Sallmannshausen

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Sallmannshausen
community Gerstungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 12 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 205 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.37 km²
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Postal code : 99834
Area code : 036922
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Sallmannshausen in the north of the municipality
Partial view with the Werra mill and church
Partial view with the Werra mill and church

Sallmannshausen is a district of the Gerstungen municipality in the Wartburg district . It is located in the Werra valley on the Hessian-Thuringian border.

geography

The municipality of Sallmannshausen is naturally located in the valley area of ​​the central Werra . The geographic height of the place is 205  m above sea level. NN .

history

The place initially belonged to the rulership of Brandenburg and was therefore named as belonging to the Brandenburg courts , administratively the place belonged to the Wettin office of Wartburg ( Saxony-Eisenach ).

The beginnings of the Marienkirche go back to the 16th century.

At the beginning of April 1945, American shelling and low-level planes caused severe damage to Sallmannshausen during the "battle for the Werra Line". The Werra bridge was blown up by the Wehrmacht. The residents had fled into the forest on March 29, some of them in "earth bunkers". On April 2, the place was occupied by US troops . Three fallen German soldiers rest in a communal grave in the Sallmannshausen cemetery.

At the beginning of July 1945, Sallmannshausen, like all of Thuringia, was handed over by the US Army to the Red Army . It became part of the Soviet occupation zone and, in 1949, of the GDR.

Sallmannshausen has been part of the Gerstungen community since March 8, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ^ Rainer Lämmerhirt: The fight for the Werra line in 1945 . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2005. ISBN 3-937135-64-2 . P. 123 ff
  3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

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