Petersberg, Thuringia

Peter Berg is a municipality in the Saale- wood - country circuit and part of fulfilling community Eisenberg. The municipality consists of the villages of Petersberg, Aubitz and Kischlitz.

Location

Peter Berg is located in the Valley of Wethau, which rises on the eastern edge of the Tautenburg Forst and a source adjacent to the inn to the three goats. Transport default, the village is covered by the county road 138, the connection has to the highway 7 and to the provincial road 201. Immediately after the Wachhügel the Federal Highway 9 leads east over with connection at Eisenberg.

History

The village in the valley of the Petersberg Wethau owes its founding a Cistercian monastery in the middle of the 13th century. Already 1148 is said to have passed the monastery. The village was first mentioned on September 8, 1259. Aubitz was incorporated in early 1976 and Kischlitz at the beginning of 1974.

Attractions

  • The present church of St. Peter and Paul ( position → 50.98677094138911.835590600833 ) is the second at this point, the third in the history of the place. 1893, the old church was not restored and this style bricks - built the new church in the neo-Gothic.
  • On the south exposed upland edge positions of the ridge north of the B7 on the parcels " Rosenhain " and " Beuche " they found many flint tools and discounts from the Mesolithic period. Now you can hardly find traces, since the edit was intensified by the farmers. In the eastern part of the land itself in 1219 was the desert village " Pichene ".
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