Sankt Germanshof

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St. Germanshof
Local community Bobenthal
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 53 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 175-418 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 40  (2005)
Incorporation : 1826
Postal code : 76891
Area code : 06394
St. Germanshof (Rhineland-Palatinate)
St. Germanshof

Location of St. Germanshof in Rhineland-Palatinate

St. Germanshof: Customs office building and border crossing to France
St. Germanshof: Customs office building and border crossing to France

The hamlet of St. Germanshof (175 m. Above sea level) is a district of the municipality of Bobenthal in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has around 40 residents.

geography

St. Germanshof is located directly on the border with France on the Wieslauter and the road to Wissembourg in the Palatinate part of the Wasgau , surrounded by wooded ridges and on the edge of the Mundat forest .

history

St. Germanshof was founded by Weißenburg Abbey in 1055 , after a chapel had existed here for about 150 years. The ownership later passed to the Lords of Fleckenstein , who sold it with other places to the city of Weißenburg in 1360. Shortly afterwards the town of St. Germanshof died, but the church still existed. 1525 is called a forest fortress. In 1577, Wolfgang von Breiten acquired the buildings and possessions, followed by a change of ownership and deterioration. In 1675, however, there was an estate that a Vitztum family bought. In 1756 St. Germanshof came through an exchange of territory between Louis XV. and the bishopric of Speyer to France . Until 1815 it belonged to the Alsatian hamlet of Weiler (now part of Wissembourg ), which is on the road to Wissembourg. In the Congress of Vienna , St. Germanshof and the entire canton of Dahn were assigned to the Bavarian Palatinate after Napoléon's defeat and the Vitztum family got their property back. In 1826 the settlement was incorporated into Bobenthal. After the sale by the Vitztum family in 1859, there were various changes of ownership. A sawmill was set up around the First World War . A restaurant has been known since 1911.

As part of a determination by the international border commission, St. Germanshof was relinquished to France on April 23, 1949, but stormy protests led to a retreat and on September 9 of the same year St. Germanshof belonged again to Bobenthal. On August 6, 1950, St. Germanshof hit the headlines across Europe when 300 students who were enthusiastic about Europe took the French and German customs officers by surprise, destroyed barriers, tore down customs signs and replaced them with signs saying “You stay in Europe” and hoisted the European flag. Today only the former customs houses are a reminder of those times.

Leisure and Tourism

St. Germanshof is the starting or end point of many long-distance hiking trails through the Palatinate Forest , for example the 150 km long long-distance hiking trail to Niederhausen an der Nahe, which is maintained by the Palatinate Forest Association . On the French side, numerous hiking trails connect to the Vosges .

St. Germanshof is also on the Pamina cycle path Lautertal , which runs along the Wieslauter from Hinterweidenthal via Dahn and Wissembourg to Neuburg. The Wieslauter river can be navigated with single kayaks from Hinterweidenthal.

There are opportunities to stop and stay overnight.

The nearest train station is Wissembourg.

See also

literature

  • Christina Norwig: The first European generation. European constructions in the European Youth Campaign 1951–1958 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1846-5 ; therein Chapter 4.1: "Down with the borders!" - Demands and actions for a borderless Europe , pp. 183-204 (about the storming of the border post on August 6, 1950).
  • Matthias Heister: "The student storm on the borders in 1950 - For a federal Europe - Facts-Problems-Background-Consequences". Iduso Verlag, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-9810837-7-4 ; detailed eyewitness report with effects to this day

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Footnotes

  1. Michael Gehler : “You stay in Europe!” The storm on the German-French border in August 1950 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 17, 2016, p. 8.