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Saxon Landwehr near Gompertshausen

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Saxon Landwehr near Gompertshausen

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    Location: Gompertshausen, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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    September 1, 2024

    The Saxon Landwehr and the neighboring Henneberg Landwehr are former defense structures between the Electorate of Saxony, Henneberg and Würzburg possessions. Their remains (ramparts and ditches) can be found today in the area south of the Thuringian Forest, the Saxon Landwehr entirely in the Hildburghausen district in the south of Thuringia.

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    de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4chsische_Landwehr

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      September 1, 2024

      The construction of the continuous landwehr began after 1440, about 70 years after the Coburg care and with it the border regions of Heldburger Land, Hildburghausen and Eisfelder Land had passed from Henneberg to Saxon ownership. At this time, the "local lands in Franconia" had developed into a remote but significant focal point of the interests of the hereditary lines of the electoral family and important noble families in the growing Electorate of Saxony.

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      de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4chsische_Landwehr

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        September 1, 2024

        The Saxon Landwehr was built on the territory of the Electorate of Saxony and consisted of various combinations of ramparts, ditches and a so-called hedge, which was understood to be strips of bushes and forest. There were single and double ditches. The excavated earth was piled up to form ramparts. Ditches were so wide that a horse could not jump over them. The Landwehr with ditch and rampart was 8 to 15 meters wide, and even wider with double ditches. The depth of the ditches varied and was probably more than two meters. The hedge was 150 meters wide in some sections, and the bending of the young shoots created an impenetrable bush.

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        de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4chsische_Landwehr

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