Heiligenroda

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Location of the district Heiligenroda in the urban area of ​​Vacha

Heiligenroda is a desert that belongs to the Oberzella district of the town of Vacha in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . In addition to Heiligenroda, Niederndorf and Schwenge are similar devastations in the Oberzella district. The last buildings in Heiligenroda, which was near the inner-German border at the time , were demolished in 1975.

geography

The Heiligenroda manor house (around 1910) - information board on the Grünes Band border hiking trail

The place was 338 m above sea level on the local road from Oberzella to Vitzeroda .

history

The place was first mentioned on November 4, 1184. In a small side valley on the western edge of the Frauensee forest , the small settlements Thalhausen, Niederndorf, Heiligenroda and Schwenge were created by clearing. They were economically and administratively connected to Oberzella, which belonged to the Vogtei Kreuzberg .

Heiligenroda was the most important place and had a parish to which the neighboring town of Gasteroda also belonged. The gentlemen of Benhausen were mentioned as the first owner known by name. In the document drawn up in 1383, they handed over their properties in Heiligenroda and Gasteroda to the Kreuzberg monastery . In the course of the Reformation , the parish was moved to Oberzella in the 15th century. In 1553 Gasteroda was assigned to the Heringen court in the Friedewald office by the Hessian Landgrave Philipp I.

In 1816 the place came together with Vitzeroda, Abteroda , Gasteroda, Oberzella, Niederndorf and Schwenge from Hessen to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach . In 1879 the place had two houses with 15 inhabitants; 122.3 ha total area, of which farms and gardens 1.5 ha, meadows 18.2 ha, arable land 56.9 ha, forest 36.4 ha.

Heiligenroda was also known for its mining concession for potash mining , the Heiligenroda I shaft was sunk in 1909 as one of the first potash shafts in the Werra potash district . The nearest potash processing plant (fertilizer factory) was at that time on Prussian territory in Heringen, five kilometers away; In the Saxon-Weimar region, the Kaiseroda plant was 12 km away. The cheapest option for the transport of raw salt at that time was the construction of a cable car, which was built while the shaft structure was being sunk.

After 1945 Heiligenroda was directly on the inner-German border, which was massively fortified from 1952. In 1961 the first residents were forcibly evacuated as part of the “ Aktion Kornblume ”, in 1975 the last buildings in Heiligenroda were demolished and leveled.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ getamap.net
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , page 115
  3. ^ Wilhelm Rein: Archaeological walks. The offices of Creuzburg, Gerstungen, Tiefenort and Vacha on the Werra . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . tape 4 . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1859, p. 428 .
  4. ↑ Olaf Dietzel: The time of origin of the city of Vacha . Bad Hersfeld 1991, DNB  961369442 , p. 20 .
  5. ↑ The cable car to the Heiligenroda I potash shaft , accessed on August 2, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 7.8 "  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 14.2"  E