Gerstenberg

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Gerstenberg
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Gerstenberg highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 12 ° 26 ′  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Altenburger Land
Management Community : Pleißenaue
Height : 160 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.13 km 2
Residents: 493 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 158 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 04617
Area code : 03447
License plate : ABG, SLN
Community key : 16 0 77 007
Community structure: Main town, 1 district
Address of the
municipal administration:
Luckaer Strasse 52
04617 Gerstenberg
Mayor : Bertram Schröder (independent)
Location of the municipality of Gerstenberg in the Altenburger Land district
Altenburg Dobitschen Fockendorf Gerstenberg Göhren (bei Altenburg) Göllnitz Göpfersdorf Gößnitz Haselbach (bei Altenburg) Heukewalde Heyersdorf Jonaswalde Kriebitzsch Langenleuba-Niederhain Löbichau Lödla Lucka Mehna Meuselwitz Monstab Nobitz Ponitz Posterstein Rositz Nobitz Schmölln Starkenberg Thonhausen Treben Vollmershain Windischleuba Thüringen Landkreis Greiz Sachsen-Anhalt Sachsenmap
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Gerstenberg is a municipality in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia . It belongs to the administrative community Pleißenaue.

Partial view of the village from Kirchberg

geography

location

Gerstenberg is located southeast of the Kammerforstes and west of the Windischleuba dam and Kohrener Land . The federal roads 7 and 93 lead past the district to the east . The city of Altenburg lies to the south. Gerstenberg and the district of Pöschwitz are located in the middle of the redeemed hill country of Altenburg .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (clockwise) Meuselwitz , Treben , Windischleuba and the city of Altenburg .

Community structure

Districts are Gerstenberg and Pöschwitz .

history

Gerstenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1227. The line of knights "von Gerstenberg" died out in 1710. As early as 1181 a fortification was mentioned in the Pöschwitz district. This later manor passed into civil ownership in 1798. Members of the families served the dukes of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg . After the expropriation in 1951, what was once the largest farm was just a residential property with an MTS and a small new farmer.

Gerstenberg belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century due to several divisions in the course of its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, it belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 it came to the district of Altenburg .

The infrastructural modernization of the community began in 1880 with the establishment of the local volunteer fire brigade and continued in 1915 with the start of electrification and in 1952 with the construction of the first water pipeline. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the place was first occupied by the Americans and handed over to the Red Army in July 1945 .

On July 1, 1950, Pöschwitz was incorporated. During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus Gerstenberg came with the district Altenburg to the district of Leipzig . In 1990 the place and the district of Altenburg became Thuringian again. Since 1994 it has belonged to the Altenburger Land district.

church

Gerstenberg village church

At the church in Gerstenberg

Incorporations

1950 Pöschwitz was incorporated.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

  • 1994: 610
  • 1995: 621
  • 1996: 634
  • 1997: 629
  • 1998: 615
  • 1999: 617
  • 2000: 609
  • 2001: 603
  • 2002: 593
  • 2003: 589
  • 2004: 576
  • 2005: 569
  • 2006: 561
  • 2007: 571
  • 2008: 549
  • 2009: 571
  • 2010: 538
  • 2011: 522
  • 2012: 511
  • 2013: 520
  • 2014: 514
  • 2015: 516
  • 2016: 500
  • 2017: 514
  • 2018: 497
  • 2019: 493
Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Bertram Schröder, who was a member of the Gerstenberg citizens' initiative at the time, has been the mayor of the community since 2006 . In the local elections in 2018 he was re-elected with 96.9% (+ 19.1% p) of the valid votes, the voter turnout was 69.1% (+ 1.4% p).

Since the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the local council has been composed as follows:

  • Fire Brigade Association - 4 seats (49.7%)
  • Vehicle culture Gerstenberg eV - 3 seats (33.5%)
  • Citizens' initiative Gerstenberg - 1 seat (16.7%)

The turnout was 63.2%.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
  3. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
  4. The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
  5. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
  6. Pöschwitz on www.genealogy.net

Web links

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