Gorma

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Gorma
community Rositz
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 23 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 35"  E
Height : 180  (185-200)  m
Area : 2.7 km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1923
Postal code : 04617
Area code : 034498
Gorma (Thuringia)
Gorma

Location of Gorma in Thuringia
Gorma pond
Gorma pond

Gorma is a locality of Rositz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Gorma is located in the northeastern edge of the community Rositz, north of the federal highway 180 and northwest of Altenburg . The district lies in the Altenburg-Zeitz loess hill country on the southern edge of the Leipzig lowland bay .

history

Location of Gorma in the municipality of Rositz

The village of Gorma was first mentioned in a document in the period 1181–1214. a. in the tithe directory of the Bosau monastery from 1181. Traces of settlement from 5000 years ago were found in the former Germania opencast mine. In 1445 the majority of the place was under the jurisdiction and feudal rule of the Burgraves of Starkenberg .

Later the place belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which from the 16th century was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies 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, Gorma 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 .

There were three inns and four clubs in the village, including the football club founded in 1919, which was given its own sports field in 1921. On April 1, 1923, Gorma, Fichtenhainichen and Schelditz (spun off again in 1924) were incorporated into Rositz.

History of brown coal mining in the place

In 1836, lignite was first discovered in the village corridor. The reparations after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 brought increased funding. In the area of ​​Gorma, the two underground pits No. 16 and 18 were operated, owned by the Meuselwitz mining pioneer Christian Kluge, who also set up the first conveyor systems here. In the mine "Vereinsglück" No. 16, the first briquette press in the entire area was set up in 1873 under the new name "Braunkohlen Abbaugesellschaft Germania". This briquette factory was in operation until 1919.

Due to the increasing lignite industry, Gorma also experienced a considerable influx of workers. The population rose from 284 in 1864 to 1,552 in 1910. This resulted in more workers' houses next to the farms, especially on Rositzer Strasse (today's Schulstrasse), which connects Gorma and Rositz. The two miners' settlements "Glück-Auf-Gasse" and "Neugasse" were built as side streets. The settlement area of ​​Gorma expanded to the Rositzer cemetery.

Coal was mined around Gorma, which lies in the east of the Meuselwitz-Rositzer brown coal area, in the following underground pits : "Altenburger Kohlenwerke No. 19, 20, 22" (1865–1958), "Rositzer Kohlenwerke No. 113" (1865–1958), "Germania No. 16" (1874-1912). In the "Germania No. 16" mine, between 1908 and 1919, coal was also extracted in open-cast mining . During the Second World War , the location was badly damaged by its proximity to the DEA mineral oil works in Rositz.

In the 1980s, it was planned to resume lignite mining in the Meuselwitz-Rositzer lignite district, but this was not carried out. A large part of the municipality of Rositz, including part of Gorma, should have given way to the planned “Meuselwitz opencast mine” between Meuselwitz and Rositz.

Population development

  • 1556 - 0190
  • 1864 - 0284
  • 1910-1552

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. 94
  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. ^ The place on the website of the community Rositz.Retrieved on June 16, 2013
  7. ↑ The Altenburg / Meuselwitz lignite district, LMBV publication

Web links

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