Vogelsberg (Thuringia)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ N , 11 ° 15 ′ E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Sömmerda | |
| Management Community : | Gramme-Vippach | |
| Height : | 155 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 12.84 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 696 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 54 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 99610 | |
| Area code : | 036372 | |
| License plate : | SÖM | |
| Community key : | 16 0 68 056 | |
| Association administration address: | Erfurter Str. 6 99195 Schloßvippach |
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| Mayor : | Norbert Schmidt | |
| Location of the community Vogelsberg in the district of Sömmerda | ||
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Vogelsberg is a municipality in the Sömmerda district in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative community Gramme-Vippach .
geography
Vogelsberg and its surroundings offer a varied nature. On the one hand, the Clausberg should be mentioned, which was formerly used to grow wine. Some of the individual wine terraces can still be seen today. There was also a castle on the Clausberg, the Vogelsburg , whose location is still marked today by four linden trees. The Scherkonde , a small river that flows into the Lossa, flows between Vogelsberg and Clausberg . The Scherkonde disappears in the west of Vogelsberg in the Orlishäuser Reservoir / Vogelsberger Reservoir . This reservoir is known to anglers all over Germany for its large carp. Lush catches are not uncommon here. Anglers regularly catch carp weighing over 35 pounds here.
In the south-west of Vogelsberg there is an idyllic piece of forest, called "Wäldchen", adjacent to which is the Kirschberg or Bonifatiushügel.
At the end of the Kirschberg there is a spring that brings fresh water to the surface, which then finds its way to the center of the village in the extinguishing water pond located there.
history
The first clearly dated mention of Vogelsberg is in a document dated May 18, 876. It is the minutes of an imperial assembly that was held in Ingelheim am Rhein under King Ludwig the German . A dispute over the claim to tithe in Thuringia was settled between Archbishop Luibert of Mainz and Abbot Sigihard from Fulda Monastery .
In the case of the “Fugelsburg” castle complex, designated in 974, it was assumed that it was an old royal court or the seat of a higher noblewoman. This point is also associated with the expansion of Frankish power. The area is surrounded by a wall and divided by two transverse walls. Remnants of walls are still there.
Vogelsberg belonged to the Counts of Orlamünde in the 14th century . After their extinction in 1372, the place came to the Wettin Landgraviate of Thuringia . In 1421 Vogelsberg is mentioned as the seat of a bailiwick with 8 villages. When Leipzig was divided in 1485, it came to the Ernestine Electorate of Saxony. In the 16th century Vogelsberg belonged to the part of the " Vogtei Brembach ", which in 1664 came to the office of Großrudestedt . From 1672 this belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach and from 1741 to the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .
During the Second World War , internees from Italy and at least 66 men and women from Poland and Czechoslovakia had to do forced labor : in agriculture and at Rheinmetall Borsig AG in Sömmerda . Accommodation for 30 forced laborers from Czechoslovakia was the “Zur Linde” inn.
Shot down of a US plane in 1964
On Tuesday, January 28, 1964, an American CT-39A Sabreliner reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by two Soviet MiG-19 "farmers" at Kirschberg near Vogelsberg and exploded in a widely visible fireball. The machines came from Altenburg airfield , the shooting order was given by the high command of the group of Soviet armed forces in Germany in Wünsdorf . The small aircraft had violated the airspace of the GDR near Diedorf and penetrated 90 km into their area. It can be seen as certain that the US reconnaissance plane was on a spy flight to the Soviet military airfield, only 17 km away, next to the town of Haßleben. In the 1950s, the Soviet armed forces began building a military airfield right next to Haßleben, the expansion of which was delayed and was completed in the early 1960s. Here u landed a. also the then newest MIG jet fighters and transport aircraft. The Soviet Army , MfS and employees of the GDR Interior Ministry cordoned off a large area of Vogelsberg. Before that, numerous residents of Vogelsberg were at the crash site. The machine had come from the USAF 7101st ABW from Wiesbaden . The guidance and target instruction for interception took over the duty system of FuTK 511 of the NVA, at height 261 "Powder Tower" near Sömmerda / Kranichborn (Kranichborner Hügel). One had the information that it was a three-man crew. Since only two dead pilots were found in the completely destroyed machine at the crash site, it was assumed that an agent had been removed. During the investigations of the crime scene, the charred corpse of the wanted third pilot was found under engine parts in the impact crater. After the investigation, the larger parts of the wreckage and the fallen American officers (Gerald K. Hannaford, John F. Lorraine Jr. and Donald G. Millard) were loaded onto Soviet trucks and handed over to the American military mission. The action on the GDR side was led by the trained operational staff in the Hotel Erfurter Hof , in the then district capital of Erfurt . After the handover to the Americans, the fallen US pilots were flown from Tempelhof to Wiesbaden, where the official memorial service with the family members took place. Then the dead were transferred to the USA and buried. The commanding officer Hannaford of the failed reconnaissance mission is in Arlington National Cemetery Section 4 / Location 2902-B. The American side remains silent about the incident to this day. There is no explanation from the Soviet side as to why the plane was shot down and not forced to land. Several calls to the flight from both sides went unanswered. It appears that the T-39's radio was out of order and the crew couldn't answer. The US aircraft was unarmed, had no ejection seats and no parachutes.
Population development
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Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
coat of arms
Meaning: The bird on the mountain, which is also a speaking symbol in the folk etymological interpretation of the place name, has been in the seal of the community since the 17th century. Since 1912 an upright sword can be found next to this symbol in the community seal, obviously in memory of the Dingstuhl mentioned in 1378 in Vogelsberg. These two symbols are supplemented in the coat of arms by the woad stone, which refers to the widespread cultivation and processing of woad in this area.
Attractions
- Village church with historical gravestones in the churchyard
- Large boulder in the center of the village under an oak
- Aviator memorial on the "Kirschberg" or "Bonifatius Hill" (according to maps: on the "Stöllborner Berg"), about 2 kilometers south of Vogelsberg. Here (see above) an American reconnaissance plane crashed in 1964 after being shot at by Soviet fighters, killing the three pilots. A white cross with the names and photos of the three fallen is apparently of American origin. A neighboring memorial stone with a plaque was inaugurated on August 15, 1998 in the presence of two senior American Air Force officers. Eight members of two families (Haase and Grosch) from Vogelsberg erected the memorial on the Bonifatiushügel according to their own idea, with their own material and in their own contribution . You were one of the local residents who were first at the crash site in 1964. The monument is very hidden and difficult to find via an agricultural road and dirt roads. There are only two "Monument" signs (without any indication of its type) in the village and in the Stöllborner Tal, but they do not allow proper orientation.
Findling and Waidstein in the town center
Signpost to the US aviation memorial
Aviator memorial near Vogelsberg
Aviator memorial
Aviator memorial
Plane crash site
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. 430 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 291.
- ↑ Royal Court.
- ^ Chronicle of the community Vogelsberg .
- ^ Chronicle of the community Vogelsberg .
- ^ Johann Ernst Fabri : Geography for all estates. Part 1, Volume 4: Which contains the continuation and the resolution of the Upper Saxon Circle. Schwickert, Leipzig 1793, p. 82 f.
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 279.
- ^ A b mdr television: History of Central Germany. February 18, 2014.
- ↑ Cold War: Cold Blooded Murder . In: Time , February 7, 1964. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
- ↑ Shot down 50 years ago. Soviet jets fired at small aircraft of the US military in Vogelsberg. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , February 1, 2014.
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