Struth-Helmershof
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Struth-Helmershof
Community flea Seligenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 31 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 34 ″ E
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| Height : | 433 m |
| Residents : | 1300 |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1996 |
| Postal code : | 98593 |
| Area code : | 03683 |
Struth-Helmershof is a village with about 1300 inhabitants on the southwest slope of the Thuringian Forest and arose from the former parts of Struth and Helmershof. It is part of the large community of Floh-Seligenthal .
location
Struth-Helmershof is located in the north of the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district on the southwest slope of the Thuringian Forest near the Rennsteig .
history
Struth was first mentioned in a document in 1340. In Struth, forestry and mining once had economic importance, after the expansion of the road between Schnellbach and Steinbach-Hallenberg and the Eisensteinstrasse from Barchfeld to Oberschönau, haulage also became an important branch of the economy.
The Helmershof was once a free aristocratic estate in the Schmalkalden domain , around which a small village developed and later came into the possession of the city of Schmalkalden before it was merged with Struth to form Struth-Helmershof in 1936.
The economic structure of the place is now industrial. In the two industrial areas there are primarily toolmaking and plastics processing companies. The cultural life of the village is determined by football (SV 08 Thuringia Struth-Helmershof), carnival and fair .
Incorporation
On January 1, 1996 Struth-Helmershof was incorporated into Floh-Seligenthal.
Attractions
- Struth's baroque village church was built in 1771. In 1985 the Gotha organ builder Gerhard Böhm received a new instrument with sixteen registers and two manuals .
- At the end of the village in the direction of Schmalkalden is the Holy Cross , a historical atonement cross.
Personalities
- Johann Michael Bach III (born November 9, 1745 in Struth-Helmershof, † June 13, 1820 in Elberfeld), cantor
- Bernhard Sacrificemann (born February 3, 1913 in Kassel; † December 21, 1995 in Hildesheim), Catholic pastor in Struth
- Carola Anding (born December 29, 1960 in Struth-Helmershof), cross-country skier