Hohenwarte is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in

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Geography

The municipality is situated in Naturpark Thüringer Schiefergebirge-Obere Saale on the Hohenwarte-Stausee.

History

Honewarte was first mentioned in 1361. The place belonged to the county of Schwarzburg-Menschenberg, and after its dissolution from 1564 to 1918 to the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädter sovereignty of the county (principality) of

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt. History Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of Schwarzburg dynasty lands. Since t ...

. The operation of mills has shaped the small town on the

Saale The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Franconian Saale ...

for centuries. The

Rudolstadt Rudolstadt is a town in the German federal state Thuringia, with the Thuringian Forest to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north. The former capital of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the town is built along the River Saale inside a wide v ...

company Grosch & Zitkow built a cartonboard factory in Hohenwarte in 1904. The population increased rapidly due to the influx of many workers. The construction of the Hohenwarte dam fundamentally changed the townscape. The Hohenwarte church was rebuilt in 1934–38 as a replacement for the lost church of Presswitz. For the workers at the Hohenwarte pumped-storage hydroelectricity power plant new residential buildings were built. In the 1960s the town had over 300 inhabitants. Since the

Die Wende The Peaceful Revolution (german: Friedliche Revolution), as a part of the Revolutions of 1989, was the process of sociopolitical change that led to the opening of East Germany's borders with the West, the end of the ruling of the Socialist Unity ...

, the town has been particularly affected by demographic change; the population more than halved. In recent years, the population increased from 140 to 180. From 1993 to 1995 the municipality belonged to the municipal association of Saale-Loquitz . With the dissolution of this on October 19, 1995, Kaulsdorf took over administrative duties for Hohenwarte.

References

Municipalities in Thuringia Saalfeld-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt {{SaalfeldRudolstadt-geo-stub