Silberhof
The hamlet of Silberhof belonged to the municipality of Reussendorf until the Wildflecken military training area was built and the village was evacuated in 1938 .
location
The hamlet was 666 meters above sea level on the northwest slope of the Great Auersberg . The Adamshof, the Sarahof, the Heinrichshof and the Fuchsmühle also belonged to the place.
history
The name comes from efforts to mine silver. Instead, barite was found .
In 1696 a farm with the name Silberloch is mentioned. The residents lived from the production of potash , agriculture and forestry, homework and mining. In 1859 a school was established. Until the construction of the church in Reussendorf, the residents went to the church in Oberbach . The dead were also buried there until the cemetery between Reussendorf and Silberhof was consecrated.
There were repeated efforts by the inhabitants of Silberhof to break away from Reussendorf. Reussendorf permitted this on December 20, 1918, but not on March 7, 1921, the government of Lower Franconia. When a Silberhofer was elected mayor on December 7, 1924, they tried again. But a second application on January 27, 1926 also failed.
The place had to be given up due to the construction of the military training area. People left their homeland no later than April 1, 1938, often as early as 1937. They settled in the Rhön, in the greater Frankfurt area and in southern Germany.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ N , 9 ° 52 ′ E