Leumnitz

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Leumnitz
City of Gera
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 45 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 270 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1305  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation : January 1, 1919
Postal code : 07546
Area code : 0365
Village church
Village church

Leumnitz has been part of Gera since January 1, 1919 .

location

Leumnitz lies east of the city center and forms the eastern edge of the closed urban development of Geras. The old road in the direction of Ronneburg and Altenburg (now Bundesstraße 7 ) is crossed here by the eastern bypass road Geras, which has been accessible since the beginning of 2007.

history

Leumnitz is first mentioned in a document in 1407 as Lewbenicz ; the place name is derived from a Slavic personal name. With 1057 inhabitants it was incorporated into the city of Gera on January 1, 1919.

Leumnitz Manor

The manor Leumnitz was a diet capable manor . The patrimonial jurisdiction in the form of inheritance jurisdiction over Leumnitz was connected with the possession of the manor . The lower jurisdiction was abolished on January 1, 1855.

The manor Leumnitz was already owned by Jakob von Etzdorff († 1546) in 1543 , subsequently his son Friedrich von Etzdorff, colonel and governor of Jena, Eisenberg and Bürgel (1588), and owned by the von Creutz family since 1662 , arrived in 1692 the von Nauendorf family , in 1694 to the von Raschau family , in 1771 to the von Freiesleben family and in 1812 to the Tilly family. In 1821 Haubold von Einsiedel acquired the Leumnitz manor from the merchant Christian Friedrich Tilly. In the summer of 1856, Hermann Ampach bought the manor.

politics

Leumnitz has no district constitution, therefore no district council and no district mayor .

Development of the population

year 1864 1919 2008
Residents 354 1074 1332

traffic

In addition to the federal roads B2 and B92 and the city ring, the Gera-Leumnitz junction of the federal motorway 4 is located far east of Leumnitz, on the city limits of Ronneburg .

Today Leumnitz is served by bus lines 10, 17, 19 and 26 of the transport and operating company Gera ; The Gera trolleybus operated here from 1939 to 1977 . The Gera-Leumnitz airfield is located east of the district .

From 1901 to 1969, Leumnitz was a stop on the meter-gauge Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer Railway ("Wuitz-Mumsdorfer").

Personalities

  • Hermann Ampach (* 1829; † 1903), member of the Reichstag and Landtag
  • Helene Fleischer (born June 11, 1899 in Leumnitz, † June 26, 1941 in Stadtroda); KPD member of the Reichstag and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Helene Rosenhainer (born June 12, 1899 in Leumnitz, † March 19, 1983 in Gera); KPD member of the state parliament.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gera. History of the city in words and pictures. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1987, p. 29.
  2. ^ Siegfried Mues: The street names of the city of Gera from A to Z. Verlag Dr. Frank, Gera 2006, p. 183.
  3. ↑ Family table of those v. Etzdorff by Fritz Fischer
  4. ^ Entry "Patrimonialgericht Leumnitz" at the Thuringia archives portal
  5. ↑ Gera City Archives