstatt Chapel was consecrated in 1954, making it the only Schoenstatt Chapel built in the GDR. It is located on the northern outskirts, near Haus Rosengart.
- The Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo was consecrated in 1901.
- The communal grave for the 135 victims of the American air raid on Friedrichroda on February 6, 1945 is located in the cemetery in the northeast of the city . It is an inconspicuous, flat elevation without name boards. On the grave is a memorial that the Friedrichroda artist and metal designer Günter Reichert created in 1989. It was opened in 1990 on the 45th anniversary of the bombing. The monument was forged in steel, hot-dip galvanized and painted with iron mica paint. Under a high stele (“February 6, 1945. The dead urge peace”) there are 135 different sized sticks with individually designed heads as symbols for the individual victims. They also represent the three age groups children (29 dead), adults and old people. Explanatory, metal information boards are thanks to former students from the Helene Lange School, who witnessed the devastating bomb attack there in 1945 and who started their school days there.
- The oldest purpose-built half-timbered house in Friedrichroda is the old brewery in the city. Even today you can get home-brewed beer here. The brewery has been used as an inn since 1895 and has been preserved in the style of that time.
- Friedrichroda has had an outdoor swimming pool since 1935 ( location ). The German national team trained here for the Summer Olympics in 1936 and 1940 . The facility is listed and includes six 50 m lanes and diving towers of 1, 3, 5 and 10 m.
- The tourist information office and a local museum in the Alte Schmiede in Reinhardsbrunner Straße 6 provide information about the local history .
Friedrichroda has a long tradition as a climatic health resort and winter sports resort. The city has an extensive network of hiking trails with numerous natural beauties, inns, parks and various opportunities for sporting activities.
Regular events
- Ludowinger Festival (beginning of September) in memory of Ludwig the Bearded , who is considered the founder of Friedrichroda
- Cross triathlon (since 2002 in July)
- Hunters Festival in August
Economy, infrastructure and transport
Above all, tourism is of great economic importance for the climatic health resort, whereby active holidays (hiking, cycling, cross-country skiing, Nordic walking) as well as relaxation and wellness are offered. In addition to a therapy center and various Kneipp facilities, the Waltershausen-Friedrichroda Hospital is an important employer. There are also some smaller craft and industrial companies.
The first information center for spiritual tourism in Germany was opened on July 3, 2011 in Reinhardsbrunn. Information is provided about initiatives and projects with a religious background under the technical term Spiritual Tourism . These include cultural tourism with open churches and monastery sites, church music events and church history, cycle tourism on pilgrimage routes and cycle path churches as well as health tourism with monastery holidays and much more.
Friedrichroda also has a representative for the world market leader in the field of adhesive tapes, cables and flexible printed circuit boards, Coroplast . The company is based in Wuppertal , and the branch in Friedrichroda focuses on the automotive cable set components sector .
The city is the terminus of the Fröttstädt – Friedrichroda railway line . The Reinhardsbrunn train station is a second stop on this route in the city. In addition, the Thuringian Forest Railway supplements the range of rail-based transport with four stations in the city.
The federal road 88 leads through Friedrichroda . The closest motorway junction to the A4 is Gotha-Boxberg , which is about 10 km from the city center.
Trivia
A legend tells that a stranger asked for the name of the village after the town charter was granted in Friedrichroda. After the answer that it was a city, his mouth was said to have remained open in amazement. To warn all subsequent blasphemers, the city fathers had a stone head with an open mouth attached to the city gate. It is currently in Friedrichroda with a restorer.
