Dölau (Greiz)

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Dölau
City of Greiz
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 43 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 293 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : October 1, 1922
Postal code : 07973
Area code : 03661
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Location of Dölau in the city of Greiz
Dölau Castle (2014)
Dölau Castle (2014)

Dölau is a place of district Sachs joke / Dölau / Rothenthal the city Greiz in the district of Greiz in Thuringia .

location

Dölau is located on federal highway 92 on the eastern side of the elevated Elsterniederung opposite the An der Goldenen Aue in the Thuringian Slate Mountains south of the city of Greiz.

history

Dölau was first mentioned in a document on June 12, 1359. The castle was built by the Lobdeburgers in the 12th century . In 1288 a knight from Dolen (Dölau) was mentioned. The castle was named again in 1359. Ruins of Dölau Castle lie on a rock above the right bank of the White Elster . A modern kemenaten-like building is evidence of the castle . The moats were filled in during the construction of the paved Greiz - Elsterberg road. Several times Dölau was the residence of its own lords Reuss-Dölau. On April 9, 1621, Heinrich IV. Reuss von Plauen of the older line, House Dölau, set up a mint in his residence Dölau and minted his own coins. Later, in the Principality of Reuss older line, Dölau was the main town of the Dölau office. a. Zeulenroda belonged. Dölau has had a station on the Gera - Weischlitz line since September 8, 1875, when the second part of the Elstertalbahn was opened . Initially referred to as Dölau (Elster), the station was renamed Dölau (Reuss) at the end of 1916 and, after incorporation in 1922, was given the still valid name Greiz-Dölau. On May 16, 1894, Dölau received a postal agency.

On April 1, 1922, the neighboring towns of Rothenthal and Sachswitz were incorporated. On October 1st of the same year the new community came to the city of Greiz.

Personalities

literature

  • Ulf Meyer: Caselwitz family book with Moschwitz, Obergrochlitz, Untergrochlitz, Dölau and Rothenthal (district of Greiz), Thuringia 1617 to 1800. Leipzig: AMF 2012 (= Central German local family books of the AMF 71)
  • Ulf Meyer: Caselwitz II family book with Moschwitz, Obergrochlitz, Untergrochlitz, Dölau and Rothenthal (Greiz district), Thuringia 1800 to 1945. Leipzig: AMF 2016 (= Central German local family books of the AMF 95)

Web links

Commons : Dölau (Greiz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 58
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 84 + 85
  3. ↑ Heimatbote, 1986, No. 4, p. 74
  4. ↑ JGCannabich: Latest country and ethnology - a geographical reading book for all classes (The Principality of Reuss-Plauen older line and younger line), Weimar 1827
  5. ^ Thuringian State Archives Greiz, State Government Acten n. Rep A Cap. XVII, no.64