Staufelsberg (Wartburg district)
| Staufelsberg | ||
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 View from the southwest (Lüderbacher Flur) |
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| height | 391.3 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 5 '6 " N , 10 ° 9' 24" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone | |
The Staufelsberg is a mountain with mixed forest and belongs to the Wolfmannsgehau district in the town of Treffurt in the northwestern part of the Wartburg district . West of the mountain runs a short section of the Hessian-Thuringian border near Rittmannshausen . Below the Staufelsberg, in a tiny side valley on the border, was the small settlement of Thuringia.
Because of its border location, the Staufelsberg was an ideal hiding place for smugglers and was also used by refugees from the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) to cross the border during the “Green Border” years . In order to secure the mountain , strict control measures were carried out by the border police stationed in Creuzburg , then Ifta , and later border troops of the GDR. In the 1970s, the towns of Ifta and Wolfmannsgehau received barriers secured by guard dogs in the 500-meter protective strip. The constant barking and yapping of the often hungry dogs was an enormous nervous burden for the few, mostly older residents who remained in Wolfmannsgehau.
Web links
- Nature Conservation Project Green Belt - Wolfmannsgehau Section ( Memento from January 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Festival committee 800 years celebration (Ed.): 800 years Rittmannshausen . Typesetting and printing, Eschwege 1995, p. 128 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Eichsfeldkreis, LK Nordhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 1. Erfurt 1999.