Altengroitzsch
Altengroitzsch
City of Groitzsch
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 20 ″ N , 12 ° 15 ′ 58 ″ E
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Incorporation : | October 1, 1948 | |
Postal code : | 04539 | |
Area code : | 034296 | |
Location of Altengroitzsch in Saxony |
Altengroitzsch is a district of the city of Groitzsch in the district of Leipzig (Free State of Saxony ). The place was incorporated into the city of Groitzsch in 1948.
geography
Altengroitzsch is located in the Leipzig lowland bay three kilometers southwest of Groitzsch. The Schwennigke flows directly to the west of the village, while the White Elster runs parallel to the river to the west .
history
On the steep edge of the Elsteraue near Altengroitzsch there was a Slavic-early German rampart. From the village shape, the place is a Slavic Rundling . The place name of Altengroitzsch is traced back to a connection with the development of the nearby Groitzsch Castle under Count Wiprecht von Groitzsch (1050–1124).
Altengroitzsch was around 1378 in the area of the County of Groitzsch , which in 1460 was combined with the Pegau escort office to form the Pegau office . Since then, the place was in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office Pegau until 1856 . The jurisdiction over Altengroitzsch lay with the Löbnitz manor . From 1856 the place belonged to the judicial office of Pegau and from 1875 to the district administration Borna .
Altengroitzsch is located in the central German lignite district . Between 1851 and 1863 was in the "Berthagrube" at the southern outskirts of lignite in civil engineering dismantled. In 1884 the “Altengroitzscher Coal Company” with 79 workers and five civil servants owned the mine.
On October 1, 1948, it was incorporated into Groitzsch. As a district of Groitzsch, Altengroitzsch was assigned to the Borna district in the Leipzig district in 1952, the Borna district in 1990, the Leipziger Land district in 1994 and the Leipzig district in 2008.
Attractions
- Altengroitzsch owns several half-timbered houses, the oldest dating from 1689.
- Altengroitzsch alpaca garden
Web links
- Altengroitzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Altengroitzsch on the website of the city of Groitzsch
- Altengroitzsch on www.reitwanderfuehrer.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
- ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
- ↑ Altengroitzsch on gov.genealogy.net
- ↑ Altengroitzsch alpaca garden