Weißbach, Thuringia

Weissbach is a town in the Saale- wood - country circuit and part of the joint management hills / valleys in Thuringia.

Geography

The place is located in the southeastern Saale- Holzland and almost borders on the Saale- Orla-Kreis. The district of the village lies in the Saale- Elster- sandstone slab, surrounded by meadows, fields and forests. The village lies in the valley of the White creek and on its slopes.

History

Around 1400, the documentary was first mentioned has been detected. The place was and is dominated by agriculture and forestry. From 1952 also had the farmers in Weissbach, which belonged to the GDR from 1945 to the Soviet-occupied zone, and from 1949 to go the way of the collectivization of their farms. After the turn they found new forms of cooperation.

→ See also the village church Weissbach

Traffic

The small community is located away from the major traffic flows. Federal highway 281 runs about 10 kilometers south of Weissbach. The nearest motorway junction is Hermsdorf -south on the highway 9 Weissbach is connected to the line 427 of the transport undertaking Andreas Schröder to the cities Hermsdorf and Stadtroda. The nearest railway stations are Neustadt ( Orla ) (about 10 kilometers away on the route Saalfeld- Gera ) and Stadtroda ( about 13 kilometers to the wooden runway Erfurt -Weimar -Jena -Gera ).

Personalities

• Karl Kleinschmidt (1902-1978), co-founder of the German religious socialists, was from 1928 to 1931 Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the place