Eptingen (Müelte)

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Eptingen is a modern desert in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt . It was destroyed by lignite mining in the Geiseltal .

Geographical location

Eptingen was in the Geiseltal east of Müelte . Neighboring towns were Zöbigker in the northwest, Möckerling in the north, Krumpa in the east and Neubiendorf in the south. The former town hall is now on the southwestern edge of the Geiseltalsee in the area of ​​the Müuellen station (city). Eptinger Rain is located south of the train station .

history

In the 12th century Eptingen belonged to the Reinsdorf monastery on the Unstrut. In 1327 Eptingen was donated to the Kaltenborn monastery .

In 1485 the brothers Bernhardt, Hansen, Balthasar and Melchior von Breitenbauch were enfeoffed with eight courtyards in Eptingen, which should have been all of the local courtyards. The manor of Eptingen belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place to Prussia came only in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

On October 1, 1929, Eptingen became a district of Müelte. The local manor consisted of a small classical manor house. In 1952 the local LPG moved into it . The tenement barracks, which the manor owner Bach had built on the Eptinger Rain in 1906, was converted into a school in 1950 as part of the NAW . It was also called the Polish Barracks because it originally housed Polish workers.

In the course of lignite mining in the Geiseltal , the place was relocated in 1968 and devastated in 1975 . The manor was blown up in 1970. In modern times there is only one extension of Eptingen that took place in modern times at today's Müchelner Stadtbahnhof.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with the missing places in the Geiseltal
  2. ↑ Eptingen on the Geiseltal project homepage
  3. ^ Eptingen in the story of Zöbigker
  4. ^ The Eptingen manor in the book "Geography for all Stands", Volume 1, p. 382.
  5. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.
  6. ↑ The district of Querfurt in the municipal directory 1900
  7. ↑ Eptingen on www.genealogy.net
  8. ↑ The place on www.devastiert.de ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Eptingen in the Geiseltal project

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 14.1 ″  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 55.8 ″  E