Wolfmannsgehau

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Wolfmannsgehau
City of Treffurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 311 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Ifta
Postal code : 99830
Area code : 036926
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Wolfmannsgehau is a small settlement belonging to the Ifta district of the town of Treffurt in the Wartburg district in Thuringia , Germany . District road 500 leads to the Wolfmannsgehau district .

geography

Wolfmannsgehau is already part of the Ringgau . The place is embedded in a narrow valley and is about 310  m above sea level. NN . The highest elevations are the Dreiherrenstein ( 488.5  m above sea level ) and the Staufelsberg ( 391.3  m above sea level ). The Heldrastein ( 503.8  m above sea level ) is a landmark that can be seen from afar not far from the northern boundary of the district. The valleys Mertelstal , Melmental and Ölbachtal is used for agriculture (farming and dairy farming).

The former border strip at Ifta has a total length of around ten kilometers and is part of the German Green Belt Biotope Group .

history

The village green in Wolfmannsgehau
A Prussian border eagle at the junction to Wolfmannsgehau near Ifta

The place name Wolfmannsgehau means clearing settlement of a Wolfmann. The history of the place should begin around 1000 and is interwoven with the neighboring towns of Ifta, Schnellmannshausen, Rambach, Rittmannshausen, Weißenborn and the neighboring town of Creuzburg. The place belonged to the Wettin office of Creuzburg .

During the Thirty Years War , Croats camped below the Entenberg in the Croatian Trench ; on their raids in the Ringgau in 1637 they spread fear and terror. In 1640 there were 30 abandoned (desert) farms in Ifta, only one twelfth of the agricultural land was still usable; In Wolfmannsgehau the 4 farms had burned down, all men were dead and their bereaved relatives moved to the neighboring towns.

In 1879, based on the 1875 census , statistical information on the location was published for the first time. The size of the Wolfmannsgehauer corridor was 222.9 ha, of which courtyards and gardens 2.7 ha, meadows 4.1 ha and arable land 124.9 ha. Forest 87.0 ha, ponds, streams and rivers 0.0 ha, on paths , Trifte, wasteland and orchards accounted for 3.9 hectares. In Wolfmannsgehau there were 7 horses, 53 cattle, 94 sheep, 19 pigs and 4 goats. Ifta was identified as a wealthy place in this overview . After 1945, the state forests on the Heldrastein, which had always been designated as state property, came to the Wolfmannsgehau corridor.

Wolfmannsgehau and Ifta were located in the 5 km exclusion zone along the inner German border between 1945 and 1989 , a company of the Eisenach border regiment was stationed here. The district of Wolfmannsgehau was in the 500-meter protective strip and was therefore specially guarded. Immediately on the state border on the Hessian side there was a US base (observation point) whose watchtower is currently still in place. In 1961, families who were considered politically unreliable were forcibly resettled in the GDR interior as part of the Kornblume campaign from the location only 2,000 m away from the border. Several families had been warned and were able to flee to Hessen.

At the former border crossing there is a historical Prussian border stone (border eagle). The Baumkreuz project , which is reminiscent of the time of the division of Germany , is currently being developed there .

literature

  • Karl Louis Hesse: Ifta in the past and present. A contribution to the homeland and local history for everyone, but first of all for the residents of Ifta . Jacobi, Eisenach 1867.
  • Else Krapf: Ifta, a small village in the Wartburgland . Ed .: Municipal administration Ifta. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1996, p. 260 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office: TK25 - sheet 4927 Creuzburg , Erfurt 1992, ISBN 3-86140-202-5 .
  2. ↑ Border hiking trail in the Wartburg region - Wolfmannsgehau. In: Wartburgkreis-Online. Archived from the original on January 15, 2011 ; Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
  3. ^ C. Kronfeld, Regional Studies of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Second part. Weimar 1879.
  4. ↑ Hartmut Kaczmarek: Under constant surveillance. Iftaers remember life in the restricted area. Thuringian regional newspaper, October 2, 2010