Steinfeld (Straufhain)

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Steinfeld
Straufhain parish
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 339 m
Residents : 299  (2012)
Incorporation : July 1, 1973
Incorporated into: Ice houses
Postal code : 98646
Area code : 03685
Swan fountain
Swan fountain

Steinfeld is a district of Straufhain in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

location

Steinfeld (an der Rodach ) is located in the Franconian hill country, north of the Straufhain in the upper Rodach valley . Located south of the Frankenschwelle ridge , which forms the watershed between the Rhine-Main catchment and the Weser catchment. Surrounding the area-defining heights of the Gleichberge and the Straufhain . The local situation is strongly hilly (Kerbtal). The place is right on the former German-German border. The border triangle is nearby.

history

The district was first mentioned in documents in 1317.

Steinfeld was affected by the persecution of witches in 1615-1624 . Two women got into witch trials . Dorothea Lob was burned in 1616, the other woman expelled from the country.

On January 1, 2016, 299 people lived in the district.

particularities

One of the most water-rich places in the region. There is a community brewery (out of order) and a bakery in the village. In earlier times beer was brewed in the two inns and in the community brewery. The place was well known for a drinkable wheat beer called Brühaa, which was only brewed here in this form.

In the middle of the village there is an old dancing linden tree (step linden tree) in which the Blozer (plan boys) perform their "Sprüchla" (sometimes rough quatrains) at the Karmes (church fair).

Dialect / vernacular

East Franconian> Main Franconian> Itzgründisch

literature

  • P. Lehfeld: Architectural and Art Monuments of Thuringia, Booklet XXIX, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, District Court District Hildburghausen, 1904, reprint, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, ISBN 978-3-86777-376-8

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The location on www.rodachtal.info ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2012 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. Retrieved April 14, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rodachtal.info
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , S273
  3. ^ Kai Lehmann : Exhibition "Luther and the Witches", Steinfeld area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Egbert Friedrich: Witch hunt in the Rodach area and the witch trial ordinance of Duke Johann Casimir (writings of the Rodacher Rückert-Kreis, issue 19), Rodach 1995, pp. 192–236; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian region , publications by the working group for historical research on witches and crime in Northern Germany, Volume 2, Hamburg 2003, p. 237f.