List of Thuringian monuments for victims of the SED dictatorship

This list of memorials for victims of the SED dictatorship in Thuringia shows the monuments and places of remembrance of victims of the Soviet occupation and the SED dictatorship and resistance in Thuringia .

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image	place	Brief description	Location	comment	Assignment
Image wanted	Altenburg	Memorial plaque and memorial stone for the students and teachers sentenced by the NKVD	Friedrichgymnasium (Altenburg) , Geraer Strasse 33		Stalinism
	Altenburg	Memorial stone for the Altenburg group	Hospital place		Stalinism
Image wanted	Andenhausen	Memorial stones in memory of the border and the opening of the border on November 27, 1989	Road between Andenhausen and Theobaldshof	On two stones there are metal plaques "Border installations - 1961 to 1989 -" and "In memory of / the 1st border opening / on November 27, 1989 / Andenhausen - / Theobaldshof"	border
Image wanted	Apolda	Memorial stone for the youths arrested or murdered by the NKVD	Jenaer Str. 8		Stalinism
	Arnstadt	Peaceful Revolution memorial stone commemorates the first Thuringian demonstration based on Günther Sattler's leaflet on October 30, 1989	Wood market	On the memorial stone you can read an excerpt from the leaflet: what kind of life? / Where the truth becomes true / where the wrong man wields the scepter. // what kind of life? / Where freedom is stillborn, / where already everything seems lost.// what kind of life? / where all men rule / where people still die at borders.// what kind of life? / where fear determines everyday life / where the end never ends.	liberation
	Arnstadt	Memorial stone "The Victims of Communist Violence 1945–1989"	Rosenstrasse / Pfortenstrasse		General
Image wanted	Asbach-Sickenberg	Border Museum Schifflersgrund			border
Image wanted	Asbach-Sickenberg	Wooden memorial cross for Heinz-Josef Große with the inscription "Unity - Law - Freedom"	Road between Bad Sooden-Allendorf and Sickenberg	Destroyed June 2016	border
Image wanted	Asbach-Sickenberg	Two wall segments	in front of the Hessenhalle (border museum)	in memory of all victims of the "Iron Curtain"	border
Image wanted	Asbach-Sickenberg	26 steles as flames	in the museum	Wood artist Sebastian Seiffert commemorating 26 on the former border between Hesse and Thuringia (2009)	border
Image wanted	Bad Langensalza	Memorial plaque for the victims from 1945 to 1989	Travertine 4th		General
Image wanted	Bad Langensalza	Memorial stone for the victims of any form of tyranny	Main cemetery, Im Jacobifeld 3		General
	Honing	Memorial stone mine find		2001	border
	Honing	German-German history memorial	Path between Rappershausen and Behrungen	German Board of Trustees for the Promotion of Science, Education and Culture eV and the German Youth Foundation - Grenzlandfonds	border
	Berka / Werra	Memorial plaque for the evacuated from Gasteroda			Forced resettlement
	Berkach	Memorial plaque for the evacuated persons, see also German-German open air museum and Berkach border monument	Bürgerhaus Berkach, 98631 Grabfeld	“In memory / from the community of Berkach / were / on June 5, 1952/43 adults u. 29 children / forcibly resettled / The community of Berkach "	Forced resettlement , border
	Billmuthausen	Billmuthausen Memorial	in the Heldburger Land between Bad Colberg and Gauerstadt or Heldburg and Gauerstadt an der Rodach		border
	Billmuthausen desert	Memorial stone, cross and chapel	in the cemetery	Millstone with memorial plaque This is where the village of Billmuthausen stood from 1340 to 1978. Destroyed in 1978, the inhabitants expelled , wooden cross, memorial chapel in memory of the polished church	Forced resettlement
	Blankenberg	Memorial plaque “in memory of all victims of the forced evacuation. 1952 ' Vergeziefer ' and 1961 ' Kornblume ', which were deported overnight from the Blankenberg community "	Hauptstrasse 9	2014 The memorial consists of granite blocks from the former Blankenberg Castle. The steles come from the demolition material of the inn, the former owner of which was forcibly evacuated.	Forced resettlement