Personalities
Honorary citizen of the city
- Otto von Bismarck , German Chancellor (since April 1, 1895)
- Rudolf Otto Wiemer , poet, puppeteer and teacher, was made an honorary citizen in 1993 on his 88th birthday
- Friedrich Christoph Perthes , publisher and first spa guest
- Baron von Seebach
- Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
- Eduard Buschmann
- Klaus-Michael Bonsack , Luge Rider (2012)
sons and daughters of the town
- Liborius Hofmann (* around 1561–1599), legal scholar
- Caspar Schmalkalden (1616–1673), soldier, author of travelogues about South America and the East Indies
- Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann (1805–1864), musical instrument maker ( terpodion , harmonium )
- Johann Georg Eccarius (1818–1889), labor activist and trade unionist
- Martin Willweber (1887–1945), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, murdered by the SS in Weimar in 1945
- Rudolf Otto Wiemer (1905–1998), poet, teacher and puppeteer
- Eduard Teuscher (1906–1945), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, murdered by the SS in Weimar in 1945
- Franz Schuchardt (1913–1945), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, murdered by the SS in Weimar in 1945
- Jürgen Rohwer (1924–2015), librarian and military historian
- Klaus Niethardt (1928–2005), draftsman and painter
- Albrecht Feibel (1940–2011), politician
- Anna-Maria Müller (1949–2009), luge athlete
- Ilona Brand (* 1958 as Ilona Oeckel), luge rider
- Norbert Loch (* 1962), luge rider and current national luge coach
- Hauke Fuhlbrügge (* 1966), track and field athlete
- Katrin Göring-Eckardt (* 1966 as Katrin Dagmar Eckardt), politician and former Bundestag Vice-President
- Karsten Albert (* 1968), luge rider
- Marko Frank (* 1968), Nordic combined athlete
- Ralph Gebstedt (* 1971), ski jumper
- Judith Augoustides (* 1975 as Judith Deister), beach volleyball player
- Sylvia Leifheit (* 1975), actress
- Felix Maultzsch (* 1975), legal scholar
- Marko Baacke (* 1980), Nordic combined athlete
- Florian Crusius (* 1986), wrestler
- Philipp Klewin (* 1993), soccer player
Other personalities
- Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), teacher and writer
- Marie Loeper-Housselle (1837–1916), teacher and publicist
- Helene Lange (1848–1930), teacher and pioneer in women's education
- Alwin Langenhan (1850–1916), teacher, writer, fossil collector and amateur paleontologist
- Max Küstner (1855–1940), merited mayor of Friedrichroda from 1904 to 1919
- Käte Duncker (1871–1953), politician, women's rights activist, attended the secondary school for girls here
- Lilo Grahn (1943–2007), actress
- Melitta Sollmann (* 1958), luge athlete
- Sandra Hüller (* 1978), actress, grew up in Friedrichroda
- Tatjana Hüfner (* 1983), luge rider of the BRC 05 Friedrichroda, Olympic champion in single seater
- Marion Thees (* 1984), skeleton pilot of the BRC 05 Friedrichroda
literature
- Alwin Langenhan: Fauna and flora of the Rotliegend in the area of Friedrichroda in Thuringia , 1905.
- Alwin Langenhan: Forays into natural history in Friedrichroda's surroundings , 1914.
- H. Schwerdt: Friedrichrode. Mountain and bathing town in the Duchy of Gotha. Müller, Gotha 1854. (Reprint: Verlag Rockstuhl , Bad Langensalza, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86777-111-5 )
- Hanns-Jörg Ruge: Historical outline of Friedrichroda and Reinhardsbrunn. Book 1: Prehistory and Early History and the Middle Ages. Friedrichroda 1995.
- Friedrichroda. In: Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , pp. 126-127.
- Steffen Raßloff , Lutz Gebhardt : The Thuringian Landgraves. History and legends . Rhino Verlag, Ilmenau 2017, ISBN 978-3-95560-055-6 .
Web links
- Health resort Friedrichroda
- Administrative community Reinhardsbrunn
- oldest purpose-built half-timbered house
- The Thuringian Dumpling in Friedrichroda
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ↑ Thuringian spas and health resorts ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8 kB)
- ↑ Wilfried Warsitzka: Die Thüringer Landgrafen Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2004, ISBN 3-932906-22-5 , p. 198.
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mentions of Thuringian towns and villages up to 1300. 1st edition. Erfurt 1996, ISBN 3-931426-09-2 , p. 29.
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Völkel: Gastliches Thüringen. Arnstadt 1993, ISBN 3-929662-00-0 .
- ↑ Hans Joachim Kessler: Healing water and bubbling springs. Encounters with historical baths in Thuringia . Ed .: Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen. E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2001, ISBN 3-910166-44-X , Friedrichroda, p. 89-91 .
- ↑ Cf. Matthias Wolfes: The House of the Christian World. In: Communications from the Ernst Troeltsch Society. 8 (1994), pp. 76-106.
- ↑ Local history museum
- ↑ American source in the local museum.
- ↑ Inferno at the end of the war. February 6, 1945 in Friedrichroda . Thuringian regional newspaper, February 7, 2005.
- ↑ Local history museum
- ↑ 65 years after the end of the war: Friedrichroda became Gablonzer's second home . Thuringian newspaper, June 29, 2010.
- ↑ Notes on world and European championships
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
- ↑ Local elections Friedrichroda 2014. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Local elections Friedrichroda 2019. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
- ^ Town twinning - Friedrichroda . Website of the city of Friedrichroda. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Jenzig-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 239.
- ↑ http://www.santuarios.schoenstatt.de/db_user/cms_db_santuarios_detail1.php?sprache=de&vid=20
- ↑ Prospectus / list of hosts Thuringian Forest Friedrichroda, Tabarz, Finsterbergen "3 mit Prädikat" 2018, p. 14
- ↑ Christfried Boelter: Opening of the exhibition "Spiritual Tourism" on Sunday, July 3rd, 2011. In: www.via-regia.org. Church and Tourism eV, June 2011, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
- ^ Honorary citizen of the city of Friedrichroda. In: Gothaer Heimatbrief. No. 18 - 1994, p. 44.
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