Freienorla

Freienorla is a town in the Saale- wood land district of Thuringia.

Geography

The place and the Good Pritschroda are in the south of the Saale- wood - country circuit in the scenic surroundings of the Saale valley. Here ends the Orla in the Saale.

History

Already 500 BC there is preliminary evidence of a settlement ( urn fire sites at Hahn Born). In 1176 AD date information on a water mill on the Orlafurt. First documented mention goes back to the period 1235-1237. In this century, the church was built with churchyard wall in the Gothic style. 1378 emerged the first time documentary on the name Vrienorla. The neighboring municipalities belonged to Orlamünder castle court. Whether Freienorla ever belonged to is not occupied. The Freienorlaer claim to have never been a foreign rule subject.

1547 made ​​Freienorla talked about, as the Colonel Joachim von Brandenstein Spanish soldiers participated in the constriction of Freienorla in the forceps and sent them with bloody heads home.

In Freienorla two of the 15 mills were in the field of Orla. The listed protective underwear mill can still be seen today. Already in 1447 there is evidence of it. The lower mill had at that time already fully licensed. Originally it belonged to the nobility of Eichenberg. On December 15, 1895, the mill burned down. In the following three years ( 1896-98 ) it was rebuilt with modern Mühltechnik and a 5.5 m large water wheel. She then worked as a commercial mill with bakery clientele between Jena and Pössneck. The second mill in Freienorla was the upper mill, which was operated as a grist mill, saw mill and oil mill. Later in its place was the porcelain factory, which was operated until the early 1960s.

The historical heritage railway station still exists today. It lies on the railway line Orlamünde Freienorla - Pössneck, which opened on 1 October 1889.

At the cemetery, seven victims of a concentration camp death march were buried, which was driven in April 1945 by SS men through the town. Approximately 1,500 prisoners had two nights in barns and in the garden of the porcelain factory spend the night before they were driven further. In 1985, a death march stele was erected in their memory in the town center.

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