Gremmin

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Information board about the devastated village of Gremmin

Gremmin was a German municipality three kilometers northwest of Graefenhainichen in the district of Wittenberg in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (formerly Graefenhainichen in the district of Halle ). On January 1, 1981, it was incorporated into the city of Graefenhainichen.

history

Until 1815 Gremmin belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Graefenhainichen . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place to Prussia came only in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which he belonged until 1944th

1982 Gremmin fell the lignite - opencast Golpa North victim. For this purpose, the houses were removed beforehand and the residents relocated. The church was demolished in 1985. Graves of the cemetery were z. T. according Graefenhainichen reburied.

The excavation town of Ferropolis on the newly created Gremminer See forms an open-air museum and a backdrop for events after the end of lignite mining .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
  2. ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '  N , 12 ° 27'  E