Fir field

Fir field Community of Löbichau Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 32 ″ N , 12 ° 15 ′ 6 ″ E
Height :	290 m above sea level NN
Incorporated into:	Kleinstechau
Postal code :	04626
Area code :	034496
Location of Tannenfeld in Thuringia
	Tannenfeld Castle (2011)

Tannenfeld is a district of Löbichau in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Tannenfeld is located on a wooded hill in the Sprottetal nature reserve , about two kilometers south of the main town of Löbichau and about 20 kilometers (as the crow flies) southwest of the district town of Altenburg . An access road joins the B 7, which passes immediately to the north (section Ronneburg - Schmölln ). Federal motorway 4 runs south of the village . The geographic height of the place is 290 m above sea level. NN .

history

The first documentary mention as Tanniveld took place in the period from 1181-1214 in the tithe register of the Bosau monastery . In earlier times there was probably a separate knight's seat with a not insignificant village in the place, which was later completely destroyed during a war. Tannenfeld was assigned or sold by a later owner to the owners of Löbichau Castle . However, the timing is unknown.

Tannenfeld belonged as an accessory to Löbichau Castle to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which from the 16th century onwards was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies due to several divisions during its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603) , Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, Tannenfeld belonged to the Eastern District (until 1900) and to the Ronneburg District Office (from 1900). From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 Tannenfeld came to the district of Gera as part of the municipality of Kleinstechau .

With the incorporation of the community of Kleinstechau into Löbichau, Tannenfeld became a district of the community of Löbichau on July 1, 1950. During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus, Tannenfeld came as a district of the municipality of Löbichau with the district of Schmölln to the district of Leipzig , which had belonged to Thuringia since 1990 as the district of Schmölln and which became part of the district of Altenburger Land during the Thuringian district reform in 1994 .

Tannenfeld palace complex

The small late baroque palace complex with a landscape park in the English style was built around 1800 as a summer residence for the then Duchess Dorothea von Kurland , who had acquired the place in 1796 in connection with Löbichau Palace. Together with Löbichau Castle , the "Schlösschen Tannenfeld" formed the so-called "Musenhof Löbichau" until 1821. Especially through its owner, it attracted numerous illustrious guests from politics and cultural life such as Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , Jean Paul and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

In 1899, Dr. Arthur Tecklenburg (1870–1957), a student of Otto Binswanger , who taught in nearby Jena , bought the property and built a sophisticated private sanctuary and nursing home for psychiatry and neurology , where the young Hans Fallada was a patient from February 1912 to July 1913. The castle was largely redesigned in 1899, and in 1911 a stylish extension and the creation of a small French garden to the south took place. Tecklenburg extended the entire complex to the "Kurhaus Tannenfeld". He built ward houses and villas with illustrious names such as Tannegg, Planegg, Talegg-Waldegg and in 1910 the Brunegg house as a reception building and chief doctor's apartment. Farm buildings and water tower were built in 1905. In the 1920s, two lounge halls were added to the park.

The 15 hectare park with rare trees was renovated, and from 1908 a large number of azaleas and rhododendrons were planted in great biodiversity. The center of the park, which merged into the forest, was a delightful pond with an island and a small stream running through it.

Tecklenburg's successor was his son-in-law Dr. Lemmer. After his death, the expropriation of the castle in 1945 under the Soviet occupation and further pressure, the now 79-year-old Tecklenburg decided in 1949 to hand over the houses that were left to him to the social security institution of the State of Thuringia. From 1951 to 1985 the facility housed a specialist clinic for neurology and psychiatry. After Director Rolf Schubert (1950 to 1985) left the company, there was no successor in this field. A rehabilitation center for cardiovascular diseases, psychosomatic disorders and rheumatic diseases moved into the building, most recently an old people's home.

Since 2002/2004 the castle and the houses have been almost all empty. The landscape park has retained its charm, even if the former center of the pond is completely muddy. One of the two lounges has fallen into disrepair.

The entire Tannenfeld complex is a cultural monument under the Thuringian Monument Protection Act. In 2017, the Altenburger Land district sold the entire facility to a group of investors who want to build a care home for people with dementia there .