Kleinpösna

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Kleinpösna from the south-southwest
Kleinpösna on a map from 1850

The place Kleinpösna is a district of Leipzig . He came to Leipzig via the incorporation of Engelsdorf , to which he previously belonged, and now forms the district of Althen-Kleinpösna in the administrative structure of Leipzig together with Althen and Hirschfeld .

Location and local characteristics

Population development
year Residents
1551 23 yards 
1764 24 yards 
1834 167 
1871 215 
1890 266 
1910 295 
1925 263 
1939 267 
1946 357 
1950 342 
1964 269 
1990 363 
1997 427

Kleinpösna is located in the east of Leipzig about 12 kilometers from Leipzig city center. The surrounding towns are Hirschfeld, Albrechtshain , Seifertshain , Holzhausen , Baalsdorf and Engelsdorf, clockwise from the north .

Kleinpösna has a rural character and is surrounded by fields, except for the east side, where the water surfaces resulting from gravel extraction extend. The old town center is a street green village made up of farms, which was joined by a few individual houses to the south around 1900. To the east of the town center there are large stables from the GDR era. After 1990, the three new residential complexes Am Pösgraben , Am Feldrain and Pfaffenweg were built in Kleinpösna . These are also the reason why the population of Kleinpösna increased significantly after 1990.

The village is traversed by the Pösgraben from south to north .

The Kleinpösna driveway of the A14 motorway is 500 meters north of the town entrance . Kleinpösna has hourly bus connections to Leipzig city center via line 73 of the LVB .

history

The village, which emerged from an old Wendish settlement, is mentioned for the first time in 1295 as Pesse in the deed of Merseburg Monastery . The place name indicates the location of the settlement on the water-bearing Pösgraben . The Knights von Bünau and Nickel von Draschwitz are named as owners of the village in the 14th century . They sold their property in 1391 to the Augustinian Canons in Leipzig . After its secularization (1544), Elector Moritz donated the village to the University of Leipzig . Kleinpösna was one of the so-called university villages . The population had to pay interest payments to the university and drive logs from Oberholz, which belongs to the university, to Leipzig in their wagons . Kleinpösna suffered considerable damage during the Battle of the Nations on October 16, 1813. First the village was occupied by French troops. Subsequently, the Corps under MacDonald undertook an unsuccessful attack from Kleinpösna against the Austrian troops located in Seifertshain. In addition, Russian troops under Bennigsen launched an attack against Holzhausen from here.

The Saxon rural community order of 1838 also opened up the possibility of independence for Kleinpösna. In 1844, the services to the university were discontinued and in 1855 a local council was elected for the first time. Until 1856, Kleinpösna was part of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon District Office in Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the Brandis court office and from 1875 to the administrative authority of Grimma .

Kleinpösna already owned a chapel before 1295, which was renovated after the Thirty Years' War. Today's village church was built in neo-Gothic style according to plans by Albert Geutebrück and was inaugurated on November 28, 1852. It was consecrated as St. Mary's Church in 1892. In 1893 the windmill was demolished and the village pond on the Anger was filled in at the beginning of the 1960s.

Since 1877 Kleinpösna had its own school, which from 1925 was also attended by students from the neighboring Hirschfeld . It was not until the 20th century that Kleinpösna was connected to the gas network (1908), the electric power line (1924) and the Leipzig water network (1933).

The Pösgraben posed and continues to pose problems for the place with its floods. After heavy rainfall or a sudden thaw, it often overflowed its banks and flooded the town center, for example in 1854, 1886, 1924, 1926, 1940, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1982 and 2002. As early as 1854, the watercourse within was regulated from the place. Even cleaning the watercourse could not eliminate the flood hazard. A flood barrier was erected south of the village, which in the event of a flood, with the gate closed, diverts water via the otherwise dry Kleinpösnaer Umflutgraben into the Zauchgraben , which leads it to the Parthe .

From the beginning of the 1950s, the farms in Kleinpösna were gradually collectivized. In 1966 the LPG was integrated into the Baalsdorfer LPG. Today there is a cooperative cattle breeding operation in Kleinpösna.

When the motorway construction, which had been interrupted in World War II , was resumed, a gravel pit was built on the northern outskirts, the operation of which was significantly intensified after 1990. The resulting water areas are already a popular local recreation destination and are to be made even more accessible for tourism in the future.

On October 1, 1973, Kleinpösna and Hirschfeld were merged. On January 1, 1994, Kleinpösna was incorporated into Engelsdorf and, together with it, fell to Leipzig on January 1, 1999.

  • The old Kleinpösna church, demolished in 1851

  • The Marienkirche Kleinpösna 2012

  • The Pösgraben

  • In the settlement Am Pösgraben

  • Flood protection at Pösgraben

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on August 27, 2012
  2. ↑ Kleinpösna - A historical and urban study . PRO LEIPZIG 2004
  3. ↑ Paul Fridolin Kehr ( arrangement ): Document book of the Hochstift Merseburg, 1st part (962-1357) , Halle, 1899 (= historical sources of the province of Saxony and adjacent areas, 36), p. 464.
  4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
  5. ↑ The administrative authority Grimma in the municipal register 1900

literature

  • Katharina Junghans / Harald Kirschner / Thomas Nabert: Kleinpösna. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2004
  • City of Leipzig, local council Engelsdorf (ed.): Village stories from the east of Leipzig: Althen, Baalsdorf, Engelsdorf, Hirschfeld, Kleinpösna, Sommerfeld. Volume 1. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-9806474-8-X
  • City of Leipzig, local council Engelsdorf (ed.): Village stories from the east of Leipzig: Althen, Baalsdorf, Engelsdorf, Hirschfeld, Kleinpösna, Sommerfeld. Volume 2. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-9807201-7-9
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Kleinpösna. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1897, p. 143.
  • Kleinpösna . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 657.
  • Kleinpösna . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 17th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1830, p. 360.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 12 ° 31 ′  E