Gentha

Gentha City of Jessen (Elster) Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 59 ″  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 54 ″  E
Area :	13.74 km²
Residents :	168  (June 1, 2017)
Population density :	12 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 2004
Postal code :	06918
Area code :	035387
Location of Gentha in Saxony-Anhalt

Gentha is a district of the city of Jessen (Elster) in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

Gentha lies between the core town of Jessen and the town of Seyda, which was independent until the municipal reform in 2004 and now also belongs to Jessen, on the western edge of the Glücksburg forest in Lower Fläming at an altitude of 74 m.

The place and the surrounding area are still agricultural today. Gentha is a typical rural village with a half-timbered church. About one kilometer to the northwest is the Lüttchenseyda settlement, which was part of the Gentha community from 1950.

history

The village was first mentioned in documents in 1385 when Duke Wenzel I of Saxony gave the wife of the donor Albert von Sydow, among other things, taxes from Gentha. Since then Gentha has belonged to the lords of Seyda (Sydow). The name "Gentha" shall refer to but not precisely documented assumptions of the Flemish city of Ghent derive from the founder of the town to have come in the 13th century, according to another assumption, the local name is derived from the Low German from name for goose. There are different spellings and names of the village: 1385 Gent, 1445 Jhente, 1504 Gent, 1550 Genth and 1808 Gentha. The community was in the Saxon office of Seyda until 1815 and then became Prussian.

In 1550, 19 possessed men lived here , including three half-hunters who were directly subordinate to the Seyda office . The village did not have its own thing chair and no judge. In 1550 Gentha bordered the villages of Gielsdorf, Leisenferde , Leipa , Nauenheide and Brachholz and was parish off to Elster.

The church of Genthas was built in 1624, but in the Thirty Years War the place was completely devastated by Swedish troops in 1637, and only two widows and two widowers of the original inhabitants are said to have survived. In 1651, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony left the desert estate of Gentha as a gift to Bernhard Ludolph Kanne zu Clöden. The reconstruction then lasted until 1695.

In 1815 a fire devastated most of the buildings and the Genthas estate. In 1816 Gentha was assigned to Prussia and the district of Schweinitz . In 1945, the estate was expropriated as part of the land reform and the building was settled with resettlers from former German eastern territories. In 1946/1947 the construction of new farmhouses began. On July 1, 1950, the village of Lüttchenseyda was incorporated into Gentha. In 1953 the first agricultural production cooperative was founded in Gentha , and from 1960 all farmers in Gentha belonged to such cooperatives. After the district reform in 1994, Gentha belonged to the Elster-Seyda-Klöden community association and the Wittenberg district until 2004. In 1995 the local kindergarten had to be closed due to the sharp decline in the birth rate.

On March 1, 2004 Gentha was incorporated into Jessen (Elster).

Attractions

The most important building in the village is the half-timbered church of the Protestant community. The old manor house and the post windmill are also worth seeing.

economy

In addition to agriculture, Gentha's economic life is determined by small service companies. There is a small transport company.

social life

Gentha has its own volunteer fire brigade.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.jessen.de/stadtportal/ortsteile/gentha.html
2. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004

Web links

Commons : Gentha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gentha on the homepage of the city of Jessen