Zschachenmühle
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Zschachenmühle
community Remptendorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 7 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 27 ″ E
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| Height : | 450 m above sea level NN |
| Postal code : | 07368 |
| Area code : | 036652 |
The Zschachenmühle is currently about a dozen buildings and several hectares comprehensive property at the confluence of frost Bach and Sormitz in südostthüringischen community Remptendorf (administratively part of Remptendorfer hamlet Gahma ) in the Saale-Orla .
From 1933–1945 it was the seat of the Thuringian fire brigade school and was used as a barracks from 1957 until the end of the GDR after the Second World War. Today, the Zschachenmühle is the domicile of an artist commune founded by the former conceptual artist Siddhartha Y Fongi in the mid-1990s .
history
Due to its gradient and abundance of water, there were several water-powered mills along the Sormitz between Wurzbach (525 m above sea level) and Leutenberg (300 m above sea level) as early as the 19th century. The Zschachenmühle below Wurzbach was built and used as a wood sawmill around 1840, before it burned down twice in the following years and, during the subsequent reconstruction, was also structurally expanded and finally served as an inn with an attached guesthouse.
After the owner went bankrupt, Zschachenmühle was a fire department rest home from 1927 . In 1929 the state of Thuringia decided to create its own fire brigade school, and so the building complex of the Zschachenmühle was inaugurated as the Thuringian state fire brigade school in March 1933. The then Thuringian fire brigade leader Ernst Pabst from Leutenberg subsequently made a significant contribution to improving the care of fire fighters and their families who had had an accident through appropriate laws. In the war years 1939–1945, the school also took on air defense training.
From April to the beginning of July 1945, Zschachenmühle, like the rest of Thuringia, belonged to the part of the Soviet occupation zone briefly occupied by American troops and later GDR , where it was used as a cutting mill until 1955 and from 1957 until reunification by the GDR border police , from 1961 to the border troops the GDR , as military grounds and barracks were used. In the years 1964–1967, the NVA maintained the ASG Vorwärts Zschachenmühle soccer club here .
In 1990 the then Lobenstein district and with it the Zschachenmühle became part of the Thuringian Slate Mountains / Obere Saale Nature Park .
At the beginning of the 1990s, members of the Association for the Promotion of Holistic Lifestyle and Cultural Care e. V. took over the vacant property and the buildings on it, which they finally acquired in 1995 and have been gradually repairing and using them since then. The members of the association for the promotion of a holistic way of life and cultural maintenance e. V. are followers of the Bhagwan Rajneesh movement ( Osho ).
present
Today, in addition to the living and meditation rooms of the around 20 permanent residents, there are also several artist studios, a music and dance workshop and in the old mill house a stone shop with an attached mineral collection, whose most spectacular exhibit - one of the world's largest rock crystal balls (see below) - is located on the grounds of the Zschachenmühle. can be visited in the Zschachenmühle park during the warm season. A small farmer's museum collects and presents old agricultural technology from the region, and an open-air exhibition scattered over the entire site shows scrap sculptures by the metal sculptor Mandir Karamol, who works in the Zschachenmühle, all year round.
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| One of the world's largest rock crystal balls, in the background the gym of the former Thuringian fire brigade school | "Demilitarized" GDR bunker, including: Scrap sculpture by Mandir Karamol in the "Sea of Unconsciousness" | Rose quartz-adorned pavilion by Mandir Karamol, including: Open-air museum of ancient agricultural technology | Restored hose tower of the former Thuringian fire brigade school (design: Shunyam Peter Schaden and Mandir Karamol) |
Transport links
The B 90 from Hockeroda to Bad Lobenstein runs directly past the Zschachenmühle , about 100 meters above the property the Sormitztalbahn from Saalfeld to Blankenstein , which opened in 1907, with the former Zschachenmühle stop point , from which you can continue to Hof via the Höllentalbahn until 1945 could travel in Bavaria. After the dilapidated bus shelter had already been torn down in summer 2011, the demand stop was also discontinued due to the lack of passengers when the timetable was changed in December 2011.
The Zschachenmühle is not directly connected by any line.
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siddhartha Y Fongi's website
- ↑ a b Information board of the Wurzbach city administration at the Zschachenmühle DB stop for the 100th anniversary of the Sormitztalbahn in 2007
- ↑ a b Timetable for the development of the Thuringian fire brigade schools ( memento from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ernst Pabst (in the first row, 2nd from left, sitting on two chairs) , in: Course participants August 29, 1937 - September 4, 1937 at the Thuringian Fire Brigade School in Zschachenmühle ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 13, 2011
- ↑ Wolfgang Conrad, Andreas Ritter: The History of the Gotha Fire Brigade ( Memento from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 13, 2011
- ↑ Volker Wahl : Thuringia under American occupation (April to July 1945) (PDF; 4.2 MB) State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2001
- ^ Football clubs of the Gera district league 1952–1991
- ↑ Lt. Inquiries at the Association for the Promotion of Holistic Lifestyle and Cultivation of Culture e. V. , January 2011.
- ↑ http://www.oshostadt.de/
- ↑ scrap sculptures of Mandir Karamol
- ↑ Shunyam Peter Damage. Art & Meditation
- ↑ Tino Zippel; Thuringia cancels three train stops ; Ostthüringer Zeitung of September 16, 2011 , accessed on September 20, 2011
