Leitenhausen (Gompertshausen)
Abandoned village · Germany
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 50.318, 10.609
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was destroyed by the East German authorities in 1972 as it stood too close to the Inner German border, the border between the post-war states of East and West Germany.
History
Leitenhausen was a village in Germany, founded in 1317 A D. It was part of the former municipality Gompertshausen. It was destroyed by the East German authorities in 1972 as it stood too close to the Inner German border, the border between the post-war states of East and West Germany. It lay in the extreme south of Thuringia in Heldburger Land in the district of Hildburghausen, only a few hundred metres away from the Thuringian-Bavarian border.