Tambach-Dietharz

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Tambach-Dietharz
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '  N , 10 ° 37'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Gotha
Height : 450 m above sea level NHN
Area : 41.63 km 2
Residents: 4256 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 102 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99897
Area code : 036252
License plate : GTH
Community key : 16 0 67 065
LOCODE : DE ZHC

City administration address : 		Burgstallstrasse 31a
99897 Tambach-Dietharz
Website : www.tambach-dietharz.de
Mayor : Marco Schütz (independent)
Location of the city of Tambach-Dietharz in the Gotha district
Bienstädt Dachwig Döllstädt Drei Gleichen Emleben Waltershausen Eschenbergen Friedrichroda Friemar Georgenthal Gierstädt Gotha Großfahner Herrenhof Hörsel (Gemeinde) Luisenthal Molschleben Nesse-Apfelstädt Nessetal Nottleben Ohrdruf Pferdingsleben Schwabhausen Sonneborn Bad Tabarz Tambach-Dietharz Tonna Tröchtelborn Tüttleben Waltershausen Zimmernsupra Thüringen Erfurt Ilm-Kreis Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen Wartburgkreis Eisenach Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis Landkreis Sömmerdamap
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View of Tambach-Dietharz. On the right the tower of the Luther Church.
Old town hall from 1919
Old post office from 1888
View along the main street to the Luther Church
Luther Church and local history museum
Antique house, Hauptstr. 88 (2012, used as a disco)

Tambach-Dietharz is a country town in the Gotha district in Thuringia ( Germany ).

location

Tambach-Dietharz is located on the northern roof of the Thuringian Forest west of Ohrdruf . The city is located on a higher clearing island on state road 1028, which leads down into the northern foreland of the Thuringian Forest.

history

Tambach

The place was first mentioned in 1039 as Dambahc . As early as the 10th and 11th centuries, a trade and military road probably led through the Tambacher Mulde over the ridge of the Thuringian Forest ( Frankenstic , today's Rennsteig ) to Franconia with a connection to the southern German road network. The strata magna and the communis strata had their heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries. Century.

Tambach has been documented since 1251. The Castrum Walinvels (Burg Waldenfels or Burg Altenfels), located on the Altenfels at the end of the Schmalwassergrund (today the Schmalwasser Dam ), could have been a customs and escort post. One of the bailiffs of Waldenfels was Eckehard, knight of Hochheim, the father of the famous philosopher and theologian Meister Eckhart , who was born around 1260, whereby this castle can be considered as the place of birth. In 1293 the Lords of Meldingen left the village to the Georgenthal monastery . After its dissolution, the place belonged to the Georgenthal office from 1531 , which belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha from 1640 .

The name of the local dialect and the name used in this dialect by the residents of the village for the village is "Tammich".

Dietharz

Dietharz was first mentioned in a document in 1246 as Ditteritz . In 1293 he was left with Dietharz and Waldenfels Castle to the Georgenthal Monastery. After its dissolution, the place belonged to the Georgenthal office from 1531, which belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha from 1640.

When a large part of the place was devastated at the beginning of the 17th century (presumably as a result of the chaos of war), a regulation was issued in Weimar in 1691 which promised the citizens that every span of timber from the manorial forests should be delivered for 6 Pf the village could be rebuilt .

Dietharz is called "Detersch" in the local dialect.

Amalgamation

In 1919, Tambach merged with the neighboring town of Dietharz to form Tambach-Dietharz. In 1925 the community received city ​​rights .

Luther and the place

The old road between Schmalkalden and Tambach-Dietharz also gained fame through Martin Luther . At the convent in Schmalkalden, where the Schmalkalden Articles were signed in February 1537, he was seriously ill with a bladder or kidney disease. He started his journey home to Wittenberg via Tambach-Dietharz. Here, after drinking from the water of today's Luther Fountain, he was released from his suffering and wrote to his friend Philipp Melanchthon : “[...] from Tambach, the place where I was blessed , because here is my Phanuel, where me God has appeared. " According to Ludwig Bechstein, he even felt called to graffiti: [...] in the Tambach inn he took a coal and wrote on the wall:" Tambach est mea Pniel "- the name of the place where Jakob is with God wrestled - “ibi apparuit mihi dominus. ML ". It stood for a long time in that house [...]

