Grünberg (Ponitz)
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Grünberg
Ponitz parish
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 29 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 45" E
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| Height : | 247 (225–260) m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 180 |
| Incorporation : | 1st November 1973 |
| Postal code : | 04639 |
| Area code : | 03762 |
 Location of Grünberg in Ponitz
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Grünberg is a district of the eastern Thuringian municipality of Ponitz in the Altenburger Land . The place is divided into the once independent places Nieder- and Obergrünberg , which were merged in 1936. Until 1952 the place belonged to Saxony .
history
Grünberg, like many German foundations in this region, probably came into being around 1100. The place name is derived from the landscape. Grünberg was first mentioned in a document on May 29, 1214, but it cannot be proven whether Ober- or Niedergrünberg existed first.
Around 1200 , a Cistercian convent was built on a hill, similar to Frankenhausen . Erkenbert II von Starkenberg gave him his goods in Friedrichsdorf, a former place near Grünberg. The church belonging to the monastery no longer exists in its former form. The tower of today's church dates from 1698, the nave, however, from 1780 and 1781. Today there are Art Nouveau paintings inside the church .
The Gasthof Grünberg was built in 1898 and was used until the fall of the Berlin Wall. He owned a brewery built in 1900, which took first place with its beer at the World Exhibition in Paris. After the Second World War it was used as a laundry room.
From the parish area of Grünberg, which included the towns of Obergrünberg, Niedergrünberg and Gösau, 27 people died in the First World War .
Modern times since the Second World War
On February 6, 1945, Grünberg was devastated by a total of 172 bombs in the area from Niedergrünberg to the Mühlteich Obergrünberg. Four people died and two others were seriously injured, a residential building and three side buildings as well as the syringe house in Niedergrünberg were destroyed.
Historically, the two places, which were merged into one municipality on August 1, 1936, did not belong to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , like most places in the Altenburger Land , but to the Kingdom of Saxony and until 1952 to the State of Saxony. It was not until this year that the community of Grünberg with the locations Nieder- and Obergrünberg came to the Schmölln district in the Leipzig district . On November 1, 1973, the community was then affiliated to Ponitz. With the reintroduction of the federal states on the territory of the former GDR, Grünberg came to Thuringia for the first time in its history with the district of Schmölln. In terms of church, however, Grünberg still belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony . Since 1994 the place has been in the Altenburger Land district.
geography
The Löpitzbach, which is part of the Pleiße catchment area, flows completely through the former two places. Despite the relatively small amount of water, Grünberg has been flooded several times in history, the last time in 1987. The crossing of the stream over its banks is facilitated by the fact that the water from the two slopes on the sides of the stream flows into it. Small patches of forest partially cover the hills. The largest forest is the Friedrich , north of the place where a hamlet called Friedrichsdorf once stood, as archaeological excavations have proven.
Townscape
The place is a typical row village , whereby the road hardly has any increase, but the hills to the right and left of it. The two formerly separate locations Nieder- and Obergrünberg can still be clearly distinguished in their historical core. The historic half-timbered houses are centered on two areas. Single-family houses have been built between the former locations over the past 50 years. Grünberg has a total of 27 historic farms, most of which are still four-sided today, like most of the farms in the Altenburg area .
literature
- Gustav Adolph Frost: Illustrirte Chronik. Grünberg and the surrounding area. A contribution to the folklore of Saxony , Crimmitschau 1900
Web links
- Grünberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Historical table sheets from the Meerane area with the historical borders
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 105
- ↑ http://www.starkenberg.info
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. zwickau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office.
- ↑ Grünberg on gov.genealogy.net
- ^ Grünberg on the website of the Saxon church district of Zwickau
