Schierschwende
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Schierschwende
Rural community of Südeichsfeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 31 ″ E
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| Height : | 391 (375-400) m |
| Area : | 4.47 km² |
| Residents : | 125 (2007) |
| Population density : | 28 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | April 21, 1995 |
| Incorporated into: | Katharinenberg |
| Postal code : | 99988 |
| Area code : | 036024 |
 Location of Schierschwende in Südeichsfeld
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 Aerial view of Schierschwende
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Schierschwende is part of the rural community of Südeichsfeld , but did not belong to the historic Eichsfeld . It is located in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia and has around 200 inhabitants.
geography
Schierschwende is located in the far west of the Unstrut-Hainich district, about two kilometers southeast of Wendehausen and about 13 km southwest of the district town of Mühlhausen . The surroundings of the place are characterized by a low mountain range and a side valley of the Haselbach , a tributary of the Werra . The highest point is the Lindenhecke mountain, 447.3 m above sea level. NN , the viewpoint located there is one of the sights of the place. The panoramic view extends to the ridge of the Thuringian Forest and the Hainich . In the northeast is the Dörnerberg (478 m) and in the south the Schönberg (approx. 400 m).
The small settlement Schönberg belongs to Schierschwende and is now considered the southernmost point of the Eichsfeld.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1545. Schierschwende belonged to the Saxon part of the Treffurt estate , it was given to the Lords of Keudel zu Falken as a fiefdom, who until 1830 also owned the Schönberg estate there. In 1543, Joachim von Keudell , who lived in Falken , looked for new farmers on the Schönberg for his land, which was then known as desert , and offered each settler 6 acres of land and a building site to settle. The popular “Gute Hope” inn was built at a crossroads outside the village. As early as 1800, the small town of Schönberg was depopulated except for the estate. Until 1824 Schierschwende was still considered a district of Falken. The Schönberg estate was bought by the Osburg family in 1830 , and they continued farming. In the 1860s, part of the former Keudel estate was sold to a Frau Graf , who founded a well-attended health resort and also had the southern slope of Schönberg equipped with walking paths and a pavilion.
Since there was no church in the village, the Catholic faithful attended mass in Wendehausen, while the Protestants went to the church in Falken. The first school in Schierschwende was opened in 1839, in the following years the place received a strong influx from the Catholic neighboring towns, so that the Catholics made up the majority in the place. Now a teacher has also been appointed by the Wendehausen Catholic parish.
On April 21, 1995 Schierschwende was incorporated into the new Katharinenberg community . With its dissolution, the place came to the rural community of Südeichsfeld on December 1, 2011.
Gut Schönberg
Almost two kilometers south of Schierschwende on the road to Falken is Gut Schönberg on the mountain of the same name. It was built around 1400 by Rudolf and Heinrich von Keudel. The estate remained in the family for a long time before it changed hands more frequently in later times. When the Osburg family offered the Schönberg estate for sale, the Scharfenberg family acquired the estate.
In 1933 it belonged to Helene Jahn before the Nazi regime set up a labor camp there. At the beginning of 1945, shortly before the end of the war, important files of the German Foreign Ministry were hidden at Gut Schönberg, including files from the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the files on Edward VIII , the Duke of Windsor. Although the area was occupied by American occupation forces, these files were recovered by British military personnel in May 1945. In July 1945, 300 Soviet soldiers finally advanced as an occupying force.
The former Schönberg manor now includes an agricultural business and the former manor house houses a youth workshop.
Culture and sights
Among the attractions in the village, built in 1899 is one Catholic church , the Good Schoenberg and a weather cross in the corridor. Schierschwende also owned the well-known excursion restaurant Gute Hope , originally a pub and rest area on a Treffurt-Mühlhausen trade route. According to local tradition, there was also a medieval infirmary on this site.
The kite festival in Schierschwende has been held in September since 1997. In the harvested fields on the linden hedge - a particularly windy corner of the corridor - children and young people with self-made kites of various designs meet for a competition organized by two local companies. The village festival is now also supported by a kite building association.
Others
- A curious criminal case divided the residents of Schierschwende and Wendehausen in 1740: A woman called a Catholic “nun” who had “escaped” from the Zella Provost to convert to the Protestant faith was discovered in Schierschwende. The Mainz bailiff soon moved into the town of Schierschwende with a team of young peasant boys called together from Wendehausen and demanded the unconditional extradition of the nun, which the intimidated residents did for fear of being beaten. The woman was taken to Diedorf and arrested there. The Saxon bailiff in Treffurt protested in all forms because of this arbitrariness and informed the Saxon state government in distant Dresden . Even before the reply, the false "nun" had appeared again in Schierschwende, she had been exposed as a con artist and got rid of her without comment. Now the fate took its further course, because the Saxon government insisted on the inheritance contract and compelled the Mainz administration as a fine to hand over further rights in the place Wendehausen, so this place received a second mayor and had to pay it at the community expense.
Personalities
- Josef Osburg (1923–2009), graduate mathematician, general director of the Alte Leipziger insurance group
- Heinrich Döring (* 1933), theologian and university professor
literature
- Gisela Degenhardt: Schierschwende village history. Mecke Druck und Verlag Duderstadt 2017
- Martin Debes: The secret of Gut Schönberg near Wendehausen. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Issue 7/8 2018, Mecke Druck and Verlag Duderstadt, pp. 196-200
Web links
- Schierschwende overview. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .
- History of the Schönberg Estate ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Schierschwende official homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1995
- ↑ a b N.N .: From old time . Casual supplements to the »Mühlhäuser Anzeiger«. No. 26 . Dannersche Buchdruckerei, 1899, The Ganerbschaft Treffurt and The Vogtei Dorla in front of the Hainich.
- ↑ Martin Debes: The secret of Gut Schönberg near Wendehausen. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 62 (2018), issue 7/8, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2018, pp. 196-200
- ↑ National Park Administration : Kite Festival in Schierschwende . In: hainichlandaktiv . Sonsdruck, Bad Langensalza September 2007, p. 4-5 .