Eckartshausen (Ilshofen)

Eckartshausen City of Ilshofen
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	approx. 435 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	1st December 1971
Postal code :	74532
Area code :	07904

Eckartshausen has been a district of Ilshofen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Schwäbisch Hall since 1971 .

history

Eckartshausen is mentioned for the first time in 1298 as "Oggershusen". Until the end of the Holy Roman Empire , the hamlet was an external property of the former imperial city of Hall , today's Schwäbisch Hall , in what was then the office of Bühler of the Haller state territory.

After the dissolution of the imperial city and the takeover of the Haller land areas by Württemberg in 1802, the place belonged together with Oberschmerach to the municipality of Großallmerspann until 1893 and then became an independent municipality .

On December 1, 1971, Eckartshausen was incorporated into Ilshofen.

The town owed its development primarily to its train station , which opened in 1867 and which was later joined by the warehouse of a farmers' cooperative . The Deutsche Bahn station , at which only RB and RE trains stop today , is located on the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line halfway between Crailsheim and Schwäbisch Hall and is called Eckartshausen-Ilshofen .

Done in 1945

In the last days of the Second World War in 1945, the station was the scene of a war crime committed against concentration camp prisoners, which was reflected in the film Three Days in April . On April 2, 1945, after an air raid, an SS special train of the Reichsbahn was left behind for technical reasons. Four sealed, closed freight cars, so-called cattle wagons, with 300 Jewish concentration camp prisoners were uncoupled from the locomotive in the Eckartshausen station area and remained on the track under guard by Ukrainian SS soldiers. The 75 people penned in the wagons of unknown origin were left to their fate, they starved and thirsted and their screaming was an abomination for the inhabitants of Eckartshausen. The villagers tried in vain to get the responsible authorities to intervene, but were overwhelmed by the situation and "got rid of the problem" . On April 6, 1945, men from the village probably pushed the wagons so that they could get onto the main line and roll along the gently sloping route in the direction of Sulzdorf and Schwäbisch Hall.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 456 .
2. ^ Hans Roth: Jump in time: Eckartshausen - Three days in April 1945 . Radio broadcast by Süddeutscher Rundfunk on April 5, 1995 in the main state archive in Stuttgart