Laasan (Jena)

Laasan City of Jena Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 44 " N , 11 ° 39 ′ 22" E
Height :	246 m
Area :	2.08 km²
Residents :	55 (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density :	26 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	February 17, 1965
Incorporated into:	Kunitz
Postal code :	07751
Area code :	03641
Location of Laasan in Thuringia
	View from the east, in the background the Windknollen mountain

Council and brewery

War memorial

Laasan is a district of the independent city of Jena in Thuringia .

geography

Laasan is relatively remote in a side valley of the Saale , which is surrounded by the so-called horseshoe , an arched mountain range made of shell limestone . The town is connected to nearby Kunitz by Kreisstraße 4 .

Parts of the Laasaner Flur belong to the large-scale nature conservation project "Muschelkalkhang - Mittleres Saaletal".

history

The development of the place is likely to fall during the clearing time of the state expansion. The place name, which comes from Slavic, means something like "resident of clearing" or "clearing settlement".

Laasan was first mentioned in a document in 1367. Independent community files have been preserved since 1541. At the beginning of the tradition, Laasan belonged very probably to the imperial direct rule Gleisberg first mentioned in the 12th century. This came into the hands of the bailiffs of Plauen at the end of the 14th century and passed from them to the House of Wettin before 1400. When it was finally divided in 1485, Laasan was separated from the Gleisberg office, which had been administered as the Wettin care department, and assigned to the Jena office. Ecclesiastically it still belonged as a branch to Kunitz, which from then on belonged to the Dornburg office.

In Jena there is an anecdote that has been told over and over again that in 1806 the Napoleonic troops (see Battle of Jena and Auerstedt ) left Laasan unoccupied as the only place in the Jena area because the village was too small and could not be seen behind a mountain fold . This contradicts the community accounts from this time, which show a French guardroom in Laasan and a pillage of the village.

Only in the 19th century, with the dissolution of the Dornburg office, Kunitz came back into closer contact with Laasan with the incorporation of both places into the Jena district court. In the 1930s, Kunitz was incorporated into the city of Jena, but this only lasted a few years.

Today Laasan belongs to the village of Kunitz and was incorporated into Jena in 1994. According to inhabitants, Laasan is the second smallest statistically delimited urban district of Jena. The village does not have an independent local council or its own local mayor , but instead, as part of Kunitz, chooses the local committees.

Culture and sights

Laasan has largely retained its independent village character. The most remarkable building in Laasan is the small town hall and brewery. The town hall was built between 1615 and 1617 as an octagonal tower. The brewery was added in 1740 and the council chamber was inaugurated in 1802. The community brewing right existed between 1742 and 1946.

The council and brewery was renovated between 1997 and 2004 by the members of the local association. The association was supported by the owner, Kommunale Immobilien Jena (KIJ). In 2004 the local association was honored with the Thuringian Monument Protection Prize for the renovation of the town hall and brewery. Laasan does not own a church.

Web links

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