Geiselröhlitz

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Geiselröhlitz (historically also: Geißelröhlitz) is a modern desert in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt . It was destroyed by lignite mining in the Geiseltal .

Geographical location

Geiselröhlitz was in the Geiseltal northwest of Braunsbedra . Neighboring towns were Kämmeritz in the west, Neumark in the east and Petzkendorf in the south. The former town hall is now on the southern edge of the Geiseltalsee .

history

In 1684 the Geiselröhlitz manor was built in the village for the Leipzig university professor Georg Moebius . Until 1815, Geiselröhlitz belonged to the Wettin and later Electorate of Freyburg . 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

In March 1945 the place was bombed by Allied planes. There had been air strikes before too. In an attack in 1944 the Romanesque village church Geiselröhlitz and the manor house were destroyed.

Geiselröhlitz was part of Neumark since April 1, 1937 . On January 1, 1962 Geiselröhlitz became part of Braunsbedra . Neumark was relocated in 1963.

In 1950 the village church was rebuilt using parts of the destroyed Neumark village church . In 1964, however, the church and the ruins of the manor house were demolished for open-cast brown coal mining.

In the course of lignite mining in the Geiseltal , Geiselröhlitz was relocated and excavated ( devastated ) in 1967 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with the missing places in the Geiseltal
  2. ↑ Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 2, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 304
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.
  4. ↑ The district of Querfurt in the municipal directory 1900
  5. ^ Website about the air raid on the Geiseltal
  6. ^ Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 2, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 303 f.
  7. ↑ Geiselröhlitz on www.genealogy.net
  8. ↑ Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 2, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 304
  9. ↑ The place on www.devastiert.de ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 3.7 "  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 9.3"  E