Great Kayna

Great Kayna City of Braunsbedra Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 26 ″  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	113 m
Residents :	1293  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Incorporation :	January 1, 2004
Postal code :	06242
Area code :	034633
Location of Großkayna in Braunsbedra

Großkayna has been a district of Braunsbedra in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt since January 1st, 2004 .

Geographical location

Bay on the east side of Lake Großkayna

Former church “St. Three Kings"

Großkayna is located in the Geiseltal , east of Braunsbedra, on the road between Müchi (Geiseltal) and Merseburg . Großkayna borders on the lakes Runstedter See and Südfeldsee , which are also known as Großkaynaer See .

history

The starting point for the historical development of the Großkayna district is a settlement of Slavs or Sorbs that arose around the year 650. Until 1815 the place belonged to the administrative office of Weißenfels . Legally, Großkayna belonged to the Burgwerben court chair . By the resolutions of the Vienna Congress Großkayna came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Weissenfels in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which it belonged until the 1944th

In the 1960s, parts of the town had to give way to lignite mining. In the area of ​​the “Großkayna” open-cast mine between 1906 and 1972, around 160 million tons of brown coal were mined. Between 1948 and 1972, over 123 million tons of brown coal were extracted from the “Kayna-Süd” open-cast mine , where the old villages of Großkayna and Kleinkayna were located. Before the over-dredging, Großkayna had about 5000 inhabitants. Most of them were relocated to Merseburg-Süd or -West or Braunsbedra.

Today's Großkayna was largely created in the 1920s through the construction of housing developments by the mining and energy companies.

Großkayna had a village church of St. Nikolai. It consisted of a hall and a Romanesque tower. At the end of the 19th century it was restored, badly damaged in one of the air raids on the area in 1944 and removed in connection with the open-cast brown coal mine by 1958. In 1935 the Catholic Church "Holy Three Kings" was built, it was used for church services until 2009 and profaned in the same year .

Culture and sights

• The Südfeldsee is being developed for tourism, while the Runstedter See is still under mountain supervision due to toxic contamination.
• In the cemetery there is a granite memorial stele for "Kurt Müller and eight unknown (German) soldiers" on a lawn near the entrance.
• Circular routes for cycling and hiking at Südfeldsee and Geiseltalsee
• Ports in the two lakes

Web links

Commons : Großkayna  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 36 f.
3. ^ The place in the book Geography for All Stands , p. 380
4. ^ The district of Weißenfels in the municipality register 1900
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.