Bauerbach

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Location of Bauer Bach in grave field (municipality )

The Evangelical Church in Bauer Bach

Bauer Bach is since 1 January 2012 the municipality of grave field. The town is located south of Meiningen in Thuringia, near the border with Bavaria. Prior to its incorporation, the municipality of the administrative community salt bridge belonged to.

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Geography

Bauer Bach is located in a hilly area at the transition from the Rhön the grave field at the threshold of francs.

History

The place was first mentioned in 887. At that time the place was a basic rule of the monastery of Fulda. 1297 the site was sold by the Counts of Henneberg to the nobility and thus became one of the typical imperial knights nomic villages of the area. 1697-1853 had the Wolzogen of the estate held.

Bauer 1671-1682 Bach was affected by witch hunts: Five women and two men got into witch trials. Barbara Katz, an old woman who was beheaded in a witch trial, then burned. Her two grandchildren Hans Valentin Katzenberger (12 years ) and Maria Dorothea Voeller (9 years) were flogged.

Of special importance was the place 1782/1783, as Friedrich Schiller on the run from the Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg on the estate of Wolzogen family for half a year found shelter as Dr. Ritter. The family he had met through a fellow at the Military Academy High School in Stuttgart, Karl. His mother, Henrietta of Wolzogen, who lived in a farmhouse in the creek manor, took a liking to the literary talents of the young Schiller and had previously offered him the property in case of danger. He held here in close contact with the librarian Reinwald from Meiningen, who supplied him with books, and later his brother was. In Bauer Bach, he wrote to his works Intrigue and Love and Don Carlos. He also sought a marriage with the daughter of the house, Charlotte Wolzogen, on what was a chance because of his precarious existence. He left Bauer Bach on July 24, 1783.

Until the mid- 19th century, many Jewish families had settled in the village, which accounted for up to one third of the population. They put a Jewish cemetery on a hill outside the town, which is one with its 365 obtained grave stones of the largest in southern Thuringia. He was desecrated during the pogrom of November 1938 by SA men.

In the era of National Socialism, the synagogue escaped on the main road 58 of the destruction because they 1937 " arisiert " and had been converted into living accommodation. The 1933 eleven Jewish residents emigrated or were victims of Nazi extermination policy. During the Second World War, 13 men and women from Poland, Serbia and Ukraine were made to do forced labor on farms.

In 1959, the 200th anniversary of Schiller, the worker and peasant theater Friedrich Schiller was founded, the Schiller pieces priority lists in a natural theater on the outskirts. Since 1990, it is e of the 130 members of the Charity Village Theater " Friedrich Schiller" Bauer V. Bach operated and managed by professional directors.

On 1 January 2012, the municipality lost its political independence and was incorporated into grave field. Last Mayor Rosemarie was Fickel of the liberal voters.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

• 2004: 291
• 2005: 283
• 2006: 277
• 2007: 271

Policy

The council was composed of four members of the Free Voters Association Bauer Bach and two members of the sports community Bauer Bach.

Culture and sights

• Besides the aforementioned nature of theater, a farmer Bach Schiller Museum of the poet, which is housed in a handsome half-timbered house 's former home.
• The Gasthof Zum brown horse was obtained from Schiller's day. The inn was renovated in 1992, next to a barn theater was established.
• The Evangelical Church was from 1839 to 1841 to the designs of AW Doebner built. The neo-Gothic hall building with roof turret stands on the foundations of an earlier building and was renovated in 1997 with support from the German Foundation for Monument Protection.
• The Jewish cemetery was established in 17-18. Century.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Bauer Bach is located approximately eight kilometers from the motorway exit Meiningen south of the A71 motorways. In addition, Bauer Bach is accessible via Situated on the main road L3019 Henneberg.