Kleinaga

Kleinaga City of Gera Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '32 "  N , 12 ° 5' 23"  E
Height :	261 m
Residents :	1235  (Jan 1, 2009)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Aga
Postal code :	07554
Area code :	036695
Kleinaga, aerial photo (2018)

Together with Großaga , Lessen , Reichenbach and Seligenstädt, Kleinaga forms the 16.38 km² district of Aga in the city of Gera in Thuringia with a total of 1734 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).

geography

Kleinaga is located in the north of the city of Gera. It borders north on the Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

Kleinaga lido.

geology

There are deposits of lignite in the districts of Kleinaga, Reichenbach and Seligenstädt ; after short-term, unprofitable dismantling, the pits were flooded and used as a bathing lake since the 1930s.

history

There is only inaccurate knowledge about the founding of Kleinaga; it is probably of Sorbian-Wendish origin. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the spelling of small aga was also common. Kleinaga was first mentioned in a document as "a few Agow" on May 23, 1364 in a document about the pledging of the House of Langenberg. The manor in Kleinaga has belonged to the lords of Etzdorf since the Middle Ages. The place parish, buried and trained traditionally after Großaga.

The frog pasture.

Historically, the village consists of two settlements, the original Kleinaga , located around the old manor, and the frog pasture , on which the residents of the now deserted settlement Rödel (can still be traced in the field name Rödelholz ) settled. These two dwellings were spatially connected in the 1930s by the construction of farm workers' apartments.

The manors of Kleinaga and Großaga were closely connected for centuries, as they often belonged to the same family for a long time, such as the von Etzdorf family. In 1697 the rulership of Gera acquired the Kleinaga manor , since then it has been run as a chamber manor just like Großaga . In 1827 the place includes the manor, 36 houses and 190 inhabitants. The lignite mine is also listed at this time.

After a new tenant house was built in Kleinaga in 1865, the management of both properties was combined here. The actual Kleinaga mansion - meanwhile demolished - had its own chapel. In addition to the estate, several other large farms had established themselves over the centuries; they were summarized as LPG during the GDR times . After the fall of the Wall, only one farm was re-managed.

In 1922 the Geraer Zeitung reported on two powerful women in the village: Because of poor cultivation, their fields were to be confiscated. The sergeant, who was unlucky enough to have to deliver the corresponding notification, was first torn off the uniform by the two of them, then he was put to flight in the truest sense of the word.

On July 1, 1950, Kleinaga and four other places form the new municipality of Aga. The responsible school location was Großaga until the new local central school was built in 1980.

In the 1960s to 1980s, several blocks of flats were built for the state-owned estate and Rusitz beef fattening facility . In addition, the Thälmannsiedlung and, from 1991, the new development area Am Schleifenacker were added as home locations. In this respect, Großaga and Kleinaga are paradoxical, because Kleinaga with its 1235 inhabitants (2009) is now three times the size of Großaga (434 inhabitants / 2002).

politics

The municipality of Aga (with Großaga, Kleinaga, Lessen, Reichenbach and Seligenstädt) was incorporated into the city of Gera on April 1, 1994 . Since then, the places together form the Aga district of the city of Gera with its own local constitution and district council (until II / 2009 local council) . The district mayor has been Bernd Müller (CDU) since 1994.

Development of the population

year	1864	1939	2006	2009
Residents	279	327	1275	1235

traffic

The place is located north of the federal highway 4 and can be reached via the nearby federal highway 2 .

In local public transport , Kleinaga is connected to Gera every half hour via the ring lines 228 and 229 of RVG Regionalverkehr Gera / Land . The closest train station is Gera- Langenberg .

Fire station with maypole, 2009.

Culture

The fire brigade association Kleinaga eV has existed since 1995, and the Heimatverein Aga eV since 1998

Sports

The open- cast lignite mine , which was already flooded in the 1930s, was expanded into a spacious lido in 1968 and later expanded to include a very beautiful lake campsite. The sports field with tennis courts, built in 1952, is halfway between Großaga and Kleinaga. There is also the riding club Aga eV

Vocational training center of the Chamber of Crafts for East Thuringia.

education

Until 1983 Großaga was the responsible school location for Kleinaga. In 1983, the new school building in Kleinaga was opened. Today the primary school for the surrounding areas is located here. Secondary schools are located in Gera. There is the state primary school Aga in the village; the closest regular school is Staatliche Regelschule 12 in Bieblach- Ost. There is a day-care center in Kleinaga on Reichenbacher Straße. The BTZ vocational training center of the Chamber of Crafts for East Thuringia has also been located in a spacious new building complex in the village since 1995 .

Personalities

• Ernst Thape (born May 29, 1892 in Kleinaga, † July 25, 1985 in Hanover); Politician, from 1945 to 1948 Vice President of the Province of Saxony and the later State of Saxony-Anhalt .

literature

• Klaus Brodale, Heidrun Friedemann: That was the 20th century in Gera. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2002, ISBN 3-8313-1273-7 .
• Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich: Latest customer from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt and the Reussian countries. Weimar 1827.
• Ferdinand Hahn: History of Gera and its immediate surroundings. Gera 1855.
• Johann Christoph Klotz: Description of the rule and city of Gera. Schleiz 1816.
• Siegfried Mues: Gera. A historical walk. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-89264-694-5 .
• Heinz Rosenkranz: place names of the Gera district. Greiz 1982.
• Ulla Spörl, Frank Rüdiger: About a hippopotamus in the summer pool, peppermint extract in the Elsterbett, famous magicians, cardsharps and other contemporaries: Gera in the golden twenties. Gera 2007.
• Thuringian Pestalozzivereine (Hrsg.): Thuringia in words and pictures. Klinkhardt, Berlin 1900. (Reprint: Weltbild, Augsburg 1999. ISBN 3-86047-919-9 )
• Court and state calendar for the Principality of Reuss j. L.- Gera 1864.
• Announcements of the history and antiquity research association of Eisenberg in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gera city administration, FD 1200
2. ↑ Municipalities in 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
3. ↑ Gera City Archives
4. ↑ Aga infrastructure.