Ullitz
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Ullitz
Trogen municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 29 ″ N , 11 ° 58 ′ 47 ″ E
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| Postal code : | 95183 |
| Area code : | 09281 |
Ullitz is a part of the municipality of Trogen in the Upper Franconian district of Hof in Bavaria .
geography
Geographical location
Ullitz is located in the southeast of the municipality of Trogen, directly on the state border with Saxony . Between 1945 and 1989 this formed the inner German border , which interrupted the former federal highway 173 that ran through Ullitz . The area east of Ullitz belongs to the nature reserve An der Ullitz , which belongs to the Green Belt Germany , which includes the former inner German border. West of Ullitz passes the federal highway 93 , which meets southwest of the place with the federal highway 173 in the junction Hof-Ost .
Ullitz is located in the northeast of the district of Hof and in the Upper Franconian part of the historical Vogtland , which is known as the Bavarian Vogtland . Geographically, this area is located in the southwest of the natural area Vogtland ( Central Vogtland Kuppenland ).
Neighboring places
| Trogen | Schwarzenstein |
Wiedersberg , Blosenberg (Saxony) |
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| Kienberg | Gumpertsreuth |
history
The hamlet of Ullitz was first mentioned in a document in 1716. The place name is probably derived from the Slavic word ulica , which means street . Another interpretation derives the place name of Kohlstätte , the place where the Koehler worked. As early as around the year 1000, the old imperial road Via Imperii existed on the course of the former federal highway 173 between Hof (Saale) and Plauen , which later continued to be important as the post road. This is also evidenced by the protective structures at the Schanze in Blosenberg and the Geleitburg Burg Wiedersberg in the neighboring Saxon towns east of Ullitz. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the army of General Heinrich von Holk passed through the town and left traces of devastation there. Almost 200 years later, Napoleon Bonaparte's army moved through the town via the Reichsstrasse. In 1812 Napoleon ordered the residents of Trogen to plant trees on the Reichsstraße to provide shade for his army.
The area of Ullitz and the Regnitzland belonged to the administrative area of the Bailiffs von Weida between the 12th and 14th centuries , which is why the name Bayerisches Vogtland is also used for this area today . In 1373 they sold their claims to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg , from whose Upper Mountain portion the Principality of Bayreuth later developed. Since 1498, the area has belonged to the “military district of Hof”, from which the provincial governorate of Hof had emerged in the first half of the 16th century . Ullitz was part of the hospital, caste, monastery and city bailiff's office in Hof. With the Principality of Bayreuth, Ullitz fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1792 , then to France and in 1810 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ullitz assigned this to the Mainkreis , which has been called Obermainkreis since 1817 and Upper Franconia since 1838 . After boundary stones had been set between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Saxony in 1810 , Ullitz received a customs post on Reichsstrasse in 1820. It was used by the German Customs Union until 1834 ; thereafter it was a police station until 1946. The building was demolished in 1956. In 1891 a telephone cable was laid from Nuremberg to Dresden by Ullitz. A cable stone in front of property no. 4 reminds of this to this day. Ullitz has belonged to the Free State of Bavaria since 1918 and to the district of Hof since 1939.
After the Second World War , life in the village was significantly affected by the proximity to the inner-German border and the location in the border area . The road to Plauen was closed in 1946 and mined on the GDR side . The border fortifications were built there from 1952. On the Blosenberg on the Saxon side, a high observation tower for the border troops of the GDR along with accommodation was built. From the tower, the Soviet Army ( GSSD ) monitored the radio communications of the American army stationed in the Bavarian court . In the course of the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the border with the FRG was gradually opened from November 9, 1989 . For the later federal highway 173 between Hof and Plauen, this took place on November 12, 1989 at 10 a.m. with the establishment of the Ullitz / Blosenberg border crossing. The former border strip near Ullitz is now part of the nature reserve (NSG) An der Ullitz , part of the nature conservation project Green Belt Germany , which runs along the former inner German border.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vollert, Joachim: Across the zone border into freedom . Erlangen 2012.
Föhrig | Gössen | Kienberg | Schwarzenstein | Trogen | Ullitz | Brick huts