	Bornhagen	Memorial stone for German unity	at Hanstein Castle		border
	Spechtsbrunn	Information board and refuge on the deserted Christiansgrün	on the district road from Spechtsbrunn and Tettau		border
	Eisenach	Memorial plaque for 33 young people who were victims of the NKVD	Former building III of the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium, Theaterplatz		Stalinism
	Eisenach	Memorial plaque on the former district office of the MfS	Music school "Johann Sebastian Bach", Kurstrasse 1		Peaceful revolution
	Eisenberg	Memorial plaque for the Eisenberger Kreis	Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium, Schillerstraße 1		Liberation / Resistance
	Ice field	Memorial to the Inner German Border	Former border crossing B 4 exit Eisfeld towards Rottenbach		border
	Erfurt	Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records / Erfurt Branch: Archive, Information and Documentation Center	Petersberg House 19
	Erfurt	Andreasstrasse memorial and educational site and memorial plaque on the former “Freihof” of the Stasi U-Detention Andreasstrasse and Freihof installation	Andreasstrasse 37a
	Erfurt	Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Andreasstrasse memorial and educational site	Andreasstrasse 37a	Every year on June 17th, the victims of the communist dictatorship are commemorated here.
	Erfurt	Memorial plaque at the entrance of the former MfS district administration (today police headquarters)	Andreasstrasse 38	On December 4, the first Stasi occupation in the GDR will be commemorated with a ceremony.
	Erfurt	Memorial plaque for the victims of the NKVD and the State Security	Alfred-Hess-Strasse 45a
	Erfurt	Relief bronze plaques for Ricarda Huch , Hermann Becker (LDPD), Hermann Brill (SPD) and Hugo Dornhofer (CDU) in the Thuringian state parliament	Jürgen-Fuchs-Str. 1
	Erfurt	Berlin Wall Memorial	Werner-Seelenbinder-Strasse 5–8	Concrete fragment of the Berlin Wall
	Erfurt	Willy Brandt Monument	Willy-Brandt-Platz 1	Memorial plaque, memorial room and neon letters
	Erfurt- Schmira	Memorial plaque to victims of the world wars and "Soviet Buchenwald concentration camp"	St. Nicholas Church	on September 18, 2017: nonexistent	Stalinism
	Erlebach	Information board commemorating the village of Erlebach	"Wüstungsflur" at the height between the places Ummerstadt and Lindenau	Location of the last resettlement from the GDR border area in 1986
	Laziness	Memorial stone for victims of the world wars and "all victims of unjust violence"		1998	General
	Foeritz	Memorial plaque Wüstung Liebau and memorial plaque Wüstung Kaulsroth			Forced resettlement
	Foeritz	Memorial stone border opening	at the mass mill between Heubisch and Neustadt near Coburg		liberation
	Frankenheim / Rhön	Memorial plaque in memory of the "Sophienhöhe"	Road between Frankenheim and Leubach
	Frankenblick	Korberoth deserted memorial stone	Path between Effelder-Rauenstein and Rückerswind
	Geisa	Point Alpha Memorial and Museum
	Geisa	Way of hope		In the picture: 7th station violence - Jesus falls the 2nd time
	Geisa - Walkes	Memorial stone for the razed soul courtyard	OT walkes
	Geisa - chains	Memorial stone for German unity	Gotthardser Straße, OT chains		border
	Geisa - Spahl	Memorial cross for German unity	Reinhardser Strasse, Geisa / OT Spahl
	Geismar	Eichsfeld Cross and Chapel of German Unity	Below the Hülfensberg on the district road K13 / K115 between Wanfried and Döringsdorf
	Gera	Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records / Gera branch: Archive, information and documentation center	Herman-Drechsler-Strasse 1
	Gera	Amthord passage memorial	Official passage 9
	Gera	Commemorative plaque for June 17, 1953	District Court, Amthorstrasse 1	Amthordgang Memorial Site June 2006
