Cultural monuments in Lichte
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This is a list of the cultural monuments in Lichte containing all cultural monuments of the Thuringia
n municipality of Lichte
/ Lichtetal am Rennsteig
(district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
), including its sections (Bock-und-Teich, Geiersthal, Lichte and Wallendorf) as of December 2, 2009.
50°31′30"N 11°11′36"E
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
n municipality of Lichte
Lichte
thumb|220px|Wallendorfer Porcelain Manufacture, Oct. 2006thumb|220px|[[Leibis-Lichte Dam]], 102.5 m highLichte is a municipality in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany, close to the Thuringian Rennsteig.- Geography :...
/ Lichtetal am Rennsteig
Lichtetal am Rennsteig
Lichtetal am Rennsteig is a municipal association in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of government is in Lichte...
(district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt is a Kreis in the south of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are the districts Weimarer Land, Saale-Holzland, Saale-Orla, the district Kronach in Bavaria, and the districts Sonneberg, Hildburghausen and Ilm-Kreis.-History:The district dates back to the Landratsamt...
), including its sections (Bock-und-Teich, Geiersthal, Lichte and Wallendorf) as of December 2, 2009.
Single monuments in Lichte
| Description | |Remark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Elisabeth's church | pic. 1 | Wallendorf; Kirchweg | Evangelical church Evangelical Church in Germany The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar... dating to 1734 |
| Lichte station (Thuringia) east | pic. 2 | Wallendorf; Am Bahndamm 9 | closed 1997 |
| Railway viaduct Viaduct A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the Latin via for road and ducere to lead something. However, the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se; it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early... over the Piesau Piesau (river) The Piesau River is a right tributary of the Lichte River in Thuringia, Germany, and is approximately 7 km long. The name is derived from the municipality of Piesau.- Source :... |
pic. 3 | Lichte (Wallendorf), Saalfelder Str. | closed 1997 |
| Parish house | pic. 4 | Wallendorf, Lamprechtstrasse 12 | Vicarage |
| Historical Perlen-Heinz villa Villa A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity,... (1908) |
pic. 5 | Geiersthal; Schwarzburger Str. 70 | property & residence of factory-owning Heinz/Wiesser family |
| Historical Guesthouse | Wallendorf; Saalfelder Str. 32 | closed (former owners Emil Jahn, Kurt Leidel) | |
| Historical manor-house | Wallendorf; Hammerweg 2 | with adjoining building, grounds and enclosure | |
| Historical residential premises | Wallendorf; Hammerweg 3 | belonging to the manor-house | |
| Historical sawmill Sawmill A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end.... |
Unterlichte; Sonneberger Str. 57 | ||
| Historical school building | Geiersthal; Schulweg 16 | 1920s, today drafting and model-making school (Homepage of the school) | |
| Kindergarten | Oberlichte; Sonneberger Str. 70 | former Lichte school | |
| Post office Post office A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies... |
Wallendorf; Saalfelder Str. 8 | ||
| Sawmill Sawmill A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end.... |
Schmidtenhof | Historical Geiersthal trip hammer Trip hammer A trip hammer, also known as a helve hammer, is a massive powered hammer used in:* agriculture to facilitate the labor of pounding, decorticating and polishing of grain;... |
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| Lichte station (Thuringia) | pic. 6 | Lichte; Bahnhofsstrasse | closed 1997 |
Monuments to the casualties of the World Wars
- in Lichte (Ascherbach / Waschdorf)
- in Lichte (Bock-und-Teich), B 281 Saalfelder Str., road junction to PiesauPiesauPiesau is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany close to the Thuringian Rennsteig.It has a glass-factory and is known as glass-maker-village. The first time glass was made in Piesau was in 1622. Up until today glass is the main reason of existence in Piesau. Carl...
- in Lichte (Geiersthal) on the Dürrer Berg
- in Lichte (Wallendorf) on the Kirchweg
Monuments of World War II
- Lichte (Wallendorf) cemetery: memorial graves for 4 PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
forced labourers - Lichte cemetery: Memorial plaque to 2 victims of the forced march of inmates from Buchenwald concentration campBuchenwald concentration campBuchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes,...
in April 1945, who were found in the Finsterer Grund under the rail viaduct.
External links
- Denkmalliste des Landkreises Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, December 2, 2009 (pdf)
50°31′30"N 11°11′36"E