Thierstein, Bavaria

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Thierstein is a market in the district of Wunsiedel ( government district of Upper Franconia ) and a member of the administrative community Thiersheim. The place is located in the Fichtel Mountains, near the border with the Czech Republic directly on the A93 (junction 10, Blenheim ).

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal

• 4.1 cemetery
• 4.2 monuments

Geography

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of Thierstein are clockwise beginning in the north: Selb, Hohenberg an der Eger, Thiersheim, Blenheim i.Fichtelgebirge and Marktleuthen.

Community structure

Thierstein consists of 15 districts:

• Birkenbühl
• Dangesbühl
• Hafendeck
• Hendelhammer
• Hohenmühle

• Kaiserhammer
• Neudürrlas
• Öchslersmühle
• Panhandle
• Schlößlein

• Black hammer
• Black pond
• Thierstein
• Wäschteich
• Ziegelhuette

History

The name Thierstein is first detected on 20 March 1340 a document issued by the Albrecht Nothaft of Tirstein certificate in the District Archives Eger ( Cheb). Three years later, on July 16, 1343, enfeoffed Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian Albrecht Nothaft with that of this "on the Reichß Perg and Poden " castle erected Thierstein. At the end of the 14th century, the family sold the Notthafft rule Thierstein, which also includes the markets Thiersheim and Marktleuthen and a number of villages in the area belonged to the Margrave William I of Meissen. From his heirs, the castle came with their area in 1415 at the castle of the Counts of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern. This occupied the castle with the sheriffs, which included among others Oswalt of Truhendingen. 1603 ordered Margrave George Frederick of Brandenburg, the abandonment of the castle and the construction of a new office building outside of town Thierstein. The castle was left to decay.

The market Thierstein was founded as a castle settlement. As in Hohenberg an der Eger, where the Margrave government was still 1499 committed by granting all sorts of liberties, "that would be made more team there before Sloss ," the Nothafft will have their castle settlement equipped with all kinds of rights and freedoms to artisans and other willing to settle to attract them. That the Nothafft were quite able to grant privileges for the places in their possession, proves a deed of 10 May 1399 in the Margrave William I of Meissen citizens to Thiersheim the freedoms, rights and customs confirmed the they ' ago by the honorable Peter Nothaft have had. "

For the 15th century a magistrate's constitution is proved with its own council seal of Thierstein. 1725, the village was largely incinerated by an escaped fire in the rectory; In 1945, he was partially destroyed by American artillery fire. The conspicuous ruined castle is a popular tourist destination; from the dungeon, you can enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of the entire interior of the Fichtelgebirge well into the Cheb region.

View from the keep to the northeast

View from the keep to the east

View from the keep to the south

Incorporations

On 1 January 1978, the municipality Birkenbühl as well as parts of the dissolved municipality Black Hammer, which got its name on July 1, 1953, (previously Hebanz ) incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

The local elections of 2002 and 2008 led to the following distribution of seats in municipal market:

Culture and sights

Cemetery

In the local cemetery reminds a common grave with a memorial stone at 69 concentration camp victims that have lost their lives in the Nazi tyranny and buried here. The concentration camp prisoners died on the " evacuation march " from the Buchenwald concentration camp for Flossenbiirg from exhaustion or were murdered by SS guards; their names are unknown. Their bodies were buried first at the roadside or in the woods. The transposition to the cemetery took place in June 1945, a memorial service was held in June 1946 in Thierstein, the memorial was inaugurated in August 1948.

The Postal Foerles - Neudürrlas is a castle barn near Neudürrlas.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Thierstein ( Fichtelgebirge)