Birkigt (Bad Bibra)

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Birkigt
Bad Bibra municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 43 ″  E
Residents : 36  (Dec 31, 2006)
Incorporation : 1950
Postal code : 06647
Area code : 034465

Birkigt is a district of the town of Bad Bibra in the Burgenland district (Saxony-Anhalt). His name means something like birch wood. Birkigt was a former Vorwerk that belonged to the Nebra manor .

Geographical location

Birkigt is located south of the city of Nebra (Unstrut) not far from the federal highway 250 . The manor and today's location rise above the Dissau valley.

history

The place name Birkigt is of German origin and means birch forest (analogous to Tännicht, Eichigt, Erlicht etc.). The place was first mentioned in 1328 in connection with the noble Heinrich von Birkich . Before 1589 the von Nißmitz acquired the desolate village of Birkigt and built a farm there. Until his death, Birkigt was owned by the chief judge Georg von Nißmitz . In 1700 the von Nißmitz sold it to Ludwig Gebhard von Hoym , the gentleman in castle divisions and church divisions , who in turn sold it to Jacob Heinrich von Flemming in 1718 . He also sold it only a little later in 1723 to Conrad Werner Wedemeyer , who sold it again to Ludwig Gebhard von Hoym in 1724.

In 1754, the von Hoym family expanded the Birkigt farm and built a new mansion and servants' house and other farm buildings. The former manor building from the 18th century still shapes the village image today. The family also expanded the homesteads and the place.

Until 1815 the place belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

In the 19th century there was an important brick factory near the manor . In 1830 Bernhard Heinrich von Helldorf bought the place on Bedra. Birkigt remained in the possession of the von Helldorf family until 1945.

Until July 1, 2009, Birkigt belonged to the Altenroda community and from that day to the Bad Bibra town.

Say about the place name

According to the legend, the place is said to have its name from Birkigt, a brother of Phillip, who won the war against him. Phillip had a castle on today's "Phillipsburg", a stretch of land northeast of the Dissau (brook) above "Schweinedorf". The place Birkigt is said to have been located eastward above the "Lizard Mountain". Larger stones worked by human hands can still be found here today, e.g. B. Edging of archways, which underlines the credibility. Why the place was then moved further west is unclear. Nothing more is known about the former Phillipsburg, except long-term speculations about a point NW of today's quarry, on a very old linden tree, where the subsoil sounds hollow.

Von Birkicht family

The family was first mentioned in 1328, in connection with the noble Heinrich de Byrkech . In the oldest times there was a noble farm in the village of Birkigt, on which the Lords of Birkigt sat, who carried the noble farm and the village from the Margraves of Meissen as a fief. In 1368 Otto von Birkich, 1384 the brothers Otto and Nicolaus de Birkich and 1387 Otto von Birkicht were mentioned in margravial documents. In 1656, a Conrad von Birkicht lived as a colonel from Electoral Saxony.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided into blue and red by a sloping wave bar. On the helmet a closed flight, tinged like the shield. The blankets are red and white.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.
  2. ↑ The district of Querfurt in the municipal directory 1900