Grosseutersdorf

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Southern Saale Valley
Height :	168 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.44 km 2
Residents:	273 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	79 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07768
Area code :	036424
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 031
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 23 ; 07768 Kahla
Website :	www.vg-suedliches-saaletal.de
Mayor :	Jens Hild
Location of the community Großeutersdorf in the Saale-Holzland district

St. Georg village church

Großeutersdorf is a municipality in the south of the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia and part of the southern Saale valley administrative community .

location

The district of the village of Großeutersdorf is located in the Saale meadow and on the slope of the Walpersberg . The hills on both sides of the Saale are mostly wooded. The busy federal highway 88 with connection to the federal freeway 4 near Jena leads through the place . The Großheringen – Saalfeld railway runs through the Saale valley .

history

Großeutersdorf is first mentioned as Otherestorph in the minutes of the Ingelheim negotiations of May 18, 876.

A fire burial site from the Grosseutersdorfer Kirchberg, which has been occupied for a long time, is located at the foot of the Walpersberg. Starting from a chief's grave, 8-10 generations have been buried here for about 250 years. The mountain name indicates a Christian successor shrine to a pre-Christian cult site.

Großeutersdorf was affected by the persecution of witches from 1684 to 1687 . A man and a woman got into witch trials . The outcome is unknown as the files were destroyed.

From 1884 at the latest, the Walpersberg was hollowed out by the Kahla porcelain industry for the extraction of raw materials. This cave system was expanded towards the end of the Second World War by the National Socialist armaments industry with the use of foreign and forced laborers to form the REIMAHG underground aircraft factory . Ruins of the plant can still be found above the village.

coat of arms

Description : “In blue a silver, red-roofed church with a tower on the left with a red hipped roof ; the silver shield base is covered with a red cross . "

Significant structures

Suspension bridge over the Saale

St. Georg village church

Documentation center for the armaments site on Walpersberg

Memorial plaque on the foundation of the kitchen building of the former camp 2 of the aircraft factory Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring GmbH ( REIMAHG ); it commemorates the 27 forced laborers from Poland who were buried in the Großeutersdorfer forest in the direction of Dienstädt
A memorial stone placed in the forest in the direction of Orlamünde in 1974 commemorates the Eastern workers who died in Camp 3.

traffic

Großeutersdorf is on the Großheringen – Saalfeld railway line . The trains pass the place without stopping. The next train station is in Orlamünde .

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ Hessian State Archives Marburg certificate RIa 876. May 18c
↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007 ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 249.
↑ Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 238 f., (At the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).
↑ ReimaHG on thirdreichruins.com , accessed on November 11, 2017
↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 211.

Web links

Commons : Großeutersdorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] Hessian State Archives Marburg certificate RIa 876. May 18c

[3] Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007 ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 249.

[4] Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 238 f., (At the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).

[5] ReimaHG on thirdreichruins.com , accessed on November 11, 2017

[6] Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 211.