Granschütz

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Granschütz
City of Hohenmölsen
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 148 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.52 km²
Residents : 1124  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 172 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06679
Area code : 034441
Granschütz (Saxony-Anhalt)
Granschütz

Location of Granschütz in Saxony-Anhalt

Granschütz is a district of the town of Hohenmölsen in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Granschütz is located southeast of Weißenfels am Auensee, a residual open pit. Aupitz was designated as a district of the former municipality.

history

In the Saxon Brethren War from 1445 to 1451, Granschütz was destroyed by episcopal mercenaries. The plague kills fifteen people in 1680. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Granschütz was transferred from Saxony to Prussia . After the discovery of lignite while drilling wells in 1839, lignite was mined until 1918.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Aupitz was incorporated.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent municipality of Granschütz was incorporated into the town of Hohenmölsen together with the municipality of Taucha .

Sights / tourism

Auensee
Granschütz
  • The neo-Gothic village church , built in 1898, is worth seeing .
  • The Auensee has a bathing beach.
  • At the secondary school , which was given the name Werner Seelenbinder in 1969 , a relief plaque was installed in 1974 to commemorate the anti-fascist worker athlete who was murdered in 1944.
  • War memorial on Weißenfelser Strasse

traffic

Granschütz is in the area of ​​the Central German Transport Association . Some bus lines of the regional transport company Weißenfels connect the place mainly with the district town Weißenfels , which is about six kilometers away , where the next train station is located (with intercity connection and local transport lines in several directions).

The federal highway 176 Weißenfels – Hohenmölsen runs through Granschütz . The next motorway junction is Weißenfels on the federal motorway 9 , about five kilometers to the west.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010

Web links

Commons : Granschütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Granschütz on the website of the city of Hohenmölsen