Pigtails

Pigtails Probstzella municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 11"  E
Height :	355 m above sea level NN
Area :	4.08 km²
Residents :	238
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1957
Postal code :	07330
Area code :	036735
Location of Zopten in Thuringia
Zopten, former school house

Zopten is a district of Probstzella in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .

geography

The village is located in the valley of the Zopte , which flows 1.5 kilometers east of the village in Probstzella into the Loquitz . The place is 350 meters above sea level. NN. The location is separated into Ober- and Unterzopten because of the difference in altitude . The district is 407.99 hectares.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document on March 9, 1323. Two medieval settler farms developed separately as one hamlet each and soon united. The place name was borrowed from the flowing water. Around 1500 there was a manor of the Ratzenberger family. Administratively they were subordinate to the County of Orlamünde- Lauenstein and later to the Office of Graefenthal . In 1800 a brewery was named. In 1862 49 families lived up there with 238 people who worked in agriculture and in slate quarries.

With the opening of the Probstzella – Bock-Wallendorf railway on October 15, 1898, Zopten received a railway connection with the station of the same name. On January 22nd, 1997 the tourist traffic in the section Ernstthal-Probstzella was stopped, on July 1st, 2006 this section was closed.

In 1957 it was incorporated into Probstzella.

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. 326.
2. ↑ Information about the location on the website of the municipality of Probstzella ( Memento from May 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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