	Gera	Memorial plaque for Matthias Domaschk	Official passage 5
	Gera	Memorial to the victims of political tyranny	Rudolf-Diener-Str.	Matthias von Hintzenstern 2007 Amthord passage memorial
	Barley	Werra Valley Museum	Sophienstrasse 4th
	Glasehausen	Memorial stone partition and opening of the border	Street between Glasehausen and Weißenborn
	Gotha	Memorial plaque for the victims of the communist tyranny	Helenenstrasse 4
	Gotha	Memorial plaque for Kurt W. Streubel (1921–2002)	Hauptmarkt 14 (hallway)
	Gotha	Memorial plaque for Willy Brandt “Now what belongs together grows together.” - January 27, 1990	Hauptmarkt, at the "Pferdetränke" in the upper main market area
	Grabfeld / OT Nordheim	Memorial plaque for the victims of the forced resettlement	Town hall, Hauptstrasse 26	2012 memory of 68 resettled citizens in 1952 and 1961	Forced resettlement
	Graefenthal	Border and local history museum	Obere Coburger Strasse 15		Border, escape, forced resettlement
	Greiz	Commemorative plaque for the first approved demonstration of the peaceful revolution “28. October 1989 "	church Square	2009	liberation
	Greetings	Memorial stone for the "Greussen boys"	Bahnhofstrasse, in front of the secondary school		Stalinism
	Großensee	Remnants of the border fortifications (wall, expanded metal fence, border column)	Road between Großensee and Kleinensee		border
	Heilbad Heiligenstadt	Unity monument	Friedensplatz
	Heilbad Heiligenstadt	Memorial plaque for Hugo Dornhofer on the former house	Wrong way 10
	Heilbad Heiligenstadt	Information and documentation center "Westblick"			Limit, escape
	Henneberg	National monument sculpture park German unity	Former border crossing between Henneberg and Eußenhausen on Bundesstraße 19
	Henneberg	Memorial of the old border watchtower
	Hirschberg district Dornholz	Information board 2016	on the ridge hiking trail between Juchhöh and Töpen	Dornholz became deserted through forced resettlement in 1965	Forced resettlement
	Hohndorf	Memorial stone for the victims of Stalinism	At the memorial for those who fell in the war in the municipality of Elsterberg		Stalinism
	Ichtershausen	Former youth center or GDR youth detention center	Klosterstrasse 7, Ichtershausen
	Ifta	Tree cross along the B 7 or the old border strip
	Ilmenau	Memorial plaque for the peaceful revolution	Naumannstrasse 22
	Ilmenau	Memorial to the victims of the dictatorship from 1945 to 1989 and in memory of the peaceful revolution	church Square
	Jena	Memorial to the persecuted 1945–1989	Gerbergasse 18
	Jena	Memorial plaque for the victims of political oppression at the Friedrich Schiller University	Main university building, Fürstengraben
	Jena	Wooden sculpture in memory of the victims of June 17, 1953	Rathausarkade, Markt 1
	Jena	Memorial plaque for the victims of June 17th	Wood market
	Jena	Memorial plaque for Jürgen Fuchs	Lutherstrasse 25
	Jena	Honorary grave of Matthias Domaschk	North Cemetery
	Jena	Memorial plaque "Physikerball"	in front of lecture hall 1, Max-Wien-Platz 1		resistance
	Judenbach	Heinersdorf-Welitsch Memorial	Welitscher Strasse 17		border
	Kella	Way of the Cross and Chapel of the Holy Cross	on the slope of the Gobert		border
	Kella	Steles "Far away seeks closeness" (Hans Lamb)	Road between Kella and Meinhard-Braunrod		border
	Kirchgandern	Magdalene Chapel	In the forest between Reifenhausen and Kirchgandern	The chapel was derelict in the restricted area and was rebuilt	border
	Krauthausen	Memorial stone for the opening of the border November 20, 1989 / December 23, 1989	Exit towards Willershausen, Krauthausen / OT Pferdsdorf		border
	Küllstedt	Memorial stone in memory of seven residents from Küllstedt	Küllstedter cemetery		Stalinism
	Leitenhausen	Desert memorial stone			border
	Meiningen	Memorial stone for prisoners of the Soviet military justice	Park cemetery, Am Steinernen Berg 7		Stalinism
	Meiningen	Memorial stone for the peaceful revolution "The light came from the church"	At the city church		liberation
	Meiningen	Memorial plaque on the rectory in memory of the discussion group for peace and ecology from 1983	On the middle lawn 6		liberation
	Meuselwitz	Memorial stone for the victims of the communist dictatorship			Stalinism
	Mulhouse	Memorial plaque on the former NKVD headquarters	Under market 13		Stalinism
	Mulhouse	Memorial plaque for the victims of the Soviet secret service NKVD.	Under market 17		Stalinism
	Mulhouse	Memorial to the city's history and a. Lord Mayor Hellmut Neumann and the Peaceful Revolution	Submarket
	Nordhausen	Memorial plaque Otto Reckstat	Otto Reckstat Bridge
	Nordhausen	Reminder against the division of Germany	Alexander Pushkin Street 31		border
	Obergebra	Memorial stone for Ernst Wilhelm and Johann Muras	graveyard
	Oberweid	Memorial plaque in memory of the razed village of Anzenhof.	Hiking trail between Oberweid and Simmershausen	“The / farmsteads of the Anzenhof have stood here for over 400 years and the brickworks' property behind / at the 'Höhl'. / They survived the Hennberg and / Danian times, survived the / Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar and / the State of Thuringia. Your death sentence / said the SED state. In 1970 the / Ziegelhütte fell and in 1975 the / Anzenhof was torn down and leveled. / Main board of the Rhön Club "(1999)	border
	Oberweid	Memorial in memory of the opening of the border by Waldo Dörsch	Road to Simmern		border
	Pottiga	Memorial stone in memory of the forced evacuation of 63 citizens	Schulstrasse 4	"Memorial stone for the 63 affected Pottigaer residents who were unjustly forcibly resettled in night and fog actions as political victims in 1952 under the code name" Verziefer "and 1961 under the code name" Cornflower "." Inauguration November 18, 2017	Forced resettlement
	Probstzella	GDR border station			Border, forced resettlement
	Probstzella	Border tower on the Hopfsberg. with the exhibition "Perpetrators, Victims, Followers"			border
	Rieth	Memorial stone as a reminder of the division of Germany			border
	Rhönblick	Memorial plaque for the looped place Gereuthof			border
	Rhönblick	Memorial plaque for the looped village of Schmerbach	Close to Friedensweg between Helmershausen (Thuringia) and Willmars (Bavaria)		border
	Bettenhausen (Rhönblick)	Memorial plaque for the victims of the forced resettlement	Main street, bridge over the river Herps	"For a lasting memory / the fifteen bed houses families, / who on June 5, 1952 at the instigation and responsibility of the SED regime / within the framework of the so-called 'Aktion Verziefer' ', innocently and with brutal armed violence within / a few hours Hof and home were driven out. "	Forced resettlement
	Rudolstadt	Memorial plaque "The victims of the inner-German border"	Mörlaer Strasse 2 / Bayreuther Platz	Instead of a GDR memorial stone for a GDR border officer at the former headquarters of the border troops, this memorial stone was placed on October 2, 1995. In October 2009 the stone was moved to its current location.	border
	Ruhla	Boulder with a memorial plaque for the Day of German Unity	Lower Lindenstrasse / Friedensplatz
	Saalfeld	Memorial plaque on and memorial cell in the former NKVD prison "Hutschachtel"	Rathaushof, Markt 1
	Schalkau	Görsdorf border monument	Görsdorf (Schalkau) , No. 14		border
	Schleid	Commemorative plaque to commemorate the former village of Langwind.	Ulstertalweg, Motzlar		border
	Schmalkalden	Memorial plaque for the victims of the Soviet secret service NKVD	District court Schmalkalden, hope 30
	Schwabhausen	Commemorative plaque for villagers who were victims “in the post-war period through tyranny”	Church of St. Michael, Kirchberg	(on September 14, 2017: nonexistent)
	Selka	Two memorial plaques for the victims of the world wars, the persecutions and the expulsions in the 20th century “Let's not let ourselves be driven into enmity and hatred. Let's learn to live together, not against each other. Let's honor freedom. Let's work for peace. Let us obey the law. "	Selka Church, Schmölln	2015
	Siemerode	Memorial stone border opening January 20, 1990	Road between Siemerode and Weißenborn		border
	Silberhausen	Berlin Wall Memorial	Village green		border
	City field	Memorial plaque for the former border gate on Rennsteig	Rangenhof , on the Rennsteig
	Sonneberg	Memorial plaque "TO REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF STALINIST DESIRE AND POLITICAL PERSECUTION FROM 1945–1989 IN THE SONNEBERG DISTRICT"	Evangelical Church of St. Aegidien, on the defensive wall, Oberlind (Sonneberg)	Commemorative act with relatives on the day of national mourning, literature: IEWolf (ed.): Innocent ... survived in the special camps of the NKVD , 2004	Stalinism
	Sonneberg	Commemorative plaque "The victims of the forced resettlement at the inner-German border in the city and in the district of Sonneberg 1952 and 1961 In memoriam of all victims of the communist terror RESPICE ET HOMINEM TE ESSE MEMENTO" (Eng. Look (look) and remember that you are human .)	Evangelical town church St. Peter	Inaugurated on October 2, 2001 on the initiative of the OdS with Elisabeth Freier and Hans Bauer. In June 1952 985 residents were to be resettled in the district. Many fled across the border, some took their own lives. 381 people were deported. Every June 6th there is a memorial ceremony on site.
	Sonneberg	Memorial cross for the victims of the division of Germany	Exit in the direction of Neustadt bei Coburg		border
	Sonneberg	Border monument	between Hönbach and Wildenheid
	Sunstone	Peace oak and memorial plaque	Between Zwinge (Sonnenstein) and Brochthausen
	Spechtsbrunn	Memorial plaque u. a. for László Balogh and Sieglinde Bunde	on the former death strip, approx. 1 km west of the Spechtsbrunn- Tettau road	Death by shooting or mine victims in 1973; Memorial plaque: 2010 "So earthly kingdoms may fall, your kingdom Lord stands forever" and "The victims of the wall and barbed wire // In this border section died: / Herbert Günther † 1946 Dieter Fürneisen † 1963 / Gerhard Wilhelm Graf † 1950 Werner Krause † 1964 / Siegfried Neumann † 1952 Fritz Zapf † 1964 / Max Grübner † 1955 / Hans-Adolf Scharf † 1966 / Kurt Ebert † 1958 Berhard Sperlich † 1971 / Hans-Ullrich Kilian † 1963 Laszlo Balogh † 1973 "	Limit, fatalities
	Straufhain	Memorial stone in memory of the evacuated	Kirchberg Streufdorf		Forced resettlement
	Straufhain	Memorial plaque "Platz des June 5, 1952"	Streufdorf market		Forced resettlement
	Straufhain	Two-country museum Rodachtal	next to the Streufdorf church
	Suhl	Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records / Suhl Branch: Archive, Information and Documentation Center	Weidbergstrasse 34
	Suhl	Plaque in memory of the Peaceful Revolution	Main church St. Marien, Kirchgasse 6		liberation
	Suhl	Information board at the former State Security Pretrial Detention Center	Neundorfer Strasse 10-12
	Performance	Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld	Duderstädter Strasse 7-9		border
	Performance	Memorial for the victims of the inner-German border and for the victims of communist tyranny	Duderstädter Strasse 7-9
	Performance	Thank you cross for German unity	Road between Böseckendorf and Neuendorf (Teistungen)
	Performance	Two memorial stones in memory of the mass exodus in October 1961 and February 1963	Exit Böseckendorf towards Immingerode	"In memory / of the escape / the residents / the village / in October 1961 / and February 1963" and "Böseckendorf"	Border, escape, forced resettlement
	Performance	German division memorial	Road between Böseckendorf and Nesselröden
	Titschendorf	Memorial stone for " Manfred Smolka / geb. 26. II. 1930 / executed / 12. VII. 1960 "		Inaugurated in May 2017. The previous memorial cross was removed by an unknown person, after which a "heavy stone" was placed.
