Grimmelshausen

Grimmelshausenmuseum is a municipality in the administrative community Feldstein in the Thuringian Landkreis Hildburghausen in Germany.

Geography

Haufendorf Grimmelshausenmuseum located on both sides of the river Werra above the confluence of the gate about 500 meters from the main road 89 that leads from Meiningen to Sonnenberg and Kronach removed.

Since 1990, the Werra is dammed by a retention basin, which the settlement of rare bird species ' absence. Walking paths and also the Werra - Cycling trail of Reurieth about Themar after Henfstädt performs Grimmelshausenmuseum.

History

1177 Grimmelhausen was first mentioned under the name Grymoltushusen. Until this year, can the family tree of the originally noble, moderately wealthy family of Grimmelshausenmuseum from the Thuringian traced. Near the village, the ancestral home of the family was at the upper Werra. The Grimmelshausen moved to 1571 in the imperial city of Gelnhausen on the Kinzig. Here then was the well-known Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausenmuseum born.

Grimmelshausenmuseum 1668 was affected by witch hunts. Dorothea, Caspar miner's wife, was caught in a witch trial. After a half year prison she was beheaded.

Rule default, the location in the Official Themar first belonged to the county of Henneberg, after 1583 to various Saxon duchies and 1826-1918 of Saxe -Meiningen. In 1920 he came to Thuringia.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

  • 2004 - 200
  • 2005 - 199
  • 2006 - 193
  • 2007 - 198

Parish council

The local council in Grimmelshausenmuseum consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009:

  • CDU: 2 seats
  • CDU: 1 seat
  • Citizens' Initiative: 3 seats

Culture and sights

  • The home office in the community center is to visit after registration. A former hunting lodge with an interesting half-timbered dominates the view of the village from the Werra.
  • In the village there is an old well with pump. Both have been restored in recent years.

Personalities

  • Sebastian Abesser (1559-1616), short - and electoral- Saxon Oberwildflecken and Jägermeister
  • Margaret Braungart († November 1998), regional poet, wrote books like " And mother cooks Klöß " and " My house Thuringia ".
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