Bocka (Windischleuba)

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Bocka
Windischleuba municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 26 ″  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 196 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 217  (2012)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Incorporated into: Windischleuba
Postal code : 04603
Area code : 03447
Bocka (Thuringia)
Bocka

Location of Bocka in Thuringia
Village church
Village church

Bocka is a district of Windischleuba in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia . The place is best known for the bulldog, steam and tug meeting that has taken place annually in August since 1996 , it is the largest in central Germany.

location

Bocka is located southeast of Windischleuba, east of Altenburg and on state road 1353 in the Pleißenaue . The landscape and the district belong to the most abandoned hill country around Altenburg on the edge of the Leipzig lowland bay . In the north and east, Bocka borders the Saxon district of Leipzig .

history

The first documentary mention of Bocka took place between 1181 and 1214. Until 1928, Bocka was divided into a Saxon and a Thuringian part.

Bocka (Thuringian share)

The Thuringian part of Bocka belonged to the Altenburg office , which finally became Ernestine with the Naumburg Treaty in 1554 and subsequently belonged to various Ernestine duchies : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony- Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826).

With the reorganization of the Ernestine duchies in 1826, Bocka (thur. Share) came to the re-established duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, the place legally belonged to the Altenburg district court and, in terms of administration, to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). Bocka (Thür. Share) belonged from 1918 to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which in 1920 became part of the State of Thuringia . Since 1922 the place belonged to the Thuringian district of Altenburg .

Bocka (Saxon part)

The Saxon part of Bocka consisted of several splinter areas in the west and east of the place. Around 1445/47 they belonged, like the Thuringian part, to the Altenburg care . However, the jurisdiction lay with the Gnandstein manor and around 1696 with the Wolftitz manor . The Saxon part of Bocka was administered from the middle of the 16th century to 1856 by the Borna Office, which belonged to the Albertine Electorate of Saxony from 1547 and to the Kingdom of Saxony from 1806 . Bocka (Saxon share) belonged to the Frohburg court office from 1856 and to the Borna district administration from 1875 . When the Free State of Saxony was founded in 1918, Bocka (Saxon share) remained in existence as a Saxon exclave in the Thuringian Altenburger Land .

History since the unification in 1928

In 1928 there was an exchange of territory and a border adjustment between the Free State of Saxony and the State of Thuringia. The splintered areas of Bocka (Saxon share) were given to Thuringia and combined with Bocka (Thur. Share) to form the municipality of Bocka in the Thuringian district of Altenburg. On July 1, 1950, Pöppschen was incorporated into Bocka.

During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Bocka was assigned to the reduced Altenburg district, which in turn now belonged to the Leipzig district . On January 1, 1973, Bocka and Pöppschen were incorporated into Windischleuba. When the Free State of Thuringia was re-established in 1990, Bocka came back to Thuringia with the Altenburg district. Since 1994 the place has been part of the Altenburger Land district. In 2012, 217 people lived in the district. Ecclesiastically, the place does not belong to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , but to the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony , parish Kohrener Land .

literature

  • Richard Steche : Bocka. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 15. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Borna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1891, p. 6.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 36.
  2. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 210
  3. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
  4. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
  5. ↑ Bocka (Saxon part) in the Historical Directory of Saxony
  6. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
  7. ^ Map with the exchange areas between Saxony and Thuringia in 1928
  8. ↑ Bocka on gov.genealogy.net
  9. ^ Bocka on the website of the Pleißenaue administrative community , accessed on May 22, 2012.
  10. ^ Website of the parish Kohrener Land

Web links

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