Leitenhausen (Heldburg)
Leitenhausen is a desert in Thuringia. It is located in the Heldburger Land in the extreme south of Thuringia in the Hildburghausen district northwest of Heldburg , only a few hundred meters from the border with Bavaria . The place is now a memorial on the former inner-German border .
history
Leitenhausen was mentioned for the first time as Leydenhusen in 1317 . The village was a manor and belonged to the Saxon Office of Heldburg in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen until 1918 , then to the State of Thuringia. The fate of the village after the Second World War was determined by its immediate location on the inner-German border. It was in the exclusion zone created by the GDR authorities in 1952 . In 1972 the last family was deported and the village razed to the ground. In 1993 a memorial stone was erected at the old village site.
literature
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs: Billmuthausen - the condemned village , Greifenverlag Rudolstadt & Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86939-004-8
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide; Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2
- Friends of the Billmuthausen Memorial eV: Billmuthausen Memorial , Frankenschwelle publishing house, Hildburghausen, 2002, ISBN 3-86180-137-X
- Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training (ed.): The hushed up terror, forced resettlement in the GDR , Bad Berka, ISBN 978-3-93476150-6
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ N , 10 ° 37 ′ E