Cursdorf
Cursdorf is a municipality in the district Saalfeld- Rudolstadt, in Thuringia ( Germany ). The municipality belongs to the administrative community mountain railway Region / Schwarzatal that. Their headquarters in the city Oberweißenbach / door Forest has.
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Geography
The small spa resort Cursdorf is the highest town in the region and is situated in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park on a mountain saddle between Schwarzatal and Lichtetal.
History
The church was first mentioned in 1537 as Cunradesdorf documented. The place where an ancient trade route from Erfurt to Nuernberg included in the County of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt. The population of the town was traditionally in forestry and in glass processing management, but also in Olitätenhandel. After the construction of gasworks in the neighboring Oberweißenbach and construction of a gas pipeline mainly the glass blowing was developed in Cursdorf from 1905. 1923 Cursdorf was the end point of Oberweißbacher mountain railway.
1920 was the place to Rudolstadt district, 1952 district Neuhaus am Rennweg.
End of the twenties was started under emergency conditions at the time of the Great Depression on the northern slope of the mountain rose with the construction of peace hill. With the completion in 1932 it was the largest natural ski jump in Europe, the hill record is 91.0 m. As G.Beyer participated from Cursdorf on a jump in Schierke, he moved Hans Renner to take the national team after Cursdorf. In your, well-known athletes like Harry Glaß, Werner Lesser, Franz Knappe, mercury, among others were so Today the plant is in the valley of the white Schwarza overgrown and barely perceptible yet.
Policy
Parish council
The Council of the Municipality Cursdorf Council consists of 8 women and councilors.
- CDU 5 seats
- SPD 3 seats
(As at municipal election on June 27, 2004)
Mayor
The honorary mayor Frank Eilhauer was re-elected on June 6, 2010.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on 2 December 1991.
Blazon: " Split of gold and blue with silver sign foot; in front a green fir, behind a fairly upright inverted golden lion, in the sign, a red stray fork on a red horse comb. "
Culture and sights
Museum
- Historical Glass Museum apparatus
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The flat section of the Oberweißbacher mountain railway connects Cursdorf about Oberweißenbach with light grove where a funicular railway with freight stage connects to the Schwarzatal web.
Sons and daughters of Cursdorf
- Georg Heinrich Macheleid (1723-1801), one of Nacherfinder of porcelain about 50 years after Johann Friedrich Böttger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
- Arno Bergmann (1882-1960), German lepidopterist