Steinach, Thuringia

Steinach is a town at the juncture of the Thuringian Slate Mountains on the Franconian Forest. It is now dominated by tourism and winter sports facilities and a nationally recognized resort. Previously Steinach was an industrial town with mining of iron ore and delivered to the entire world pen slate and a pronounced toy industry.

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 educational institutions
• 5.3 offices
• 5.4 Leisure and sports facilities

Geography

Steinach is located in the valley of the Steinach. It is bounded on the northeast by the Great Tierberg. The Small Animal Berg ( mountain goat ) sticks out like a horn into the city and is populated. In the southwest Steinach is limited by Lark and Miihlberg. The fur mountain and the stone Heiderberg narrow the spread of the city in the west to a north-west. In the north, bordering the Steinach Göritz mountain. In the Steinach the Goldbächlein and Göritz lead. In the northeast, the direction Haselbach, is the bismuth pond - a former opencast Wismut which gradually filled with water. Swimming is prohibited.

History

1058, the river name " Steinacha " was first mentioned. In 1414 there were several iron works on the Steinach. An iron work is from 1519 shown as a hammer Master Hans Leutheuser receives permission " eyn Zcerennwerk to Eysenwerk under the Dyerberg on the Steinach in the woods " to create. In the form of forest forging the first Verhüttungen took place in the vicinity of the ore deposits. First, a racing fire, which was about 1528 expanded to the hammer work was created. Between 1604 and 1612 was Thomas Paul from Nuremberg to renew the existing hammer mills in the upper valley of the Steinach.

1567 Steinach was run as a settlement with a bailiff. After 1652 a school and house of worship was dedicated, a pastorate, the cemetery was eight years later built and created. The foundation stone of the old church took place in 1684 and the building then took 21 years.

1699 acquired the powerful overseer and mountain Scheider John of Uttenhoven, who came from the Erzgebirge, the Hammer of plants Obersteinach and settled 60 Saxon working-class families in Oberndorf. 1717/1718 he was a representative residential building, the old castle on Steinheider mountain, build. 1747 began the overseer Johann Tobias Otto with the construction of the new castle, the " Ottenhof ". A mill for the production of marbles was built in 1769. 1799 Steinach received the right to hold twice yearly fairs.

1844 the village of Steinach and the hammer Obersteinach were combined. In the same year the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen acquired the mines and cabins. For the workers, thus ending the bondage similar dependence of the hut masters. However, the mining industry has gradually been unprofitable. The of the last blast furnace and thus the end of the iron ore mining was 1867. Only the iron foundry was established in Steinach and formed next to a glass factory, the toy manufacturing and Griffelmacherei the economic base of the community. 1899, the basilica church was consecrated to a design by architect Franz Schwechten. In 1920 received a city charter Steinach. To prevent destruction of the city in 1945 by citizens were handed over to the American troops. 1961, the district Sonneberg except Steinach was declared a restricted area boundary. Steinach now had about 8000 inhabitants. 1989 that was the Monday demonstrations held in the Steinach church.

Since 2007, planned Steinach and the neighboring town of Lauscha to unite in Steinach Lauscha. Today, enhanced cooperation in the triangle of Steinach Lauscha -Neuhaus am Rennweg is sought. The municipal association will form a part of functional regional center, which was provided in the National Development Plan 2004, nor as a means center Neuhaus am Rennweg / Lauscha.

Policy

City ​​council

The City Council consists of 16 members and is composed as follows since the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, together:

• Together for Steinach ( GfS ): 5 seats ( 1)
• CDU: 4 seats (-1)
• LEFT: 3 seats (± 0)
• FDP: 2 seats (± 0)
• SPD: 2 seats ( 1)

In the election of the mayor on April 22, 2012, Ulrich Kurtz, candidate of the voter community together for Steinach, re-elected with 64.7 % of votes. The turnout was 65.5 %.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows on both sides of the main industries that are established in Steinach or were. On the left, slate pencils and slates can be seen that were exported from Steinach from all over the world. On the right side of the stacked cubes symbolize the toy industry in Steinach. In the middle of the Steinach flows.

