Erlebach
Erlebach is a desert in Thuringia. It is located in the Heldburger Land in the extreme south of Thuringia in the Hildburghausen district south of Heldburg , only a few hundred meters from the Thuringian-Bavarian border. The place is now a memorial on the former inner-German border .
history
The place was mentioned for the first time in 1310 . The village was a manor of the Marschall family called Greiff and consisted of a castle-like manor house, other houses, a grinding mill and a brickworks. Erlebach belonged to the Office Heldburg in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen until 1918, then to the state of Thuringia. The aristocratic family died out in 1929. From 1940 to July 1945, the district farmers appointed a trustee for the estate. Then the expropriation took place by the Soviet occupation forces . Due to the land reform on December 23, 1945, the estate was divided between farmers and new farmers . In 1948 the manor house was demolished on the instructions of the Soviet occupying forces.
In 1946 the place had 29 inhabitants. It was in the exclusion zone created by the GDR authorities in 1952 , which determined the future fate of the place. In 1961 an agricultural production cooperative "Erlengrund" is founded. In 1975 the evacuation of the village was announced and its residents were forced to relocate. The rock cellars were walled up so that they could not be used as hiding places by fugitives . In December 1986 the last family left the village. Then all the houses were demolished and the surfaces leveled. What remains is the village pond and a memorial plaque at the old village site.
literature
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs: Billmuthausen - the convicted village . Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt & Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86939-004-8
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide; Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
- Friends of the Billmuthausen Memorial e. V .: Billmuthausen Memorial . Frankenschwelle publishing house, Hildburghausen 2002, ISBN 3-86180-137-X
- Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training (ed.): The hushed up terror, forced resettlement in the GDR. Bad Berka 2003, ISBN 978-3-934761-50-6 ( digitized version , PDF, 18.2 MB, accessed on May 26, 2016)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ' N , 10 ° 47' E