Weißbach (Thuringia)

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Hills / valleys
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.29 km 2
Residents:	108 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	20 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07646
Area code :	036426
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 108
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 14c 07646 Weissbach
Website :	www.huegelland-taeler.de
Mayor :	Hans-Jürgen Liebscher
Location of the municipality of Weißbach in the Saale-Holzland district

Weißbach is a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district and part of the Hügelland / Täler administrative community in Thuringia.

geography

The place is located in the southeastern Saale-Holzland district and almost borders the Saale-Orla district . The district is in the Saale-Elster sandstone slab and is surrounded by meadows, fields and forests. The village is located in the valley of the Weißbach and on its slopes.

Church in Weißbach

history

It was first mentioned in documents around 1400. The place was and is characterized by agriculture and forestry. From 1952 the farmers in Weißbach, which belonged to the Soviet-occupied zone from 1945 and to the GDR from 1949, had to take the path of collectivization of their farms. After the fall of the Wall they found new forms of collaboration.

→ See also Weißbach village church

traffic

The small community is away from the main streams of traffic. The federal highway 281 runs about 10 kilometers south of Weißbach. The closest motorway junction is Hermsdorf -Süd on Autobahn 9 . Weißbach is connected to the cities of Hermsdorf and Stadtroda with the line 427 of the transport company Andreas Schröder . The nearest train stations are Neustadt (Orla) (about 10 kilometers away on the Saalfeld – Gera line ) and Stadtroda (about 13 kilometers away on the Holzlandbahn Erfurt – Weimar – Jena – Gera).

Personalities

• Karl Kleinschmidt (1902-1978), co-founder of the German religious socialists was 1928-1931 Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the place

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ 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. 307.

Web links

Commons : Weißbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• huegelland-taeler.de