Viernau
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Viernau
City of Steinbach-Hallenberg
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| Height : | 400 m |
| Area : | 15.9 km² |
| Residents : | 1926 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 121 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 98547 |
| Area code : | 036847 |
Viernau is a district of the town of Steinbach-Hallenberg in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in the Franconian south of Thuringia .
geography
Viernau lies on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1274 .
Viernau was persecuted by witches from 1629 to 1711 : nine women and one man got into witch trials . Two accused were cremated: In 1657 the landlord Hans Furche was sentenced to death at the stake. The outcome of the trials against his wife and two daughters is unknown.
The municipality of Viernau was incorporated into the city of Steinbach-Hallenberg on January 1, 2019. Before that, the municipality of Viernau belonged to the Haselgrund administrative community , whose seat it was.
politics
Municipal council
The local council from Viernau consisted of 14 councilors.
(As of: local elections on June 7, 2009 )
mayor
The honorary mayor Ms. Monique Avemarg was elected in July 2016.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on April 28, 1993.
Blazon : "In gold under a red shield head, inside a four-toothed golden saw, a black raven with spread wings."
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldists Frank Diemar and Frank Jung .
economy
There is a 4.5 hectare solar power plant near Viernau . This “solar park” is not owned by the municipality. The for Knipex group of companies belonging Rennsteig Tools GmbH is headquartered with a manufacturing facility in Viernau.
Culture and sights
Half-timbered houses with slate fittings are characteristic of the town center around the Protestant St. John's Church .
Historical monuments
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In the mid-1920s, the municipality of Viernau had the war memorial erected on the main road to Schmalkalden in honor of the "heroes" who fell in World War I. The memorial survived the Second World War and the GDR era and is in a neat condition.
In June 1989, the relatives of two young Italians who died in forced labor in 1943 donated a memorial stone in the cemetery, where they expressed their thanks to two local families for caring for their relatives' graves over many years. These had worked as military internees at the Menz sawmill . Even prisoners of war from Poland and France (50 people), and women and men from the Soviet Union had to do forced labor: in the tool factory Richard Henkel , the sawmill Georg Ullmer and various wood workshops.
Regular events
The Viernauer Gagen Carnival takes place every year. For this occasion a “triumvirate” is chosen, consisting of prince, princess and court marshal. On Rose Monday, the same procedure takes place with young people in grade 8. A “court” is also formed here. Every second year the note makers from Weil am Rhein are guests. In 2010 there was the 57th Viernau Carnival, which, like every year before, is crowned with two parades. The first is on Sunday and the second on Rose Monday. The battle cry has changed over the course of time: If it was originally called “Alibaba Gag-Gag”, nowadays people only shout “Gag Helau”.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Adolf Anschütz (1889–1945), German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
- Alwin Günther (1906–1979), German politician (KPD / SED), trade unionist and resistance fighter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 390 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Viernau area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 253, (also: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000); Manfred Wilde : The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-10602-X , pp. 518-522 and p. 617, (also: Chemnitz, Technical University, habilitation paper, 2002).
- ↑ Online project Memorials to Fallen. Viernau, Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, Thuringia.
- ↑ 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. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 .
