Thierstein (Fichtel Mountains)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '  N , 12 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains
Management Community :	Thiersheim
Height :	600 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.93 km 2
Residents:	1162 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	90 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	95199
Area code :	09235
License plate :	WUN, MAK, REH , SEL
Community key :	09 4 79 159
Market structure:	15 districts
Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 95199 Thierstein
Website :	www.thierstein.de
Mayor :	Thomas Schoberth (FWG)
Location of the Thierstein market in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains

Thierstein - view from the east

Thierstein - view from the north (from the A 93 motorway)

Thierstein - view from the south

Thierstein is a market in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge ( administrative region of Upper Franconia ) and a member of the Thiersheim administrative community .

geography

Thierstein is located in the Fichtel Mountains near the border with the Czech Republic, directly on the federal motorway 93 (junction 10, Höchstädt).

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of Thierstein start clockwise in the north: Selb , Hohenberg an der Eger , Thiersheim , Höchstädt i.Fichtelgebirge and Marktleuthen . Höchstädt is directly adjacent to the west.

Community structure

Thierstein consists of a total of 15 districts:

Birkenbühl Dangesbühl Harbor deck Hendelhammer Hohenmühle

Kaiserhammer Neudürrlas Öchslersmühle Pan handle Little castle

Schwarzenhammer Black pond Thierstein Laundry pond Brick hut

history

Until the church is planted

The name Thierstein was first recorded on March 20, 1340 in a document issued by Albrecht der Nothaft von Tirstein in the district archive of Eger (Cheb). Three years later, on July 16, 1343 , Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian enfeoffed Albrecht Nothaft with Thierstein Castle, which he built "on the Reichß Perg und Poden" . At the end of the 14th century , the Notthracht family sold the Thierstein estate, which also included the Thiersheim and Marktleuthen markets and a number of villages in the area, to Margrave Wilhelm I of Meißen. From his heirs, the castle and its territory came to the Burgraves of Nuremberg from the Hohenzollern family in 1415 . They occupied the castle with officials, including Oswalt von Truhendingen . In 1603 Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg ordered the abandonment of the castle and the construction of a new office building outside the town of Thierstein. The castle was left to decay.

The Thierstein market was founded as a castle settlement. Similar to Hohenberg an der Eger , where the margravial government still endeavored in 1499 by granting all kinds of freedoms "that more men would be made there in front of the castle", the emergency authorities will also have given their castle settlement all kinds of rights and freedoms To attract craftsmen and other willing settlers. A document dated May 10, 1399, in which Margrave Wilhelm I of Meißen confirmed the freedoms, rights and customs of the citizens of Thiersheim to the citizens of Thiersheim, proves that the Noth carry were able to grant privileges for the places in their possession they “had previously from the honorable Peter Nothaft”.

For the 15th century , Thierstein has a magistrate constitution with its own council seal. In 1725 the place was largely cremated by a fire that broke out in the rectory; In 1945 it was partially destroyed by American artillery fire. The castle ruins, visible from afar, are a popular tourist destination; From the keep you can enjoy a wonderful all-round view of the entire interior of the Fichtelgebirge up to the Egerland.

In 1818 the political municipality was established.

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  View from the keep in north direction

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  View from the keep towards the northeast

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  View from the keep in east direction

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  View from the keep in south direction

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978, the municipality of Birkenbühl and parts of the dissolved municipality of Schwarzenhammer, which received its name on July 1, 1953 (previously Hebanz), were incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the population decreased from 1,365 to 1,149 by 216 inhabitants or 15.8%.

Municipal council

The local elections from 2002 to 2020 resulted in the following distribution of seats in the municipal council:

	2002	2008	2014	2020
CSU	7 *	7 *	4th	3
Free community of voters			3	6th
SPD	5	4th	4th	3
Alternative for Thierstein	n / A.	1	1	n / A.
total	12	12	12	12

*: In 2002 and 2008, the CSU and the Free Voting Community competed as a joint list.

Culture and sights

Sechsämterland fountain; in the background the castle ruins

graveyard

In the local cemetery, a collective grave with a memorial stone commemorates 69 concentration camp victims who lost their lives as a result of the Nazi tyranny and were buried here. The concentration camp prisoners died of exhaustion on the “evacuation march” from Buchenwald concentration camp to Flossenbürg concentration camp , or they were murdered by SS guards; their names are unknown. Their bodies were initially buried by the roadside or in the woods. He was transferred to the cemetery in June 1945, in June 1946 a memorial service took place in Thierstein, and the memorial was inaugurated in August 1948.

The Burgstall Foerles-Neudürrlas is a castle stable near Neudürrlas.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Thierstein

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gottlieb Adam Johann von Schallern (1766–1827), doctor

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Thierstein . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 539 ( digitized version ).
• Harald Stark : Castle and Office Thierstein . Selber Hefte Vol. 12. Selb 1993. ISBN 3-927313-07-6 .
• Harald Stark: The Notthracht family - looking for traces in Egerland, Bavaria and Swabia . Weißenstadt 2006. ISBN 3-926621-46-X .
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Höchstädt . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 634-635 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Thierstein (Fichtelgebirge)  - travel guide

Wikisource: Thierstein in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Entry on the coat of arms of Thierstein (Fichtelgebirge)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Seat Thierstein
• Website of the municipality of Thierstein
• Thierstein (Fichtelgebirge): Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/194552&attr=OBJ&val= 1311
3. ↑ Hans Vollet and Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . 1987.
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 598 .
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 700 .
6. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 195
7. ↑ See representation in Constanze Werner: KZ-Friedhöfe und Gedenkstätten in Bayern , Schnell and Steiner: Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3795424831 , pages 204–205; with map and photo of the monument.