Altranstädt

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Altranstädt
City of Markranstädt
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 57 ″  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 118 m
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Incorporated into: Großlehna
Postal code : 04420
Area code : 034205

Altranstädt (previously officially written Altranstedt ) is a district of the town of Markranstädt in the district of Leipzig in Saxony .

location

Altranstädt is located in the Leipzig lowland bay about 14.5 km west-southwest of the city center of Leipzig and 11 km east of Leuna . The border with Saxony-Anhalt runs in the immediate vicinity.

history

The Altranstadt Castle

Altranstädt (Antiquum Ranstedte) is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1190 in a document about the sale of the village to the Altzelle monastery , in which Bere de Cleberg appeared as a notary.

In 1206 there is talk of a church that will later be subordinate to three branch churches in Großlehna, Oetzsch and Treben. In 1213 Altranstädt is mentioned as an estate ( Grangie ) of the Cistercian monastery Altzelle near Nossen. The status of the monastery property with the associated village existed until the secularization of the Altzelle monastery in 1540 by the Saxon Duke Heinrich the Pious as a result of the Reformation .

The estate has now become a secular manor. The owners of the manor Altranstädt were:

  • Wolf Wiedemann, Mayor of Leipzig (until 1588)
  • Gabriel Schütz, Chancellor of Merseburg (1588–1594)
  • Dr. Johann Badehorn (1595–1610), son of the lawyer Leonhard Badehorn
  • von Weißenbach (1646–1689) (ancestors of the Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great - her great-great-grandmother was born in Altranstädt)
  • Mrs. von Brandenstein born Weißenbach (1676/81 share)
  • Mrs. von Helldorf b. von Weißenbach (1679-88 share)
  • von Meusebach (1689–1696)
  • by Friesen (1696–1715)
  • Cammann (including Johann Georg, he died around 1735/1736, as can be seen from the inscription in the Ötzsch church in Nempitz.) (1715–1771)
  • von Hohenthal (from 1771)

In 1620 a castle was built as a three-wing complex with a connection to the church, which was rebuilt in 1745. In the Great Northern War , the young Swedish King Charles XII. from September 1706 to September 1707 his headquarters were in Altranstädt Palace. On September 24, 1706, the peace at Altranstädt between Charles XII. and August the Strong , through which August the Strong (at least for a few years) lost the Polish royal crown. On September 1, 1707 the Altranstädter Convention between Karl XII. and signed by the Austrian Emperor Joseph I , which guaranteed Protestants freedom of belief in Silesia , which was then ruled by Austria .

The Altranstädter Church

This made the castle the political center of Northern Europe at that time. Before he left, the King of Sweden is said to have left the slogan “Adieu Altranstätt, je vais à Suede, ton Séjour nome plait pas” in a round window pane. After the land reform in 1946 became public property, the castle was used for residential purposes until 2000 and, on a modest scale, as a museum. In 2002 the Förderverein Schloss Altranstädt eV was founded for the preservation and renovation of the castle and its use.

In addition to these major political events, the everyday events in the village take a back seat. Altranstädt already had a school for its own village and the surrounding towns such as Treben, Großlehna and, most likely, Kleinlehna. In 1606 and 1682 the plague and in 1766 a conflagration in which 21 houses burned down, ravaged the village.

Administratively, Altranstädt belonged to the Electorate or Kingdom of Saxony until 1815 . Since the secularization of the manor in 1540 belonging to Gutsbezirk places Altranstädt came Großlehna and small-Miltitz and Treben and Oetzsch as enclaves in high pin-merseburgischen Office Lutzen the district office Leipzig .

As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Altranstädt and Großlehna as well as Treben and Oetzsch with the western part of the Lützen district were ceded to Prussia in 1815. In the new political order Prussia they were in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated to which they belonged to the 1952nd However, Klein-Miltitz, located further to the east, remained with the royal Saxon district office in Leipzig, to which the eastern part of the Lützen office with Markranstädt was now also attached. Altranstädt remained with Prussia until 1945 and after the Second World War with Saxony-Anhalt until the districts in the GDR were founded in 1952. Now it belonged to the Leipzig-Land district in the Leipzig district and thus to this after the re-establishment of the Free State of Saxony, until this came to the district of Leipziger Land in 1994 .

On July 1, 1950, Altranstädt was incorporated into Großlehna and on January 1, 2006 came with this to the town of Markranstädt. The population of Altranstädt reached its maximum in 1946 after the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the German eastern regions with 1817 inhabitants.

Attractions

As a museum, the renovated castle houses the Peace Room for the Altranstädter Peace and an exhibition on the Great Northern War. In other rooms there are temporary exhibitions on modern art and the like. The renovated church is also worth seeing.

In 1907, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Altranstädter Convention, an obelisk was erected in the courtyard of the palace in the presence of the Swedish Crown Prince, referring to both the Altranstädter Convention and the peace treaty.

  • The interior of the church
  • The anniversary obelisk
  • Inscription on the anniversary obelisk
  • The peace room as a 360 ° panorama

Sons of the place

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diana Hart Rich, Peter Schug, Andreas Hoehn, Thomas Nabert , Michael Bonanza, Otto Werner Förster : Markkleeberg - History and Change . ProLeipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936508-48-2 , p. 34
  2. ↑ a b c Altranstädt . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 14th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1827, p. 122 f.
  3. ↑ Altranstädt on the page "Historical Saxony"
  4. ↑ The ancestors of Tsarina Catherine II of Russia ( MS Word ; 41 kB) on a private website from Oberpöllnitz .
  5. ↑ Cammann's first name can be found in a finding aid entry in a file in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive. See: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/2TLVA324MNRSD7OR3BJGW6UBGPIVYLJT
  6. ↑ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 60 f.
  7. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900

literature

  • Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony's palaces and castles. Husum, Husum 2004, ISBN 3-89876-159-2 , p. 17f.
  • Alberto Schwarz: Castles around Leipzig. ed. Association for the Promotion of Crafts and Monument Preservation Schloss Trebsen eV, Seemann, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-363-00601-2 , pp. 76–79.
  • Christa Berbig: Stories from the Negerdorf - From my school days in Altranstädt , September 2006, Schwerin, self-published

Web links

Commons : Altranstädt  - collection of images, videos and audio files