Good Scharfloh
The Scharfloh estate is a deserted area in the suburb of Südeichsfeld in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
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location
The desert is located about 1.5 kilometers northwest of Wendehausen in the west of the Unstrut-Hainich district near the state border with Hesse . Other neighboring towns are Katharinenberg on Bundesstrasse 249 in the northeast, Treffurt in the south and Wanfried in Hesse in the west. The place is located on the shell limestone plateau of the Karnberg at an altitude of about 415 m. In the immediate vicinity is located on the highest peak on the dent (461 m) a former observation tower of the border troops of the GDR .
history
The place Scharfloh was first mentioned in writing in 1276. The area of Scharfloh and Wendehausen originally belonged to the Lords of Treffurt . After the establishment of the Treffurt estate in 1336, both places were administered by Kurmainzian officials, but did not belong to the Bischofstein im Eichsfeld office bordering to the north . Old boundary stones still remind of this history today. In 1407 the Großburschla monastery enfeoffed an Eckard stone house with the Scharfloh Spitelgut and three parts of Siebolderode. In 1536 Kaspar von Harstall sold his share in the Spitelgut and the Sibolderode desert. The estate probably served as the economic basis for the monastery hospital in Großburschla .
Over the centuries there have been constant changes of owners, from 1536 it belonged to the Schmalstiegs, 1564 to those of Hagen, 1572 to Trott and from 1733 to the forester Knabe. The Montag family bought the estate in 1856 and kept it until it was demolished. From 1805 the place belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia , from 1807 to 1813 in the meantime to the Kingdom of Westphalia and from 1945 to the State of Thuringia . After 1952 the estate was in the restricted area within Germany . In 1960 the lands were placed under the LPG . Because of the proximity to the inner-German border , the family had to leave the farm in 1972 and demolish all the buildings themselves. An observation and command tower for the border troops was built on the highest point of the landscape , from which one could observe the border installations in the wide area. Today the tower serves as a museum of the memory of the division of Germany.
Current condition
Some former access roads and today's hiking trails from the surrounding villages still lead to the desert. At the former farm there are still two old linden trees, a newly built shed and a memorial stone.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, page 216
- ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 935
- ^ Südeichsfeldbote (information sheet of the community of Südeichsfeld): Reminder of Scharfloh ; Publishing house and printing Wittich Langewiesen, 6/2006, pages 6-7
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 24.8 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 28.2" E