This was the reason to designate a fountain in Tammichgrund in 1717 for the anniversary of the Reformation as a Luther fountain (from which the water is said to have been taken). Which route the small passenger train took from Schmalkalden via the Rennsteig to Tambach can no longer be determined with certainty today. The path from the "Alte Ausspanne" in the direction of Nesselhof - marked as the Luther path - is very likely not the path that Martin Luther and his travel companions took in 1537 from the Nesselhof in the direction of Tambach. It is far too steep for horse-drawn vehicles in winter and was certainly rarely - if ever - used to cross the Rennsteig during this time. The tradition that the tour group crossed the Rennsteig at the Rennsteigstein R 57 near today's parking lot at the "Neue Ausspanne" seems to be rather realistic. In Luther's time, the mighty “thief's beech” stood on the R 57 Rennsteigstein as a national emblem between Saxony and Hesse. According to tradition, this stone was also known as the “Judgment Stone”, because this is where the exchange of delinquents from Saxony to Hesse and vice versa took place.

Another story

During the Second World War , 307 men and women, mainly from the Soviet Union , had to do forced labor at the Hopf and Fritz Braun companies .

During the GDR era, a holiday camp was built on Hubenstein (on Schmalwassergrund), which was later destroyed by fire.

As part of the energy transition , the Thuringian state government is planning to build a pumped storage power plant above Tambach-Dietharz , primarily to store electricity from wind turbines . There is resistance on the ground.

Railway line

On December 19, 1892, Tambach-Dietharz received the long-awaited railway connection with the Georgenthal branch line. Passenger traffic was stopped on September 1, 1969, but the infrastructure for the remaining freight traffic, which lasted until 1995, was renovated.

Due to the bad track condition, the last freight cars left Tambach-Dietharz on December 27, 1995. The line has not been maintained since then and fell into disrepair. Long-term efforts to maintain or alternatively use it as a museum railway failed for various reasons. With the exception of a short remnant between Georgenthal and Georgenthal Ort, where there should still be a museum, the former 6.2 kilometer long connection has been dismantled and converted into a cycle path .

politics

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 53.2% (2014: 49.2%)
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50
40
30th
20th
10
0
46.9%
18.9%
12.4%
11.7%
10.2%
n. k.
FW TD
PRO TD
BI / SG
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
+ 11.5  % p
-0.8  % p
+ 3.7  % p
-5.6  % p
-1.8  % p
-6.8  % p
FW TD
PRO TD
BI / SG

City council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Party / list Seats G / V
Free voters TD 7th + 1
SPD 3 ± 0
Per TD 2 +1
CDU 2 - 1
The left 2 ± 0
BI / SG 0 - 1

mayor

In the mayoral elections in 2012, Marco Schütz (independent, CDU / FW TD candidate) prevailed against his predecessor Harald Wrona with 55.5% of the vote. He was re-elected in 2018.

Former mayor

Mayors since 1994 were:

  • 1994–2006: Egon Stötzer (CDU, later independent)
  • 2006–2012: Harald Wrona (SPD, later non-party, then FDP)

coat of arms

Blazon: Divided by green and silver, above a silver lumberjack's ax, covered with (diagonally crossed) silver mallets and iron , below three green fir trees on a green ground.

The order for a new city coat of arms was issued in 1925. The woodcutter's ax and the mountain iron are reminiscent of forestry and wood processing as well as the stone-breaking trade in Tambach. The three fir trees come from the old Dietharz municipal seal.

Attractions

Mountain church
  • The Evangelical Lutheran mountain church in Dietharz: a church already existed in 1040. A new building became necessary due to the growth of the parish in 1570. This fell victim to the Thirty Years War . The old church was replaced by a new building in 1708, which was completed in the same year, with the preserved outer walls of the previous building being included. The foundation stone was laid on April 20, 1708. Only the baptismal font from 1560 and the central shrine of a winged altar (Lamentation of Christ) built after 1500 are reminiscent of the old furnishings, after a new altar including pulpit was installed. When the foundation stone was laid, 36 (!) Stones were set, starting with the pastor, the duke and his family, mayor, church elder, parish priest and others. At the end of the Second World War, the church was badly damaged by artillery fire. Of the original double gallery, only the organ gallery remained, the roof and tower were renewed and a heated community room was installed under the gallery. On September 15, 1968, the renovated and restored church was returned to its intended use.
    The church has a slate-covered half -     hipped roof on the walls that have been preserved from the previous building with a slated roof turret over the west gable, which is crowned by a dome with a lantern , tower ball and weather vane . The interior is illuminated by three high windows on the north and south sides and two windows on the east side. The orphaned and presumably de-dedicated cemetery only houses a tombstone of the mill owner Robert Raab (1855–1941) and his wife Emma (1862–1920). The organ of unknown age comes from Niederndorf and was installed in 1968 by the organ builder Schmeisser from Rochlitz. Dietharz together with Tambach and Georgenthal form the parish of Tambach-Dietharz. On Wednesday, March 15, 2017, the church received two new bells, one of them the “Schöpferglocke”, which were made by a tower clock and bell workshop from Graefenhain .
Luther Church (2012)
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Luther Church in Tambach: This church from 1350 was visited by Luther at the end of February 1537 when he was resting in the village on the way back from Schmalkalden. Medical treatment in the village is said to have given him relief: painful urinary stones, which had already bothered him on the trip to Schmalkalden to sign the Schmalkalden Articles , went away after a foot bath. The church was damaged by fires in 1684 and 1842, only the massive walls of the nave and the lower part of the tower have survived to this day. The room on the first floor of the tower has a groin vault . The present church was consecrated in 1844. The tower is from 1861. However, it had to be rebuilt again in 1883 because of the suspension of heavier bells. After damage at the end of 1945, the church was attacked by the sponge . From 1972 to 1976 a community center with community rooms was built on the ground floor, and above it the new church hall (similar to the one in Herrenhof ). The “Tambach Speech” given in 1919 by Karl Barth in the parish rooms of the Tambach Church was an impetus for a new theological reflection in the Protestant Church of Thuringia. One of the rooms in the community center is named after Barth, other rooms are named after Luther, Bonifatius and Meister Eckhart.

