Waldgasthof Schöffenhaus
The Waldgasthof Schöffenhaus is a historic inn in the Thuringian Forest between Ilmenau , Manebach and Elgersburg .
location
The Schöffenhaus is located at 682 m above sea level in the Steingrund , a valley between the 700.9 m high Großer Spiegelsberg in the east and the 769 m high Heidelberg in the west.
The path leading south through the valley ends after about 1.26 km in Manebach .
history
The property is located on a historic trade route that led across the Thuringian Forest.
In 1746 the last free court took place on the Schöffenwiese .
The Schöffenhaus was founded by Alexander Hermann Sigmund Wörmer, a merchant's son from Hamburg , who came to Elgersburg in 1896 and took over a porcelain factory there. After he had failed with this venture, he bought the Schöffenwiesen and first built a log house there , which he used as a forestry. In 1906 he had the multi-storey aldermen's house built, which opened as a pub and guesthouse at the solstice in 1907 , and ran the restaurant together with his wife.
Later he bought more forest and meadow land and after the First World War built the Deutsche Hütte with a lookout tower on the Heidelberg in the immediate vicinity of the main restaurant . The hut received a gastronomic license in 1922, but it burned down on April 5th of the following year. After the construction of a somewhat smaller replacement building, the inn was continued, but the hut had to be demolished after the Second World War due to war damage.
Wörmer called his property the “Höhenluftkurort Wörmersche Schöffenwiesenbesitzungen” and had been running a kind of adventure gastronomy there since the 1920s, which for example had its own toboggan run and offered sun meadows at 650 m for relaxation . The building family continued the business until the mid-1950s. In 1956 the facility was taken over by the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk ( RAW ) Cottbus as a holiday property.
The Schöffenhaus has existed in its current form since 1993. In 2001 the house came into private ownership and is continued as a gastronomic business and holiday property.
meaning
The Schöffenhaus gained notoriety beyond Thuringia in the 1930s and 1940s when the humorous narrator Kurt Kluge published popular key novels about the Schöffenwirt, known as the original in Ilmenau, and his activities (especially Der Herr Kortüm , 1938).
Although not yet available during Goethe's lifetime , the Schöffenhaus is now the fourth station on the famous Ilmenau Goethe hiking trail .
On May 20, 2015, the Waldgasthof Schöffenhaus was recognized as a recognized partner of the UNESCO Vessertal-Thuringian Forest biosphere reserve .
literature
- “100 Years of Schöffenhaus”, published by the Tourist Association and the Local History Association Manebach e. V.
Web link
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- ↑ a b c Information board at the house
- ↑ a b c d History of the Schöffenhaus ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the inn, accessed on October 11, 2016.
- ^ Kutzbach, Karl August: Kluge, Kurt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 142-144 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Report on the website of the city administration of Ilmenau from June 8, 2015, accessed on October 11, 2016.
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↑ Quote from the inn's website (accessed November 16, 2016):
- The 16-page special issue "100 Years of Schöffenhaus", published by the tourist and local history association Manebach eV, is available in the Schöffenhaus, the AZ Markt or in the Haus des Gastes Manebach for € 2.80.
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 22.7 " N , 10 ° 51 ′ 47.7" E