Delitz am Berge

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Delitz am Berge
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 97 m
Area : 7.89 km²
Residents : 840  (March 31, 2015)
Population density : 106 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2008
Postal code : 06246
Area code : 0345
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Delitz am Berge is a district of the city of Bad Lauchstädt in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Delitz am Berge is located southwest of Halle (Saale) on the edge of the Querfurter Platte .

history

In the early Middle Ages Slavs penetrated the Germanic area, up to about the Saale. Delitz was a settlement of Slavic farmers. The community was mentioned for the first time in the Hersfeld tithe directory that was created between 881 and 899 . In the 11th century it was called "Delitz im Hosgau". The church was originally built as a Romanesque fortified church in the 12th century. In 1542 Delitz became Protestant through the Reformation . The Thirty Years 'War brought devastation to the place, and Delitz also suffered in the Seven Years' War . In between there was a devastating Saale flood in 1728.

Delitz am Berge was the seat of a manor owned by various families: von Bose (1540/73); Sack (1612); von Bose (1652 – at least 1663); von Krafft (before 1693–1787); Lehmicke (1787-1791); von Graffen (1791-1795); Benndorff (1795-1801); Heinrich August von Holleuffer (1801–1809); Dedo von Krosigk (1809 – before 1817); Müller (until 1817); von Alvensleben (1817-1837); Bethmann Hollweg (from 1837), by Zimmermann (on the Benkendorf estate ).

Until 1815 it belonged to the high penal Merseburg office of Lauchstädt . This had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the Secondogeniture Principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place to Prussia came and was Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which he belonged until 1,952th This year the place came to the district of Merseburg in the district of Halle , which in 1994 in the district of Merseburg-Querfurt and 2007 in the Saalekreis. One of the landowners was the councilor and physician Carl August von Madai . In 1911 the landlord von Zimmermann had a “child custody facility” built for his farm workers. In the 1930s a "Reichsheimstättensiedlung" was built. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many residential buildings were built in the village. The formerly independent municipality has been part of the city of Bad Lauchstädt since January 1st, 2008.

On January 1st, 2008 Delitz am Berge was incorporated into Bad Lauchstädt.

Culture and sights

The village church is a late Romanesque / early Gothic hall church of the 12th / 13th centuries. Century, originally a fortified church. In 1945 its broad tower was shot through by American artillery. In 1951 the church burned down. The wooden barrel from the 17th century was also destroyed. The reconstruction in 1953/54 was simplified with a flat ceiling.

In the cemetery are the graves of an unknown Russian woman and her three small children as well as an unknown Polish woman who were abducted to Germany during the Second World War and were victims of forced labor .

politics

The honorary local mayor is Jörg Homann.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place is in the immediate vicinity of the federal highway 38 , the exit Bad Lauchstädt (23) is approx. 2 kilometers away.

Delitz am Berge owned a train station on the "Onion Railway" from Bad Lauchstädt to Schlettau (1936 to Angersdorf , now part of Teutschenthal ). However, with the construction of the Merseburg – Halle-Nietleben railway and the associated re-routing of the line that has since passed north of Delitz, the station lost its function. Since then, the closest passenger stations have been in Merseburg and Angersdorf.

Sons and daughters

Web links

Commons : Delitz am Berge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Delitz am Berge in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 691
  2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  3. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
  4. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008