Storchsdorf

With its 70 inhabitants, Storchsdorf is the second smallest and one of the highest villages in the former unified municipality of Rottenbach, now the town of Königsee. It was first mentioned in 1411 in the...

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Laudenbach

The small settlement was originally in the hands of the minstrel Otto von Botenlauben, then passed to the Counts of Frankenstein and finally to the Counts of Henneberg in 1330. The ore wealth...

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Burgk

The municipality of Burgk with the districts of Burgkhammer and Isabellengrün was incorporated into the town of Schleiz on 31.12.2019. Since then, Burgk, Burgkhammer and Isabellengrün have been a single district of Schleiz. Before the...

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Catharinau

The village (206 m above sea level, 360 inhabitants), which borders the Rudolstadt district of Cumbach to the east, is situated on the right bank of the Saale on a high terrace and was mentioned in 1074 as Clinowa et aliud...

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Lauchröden

Lauchröden is a clustered village with a typical regional center (church, lime tree, village square, rectory, inn, school, forester's lodge) on the tributary of the Elte river into the Werra. When St. Martin's Chapel was consecrated in 1144, the village...

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Erbenhausen

Erbenhausen is located between Reichenhausen and Schafhausen. In the midst of idyllic natural diversity, on the right source stream of the Felda, the village offers peace and relaxation to all those seeking recreation. The hiking destinations to the basalt domes Streufelsberg 740 m,...

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Hirschbach

Hirschbach is the youngest community in the group of villages. The feudal charter of Wilhelm IV Count and Lord of Henneberg from 1547 is the first documented mention of a hammer settlement on the...

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Oberhof

Oberhof, on the famous Rennsteig in the Thuringian Forest. The tranquility, clean air and scenery attracted the first summer visitors to Oberhof as early as the 19th century. The charms of winter provided...

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