	Hit	Memorial plaque at the memorial for the victims of the two world wars	Großburschla exit towards Werra	Under the heading 1945–1989 there are 5 names, including Paul Tippach
	Hit	Reminder plaque Last address for Heinz-Albin Baumbach (shot dead on October 23, 1952 in Moscow)	Bergstrasse 40	980th (first in Germany) plaque "Last Address" by Memorial (human rights organization) - affixed on August 30, 2019.
	Hit	Memorial plaque at the former agent lock	Werra-Unstrut cycle path between Wendehausen and Treffurt
	Hit	Memorial stone in memory of the opening of the border	Rest area at Großburschla train station
	Hit	Tower of unity	on the hero stone
	Hit	DreiKreiseStein	on Kolonnenweg and the railway line Mühlhausen-Treffurt, which was closed in 1952		border
	Tüttleben	Memorial stone for the victims of political justice	Main Street (B7)
	Undersize field	Memorial plaque at the correctional facility	Karl-Marx-Strasse 8
	Unterweid	Memorial plaque for the looped courtyard "Hintere Mühle"	Path between Unterweid and Kleinfischbach Hundsbach (Tann)
	Unterwellenborn	Former GDR prison labor camp within the exhibition of the Friends' Association Schaudenkmal Gaszentrale Unterwellenborn eV
	Vacha	Information boards at the GrenzGedächtnisWeg. Bridge of unity		to the former village of Heiligenroda (leveled in 1974), to the Schwenge farms (leveled in 1974), to the house on the border (Vacha), to the Gross farm and construction business (moved out in 1973 and the property leveled), to the “Sachsenheim” inn (leveled in 1971), to the Mosebach farm (leveled in 1974)	border
	Volkerode	Memorial plaque in memory of the opening of the border and the agent sluice	Kolonnenweg on Gobert		border
	Weida	Memorial stone for Alfred Walter (Weida) and the wounded in the popular uprising on June 17, 1953	Ascent to the Osterburg (Weida) , Burgstrasse
	Turning houses	Border tower memorial	on the highest elevation of the Muschelkalk plateau of the Karnberg west of the desert Gut Scharfloh	Former border tower. Remembrance of the victims of the border regime and the forced relocations	border
	Turning houses	Karnberg border tower	on the Karnberg northwest of the former Vorwerk Karnberg		border
	Zella Mehlis	German unity memorial stone	Rathausstrasse
	Zeulenroda , district of Triebes	Memorial stone for young people executed by the NKVD	in the Metschwald, on the road from Neuärgerniß to Mehla
	Zeulenroda	Memorial plaque in memory of the victims of the bridge ice fall	Quingenberg , at the reservoir bridge

For the border memorials see also Inner German border

literature

• Anna Kaminsky (ed.): Places of remembrance . Ch.links, Berlin 2016
• Places of Remembrance, Issue 93 of the Thuringian Quarterly Journal for Contemporary History and Politics, Gerbergasse 18 , edition 4/2019

Web links

• Regional places of remembrance on the site of the state commissioner for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship
• Interactive page on the more than 200 places of forced resettlement in Thuringia alone

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biogram on the website of the Berlin SED State Research Association [1]
2. ↑ | Biogram on the GULAG reminder page and Daniel Börner: The first "last address" for Heinz Baumbach in Treffurt , in: Gerbergasse 18. Thuringian quarterly journal for contemporary history and politics 4/2019, p. 9