Kühren-Burkartshain
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Kühren-Burkartshain
City of Wurzen
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 47 " N , 12 ° 49 ′ 33" E
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| Residents : | 2846 (Jun 30, 2006) |
| Incorporation : | October 1, 2006 |
Kühren-Burkartshain was the name of a regional body in the Saxon Muldental district . The district community in the center of the district was created on January 1, 1994 from the merger of the previously independent communities Burkartshain and Kühren. With effect from October 1, 2006, it was incorporated into the city of Wurzen , district of Leipzig .
Geography and traffic
The former municipal area of Kühren-Burkartshain is located approx. 10 km southeast of Wurzen and approx. 18 km northeast of Grimma at an altitude of 145 meters. It extends from the east bank of the Mulde to the western edge of the Wermsdorf Forest . The Mühlbach, which rises there, flows through the former municipality. The B 107 runs west of it . The B 6 and the Leipzig – Riesa – Dresden railway line run through the district of Kühren. The A 14 , which extends south of the municipality, can be reached via the Grimma connection (approx. 15 km).
The following 12 districts belonged to the municipality:
history
With the settlement agreement of 1154, Bishop Gerung von Meissen settled Flemish farmers with great privileges in the village of Coryn, today's Kühren. The 16 farming families received 17 Hufen land, one Hufen the church. In this document a Vogt (Sifridus) was named. This had here three times a year thing to keep. The district of Kühren of the municipality of Kühren-Burkartshain is thus the oldest first mentioned place in the municipality. The districts of Burkartshain and Sachsendorf are first mentioned in a border document in 1284. The area has been populated since the Paleolithic Age, as can be seen from finds on the Sonnenmühlwall near Oelschütz.
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Streuben and Trebelshain were incorporated into Kühren.
The last mayor before the incorporation was Jörg Grundig.
Attractions
- The Evangelical Lutheran village church in Burkartshain, built as a so-called choir church as early as 1200, tower construction at the beginning of the 15th century, around 1529 one of the first Protestant parish churches in Saxony, pulpit and confessional from 1690 (late Renaissance design by C. Kern), altar from 1702, coffered ceiling and Patronage box from 1704 in the " peasant baroque " style, splendidly painted and gilded. The confessional with pictures of Jesus Christ , Martin Luther and Jan Hus comes from the post-Reformation period. Organ from 1835. Tombs from the 16th century. The church is being renovated with the support of a family foundation.
- The Evangelical Lutheran village church of Kühren from 1154, with frescoes from the 15th century exposed in 1952 , baptismal font from 1500 and pulpit from 1616. The organ was installed in 1850 by the Leipzig company Wolfram.
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sachsendorf dates from the Romanesque period. After the fire in 1693, it was inaugurated in the Baroque style in 1698 with the patronage box of the Sachsendorfer manor lords;
- Royal Saxon whole milestone from around 1860 in Burkartshain as a replica (original in Bergelager Trebsen )
- The Wermsdorfer Forst forest area
- Natural monument Oelschützer Loreley , a rocky slope on the banks of the Mulde
The Kührer elephant
In 1888 a balloon flight show was held in Wurzen, about ten kilometers away. A balloon in the shape of an elephant got off course and had to make an emergency landing in a field near Kühren. Several dozen farmers worked in this field during the harvest. Since the farmers have never seen a balloon or an elephant in their entire life, they attacked the "monster" with scythes and pitchforks. What the Kührener was initially ridiculed for, they later made their trademark. In the 1980s, a citizens' initiative built an elephant-shaped fountain in the center of Kühren to commemorate this event. The elephant, decrepit after 31 years, received a new successor in 2008.
The elephant could also be seen in the coat of arms of Kühren-Burkartshain, and the school and a Kührener inn bear the elephant in their name. In the latter, the landlady has a collection of 1,557 elephants.
Sons and daughters
- Johann Georg Franck (1669–1747), Protestant theologian and pastor
literature
- Christiane Rossner: The "jewelry box" found again. The von Holleuffers and their foundation for Burkartshain . In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments. Magazine for monument culture in Germany . Number 1/2. (Self-published), 2008, ISSN 0941-7125 , p. 44-46 .
Web links
- Kühren-Burkartshain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Kühren in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Burkartshain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2006
- ↑ Burkartshain church: various views, also inside
- ↑ Burkartshain Church
- ^ Wall paintings of the Kühren Church
- ↑ Kühren Church
- ^ Church of Sachsendorf
- ↑ Predecessor elephant
- ↑ Haig Latchinian : Kühren - the village of the elephants. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, September 27, 2018. Accessed September 30, 2018 .
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