Knapendorf

Knapendorf municipality Schkopau Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 20 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 30 ″ E
Height :	95 m
Residents :	540
Incorporation :	January 1, 2005
Postal code :	06258
Area code :	03461
	Location of Knapendorf in Schkopau

Knapendorf is a district of the municipality of Schkopau in the Saalekreis (Saxony-Anhalt).

Geography and local transport

Church in Bündorf

Church in Knapendorf

Castle complex in Bündorf

Lauchagrund-Black oak cycle path in Bündorf

Knapendorf is located on the Laucha , southwest of the main town of Schkopau and northwest of the city of Merseburg on Landstrasse 172. West of the village runs the BAB 38 , east of Knapendorf and northwest of Bündorf are the Merseburg Elisabethhöhe and Milzau stops on the disused Merseburg railway line –Schafstädt .

The district Knapendorf consists of the settlement areas Knapendorf, Bündorf and Dörstewitz .

In local public transport, Knapendorf can be reached via the stops Gartenanlage , Knapendorf and Str. Der Freunde with the following lines:

726 ( PNVG ): Merseburg - Knapendorf - Delitz am Berge - Oberwünsch - Müuellen
728 ( PNVG ): Merseburg - Knapendorf - Querfurt

history

The place Knapendorf was first mentioned in a document on October 18, 1068 as Cnapendrop . The Bündorf settlement belonging to the district was first mentioned around 1004. Until 1815, Knapendorf, Bündorf and Dörstewitz belonged to the Merseburg high school Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the places came in 1815 to Prussia and were 1,816 Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which they belonged to the 1952nd From 1830 to 1928 coal was mined near Dörstewitz.

On July 1, 1950, Bündorf and Dörstewitz were incorporated into Knapendorf. During the district reform in the GDR, the place came to the Merseburg district in the Halle district in 1952 , which became part of the Merseburg-Querfurt district in 1994 and the Saale district in 2007 . On January 1, 2005 Knapendorf was incorporated into the single community Schkopau.