Schwarzburg (municipality)

Black Castle is a municipality in the Thuringian Schwarzatal district Saalfeld- Rudolstadt. She is a member of the administrative community median Schwarzatal.

  • 2.1 history
  • 2.2 Demographics

Geography

Geographical location

Black Castle is located in the Thuringian Forest on the Northern Slope of the mountain and the river Schwarza. The regional road connects 1112 Schwarzburg with Bad Blankenburg, and the surrounding area.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent municipalities Allendorf, the town of Bad Blankenburg, Bechstedt, Döschnitz, Saalfeld height and seat village.

History and Demographics

History

The first mentioned in 1071 as " Swartzinburg " took place in a boundary description of the Orlagaus.

The village below the castle grew by exploiting the hydropower ( grist mill, saw mill, Lohmühle, iron hammer ) until the 19th century as a small industrial center. Especially in the High Middle Ages, it was gold panning ( placer gold ) important place in Schwarzatal. After the abandonment of the iron hammer 1846 a great wave of emigration took place (more than 20 % of the population ) to North America.

Then there was a considerable boost through tourism and leisure sector. Students from Jena ( fraternity movement) and the Romantic painters had previously the romantic Schwarzatal made ​​famous (see also Ludwig Bechstein ). Goethe, too, in a letter to Charlotte von Stein, July 5, 1781, the valley was worth mentioning: "NB. of Schwarzburg on Blanckenburg is a fürtrefflicher Weeg the black after the Black Castle covenant was through a deep valley between rock and wood walls. " 1887 in black castle founded, an association of Christian influenced color-wearing, non-beating student associations.

Special historical importance was Schwarzburg, since Reich President Friedrich Ebert on holiday on August 11, 1919, passed by the National Assembly in Weimar Reich Constitution, the first democratic constitution of Germany ( Weimar Constitution ) signed. This act was likely at the hotel "White Deer" instead, at least not in the castle. Lived in the Ebert - - Between the hotel and the associated villa " Schwarzaburg " was made on a lawn a simple memorial stone again indicated that bears the following inscription: "In Schwarzburg was issued the Constitution of the German Reich from the Reich President Ebert on August 11, 1919 ".

In the year 1944, in the Castle Hill Hotel 30 - 40 students housed in the Kinderlandverschickung ( KLV). This deportation occurred since September 27, 1940 after a circular Martin Bormann with the words " By order of the Führer". The implementation of the action was organized by the Hitler Youth leadership and had the task to protect children at risk from the bombs areas in "peaceful " environment. Thus, the KLV- camp in the Schlossberg - Hotel of students with their teachers was occupied by the Düsseldorf Lessing -Gymnasium. The hotel was then headed by family Schildbach.

Demographics

Development of the population of the municipality

  • 2003: 665
  • 2004: 645
  • 2005: 619
  • 2006: 609
  • 2007: 578
  • 2008: 569
  • 2009: 562
  • 2010: 542
  • 2011: 554
  • 2012: 557

Culture and sights

The Black Castle was since the 12th century seat of the Counts of Schwarzburg. After repeated divisions into different lines originated in 1599, the two main lines of Black -Sonderhausen (1909 off) and Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt, which were in 1697 and 1710 raised to the imperial princes. Black castle belonged until 1918 to the Principality of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt. Renovated armory of the castle was the anniversary "125 Years of Schwarzburg covenant" (Pentecost 2012) the public temporarily accessible. The castle building is being renovated as well and should be completed in 2015.

In the former Pädagogium ( private school in 1919, which led to the average maturity and high school ), a national forestry school was established in 1946. In 1950, she was technical school, engineering school in 1968, since 1992 College of Forestry. The UAS was operated jointly by the Free States of Saxony and Thuringia as internal administrative training center for the upscale Forest Service and closed with training end of the last academic year, vintage 2008. In the north of Schwarzburg is the freely accessible " Forest Botanical Garden Black Castle ".

A little above the town, the station building is from 1900, it is the most beautiful and most elaborate of Schwarzatal web. The roof is covered with colored glazed bricks. On the west side, a separate annex was built for the Schwarzburg princes. The station building has been closed since 1 June 1992, and acts according to the reopening of the route only as a breakpoint. It was rebuilt by the company Faller as a model.

Near the Ortseinganges to the lower valley Black Petersburg is the public access to the so-called honor grove. It can be found here two memorial stones. Once for the fallen of the community and to another for the black castle Federal.

Furthermore offers Schwarzburg recreational fishing ( trout, fly fishing) a plentiful supply on favorable terms.

Signing of the Constitution in 1919 by Reichsprädsident Ebert

Swiss House at Schwarzburg

Talkirche in Schwarzburg

Altar of Talkirche in Schwarzburg

Memorial stone of Schwarzburg Federal

Ehrenhain of Schwarzburg Federal

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