Sonnefeld
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#Municipalities_in_Bavaria
#Coburg_(district)
Sonnefeld is a municipality in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Sonnefeld lies on Bundesstraße 303 between Coburg and Kronach and also between the Thuringian Forest and the Lichtenfels Forest.
The municipality of Sonnefeld is divided in eleven districts: The first documented mention of Sonnefeld was in the year 1252.
In 1260, a Cistercian nunnery was founded in Ebersdorf bei Coburg by Henry II von Sonneberg with the help from the nuns from Maidbronn.
Three years later, in 1263, the nearby hamlet of Hofstädten became the property of the nunnery.
When it burned to the ground in 1287, a new abbey was built and consecrated in Hofstädten for the nuns.
In 1299, the villages of Weidhausen and Trübenbach were given to Sonnefeld Abbey in an exchange of properties with Bamberg.
A church was added between 1330 and 1349 in the High Gothic style and became the Klosterkirche （monastery church）.
In 1526, the abbey was dissolved as a result of the Reformation.
Since then, Sonnefeld has been an Evangelical Lutheran parish.
The Thirty Years' War destroyed most of the houses and buildings in Sonnefeld and Hofstädten so the reconstruction was slow but steady.
It got a big boost from the grant of market privileges by Duke Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg.
In 1705, the district of Sonnefeld came to the Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
In 1769, the parish church was rebuilt.
In 1826, the district of Sonnefeld was given to the Duchy of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in the redistribution of lands between the surviving Saxon duchies.
On 1 May 1851 the cantor Karl Herold founded a children's festival.
On 23 June 1889 Sonnefeld and Hofstädten were merged as a single town under the name of Sonnefeld.
In the same year, a war memorial was unveiled in the town square （Marktplatz）, and the first railway line opened at Sonnefeld in 1901.
During World War I, Sonnefeld had ...