Truckenthal

Truckenthal City of Schalkau Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	432 m above sea level NN
Residents :	269  (2012)
Incorporation :	June 1, 1992
Postal code :	96528
Area code :	036766
Location of Truckenthal in Schalkau
Former school in Truckenthal

Truckenthal is a district of Schalkau in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia .

location

Truckenthal is located between Theuern and Schalkau on Landesstrasse 1112 , which connects Schalkau via the Thuringian Forest to the areas around Ilmenau and Arnstadt . The area around Truckenthal is connected with narrow mountain valleys, meadows, forests and, on flat surfaces, with farming. The brook Truckenthaler Wasser flows through the place. The Truckenthal viaduct on the northern outskirts is a 425 meter long, double-track railway overpass on the new Ebensfeld-Erfurt line .

history

1358-1362 was the first documentary mention of the place.

Truckenthal is a place characterized by agriculture and forestry, which improves the source of income with tourism . In 1910 the place had 431 and 1939 379 inhabitants.

1957 was in a pioneer - camps "Young Guard", were able to spend their holidays in the children and adolescents.

In 2012, 269 residents live in Truckenthal, which has been a district of Schalkau since June 1, 1992.

dialect

Itzgründisch , a Main Franconian dialect, is spoken in Truckenthal .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 290.
2. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Sonneberg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 

Web links

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