Schmolln

Schmolln is a city within the Thuringian district Altenburger Land and is located at the sprat. It have become acknowledged mainly thru the button enterprise inside the 19th century. In state of the art Bohra in Schmolln existed in the Bronze Age, a bigger settlement. It changed into observed in 2008 and archaeologically evaluated. Since the 7th century, a Slavic agreement in the area Schmolln is occupied. In 1066, the call abbatia zmulna was first mentioned in files, when the then existing Benedictine monastery with market, coin and customs rights turned into transferred to the diocese of Naumburg.

It is believed that the name derives from Sorbian smola for pitch, tar and consequently indicates the pitch boiling with pine in early Schmollner. After a solid deed of the monastery Pforta Bruno, the Count in Pleissen, 1127, the construction of a 2nd, the Cistercian monasteries related monastery at the Pfefferberg have brought about. This had been relocated to Pforta in 1138 to 40. Its existing Marienkirche gained importance from the thirteenth to the 16th century as a German Marian pilgrimage web site.