Oberbodnitz

Oberbodnitz is a municipality in the southern part of the Thuringian Saale- wood - country circuit and part of the joint management hills / valleys.

Geography

Oberbodnitz located 5 km east of Kahla, nestled in a valley that is crossed by the road to Leuchtenburg. The part belonging to the district Oberbodnitz side bridge is located southwest of the capital in a shallow source well of the Riet 's creek.

History

The name can be traced back to the year 873, when he first appeared in the role of "guardian of the village " as " Butenicz ". In this place clergy from the Catholic period were established from the earliest in 1271. Page Brück, today part of the municipality, first appeared in 1411 in the records on, then called " Sidenbrugke ".

There used to be a chapel in Oberbodnitz that must have originated in the period before the Reformation. Noteworthy is a swarm of locusts, the large scale did, on August 16, 1697, the area around the Leuchtenburg and caused major crop losses. With a brick factory opened in 1850 translated into a Oberbodnitz first industrial activities. 1900 a long existing brewery was closed. At the now common line network infrastructure, you joined the site in 1905 ( water supply) and 1910 ( mains ).

1921 a monument to the fallen in World War I soldiers was built in the place in Oberbodnitz. 1933/34, was the construction of the road between Upper and Unterbodnitz. In April 1945, the site was occupied by U.S. Army and passed the beginning of July to the Red Army. This was Oberbodnitz as throughout Thuringia, part of the Soviet zone of occupation, and in 1949 the GDR. The first LPG broke up again in 1953 to 1960 had to forcibly enter the LPG " Thomas Müntzer " the last farmers. On 3 October 1990, the congregation planted in the home garden culture an oak tree as the "Day of German Unity ". In 1998, the facade of the church was renovated. As part of the Village Renewal 2006-2010 made ​​the reconstruction of the cultural center in the 1950s, the design of the village square and a renovation of the village street.

→ Refer to the village church Oberbodnitz

Attractions

An attraction of the place is the church ( position → 50.81131101888911.659165620833 ). There are also remarkable half-timbered buildings.

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