Schlechtsart

Schlechtsart is a municipality of Heldburger country with about 170 inhabitants in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community to Heldburger lowlands. The administrative headquarters are in the town of Bad Colberg- Heldburg.

Geography

The village is located at the Bavarian- Thuringian border, opposite the Lower Franconian town Trappstadt. The mountains Spanshügel, Brumm resin, Bernard Hill, Lindig, Kornberg and bull hills are the highest elevations near town. Due to the local situation of Bach Westhauser Kreck, a source stream of the Kreck flows.

History

The church was first mentioned in documents in 1260.

Schlechtsart 1616 was affected by witch hunts. Anna Schadin got into a witch trial and was burned.

At the border with Trappstadt the local Altenburg and located on a Thuringian page Landwehr with Wartberg at Gompertshausen to the ongoing centuries limit position of the places show. However, this led only after the Second World War to a complete isolation of Schlechtsart. After decades of isolation, the village in 1989 was again reached with the opening of the border.

Policy

The local council in Schlechtsart consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote.

Culture and sights

  • The late Romanesque in the early church is at a place called Long House. Another unusual feature is the appearance of the church tower: on the whitewashed timbered essay a transverse gable roof was designed by the architect set.
  • On the herb mountain there is a memorial cross for the fallen in the Battle of Leipzig villagers and another memorial for the fallen and missing inhabitants of the two world wars.
  • In the village the traditional Backhaus hard and the herb Bergfest are committed.
  • Path " in between" the history and ecology of the former inner- German border.
  • The nature reserve Schlechtsarter Switzerland is located south of the local situation.
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