Kraasa

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Kraasa
Municipality Starkenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 42 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 240 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 97  (2012)
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Naundorf
Postal code : 04617
Area code : 034495
Kraasa (Thuringia)
Kraasa

Location of Kraasa in Thuringia
Brunnenweg to the center of the village with a fountain
Brunnenweg to the center of the village with a fountain

Kraasa is a district of the Starkenberg community in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Kraasa is located in the valley of the Gerstenbach one kilometer south of Starkenberg and 13 kilometers west of Altenburg in the loess hill country of this area. The geographic height of the place is 240  m above sea level. NN . In terms of traffic, the district can be easily reached via federal highways 7 and 180 . To the west of the town is the state border with Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Between 1181 and 1224 the first documentary mention of the district can be classified in the tithe directory of the Bosau monastery . Kraasa is a Sorbian name and means beauty

Like its neighboring towns of Dobraschütz and Oberkossa , Kraasa was on the western border of the Wettin district of Altenburg , which from the 16th century onwards was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of 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, Kraasa belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). From 1879 the Altenburg District Court and since 1906 the Meuselwitz District Court were legally responsible for the place. From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 it came to the district of Altenburg .

On July 1, 1950, the neighboring towns of Dobraschütz and Oberkossa were incorporated into Kraasa. During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus, the community Kraasa came with the district Altenburg to the district of Leipzig , which since 1990 belonged to the district Altenburg Thuringia and opened in 1994 Altenburger in the district of the country. On January 1, 1957, the municipality of Kraasa with its two districts was incorporated into the municipality of Naundorf , which was reclassified from the Schmölln district (Leipzig district) to the Altenburg district. With the incorporation of the Naundorf community into the Starkenberg community, Kraasa became a district of the Starkenberg community on December 1, 2008.

Sand mining hollows in the vicinity point to the past. In the " Kayna " sand pit on Kraasaer Flur, the "Starkenberger Quarzsandwerke" still mine sand today. New companies (for example a steel trade) and trades settled in the agricultural town. In 2012, 97 people lived in the district.

traffic

The rail connection to the Kayna sand pit in the 1970s was used to remove a large amount of sand that SDAG Wismut needed to mine the uranium deposits in East Thuringia in backfill mining . As a result, the Meuselwitz – Ronneburg railway line , which was dismantled in 1974, was rebuilt as a works railway from Großenstein up to kilometer 9.75, and a new construction about 2 km long to the Kayna sand pit. The newly built Kayna / Sandgrube freight yard in Kraasa was opened on February 1, 1978. It should not be confused with the Kayna and Kaynaer Quarzwerke stations on the narrow-gauge railway line Gera-Pforten-Wuitz-Mumsdorf , operated between 1901 and 1970 , which is located on the Kayna corridor beyond the Gera - Halle district border at that time and today's Thuringia - Saxony border . Anhalt were. The management, including the technical support of the railway systems, was taken over by the Wismut-Werkbahn , which also provided the entire dispatcher . Since March 1, 2014, operations management for the entire route has been with the Starkenberger Baustoffwerke.

Sons and daughters of the church

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. LK Altenburg, LK Greiz, district-free city of Gera . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 5. Erfurt 1999.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 152
  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. ↑ Kraasa on gov.genealogy.net
  8. ^ Website of the Starkenberger Quarzsandwerke
  9. ↑ Kraasa on the website of the Starkenberg community. Accessed on May 12, 2012
  10. ↑ The Kayna / Sandgrube freight yard on www.sachsenschiene.net
  11. ^ Eisenbahn-magazin, issue 5, 2014, p. 20

Web links

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