Schwenge

The village of Schwenge is a desert in what is now the Oberzella district in the town of Vacha in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . Schwenge was about a kilometer north of Oberzella on the local road to Vitzeroda .

history

The information board about the desert shows this photo (around 1910)

Schwenge was first mentioned on August 31, 786. The place was desolate for the first time during the Thirty Years' War .

In 1816 the place came together with Vitzeroda, Abteroda , Gasteroda , Oberzella, Niederndorf and Heiligenroda from Hessen to Saxe-Weimar . In 1879 there were four houses with 27 residents in the village; 62.9 ha total area; of which courtyards and gardens 1.6 ha; Meadows 16.1 ha; Arable land 38.3 ha. Forest 0.64 ha; Ponds, streams and rivers 0.01 ha; paths, drifts, wasteland and orchards made up 6.18 hectares.

After 1945 Schwenge lay directly on the inner-German border , which was massively fortified from 1952.

On October 3, 1961, the first residents were forcibly evacuated as part of the " Cornflower Campaign ", and on February 12-13, 1974, the last residents had to leave the place because of improved border security. On February 15, 1974, the farms in Schwenge were demolished and leveled.

Web links

• Location description on www.widdershausen.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 33.7 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 19 ″  E