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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Blankenberg

Blankenberg is a district of the municipality of Rosenthal am Rennsteig in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia. Blankenberg was mentioned in documents for the year 1232. It was located on the northern border of the Regnitzland and...

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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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Fambach

The small village of Fambach is idyllically situated between Meiningen and Bad Salzungen in the upper Werra Valley. Vanebach" was mentioned in documents as early as 1183 as the site of a once proud fortress, which still stands today.

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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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