Weischwitz

Weischwitz community Kaulsdorf Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '32 " N , 11 ° 23' 41" E
Height :	261 m
Residents :	130
Incorporation :	April 9, 1994
Postal code :	07338
Area code :	03671

Weischwitz Church

Weischwitz is a district of the municipality Kaulsdorf in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia .

geography

Weischwitz is located west of Fischersdorf in the hilly foreland of the Thuringian Forest on the foothills of the Southeast Thuringian Slate Mountains on soils with high soil fertility. A one and a half kilometer long local connection road to federal highway 85 connects the place with traffic. The hills and mountains around the place bear mixed forests.

history

The village of Weischwitz was first mentioned in a document on March 28, 1281. Enclosed on three sides by the Leutenberg area of the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Weischwitz belonged to the Saalfeld office of the Duchy of Saxony-Saalfeld and Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld . From 1826 to 1918 Weischwitz belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen ( Saalfeld district ). Weischwitz was hit by the persecution of witches in 1679 . The farrier Andreas Enders got involved in a witch trial and was beheaded.

130 residents are resident in the village. The village is the smallest district of Kaulsdorf.

Web links

Commons : Weischwitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 307.
↑ Weischwitz as part of the Saxony-Meiningische Landkreis Saalfeld in the municipality register 1900
↑ Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 255, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
^ Weischwitz on the website of the municipality of Kaulsdorf. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 307.

[2] Weischwitz as part of the Saxony-Meiningische Landkreis Saalfeld in the municipality register 1900

[3] Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 255, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).

[4] Weischwitz on the website of the municipality of Kaulsdorf. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .