Leau (Bernburg)

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Leau (Bernburg)
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 56 "  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 42"  E
Height : 66 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : January 1, 1957
Incorporated into: Preusslitz
Postal code : 06406
Area code : 034722

Leau is a district of the Preußlitz town of Bernburg (Saale) in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Leau is located southeast of Bernburg (Saale). Historically, the municipality belongs to Anhalt .

State road 149 runs through the village.

history

The jurisdiction over Leau lay with the Lords of Krosigk zu (Neu-) Beesen in the Archbishopric of Magdeburg or later Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg . These had originally received the von Krosigk as a fiefdom of the County of Alsleben .

From 1863 Preußlitz and Plömnitz were in the district of Köthen , while Leau belonged to the district of Bernburg in the Principality of Anhalt , which became the Free State of Anhalt in 1918 .

In Leaou and neighboring Plömnitz the were at the decision Jägerstabes involving the Schlempp Consultants since 1944 under the code name "leopard" two outer bearing of Buchenwald established for 1,000 to 2,000 prisoners to in Plömnitz since February, 1945, a woman stock for 150 Hungarian Jewish women who had to do heavy forced labor for the Solvay plants and the Junkers plants , which claimed numerous victims. Of those buried in the cemetery, 450 alone are said to have been exhumed after 1945 and buried at the Soviet memorial in Bernburg .

On January 1, 1957, Leau was incorporated into Preusslitz. With German reunification, Preußlitz came to the Bernburg district in 1990 , which was merged into the Salzland district in 2007. On January 1, 2010, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Bernburg (Saale) together with the municipalities of Baalberge , Biendorf , Gröna , Peißen , Poley and Wohlsdorf .

Cultural monument

Personalities

  • Emil Riebeck (1853–1885), German ethnologist, mineralogist, natural scientist and collector

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Property of the von Krosigk family
  2. ^ Description of the district of Köthen
  3. ^ Description of the district of Bernburg
  4. Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 392.
  5. Leau on gov.genealogy.net
  6. StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010