Meusebach
Meusebach is a municipality in the south of the Saale- wood - country circuit and part of the joint management hills / valleys. The place Meusebach has the nickname " village without sparrows " or " village without sparrows ."
Geography
Meusebach located in a tortuous valley, with only one access road.
History
Documented, the town was first mentioned on December 8, 1271.
Meusebach possessed distant from the present site in the Middle Ages a fortified spare living space in Rundwallhof a church, 3 km to the southeast. The desert church was surrounded by a rampart and a ditch. Within the rampart can still see vestiges present, also a source version is still recognizable.
Attractions
The sights and Meusebach are well marked and instructive shown on display boards
- Received and restored half-timbered houses
- Old Forest House: on the foundations of the headquarters of the von Meusebach. From 1543 official residence of the Electoral Wildmeister. 1547 burned down, now to the construction of 1657th until 1952 Revierförsterei, then used by the community for cultural purposes. Since 1998, renovated privately owned and well.
- 250 -year-old tulip tree: at the south gable of the old forester's house. It is 22m high and stands at the beginning of June in bloom. Natural monument.
- The French Cross near Meusebach: in memory of a French soldier who was allegedly killed by the villagers, so he could not betray his comrades plundering their hidden village
- The Wild Meisterstein
- Made until the turn here was charcoal for the Western export: industrial monument charcoal at Meusebach
- Replica medieval fortified village at Meusebach ( operated by the Landsknecht club lost troop eV)
- Albrechts- oak north west of the village on the access road: Natural Monument, planted in 1712 in honor of Christian Albrecht of Meusebach
- Desert Church: see above at history
Pictures of 2013
Tulip tree at the forest house
French Cross
Fortified " medieval village" at Meusebach