Großschwabhausen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '  N , 11 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Management Community :	Mellingen
Height :	319 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.2 km 2
Residents:	1056 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99441
Primaries :	036454, 036425 (OT Hohlstedt)
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 025
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Hohlstedter Weg 3 99441 Großschwabhausen
Website :	www.grossschwabhausen.de
Mayor :	Florian Guddat ( CDU )
Location of the community Großschwabhausen in the district of Weimarer Land

Großschwabhausen is a municipality in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia and part of the Mellingen administrative community . The district of Hohlstedt with Kötschau is incorporated .

location

Großschwabhausen lies on a plateau in a small Mulden valley west of the Muschelkalkan heights of the Saale valley near Jena at the transition to the arable farming area between Apolda and Weimar . The provincial road 1060 leads past the village and the Gera – Weimar railway line with a stop in the village cuts through the district . There is forest on the Muschelkalkan heights towards Jena.

history

The first mention of "Suabehusen" can be found in a Hersfeld list of goods to be applied before the year 815. 876 "Svabohus" is mentioned in the Ingelheim protocol because of the tithe dispute in Thuringia. In the Middle Ages, the landlord was the Schwabhausen family, but their castle has almost completely disappeared. In 1350 the place fell with the Kirchberg rule Kapellendorf to the city of Erfurt. The place was badly destroyed during the Thirty Years War .

Großschwabhausen was hit by the persecution of witches in 1664 . A rich man got involved in a witch trial .

The opening of the Weimar-Gera railway in 1876 brought economic upswing.

Several families belonging to the Jehovah's Witness community lived in the village in the 1930s . In 1935 these were defamed and terrorized for weeks by deployed SA troops . Some were subsequently tried and sentenced to prison and prison terms for "continued subversive activity".

On April 11, 1945, a last transport train carrying prisoners from Buchenwald was shot at by US planes at the local train station. The SS guards went to safety while some of the prisoners were shot. Five of them were buried in the local cemetery and later honored with a memorial stone. The SS drove the remaining prisoners on a death march towards Jena .

politics

Municipal council

Since the election to the local council on May 25, 2014 , the local council has been composed as follows:

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-% p	Seats	+/-
CDU	29.8%	- 4.2	3	- 1
BK Großschwabhausen	53.1%	+ 2.8	7th	± 0
Heimatverein Allemannia eV	17.1%	+ 1.4	2	+ 1

Parish partnership

The partner community of Großschwabhausen is Schwabhausen in Bavaria .

Großschwabhausen village church

Attractions

• Village church of St. Margareta (Großschwabhausen) with a war memorial in front of it for the fallen of the First World War

• Southwest of the village is the so-called grove , a protected deciduous forest. In spring, before the leaves shoot, there are extensive populations of the Märzenbecher ( Leucojum vernum ), mixed with forest jingleweed ( Mercurialis biennis ), hazel root ( Asarum europaeum ), cowslip ( Primula elatior ), and later also the Turkish league ( Lilium martagon ).

• The Großschwabhausen observatory has been located in the forest since 1962, a branch of the Astrophysical Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . This stands on a plateau and has a 90 cm reflector telescope from VEB Carl Zeiss Jena .

• A stele from 1984 on Döbritscher Strasse commemorates the concentration camp prisoners on a death march from Buchenwald concentration camp, who were driven through the town in April 1945.

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  Großschwabhausen observatory of the University of Jena

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  Death march memorial in Großschwabhausen

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  Großschwabhausen station (2017)

Sports

The handball players of SV Fortuna Großschwabhausen were successful in the 2006/2007 season and, in addition to being promoted to the state league (season 1), also reached the semifinals of the Thuringia Cup. In 2012 the team was able to celebrate the relay victory of the regional league and thus rose to the Thuringian league.

The footballers were able to secure relegation after promotion to the district league in 2005 and establish themselves in the midfield of the league. Before the start of the 2007/2008 season, they had to switch to another season (season 3). In this season, the relegation to the district league followed. After a change in personnel, this league could not be held either. Since the 2010/2011 season the 1st team has been playing in the 1st district class.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Josef Baumgartner , Mayor of the partner community Schwabhausen

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johannes Seyfart (* probably around 1605, † probably 1670), farmer and small trader
• Gottwalt Schaper (born March 10, 1873 in Hohlstedt, † January 4, 1942 in Berlin), civil engineer, bridge builder for the Deutsche Reichsbahn

Web links

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

• Official website of the community of Großschwabhausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ 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. 240, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
3. ↑ 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 - Publishing House for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 .
4. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - Großschwabhausen , accessed on November 14, 2018