Mengersgereuth-Hämmern

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Mengersgereuth- hammering in the district of Sonneberg

Mengersgereuth- hammering was a municipality in the district of Sonneberg in Thuringia, which was formed on 1 April 1923 and merged on 1 January 2012 with the community Effelder -Rauenstein to the municipality Frankenblick. Since then, there is a district of Frankenblick.

Geography

Mengersgereuth hammers lies in the valley of Effelder on the southern edge of the Thuringian Slate Mountains. To the north is the village road hammers that seamlessly merges in the south to the village road Mengersgereuth. Southeast of the district researchers Tight Reuth lies on the slope of the 719 meter high mountain Oberschaar. Immediately southwest of the village Mengersgereuth Schichtshöhn connects.

Community structure

Mengersgereuth hammers consisted of four districts, but they are grown together:

• Researchers Close Reuth ( in the southeast )
• Hammers ( to the north)
• Mengersgereuth ( in the middle)
• Schichtshöhn ( in the southwest )

History

The district researchers Tight Reuth is first mentioned in 1317 Henneberger Erbbuch, making it probably the oldest district in the community. The district had hammers its origin in a mining settlement from the 15th century. Within a radius of hammers was mined in several shafts and tunnels to 1866 iron ore and ground in a hammer mill, later named Augustenthal processed. The time required for the mining of iron ore charcoal was produced locally with numerous charcoal kilns. The low quality of the ore, it should have high phosphate units, led to the abandonment of mining in hammering in the 19th century.

The town was founded on April 1, 1923 from the merger of four previously independent researchers Tight Places Reuth, Mengersgereuth, hammers and Schichtshöhn.

During the period of National Socialism citizens of the place were persecuted, including Ewald Steiner, who had been interned in a concentration camp Bad Sulza. When he was arrested again in 1939, he eluded the Gestapo by suicide. During the Second World War had 82 men and women from the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia perform forced labor in the company August Görting & Co., M. Schnetter & Co., Oscar Brückner and in the china factory. On the history of Mengersgereuth- hammering during the Nazi era includes the tried renaming the church in Hitler mountains, which was ultimately not approved, but occasionally found its way into cards.

Coat of arms

Split half and shared by black, gold and silver; Up front a golden, inwardly facing lions, up backwards on green Dreienberg a black, red reinforced hen with red comb and red cloth, down from green sign foot growing three green firs.

Economy

The commercial area of Mengersgereuth hammers located in the south of the village on the B89. Here, several small companies have settled.

Traffic

South B is tangent to the 89 place that connects Sonnenberg with ice rink. The majority of the village is situated on the road leading north to Steinheid and Steinach. Mengersgereuth- hammering is located on the hinterland railway that runs from Sonneberg to Meiningen. The place has, at this distance two connections, the breakpoint Mengersgereuth hammers East to the east and the railway station Mengersgereuth- hammering in the West. In addition, the place is accessible by two bus lines. A line connects the village to the district town of Sonneberg ( seven stops), the other touches him with the stops researchers Tight Reuth and Schichtshöhn and leads to Sonneberger hinterland and further to the ice rink and Suhl.

Twin Cities

• Germany Waldstetten in Ostalb (Baden- Württemberg), since 1991

Personalities

• Werner Jacob ( born March 4, 1938 † 23 May 2006, Nuremberg), organist and composer
• Rolf Rosenbrock (* 1945 ), health scientists
• Monika Debertshäuser (* 1952), cross-country skier
• Bernd Eckstein ( born 1953 ), ski jumpers
• Raimund Litschko ( born August 21, 1967 in Sonneberg ), ski jumpers

Others

In Mengersgereuth- hammering is spoken Itzgründisch, a main Franconian dialect.