  • Bergkirche, west side

  • Luther Church

  • Burgstallstrasse

  • Old Town Hall

  • Old mill wheel next to the old town hall

  • Eisbrunnenquelle in Dietharzer Grund (Schmalwasser Valley)

  • Local museum

  • Old post office from 1888

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Felix Hering (1870–1939), forester in Tambach-Dietharz, local historian and author in numerous Thuringian series
  • Erich Recknagel (1904–1973), ski jumper, participant in the 1928 Winter Olympics, lived in Tambach-Dietharz
  • Egon Schnabel (* 1937), biathlete, participant in the 1964 Winter Olympics, multiple GDR champion in biathlon, lives in Tambach-Dietharz
  • Holger Wick (* 1962), biathlete
  • Juliane Frühwirt (* 1998), biathlete

literature

  • Dieter Schnabel: Dr. Martin Luther - Stations in Gotha and the surrounding area. Gotha 1998.
  • Manfred Ender: Tambach-Dietharz in old views. Rockstuhl Verlag , Bad Langensalza 2003, ISBN 3-937135-11-1 .
  • Tambach-Dietharz. A cultural history spanning 750 years. Ed. City of Tambach-Dietharz in cooperation with the history and homeland association Meister Eckhart e. V., Tambach-Dietharz 2004.
  • Tambach-Dietharzer Wunderwasser-Krimis , anthology with short crime stories about Tambach-Dietharz as part of the 1st Tambach-Dietharzer Wunderwasser-Krimipreis on the occasion of the Luther anniversary 2017, Verlag Keys & Types, 2017, ISBN 978-3945605172 .
  • The Tambach Lovers - Murder Stories , anthology with short crime stories about Tambach-Dietharz as part of the 2nd Tambach-Dietharzer Wunderwasser crime prize on the occasion of the centenary of the city law 2019, Verlag Keys & Types, 2019, ISBN 978-3945605004 .

Web links

Commons : Tambach-Dietharz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Tambach in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Galetti: History and Description of the Duchy of Gotha. Volume 3. pp. 250/251.
  3. ↑ Heike Hentschel: True stories about the Luther Trail in Thuringia . Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2017, ISBN 3-89772-293-3 , p. 20 .
  4. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. (= Guide to local history. Volume 8). Thuringia, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 102.
  5. ↑ Facebook entry
  6. ↑ Gerlinde Sommer: Many here are simply afraid. In Tambach-Dietharz there is rumbling about the planned pumped storage power plant. Thuringian newspaper, January 30, 2013
  7. ↑ Local elections in Tambach-Dietharz 2014. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Local elections in Tambach-Dietharz 2019. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Mayor elections in Tambach-Dietharz since 1994. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church District Waltershausen-Ohrdruf
  11. ↑ a b Ellrich / Heinze / Hoerenz: Between Hörsel and Wilder Gera , Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-86160-167-2
  12. ↑ Miracle of Tambach - a thriller? by Conny Möller, Thüringer Allgemeine , March 22, 2017, last accessed on April 22, 2019.
  13. ↑ Tambach-Dietharz awards the Krimipreis from Wolfgang Möller, Thüringer Allgemeine , June 21, 2019, last accessed on June 29, 2019.