Stedtlingen

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Stedtlingen
Community Rhönblick
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 389 m above sea level NN
Residents : 507
Incorporation : August 1, 1996
Postal code : 98617
Area code : 036943
View to the north-west
View to the north-west

Stedtlingen is a village of 507 inhabitants in the Thuringian Rhon , is a district within the unified community Rhönblick in Schmalkalden-Meiningen .

location

The village is located south of the Herpftal in the Thuringian Rhön. At about 385  m above sea level NN on the southern slope of the 538 m high Kirschberg.

history

Stedtlingen first appeared in 1182 in a deed of gift under the name "Stetilingin". Count Poppo von Henneberg gave land to the nuns of the Veßra monastery . That is why the 825th anniversary was celebrated in August 2007. Since the Middle Ages, the village has alternated between the offices of Henneberg , Hutsberg , Maßfeld and Meiningen . During the Thirty Years War the community recorded a drastic decline in population (1634: 92 families; 1649: 8 families).

In 1756/57 the church received its organ from the workshop of Johann Caspar Beck from Herrenbreitungen . Ruppers belonged to the imperial knighthood until 1803 as the property of the Lords of Stein .

After the Second World War the community was near the demarcation line between the Soviet occupation zone and West Germany . The district of Ruppers and the neighboring community of Schmerbach were cleared and leveled by the GDR border troops . In 1966/67 a company building for the soldiers of the border troops was built in the village.

Pictures from the Federal Archives from 1952

  • Stedtlingen, haymaking

  • Stedtlingen, farmer at work

  • Farmers from Stedtlingen donate to the NAW

At the initiative of the local population, a border crossing point to the neighboring West German community of Willmars was set up on December 17, 1989 . The people of Stedtling celebrated German reunification with a festive procession to the west.

From 1992 a new residential area was built on the southern slope of the Kirschberg. In this context, the new kindergarten “cherry blossom” and the “village barn” were built.

By ordinance of August 1, 1996 by the Interior Minister of the State of Thuringia , Stedtlingen became part of the newly formed Rhönblick community and thus lost its political independence.

The Stedtlinger Church

Attractions

  • The village has a particularly remarkable church , which was built around 1250. It was expanded in 1619 and 1701. The square church tower with regionally typical half-timbering and a striking pointed roof is striking. Also of interest is the baroque organ, which was built in the workshop of Johann Caspar Beck in Herrenbreitungen in 1756. In the years 2002–2012, the church, including interior fittings and organ, was extensively restored for around € 300,000. During this time, the “Friends of the Church in Stedtlingen e. V. “founded. After fulfilling its purpose, the association was dissolved in 2012.
  • At the end of the restoration, a new wooden altar was also created. This takes up the box shape of the original altar and develops it further into a design made of reliefs and large wooden surfaces. The altar box is crowned by the crucifixion group. The Jesus figure was made with wood from Reinhardtsberg directly above Stedtlingen. It is flanked by the two criminals who were crucified next to Jesus and now carry the candles, the light of which symbolically points to Jesus, the one chosen by God. The altar as a work of art and liturgical object strives for a functional and aesthetic correspondence to its surroundings (the building, the natural space, the people).
The Stedtlinger Moor
  • The Stedtlinger Moor nature reserve is located southwest of the municipality. It was included in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve in 1990 - as one of the last laws ( GDR 1990 Gazette, SDr. 1476 ; PDF; 46 kB) of the GDR People's Chamber . Adjacent is the Petersee-Moor, named after a historic Peterskirche (an early mission church) that is said to have been destroyed around 750.
  • A little further away (approx. 4 km as the crow flies) are the ruins of the Hutsburg on the Hutsberg , which can only be reached on a somewhat demanding hiking trail.

literature

  • Norbert Bieber: Conversion of a non-site-appropriate spruce-beech stock on Pseudogley into a site-appropriate, natural English oak-hornbeam stock in the nature reserve Bischofswaldung near Stedtlingen (Thuringia). Würzburg 1992, (Würzburg, University, diploma thesis, 1992).
  • Thuringian Ministry of Agriculture and Forests: Agricultural pre-planning. Hermannsfeld, Stedtlingen, Meiningen district. Society for municipal care, Bad Homburg vd H. 1992.
  • Walter Uloth: Around the Neuberg near Stedtlingen (= Interesting hiking destinations in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve / Thuringia. 2 = Messages from the Rhön Biosphere Reserve. Supplement. 3, ZDB -ID 2382876-6 ). Rhön Biosphere Reserve, Kaltensundheim 2000.
  • Uta Schäfer: Village church - cultural monument 2005, part 2. Visiting Stedtlingen, Superintendentur Meiningen. In: Faith + Home. 2005, p. 6 f.
  • Stedtlingen - discovery of home. A home book for the 825th anniversary in 2007. Dölle, Hildburghausen 2007.
  • Heiko Korsch: Flora and vegetation of the Stedtlinger Moor, current condition and analysis of changes. In: Landscape conservation and nature conservation in Thuringia. Vol. 45, No. 2, 2008, ISSN  0323-8253 , pp. 55-61.
  • Elsbeth Lange: A pollen diagram from the Stedtlinger Moor in southern Thuringia. In: Landscape conservation and nature conservation in Thuringia. Vol. 45, No. 2, 2008, pp. 51-55.

Web links

Commons : Stedtlingen (Rhönblick)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document found (signature) in the organ.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ. In: orgbase.nl. Accessed April 24, 2020 (German, Dutch).
  3. ↑ Ruppers in Rhon lexicon. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
  5. ^ The church on www.kirchenkreis-meiningen.de. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Stedtlingen village church. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection . Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Stedtlingen village church. In: KiBa Foundation . Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Iris Friedrich: A new Christ - arrived. In: inSüdthüringen.de. Archived from the original on May 6, 2014 ; accessed on April 24, 2020 .