Böseckendorf
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Böseckendorf
municipality Teistungen
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| Height : | 233 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 252 | |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1999 | |
| Postal code : | 37339 | |
| Area code : | 036071 | |
Location of Böseckendorf in Thuringia |
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 Böseckendorf from the southwest
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Böseckendorf is a district of the municipality Teistungen in the Eichsfeld district on the north-western border of Thuringia with Lower Saxony , the former inner-German border . In addition to the current spelling, older maps also contain the spelling Bösekendorf .
location
Böseckendorf is located about eleven kilometers northeast of the district town of Heilbad Heiligenstadt and five kilometers southwest of Duderstadt in Untereichsfeld on the edge of the Golden Mark . In terms of traffic, the place is connected to the neighboring communities via the state roads 2014 and 2015 or district roads 112 and 113.
The town of Bleckenrode, about two kilometers to the southeast, belongs to the town . Other neighboring towns are the districts of Nesselröden in the north and Immingerode in the northeast , which belong to Duderstadt, as well as Neuendorf, which also belongs to Teistungen .
history
The place Böseckendorf was first mentioned in 1250 in a deed of donation from Count Ulrich von Regenstein for the Beuren monastery . The place Böseckendorf belonged to Kurmainz until the secularization in 1802 . From 1802 to 1807 the place became Prussian and then became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 he was part of the Prussian province of Saxony . From 1945 to 1949 the place belonged to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) and from 1949 became part of the GDR . In 1961 there was a mass exodus to the FRG in the village ( see below ). From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990 , Böseckendorf was affected by the closure of the inner-German border that passed directly by the place .
On April 1, 1999, the place was incorporated into Teistungen.
Mass exodus
The place gained notoriety after almost half of the residents - 16 families with 53 people, including 21 children - fled together west to Immingerode through the restricted area, which was now partially mined , on the evening of October 2, 1961 . This was the largest collective escape across the inner-German border that ever existed. Almost a year and a half later, on the night of February 22nd to 23rd, 1963, 13 other people managed to escape to the Federal Republic. The Catholic pastor of the Friedland refugee camp , Monsignor Scheperjans , tried to resettle them as closely as possible .
The escape was preceded by the systematic expansion of the border by the GDR leadership. After the first concrete posts had already been erected near Böseckendorf, rumors began to circulate about the imminent "forced evacuation" of "negative elements" from the border area (Aktion Kornblume).
The Ministry for State Security had deportation lists compiled, which mainly contained the names of farmers who had resisted integration into the LPG , which was the case for most of the long-established farmers in the Catholic-conservative Eichsfeld . Many of the refugees found a new home on the outskirts of Angerstein north of Göttingen . This settlement is called Neu-Böseckendorf .
Memorial stone in memory of the mass exodus from the border area
To commemorate the two escapes from Böseckendorf, two memorial stones ( ⊙ ) were erected on the road to Immingerode in the early 1990s . One bears the inscription Böseckendorf , the other contains the words To / Remembrance / of the escape / the residents / the village / in October 1961 / and February 1963 .
Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld
The nearby Eichsfeld Borderland Museum also provides detailed information about the background and the course of the escapes. In addition to original newspaper reports, visitors can listen to reports from contemporary witnesses at media stations.
Films on the subject
- A ZDF documentary game called Neu-Böseckendorf dealt with the story of the escape in 1969.
- “We just wanted to get out!” A village flees to the west. Documentation by Peter Adler and Katrin Völker; Production: MDR , Germany 2005.
- Documentation under the title Grenzfall "Böseckendorf" - Escape in the last second .
- In 2009, the Sat.1 television film Böseckendorf - The Night in which a Village Disappeared .
Culture and sights
The local attractions include:
- Church from 1714
- Mary's Grotto
- Half-timbered courtyards
The historic town center was entered as a monument ensemble in the monuments book of the Free State of Thuringia in June 2018 .
German division memorial
In addition to the memorial stones in Böseckendorf, there is also the "German Division Memorial" created by the sculptor Roger Bischoff, which was erected on July 26, 1991 on the road between Böseckendorf and Nesselröden . These are two stones more than two meters high, in the middle of which a third triangular stone is buried, symbolically representing the prejudices against people buried. In addition, this stone reminds of the death of many people on the former inner-German border . The two inclined stones represent people who want to each other, like once in Böseckendorf and Nesselröden and like all Germans along the former border - this is Bischoff's own interpretation of his work.
Web links
- Literature about Böseckendorf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Site of the administrative community Lindenberg / Eichsfeld via Böseckendorf
- Page at docstation.de about the documentary "We just wanted out!", Which describes the flight of the families
- MDR page on the documentary ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Preußische Landesaufnahme (Mestischblatt 4527, originally 2595) from 1854, published in 1870 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prussian land record (Mes Tischblatt 4527, originally 2595) from 1854, published in 1870
- ↑ Preußische Landesaufnahme (Mestischblatt 4527, originally 2595) from 1907, published in 1909 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ↑ Inge Bennewitz, Rainer Potratz: Forced resettlements on the inner-German border. Analyzes and documents . 3. Edition. Links, Berlin 2002, p. 149 .
- ^ Martin Schwind : General State Geography . Walter de Gruyter, 1972, ISBN 3-11-001634-6 , p. 420 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Neu-Böseckendorf. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Neu-Böseckendorf. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 22, 2016 .
- ↑ “We just wanted to get out!” A village flees to the west. deutsche-landwirte.de, accessed on May 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Borderline “Böseckendorf” - escape at the last second. Two thousand and one. Film lexicon FILMS from A – Z, accessed on May 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Thuringian State Gazette No. 25/2018, page 716
- ↑ Annette Kaminsky (ed.): Places of remembrance. Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR . 2nd Edition. Ch.links, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-86153-443-6 , p. 455 .
