Heukendorf

Heukendorf City of Meuselwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 41 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	185 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.34 km²
Incorporation :	1923
Incorporated into:	Winter village
Postal code :	04610
Area code :	03448
Location of Heukendorf in Thuringia
View of the place with the former mansion in the center of the picture

Heukendorf is a locality in the district of Wintersdorf in the city of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Heukendorf is located southeast of the city of Meuselwitz in the southwestern part of the agglomeration of Wintersdorf, which also includes mandatory village. The village is located in the fertile Altenburg-Zeitz loess hill country on the edge of the Leipzig lowland bay and in the Meuselwitz-Rositzer district of the Central German lignite mining area .

history

In the course of mining, Neolithic settlement pits were found northeast of the village, the finds belong to the culture of the ceramic band. To the west a Bronze Age burial ground with 10 cremations was found. Heukendorf was first mentioned in a document in the period 1181–1214. The dead end village owned a manor from 1525, which became a state domain in 1847. Since 1855 there was an institution on Rittergutsgrund near Schnauderhainichen for the education of children at risk from the environment.

Heukendorf 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 during 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). Judicially, the place was assigned to the Altenburg District Court since 1879 and to the Meuselwitz District Court since 1906 .

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Heukendorf became a miners' settlement. From 1918 the place belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which in 1920 became part of the State of Thuringia . In 1922 he came to the Altenburg district . In 1923 it was incorporated into Wintersdorf at the same time as the neighboring towns of duty village and Gröba . With this, Heukendorf came to the Altenburg district in the Leipzig district in 1952 . In 1990 the place was assigned to the district of Altenburg in the re-established Free State of Thuringia, which was added to the district of Altenburger Land in 1994. With the incorporation of Wintersdorf to Meuselwitz, Heukendorf has been a part of the Wintersdorf district of the city of Meuselwitz since 2007.

Lignite mining

In 1871, lignite mining began in civil engineering in the immediate vicinity with the commissioning of the Mariengrube (1871/72 to 1957) south of the village. Later followed u. a. the mine for progress I (operated until 1949) west of Heukendorf. The Thuringian main seam , which was hollowed in the compulsory ditch, had a thickness of up to 20 meters, normal in the area is 6 to 8 meters. For this reason, the resumption of lignite mining was planned in the 1980s, but this was not carried out. The closely spaced localities of Heukendorf and mandatory village should have given way to the planned “open pit Meuselwitz” between Meuselwitz and Rositz.

Personalities

• Ernst Daube (1869–1956), writer and poet

Web links

Commons : Heukendorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 122
2. ↑ Klaus Hofmann, Gustav Wolf, Sabine Hofmann: We can still see the old castle today ... (From the history of the manors in the Altenburger Land; vol. 2). Museum Burg Posterstein 2010
3. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
4. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
5. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
6. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
7. ^ The Altenburger Land (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 23). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973.
8. ↑ The Altenburg / Meuselwitz lignite district, LMBV publication