Great Gleichberg
| Great Gleichberg | ||
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 View from the observation tower of the Schwedenschanze |
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| height | 679 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Hildburghausen district , Thuringia | |
| Mountains | Gleichberge (singular in the grave field ) | |
| Dominance | 19.7 km → Schneeberg ( Little Thuringian Forest ) | |
| Notch height | 276 m ↓ northeast of Steinfeld | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 23 '16 " N , 10 ° 35' 29" E | |
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The Große Gleichberg is 679 m above sea level. NHN the higher of the two singular equal mountains east of Römhild in the Grabfeld landscape in the Hildburghausen district , Thuringia . It originated in the tertiary volcanic field of the Heldburg gang and is the highest witness today.
With a dominance of almost 20 kilometers and a prominence of almost 300 meters, the Große Gleichberg is one of the most sublime mountains in Thuringia.
During the Cold War , from 1968 to 1991, there was a military restricted area with a radio and radar station of the Soviet armed forces on its summit . Declared a landscape protection area in 1942, the Große Gleichberg is now a nature reserve . At its summit is a former television converter, which supplied the south-west of Thuringia and areas of Bavaria near the border with television and today only serves mobile communications.
Basalt was mined in two quarries on the Großer Gleichberg, the Gleichamberger Steinbruch and the Römhilder Steinbruch . The Römhilder quarry was operated from 1901 to 1968, the ruins of the crushing works are still there (as of 2013). In DC Amberger quarry up to 140 workers in 1927 were employed from 1897 to 1981. There was a cable car with which the basalt was transported in Loren to the basalt works in Römhild at the train station and to Gleichamberg. In the Waldhaussiedlung, in the saddle of the two equal mountains, there was an angle station where the Römhild cable car changed direction. It was also a sawmill.
During the time of National Socialism , from August 1943 to March 1945, there was a labor education camp in the Römhild quarry in which a maximum of about 400 “ foreign nationals who were in breach of contract ” were interned. The prisoners had to work in the basalt quarry or in the basalt works at Römhild Bahnhof. In addition, they were used in the construction of bunkers and positions in Mendhausen and temporarily in the field of craft and trade in Römhild and the surrounding area.
It must be assumed that at least 500 prisoners died in the camp or on the evacuation march in 1945. These include 25 to 92 prisoners unable to march who were shot in a sand cave on the eastern slope of the Großer Gleichberg. The cave entrance was then blown up, which meant that the mass grave was not found until the end of January 1947.
According to the official death lists, up to the end of March 1945 44 prisoners were buried in the lower forest cemetery on the eastern slope of the Großer Gleichberg, 64 prisoners in the upper forest cemetery and 61 prisoners in the municipal cemetery, where a memorial stands on a grove of honor.
Way of remembrance
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- ↑ a b dominance and prominence according to TK 25; the notch is about 403 m high, in Zeilfeld there is another notch , only slightly higher at approx. 407 m .
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Gert Stoi: The Römhild labor education camp 1943-1945 - Documentation of a crime. Salier Publishing House; 2009. 272 pages. ISBN 3-939611-41-7