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City of Sonneberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 39 ″  E
Incorporation : 1919
Postal code : 96515
Area code : 03675
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Begging hedges

Location of begging hedges in Thuringia

Bettelhecken is a district of Sonneberg in the Sonneberg district in Thuringia .

location

Bettelhecken is located northwest of the core town of Sonneberg on the federal road 89 on the southern roof of the Thuringian Forest and near the border with Bavaria . The district with suburban character is still in rural areas.

Former state school in Sonneberg-West

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1301. The place goes from the year 1317, when it was mentioned in a document as "Betylmannsdorf" in the Urbarium , a listing of possessions of the Henneberger when acquiring the new rule .

The rural history was then quickly influenced by Sonneberg. A health authority was introduced in 1784, and in 1830 building land for a hospital in Bettelhecken was purchased. A hospital for the city and office of Sonneberg was established. The house with 36 beds was closed with the opening of a new hospital building on Neustadter Strasse in Sonneberg in December 1901.

In 1910, the Bettelhecken stop, later renamed Sonneberg-West, was opened on the Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway line. In 1919, Bettelhecken was incorporated into Sonneberg.

As part of the promotion of the armaments industry in Thuringia, the Thuringian Zahnradwerke mbH Sonneberg, a subsidiary of the Leipzig mechanical engineering company GE Reinhardt, was built in 1937 south of Bettelhecken at Hallstrasse 39 in Sandbergen. Initially 500 to 600 employees at the plant produced gear wheels with the most modern machines for the Ford plant in Cologne and after 1939 under the strictest secrecy for aircraft and tank production and from 1944 for so-called retaliatory weapons . In 1940 the plant was expanded extensively and foreign forced laborers and prisoners of war were deployed. From autumn 1944 about 450 of the approximately 1,600 workers were prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp , mostly Jewish-Polish / Hungarian , who were housed in the Sonneberg concentration camp , a satellite camp next to the plant. Many of them were killed on a death march in April 1945. The plant was dismantled in 1946/47, the buildings were blown up.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 31.
  2. ↑ Thomas Schwämmlein: Landkreis Sonneberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Thuringia. Vol. 1). E. Reinhold, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937940-09-X , p. 475.
  3. ^ Gerhard Stier: Sonneberg West. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , pp. 577-578 .

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