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The Webicht is a forest landscape in the urban area of Weimar in Thuringia . It extends in the northeast of the city between the district of Tiefurt , the Halle – Bebra railway line, not far from Webichtallee, to the exit of the town on Jenaer Straße, where the forestry office is also located. It consists mainly of deciduous forest consisting mainly of ash , maple and elm . The plant population also includes spotted arum , hollow lark's spur , wolf monkshood .
history
The Webicht was a popular place of study for the Weimar School of Painting . So was z. B. the forest landscape (Webicht bei Weimar) painted in 1875 by the painter Karl Buchholz , who Lovis Corinth called "the genius of the Weimar school of painting ". It is in the painting collection in the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg under the inv. No. 1142. Christian Rohlfs was also inspired by this.
In addition to the references to classical Weimar due to its proximity to Tiefurt Castle and the pheasantry formerly located in its center , which was demolished in 2011, it is the events described as the final phase crimes of the Third Reich with which this place is connected.
In addition to the neighboring district of Tiefurt with its palace garden the Weimar committed Gestapo , led by obersturmbannführer Hans Helmut Wolff on April 5, 1945, the bloodless handover to the 80th Division of the United States Army mass murder of 149 prisoners (142 male and seven female). The shootings took place a few hundred meters away from the current location of the memorial stone. When the dead were exhumed in July 1945, 43 people could be identified by name. The victims were cremated in July 1945 and buried in August 1946 in a grave field at the main cemetery in Weimar.
The memorial stone was inaugurated on August 3, 1963 in Webicht, but was later moved to Tiefurter Allee near the Tiefurt entrance sign so that it could better serve its function. Today (2016), however, the complex is almost overgrown and difficult to find.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 483.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 56 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 21 ″ E