Unteralba

Unteralba Dermbach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	369 m
Residents :	860
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	36466
Area code :	036964
Location of Unteralba in Dermbach
The village green in Unteralba.

Unteralba ( Rhöner Platt : Öngerall) is a district of the municipality of Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . On the place name sign it has the name Weltmeisterdorf Unteralba .

Location, general

Unteralba is located in the southwestern part of the Wartburg district at about 380 m above sea level. NN . The place lies at the foot of the 714 m high Baier and has 860 inhabitants. Upper and Lower Alb are located on an old north-south connection that comes from the Wiesenthaler Pass, strives up to the Emberg and then continues towards Geisa.

In contrast to Oberalba , which is located directly below the source of the Alba, Unteralba is about 1.5 km further downstream, from which the name ("on the lower Alba") can be derived. The Alba , still known as "Albaha" in the Middle Ages, then flows into the Felda River after another 3.5 km near the settlement of Hartschbeln .

Streets

• Kirchweg
• Friedhofstrasse
• Schmiedestrasse
• Oberalbaer Strasse
• Backhausstrasse
• Alexanderstrasse
• Mühlenstrasse
• Burgstrasse
• Holdenburgstrasse
• Lindigstrasse
• Melting gate

history

The place was first mentioned in 1183 as "Albaha", in 1325 the two places "Alba and Alba" are historically attested. The village of Unteralba, located close to Dermbach, was a farming village in the Middle Ages, the residents were initially parish and schooled in Dermbach.

As a result of the efforts to recatholize the Fulda prince abbots in the upper Feldatal at the beginning of the 18th century, tensions arose over the denominational affiliation of the individual places in the Fischberg district . In 1708 the Protestant church in Unteralba was consecrated. It is a simple stone building in the Baroque style. The portal on the west side is almost the only decoration. In the village there is a partially preserved mill at the end of Mühlstrasse. A memorial for the fallen of the First World War was erected opposite the village cemetery. Unteralba had its own school built before the First World War. After the National Socialist seizure of power, the economically disadvantaged region in the center of the Thuringian Rhön was to be supported by infrastructure buildings that were upgraded for propaganda purposes and job creation measures. The guest house on the Katzenstein (near Brunnhartshausen ) and the new wood carving school in Empfertshausen were built near the village, and some new farms were to be built near Unteralba and other parts of the Rhön. In 1955 there were 862 inhabitants.

After the First World War, the Mainz poet Hans Teske , a young man who was close to nature and traumatized by war experiences, moved to Unteralba with his wife Nana Teske (a sculptor) and three small children. On the small plot of land with a spring that he acquired on the southern slope of the Baier, he built the “Sonnenhof” house with his own hands. The small house served the artists as a place of work and a place of refuge because he had kept contact with his fellow men to a minimum. Until his untimely death in 1934, Teske became known locally through numerous articles in his home calendars and daily newspapers in the Rhön. Later, an allotment garden with weekend houses was built in the vicinity of the Sonnenhof.

Legends about Unteralba

* 491.Das Schloß am Beyer (from the book: Ch.Ludw.Wucke, Sagen der Mittel Werra, the bordering slopes of the Thuringian Forest, the Vorder- and Hohe Rhön, (...), Verlag H.Kahle, Eisenach, 1891 )

Between the "Hollerborn" and the "Goldborn", just below the Beyerskuppe, a castle is said to have stood on a gentle hill overgrown with beech and maple, but there is no trace of it. But one still suspects a cellar at that point because the floor sounds hollow underfoot. In a border dispute between Count von Henneberg and Ludwig von Boyneburg and Lengsfeld, this castle was mentioned around 1535 to 1540. Otto Schmidt, Schultheiss zu Urnshausen, one of the witnesses in this dispute, said that he had heard many times from old people that Beyer belonged to the Fischberg office. There was a castle there long ago, and when the owners of it wanted to "hang out" on horseback after the church and their wives and maidens wanted to sit down and rest, they did so at Niederalba "on the long stone" not far from the chapel that was still standing in honor of St. Nicholas, which this knight built earlier, where the church at Dermbach had been. There would also be a stone coffin under the Vespers image of "Our dear women", in which the bones of two young women from the castle on the Beyer would still lie. (The same legend was told by a 78-year-old man from Lengers (Lenders) in 1854) .- The chapel mentioned has also long since disappeared.

Fair

There are several associations in the village that play a key role in shaping the cultural life of the place. In the country hotel "Zum Baier" the fair takes place once a year, usually in mid-October , which is probably the cultural highlight of every year. The fair is celebrated to commemorate the dedication of the church.

View from the glasses mountain on the place

literature

• Adalbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön . St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 , p. 77-80 .
• Bruno Kühn: The history of the Dermbach district . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . tape 1 . Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Jena 1854, p. 249-296 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
2. ^ Paul Luther: Materials for local history lessons - Bad Salzungen district, Suhl district . Ed .: Council of the Bad Salzungen District, Department of Public Education. Bad Salzungen 1959, structure of the district of Suhl (overview of the places and population of the districts), p. 5-11 .
3. ↑ Eva Ries: Hans Teske, an uncomfortable ghost in the Rhön Club . In: Rhönklub (Ed.): Rhönwacht . No. 3 , 1994, ISSN  0936-1723 , pp. 15 .