Hütscheroda
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Hütscheroda
Municipality Hörselberg-Hainich
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 32 " N , 10 ° 27 ′ 53" E
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| Height : | 320 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 69 |
| Incorporated into: | Behringen |
| Postal code : | 99820 |
| Area code : | 036254 |
 Location of Hütscheroda in Hörselberg-Hainich
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 Center with wildcat barn
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Hütscheroda is a district of Hörselberg-Hainich in the Wartburg district directly at the Hainich National Park in Thuringia .
location
The district of Hütscheroda is located about three kilometers west of the main town of Behringen and can be reached via the federal road 84 and district road 1A, Hütscheroda junction.
history
Hütscheroda was first mentioned as Udisrod 1239. The place counts with Bolleroda , Berteroda , Bischofroda , Hötzelsroda and others to a group of clearing settlements that were created in the course of the state development on the southern and western edge of the Hainich . From 1325, about two kilometers north of Hütscheroda, the place Heßwinkel can be used as a settlement. Further small settlements were to the west and north in the corridor. A historical boundary stone ( Wangenheim boundary stone ) with the Saxon coat of arms marks the easternmost boundary point of the Landgrave's office of Creuzburg on the way to Heßwinkel . In the 17th century, the border between the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach and the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha , to which Hütscheroda also belonged, ran here . As early as 1412, Hütscheroda came into closer ties with the neighboring town of Behringen , where both the parish church and the place of justice were located.
Hütscheroda manor
Around 1527 the Lords of Wangenheim became owners of the Hütscheroda estate. They were the most important landowners in this part of the duchy. In 1680 a mansion , which gives the village its face, was built on the vault of a sheep farm from the 13th century. The homestead included 2,200 acres of meadows and lands.
Military training area
Even before the start of the Second World War , the manor owner and patron of Eisenach, Eichel-Streiber , who lived in Eisenach and in the neighboring town of Berka in front of the Hainich , sold a 300-hectare parcel on the border with Hütscheroda for the construction of a military training area on the Künkel. The military area initially served as a testing and shooting range for artillery pieces manufactured in Eisenach . After the war, the Kindel firing range was expanded and used as a tank firing range by the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany . In 1946 the last landlord, Major a. D. Werner Freiherr von Wangenheim (former Africa fighter under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and leader of the volunteer regiment "von Wangenheim", also known as OE or Ordnungshülfe Erfurt in 1920 during the battles for Erfurt and Gotha ), expelled from his property later died in Gotha .
Hütscheroda new farmer settlement
During the period of socialism , the manor building was used by the then LPG and housed a post office, a consumer outlet and, at times, a restaurant. On the southern edge of the estate, further settlement houses were built for the families of the new farmers who settled here after the land reform . As a result of the proximity to the Kindel shooting range, living conditions were harsh, and the restricted military area extended right up to the residential buildings.
After reunification
In 1991 the main building of the former manor and LPG was taken over by a company and converted into a hotel and conference venue. The new owner was one of the initiators of the Hütscheroda art project, and since 1997 the sculpture trail from Hütscheroda to Behringen has been expanded to include newly created objects. Since 2008, Hütscheroda has been the starting point for national park hikes via the new Wildkatzenpfad hiking car park and is called Wildkatzendorf . In 2012, the information center “Wildcat Barn ” and a large wildcat showroom with four wild cats from Switzerland and North Rhine-Westphalia were built.
Behringen merged with its district Hütscheroda on December 1, 2007 with the municipality of Hörselberg to form the new municipality of Hörselberg-Hainich.
Hesswinkel
For the eleven families who built a new housing estate at Vorwerk Heßwinkel ⊙ from 1945 , their new home quickly turned into a nightmare. The remote location, the lack of work opportunities and the poor supply of the families led to the abandonment of this small settlement in 1976, which at times had 50 residents. Today there is a notice board and parts of the Behringer sculpture hiking trail at Platz der Wüstung.
literature
- Margot Baum: Hesswinkel . In: Eisenacher Presse (Ed.): Heimatblätter 1994 . tape 4 . JAKoch printing and publishing house, Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-924269-68-8 , p. 50-52 .
- Margot Baum: Rittergut Hütscheroda - memories . In: Eisenacher Presse (Ed.): Heimatblätter 1994 . tape 4 . JAKoch printing and publishing house, Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-924269-68-8 , p. 58 .
