Possneck

Possneck is the biggest metropolis within the Saale Orla district in the Free State of Thuringia. In state planning, its miles labeled as center middle. The first mention becomes Possneck 1252 in a Saalfeld monastic file. As a town, it turned into first referred to 1324. This yr Possneck becomes exceeded over by means of Frederick, the Wettin Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen, to the Count of Schwarzburg as a fief. Before 1348 a Carmelite monastery becomes founded. 1424 Possneck fell again to the house Wettin. By metropolis scribe 1474 an in depth series of Schoffenspruchen changed into created, it permits insights into the court exercise and jurisprudence of the Wettiner within the 15th century.

In 1485 Possneck turned into delivered to the Ernestine line via the Leipzig division of Wettin. In 1525, the residents took component inside the Peasants' War. Since 1572 the town belonged to Saxe Coburg, due to the fact that 1640 to Saxe Altenburg, seeing that 1672 to Saxe Gotha and in view that 1682 to Sachsen Saalfeld. In 1826 Possneck got here to the Duchy of Saxe Meiningen, in which it remained till the founding of the kingdom of Thuringia on May 1, 1920.