Dillstädt

Dillstädt is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden- Meiningen of Thuringia and belongs to the administrative community Dolmar salt bridge.

  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Natural Monuments

Geography

Dillstädt is located on the hazel in southern Thuringian Forest on the road between Suhl and Meiningen. Southwest of the town is the 503 meter high Hölschberg. Its name probably comes from the dead goddess Hel or by the goddess Holle or Holda.

Community structure

The municipality Dillstädt belongs to the district of brick hut.

History

1206, the village was first mentioned, the waste places Germelshausen and Sieholz was even in older records from 800 to 845 The place for county Henneberg, from 1500 also the Frankish kingdom circle and was until 1815 the Saxon Office Kühndorf. From 1816 to 1944 Dillstädt belonged to the governmental district of the Prussian province of Saxony Erfurt.

On the place of the present church in 2010 to a high medieval castle were found in an archaeological dig foundations. Two exposed tower foundations point to an as yet unknown, resident in the village nobility. The present church was built by the Church History in the years 1593-1596, but reveals constructional evidence that there was at least one predecessor.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

  • 2000: 949
  • 2001: 932
  • 2002: 889
  • 2003: 884
  • 2004: 880
  • 2006: 863
  • 2007: 853
  • 2011: 835

Culture and sights

Structures

  • The church dates from 1593, the present nave was built from 1593 to 1596. From Gothic predecessor Maßwerkteile, a keystone and a Piscina are still preserved.
  • On the 2.5 km east of site remote Silbachskuppe there is a rampart with a ruined church in a heavily wooded terrain. To the east, a wall and a moat to protect this site. The church was a pilgrimage church of St. Lawrence. In the eastern part of the forest Lorenze are several tumuli. As early as the Bronze Age, this place had meaning.

Natural Monuments

  • The Elves stones on the road to Wichtshausen are an approximately 300 m long chain highly rugged limestone cliffs.
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