Stublach

Stublach City of Gera Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 11 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	183 m above sea level NN
Residents :	1668  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1922
Incorporated into:	Langenberg
Postal code :	07552
Area code :	0365
Former circular system of the old village

Stublach and Langenberg have formed the 8.18 km² district of Langenberg in the city of Gera in Thuringia with a total of 4164 inhabitants since July 1, 1950 (as of December 31, 2013).

geography

Stublach is located in the north-west of Gera on the right bank of the White Elster and north of the A4 motorway . The federal road 7 runs through Stublach .

history

The Sorbian foundation of Stublach is historically part of the care Langenberg, after its incorporation into the Reussian rule of Reuss; Langenberg is still the responsible parish, school and burial place. In 1686 a devastating fire destroyed the entire village, the Rundling had to be completely rebuilt; In 1816 the place consists of 15 houses with 85 inhabitants. With the construction of the Gera-Zeitz railway line (inaugurated in 1858) and the nearby Langenberg train station opened in 1898, industrialization also reached Stublach. From 1905 to 1933 there was a ferry service on the Stublacher Elsterufer; After the construction of the Franzosenbrücke between Tinz and Milbitz or the so-called footbridge became superfluous, it ceased operations in 1930 with the beginning of the regulation of the course of the White Elster. On October 1, 1922, Stublach was incorporated into Langenberg, and on July 1, 1950, both places were incorporated into Gera. The wastewater treatment plant of the city of Gera, which has been extensively modernized in recent years, is located on the banks of the White Elster. In the 1960s, a residential area was opened up and built on the Stublach corridor, and the number of residents increased significantly.

With the turnaround there were closings, especially of larger manufacturing companies, and the number of jobs fell considerably.

Say

In the large dwarf cave north of Thieschitz on the road to Bad Köstritz (also called the Stublacher dwarf cave - the Elster then had a different course than it does today after the regulation) and the so-called small dwarf cave between Milbitz and Untermhaus According to legend, the dwarf king Coryllis lived with his people. In order to get in contact with them, one had to call the name Coryllis three times during the night and throw three magpie pebbles backwards into the cave, because Coryllis and his people were valued as helpers and advisers in some needs. It was said that whoever has dwarfs on the farm is lucky, because the dwarfs tended the cattle and helped with the housework and stable work. They are said to have been particularly favorable to the farmers of Stublach.

The cheeky dwarf people, who are said to have numbered thousands, annoyed the residents of the surrounding villages over time and made some jokes. It was now said of them that they would exchange small children, they became malicious towards people and, above all, they stole bread. So the Thieschitzer farmers decided to resist, they armed themselves with clubs and went to the field against the dwarves - to no avail, because when the angry peasants approached, the dwarves simply put their cloaks on and became invisible. So they resorted to a ruse and added fennel and caraway seeds to the bread, which the dwarf folk did not get and so they left the inhospitable Elstertal with an unknown destination. Only one fisherman from Langenberg, who took them to the other bank of the Elster in the dark, was rewarded like a princely with a hat full of so-called dwarf gold.

According to its location, this large or Stublach dwarf cave may have served as a pagan place of worship. It is said that even in the remains of the cave, which was used as a quarry until the 19th century and finally fell victim to the construction of the road to Bad Köstritz in the 1920s, there was a strange echo, which at the time when the cave had not yet been exploited as a quarry, the magic of this place must have been something downright magical. With the turn to Christianity, this place was probably preserved in popular consciousness and so the legend of the dwarf king Coryllis came about. The theft of the bread was probably of an earthly nature and (in the interests of neighborly peace) was thought to have been imposed on the dwarfs.

To get an idea of ​​the size of this destroyed cave, it should be mentioned that after the great fire in 1780 in Gera, over a thousand people are said to have lived there for quite some time.

politics

Stublach forms since 1995 together with Langenberg the district Langenberg Gera town with its own constitution and village Ortsteilrat (to II / 2009 Ortschaftsrat) . The district mayor has been Matthias Kirsch (independent) since 2014.

Development of the population

year	1816	1864	2008	2013
Residents	85	123	1757	1668

traffic

• Coming from the Gera city center, federal road 7 leads towards Eisenberg – Jena through Stublach; it is about 1.5 km to the Gera exit.
• There is a public transport connection from Langenberger Straße via bus lines 22, 24, 28 and 29 of the Gera transport and operating company or externally with RVG lines 203 and 204.
• The closest train station is Gera-Langenberg.

education

• Langenberger Zwerge children's facility (Langenberg)
• Astrid Lindgen Elementary School (Langenberg).
• State regular school 12 (Bieblach-Ost).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gera city administration, FD 1200
2. ↑ Gera City Archives

literature

• Klaus Brodale and Heidrun Friedemann: That was Gera in the 20th century. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2002, ISBN 3-8313-1273-7 .
• Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich : Latest news from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt and the Reussian countries (Latest country and ethnology; vol. 23). Weimar 1827.
• Jürgen Geiling: The Elsteraue near Langenberg. Story by the river . 2nd edition Verlag Frank, Gera 1998.
• Ferdinand Hahn: History of Gera and its immediate surroundings. Self-published, Gera 1855 (2 vols.).
• Karl Friedrich Vollrath Hoffmann : Germany and its inhabitants. A patriotic handbook for all estates . Hoffmann-Verlag, Stuttgart 1834.
• Johann Christoph Klotz: Description of the rule and city of Gera. Mauke & Klotz, Schleiz 1816.
• Siegfried Mues: Gera. A historical walk. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 1993, ISBN 3-89264-694-5 .
• Ulla Spörl and Frank Rüdiger (eds.): Gera in the golden twenties. Self-published, Gera 2007.
• Thuringian Pestalozziverein (Hrsg.): Thuringia in words and pictures. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-919-9 (unchanged reprint of the Berlin 1900 edition).
• oA: Court and state calendar for the Principality of Reuss, younger line. Gera 1864.
• Martin Embersmann (Ed.): Gera. History of the city in words and pictures. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-326-00225-4 .
• Announcements of the history and antiquity research association. Altenburg; div.

Web links

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