Falkenhain (Meuselwitz)

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Falcon Grove
City of Meuselwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 32 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 161 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 420  (2012)
Incorporation : March 8, 1994
Postal code : 04610
Area code : 03448
Falkenhain (Thuringia)
Falcon Grove

Location of Falkenhain in Thuringia
Village church
Village church

Falkenhain is a district of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Memorial stone for the excavated Rusendorf

Located at the border triangle (Thuringia- Saxony - Saxony-Anhalt ), the village experienced a changing government. North behind Meuselwitz in the Leipzig lowland bay , the village had a geological advantage due to the quality of the soil. The natural resource coal cost the homeland in modern times. The remaining holes from the mining industry were filled with water after the opencast mines were closed. The Rusendorfer See in the south is under mining law, while the Prößdorfer See in the north can be used for local recreation.

The district road 216 records the place in terms of traffic.

history

13th to 19th centuries

State division of the Altenburger Land until 1920

Falkenhain was first mentioned in a document on June 8, 1216. Rudolfus de Valkenhain is mentioned in a document from Bishop Ekkehard von Merseburg . Until the beginning of the 20th century, the farming village was dominated by the local manor, which was a seat of the von Minckwitz family . The neighboring town of Rusendorf was also under its jurisdiction . In terms of church and school, however, Rusendorf was part of Zipsendorf until 1891 . On November 1, 1891, at the request of the Rusendorfer, the parish to Falkenhain took place. Since then, the Rusendorfer children have also attended school there.

Falkenhain is one of the few places in today's Altenburger Land district that historically did not belong to Saxony-Altenburg . Together with today also belonging to the Thuringia Meuselwitz places Brossen , Rusendorf and Zipsendorf was Falkenhain to 1815 in the office Zeitz , which as part of the Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz since 1561 under electoral Saxon stood sovereignty and between 1656/57 and 1718 for Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxony Zeitz belonged. Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to Prussia in 1815 and was assigned to the Zeitz district in the administrative district of Merseburg of the province of Saxony in 1816.

Due to the political affiliation of Rusendorf and Falkenhain to Zeitz, it emerged that Mumsdorf , which was politically part of Altenburg , was an exclave of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the Zeitz monastery area and, since 1815, in Prussian territory.

Time of lignite mining

Falkenhain, which is located in the northwest of the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining area, experienced a sudden increase in the number of inhabitants with the arrival of lignite mining. In 1905 the town had a population of 599 people, in 1938 it was already 1180. Furthermore, the rural falcon grove turned into an industrial village.

From 1905 several opencast mines were built south of Falkenhain . After the connection to Rusendorf to the south was cut in 1924, the neighboring town of Rusendorf could only be reached via detours. Between 1927 and 1933 it was evacuated and demolished. The farewell service for the Rusendorfer parishioners took place on July 17, 1932 in the Falkenhain church. By decision of the Prussian State Ministry , the rural community of Rusendorf, Zeitz district, was incorporated into Falkenhain on October 1, 1932. At that time, Rusendorf only had one residence. The " Open pit Phönix-Falkenhain " opened in 1928 destroyed the corridor of Rusendorf, which was the first place in the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining area to give way to lignite mining. By 1942, the opencast mine devastated the area south and east of Falkenhain. After its renaturation, the location of Rusendorf is in the Rusendorfer See .

After an attack by the US Air Force with B-17 bombers (Flying Fortress) on November 30, 1944, 18 deaths were counted in Falkenhain.

History from 1950

With the territorial reform that took place in 1952, Falkenhain and the corridor of Rusendorf were reclassified from the Zeitz district to the Altenburg district in the Leipzig district . Due to the opening of the " Phoenix-Nord opencast mine " in the northwest of the town in 1962, most of Falkenhain was threatened with the same fate as Rusendorf. Prior to this, the village was declared a mining reserve in the 1950s , i. that is, it was no longer allowed to be built in the village. When the Phönix-Nord open-cast mine was backed up and closed by a state decision in 1968, Falkenhain was spared from over-dredging. Only the windmill located a little outside the village was excavated.

With the political change and the formation of the new state of Thuringia, Falkenhain came to Thuringia for the first time in its history. On March 8, 1994, Falkenhain was incorporated into Meuselwitz. In 2012, 420 people lived in Falkenhain.

Attractions

Falkenhain village church
Falkenhain village church

The Falkenhain village church is one of the oldest buildings in the area. It was already there in 1457 under Hans von Minckwitz as a chapel of the manor. Under the patron Rudolph Siegfried von Minckwitz, the extension to the current form took place in 1685. One of the oldest baptismal fonts in the Altenburger Land, which is verifiably made in 1100, is on the forecourt of the church.

Monument to the fallen of Rusendorf

At the request of the residents of Rusendorf, the memorial to the fallen fathers and sons of the First World War, inaugurated in 1927, was moved to the Falkenhain church in 1932, as was the bell from 1928 cast for Rusendorf and a memorial stone.

Atonement Cross

A medieval atonement cross is leaning against the back of the memorial for the fallen. Until the mid-1960s it stood at the crossroads Falkenhain - Mumsdorf - Langendorf .

Dreiherrenstein

Two kilometers northwest of Falkenhain is the triangle of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The Dreiherrenstein is located on the premises of the Maltitz glassworks .

Personalities

Julius Blüthner

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. 74.
  2. ^ Rusendorf on www.schnaudertal.de
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 86 f.
  4. ^ The Zeitz district in the municipal directory 1900
  5. ↑ Falkenhain at www.schnaudertal.de Retrieved on July 19, 2012.
  6. ^ Günter Sagan: East Thuringia in the bombing war 1939-1945 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2013. ISBN 978-3-86568-636-7 . P. 86
  7. ↑ Falkenhain on www.schnaudertal.de
  8. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994
  9. ↑ http://www.schnaudertal.de/meuselwitz/rusend.htm Retrieved on November 12, 2014

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