Eisenach house
The Eisenach house , built by the Rhön Club , stands on the Elbow ( 813 m above sea level ), which, along with the neighboring Schnitzersberg ( 815.5 m ), is one of the highest elevations in the Thuringian part of the Rhön low mountain range . The house was built in 1928 about 200 m west of the summit by the Rhönklubzweigverein Eisenach . Due to a checkered history, it was first expropriated during the Cold War and then used as a listening post for the German Democratic Republic due to its proximity to the border . There is currently a hotel in the house. The house belongs to the municipality of Erbenhausen .
About 1 km southwest of the Eisenacher Haus is the Thuringian Rhönhaus ( mountain restaurant and boarding house, including an animal enclosure ) hidden in the forest .
history
Beginnings
Up until the 1920s there was a simple log house built by the Rhönklubzweigverein Kaltensundheim . It was replaced by a simple stone bench made from local basalt stones. Not far from there, the Eisenach branch of the Rhönklub built the Eisenach house .
Cold war and turning point
In 1945 the Rhön Club was banned in East Germany and the Eisenach house was declared state property. From 1948 to 1962 it was the holiday home of the FDGB and the customs. In the mid-1960s, the GDR Stasi built a monitoring system with four radar towers on the hilltop as a counterpart to the West German system on the Wasserkuppe and supplementing similar systems on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains and the whetstone in the Franconian Forest . The technical facilities necessary for the operation of the plant were housed in the Eisenach house, which was expanded with a prefabricated extension. The mountain plateau received a highly secured fence and was declared a restricted area. On top of the mountain house, mobile communication units from the Soviet Army created a warehouse of low wooden huts, earth bunkers and tents. The restricted area around the Eisenach house was henceforth called Little Siberia by the population .
On January 13, 1990, three months after the fall of the Wall , around 300 residents from the surrounding towns moved in front of the locked entrance gate at the Eisenach house and demanded loudly and persistently to be admitted. After brief negotiations with a major of the NVA , a delegation inspected the building and convinced themselves of its desolate condition. Two days later, the delegation was called back to the Berghaus and, in their presence, the monitoring system was shut down and the technical rooms were sealed. After a further ten days, the dismantling of all technical facilities began. At this point the Soviet soldiers had already withdrawn.
Right from the fall of the Wall, the Rhönklub tried to regain ownership of the Eisenach house it had built . However, this prevented the clause in the Unification Treaty that repatriation of property that was expropriated between 1945 and 1949 under Soviet military administration is not possible.
today
The Eisenacher house is located in the district of Erbenhausen . Today it belongs to an investor from Austria. It is run as a conference and hiking hotel. The three-star hotel has 44 rooms and several conference rooms. A catering business is affiliated, which is used by many day tourists in addition to in-house guests.
The Rhönklub has again set up a wooden bench and table group on the elbow. The Eckert Bank commemorates the founder of the Berghaus. From the summit there is a comprehensive view of the Milseburger Kuppenrhön (Westliche Kuppenrhön) .
useful information
Viewing platform " Noah's sails" on the elbow
On August 6, 2017, the "Noahs Segel" viewing platform with 84 steps over 9 floors was opened not far from the Eisenach house on the summit of the Elbow . From the platform you have an almost unobstructed panoramic view from a tower height of 16 meters, including the Eisenach house. A 12-meter-high adventure slide was set up as a substitute descent for children and an exhibition pavilion on the geology , history and flora of the Rhön was opened.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Report in the Fuldaer Zeitung of August 10, 2017: View to the Brocken: "Noahs Segel" observation tower opened in the Rhön , accessed on October 2, 2017
Web links
- Berghotel Eisenacher Haus , on eisenacher-haus.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 5 ′ 2 ″ E