House of Franconia
The Franken house was on the eastern slope of the Dammersfeldkuppe and until 1938 was a hiking home of the Rhönklubzweigvereine Würzburg and Frankfurt. Politically, the house first belonged to Altglashütten , later to the Wildflecken Heeresguts district.
history
In 1917 a horse hospital was built for the war horses of the First World War . On October 20, 1920, the Rhönklubzweigvereine Würzburg and Frankfurt / Main bought the house together to turn it into a hiking home. Removed windows, oven and stove had to be replaced, the water pipe repaired and the roof sealed.
The terrain offered ideal conditions for skiing in winter and a hiking landscape with far-reaching views in summer. This was of particular benefit to the town of Reussendorf . The area has received many praise.
From then on it was called Haus Franken. When the Wildflecken military training area was established in 1938 , the home had to be abandoned, but was not demolished. At the end of the Second World War , the house was used as a clubhouse for the American soldiers. Ferdl Holzheimer wanted to convert the house into a ski pension. He used cigarette currency to buy missing windows, doors, tables and chairs. In 1946 he was fired. The following year, with the support of the Baus district administrator and the refugee commissioner Beck Heinz-Günter Peschke, the hiking home took over. In 1949 the area was closed again and in the summer of the same year the house, which had been looted again, burned to the ground. Two years later, after the United States Armed Forces took over the training area , it was finally demolished.
The Rhönklubzweigverein Würzburg then built its house on the Farnsberg , while the Frankfurt branch club focused on the Simmelsberg.
literature
- Wildflecken community (ed.): Unforgotten home around Dammersfeld's. The remote settlements . Geiger, Wildflecken 2011, ISBN 3-89264-184-6 , p. 63 ff .
- Bavarian administrative office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve: Historical cultural landscape of the Rhön . tape 3 : Historic cultural landscape of the upper Sinntal - Riedenberg municipality and Wildflecken municipality. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-888-0 .
Web links
- History of the house on rhoenline.de
- Chronicle of the Frankfurt branch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian Administration Office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, p. 50
- ↑ a b rhoenclub.de Chronicle of the Frankfurt branch
- ↑ a b c Bavarian Administration Office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, p. 140
- ↑ a b Wildflecken community, p. 65
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '0.5 " N , 9 ° 52' 16.6" E