Partnerships

Since 1991 Steinach connects a partnership with the community Württemberg basket.

Since November 17, 2012, there is also an official twinning with the city Gostyn in Poland.

Culture and sights

• Ensemble Sankt - Peter- and-Paul's Basilica and Southern school in Church Street
• Ensemble Marketplace
• 11 surviving wells in different designs

Southern school

North School

Museums

• Slate Museum in the New Castle is the only museum of its kind that treats the shale industry, as well as the theoretical foundations of the shale
• Museum Steinacher toy box in the New Castle, as a collection of toys manufactured goods in Steinach from different times.

Slate scoring machine for scribing lines in slates, slate museum

Shale processing, Slate Museum

Regular events

• Annually in May: Festival of Choral Music
• Early / mid-June: Steinacher Fountain Festival ( four days )
• Last weekend in June: Bird Mountain Festival
• In mid-July Downhill " 111 miles from the Silver Saddle "
• In the 3rd week of July, there is a sculpture symposium with a series of cultural events high-standard since 2005
• 3rd weekend in August: Steinacher consecration ( Stänichä Kerwa ) ( four days; biggest beer festival in southern Thuringia )
• Second weekend of Advent: Christmas under the "Silver bells " (2 days)
• Second weekend in December: Opening of the Thuringian Skiwinters in the ski arena Silbersattel

Economy and infrastructure

The economy Steinach is now dominated by tourism and here in particularly through the winter sports. Especially the skiing on the Silver Saddle ( Fellberg ) is popular with many tourists. Another mainstay of the economy is the toy industry ( Marolin, Plaho, Ogas ), as well as an iron foundry for hand molding ( Heunisch - casting).

Traffic

If you follow the Lauschaer road towards the north, you will reach Steinheid, Lauscha and finally to Neuhaus am Rennweg. In the south, the sun Berger road leads to plate hammer, Hüttengrund and finally to Sonneberg. The Haselbacher road leads to Haselbach, Hasenthal and Esch Thal (now also districts of the city of Sonneberg ) and the Old Hämmerer way to Mengersgereuth- hammers.

Due to the local situation leads which opened on October 1, 1886 railway Sonnenberg Probstzella, with the stations " Steinach ( door )" and " Steinach ( door ) South ".

Educational institutions

• KiTa "Villa Sunshine " in the ring road
• Southern school Steinach State Primary School at the Julius- Knye Street and Church Street
• Northern School Steinach State normal school in Lauscha road

Offices

• Tourist Office, Dr.- Max people -Straße 21
• Post office, Bahnhofstrasse 11
• Registration Office, Market Square 4
• Police Directorate, Market Square 4
• Registry Office, Market Square 4

Leisure and sports facilities

• Ski Arena Silbersattel as the largest ski area in Thuringia
• Steinacher high ropes course
• Skiflyer witness a world first here Ski Jumping
• Sports hall and bowling alley in Scotland 27
• Youth and club house in Church Street 2
• Ski and snowboard school at the Silver Saddle in the winter season
• Sports field
• City Library with internet workstations

Personalities

• Horst mercury (* 1943), German ski jumper
• Helmut Müller ( born 1937 ), football player
• Werner Linß ( b. 1937 ), football player
• Bertram Weigel (1950-1976), artist
• Tzschach Ernst (1911-1971), football goalkeeper

Dialect

The Steinach dialect is the most north-eastern variant of Itzgründischen which goes over the language border at the Rennsteig Südostthüringische. At the beginning of the 20th century dialect boundary running through the middle of Steinach and separated the former Upper village, as the adjacent Lauscha had a Bohemian- Swabian colored local dialect, which had an Erzgebirge - südmeißenischen impact in Obersteinach, from the lower village closely associated with the sun Berger dialect itzgründischen dialect. Later there was a unit of the villages and the Oberdörfer language and it outweighed the itzgründische dialect. The Steinach dialect is among the Main-Franconian dialects. As an example of dialect poetry here is a poem about the nickname of the city is listed. The author is unknown.