Leina (Georgenthal)

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Leina
Rural community Georgenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 316 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : January 1, 1996
Incorporated into: Leinatal
Postal code : 99887
Area code : 03622
Leina (Thuringia)
Leina

Location of Leina in Thuringia

The place Leina is a district of the rural community Georgenthal in the district of Gotha in Thuringia .

location

1993 - The Leina Canal aqueduct near Leina (today without block station and tracks)
Racecourse on the Boxberg
Leina, Altenwasser and Hörsel in Leina
The rectory in Leina
Village church of St. Nicolaus

Leina is located about 7 kilometers southwest of the district town of Gotha am Boxberg . The eponymous river Leina was considered cloudy because of the sediment from the source area in the Thuringian Forest and especially during floods.

history

The place name appears in writing for the first time as Lin aha in 786, it was an entry in the Lulli Breviary . At that time, there was an estate in the current settlement area owned by the Hersfeld Monastery.

The prehistory and early history of the place can be well documented with archaeological finds and ground monuments (barrow fields “Im Berlach” and “Auf dem Boxberg”). During agricultural work and construction work in the local area, several predecessor settlements could be discovered, some of which go back to the Neolithic Age. Remnants of weapons, a Roman coin and ceramics prove the presence of people around the birth of Christ, when some houses were already standing in the current locality (also evidenced by post holes and garbage pits).

After the establishment of the neighboring Reinhardsbrunn monastery , this important monastery in today's Gotha district quickly gained influence, numerous donations and purchase agreements increased the monastery property, and from 1295 the town of Leina also became the property of the monastery. The Wettins as secular rulers were guardians of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery, they assigned the village to the Tenneberg office .

In early April 1945, seven advancing US tanks and four armored vehicles were shot down near Leina by two covered German gun batteries.

On January 1, 1996, Leina became a district of the community of Leinatal , which was merged into the newly founded rural community of Georgenthal on December 31, 2019.

Attractions

  • The most famous sight in Leinas is the horse racing track on the Boxberg.
  • The Leinakanal runs past the place. The artificial watercourse created in the Middle Ages diverted a large part of the Leina water to Gotha.
  • The first church in Leina was started in the 12th century, the current choir was started as a late Gothic building. Further renovations were carried out around 1500, and the church did not get its current shape until 1739 to 1747. The St. Nicolaus Church marks the historic center of the town. The pastor and poet Wilhelm Hey (1789-1854) was born in the rectory . Today an association takes care of researching his life story.

Others

As evidence of coarse folk humor, neck names and nicknames that characterize each village developed centuries ago . According to this, the Lien A-men lived here in the village - so it has the following reason: in the neighboring villages there were sometimes larger linguistic deviations in the dialect, the Leina people particularly liked to use the extremely shortened "a" instead of the word "also" , while “au” was still used in the neighboring towns. Therefore, the Leinaer were easy to recognize in conversations through pronunciation and choice of words.

literature

  • Dieter Vogel, Jens Seeber: Leina. The village at the foot of the Boxberg. Festschrift for the 1225 anniversary . Leina 2011.

Web links

Commons : Leina (Leinatal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Overview map of Leina (PDF; 1.8 MB) with the sights (Leinakanal, Boxberg racecourse) - digital copy of a leaflet from the Leinakanal-Verein Gotha.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian cities and villages - A manual . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Möller: Archeology provides the evidence - also in Leina . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . Edition Gotha from May 13, 2011.
  3. ^ Rainer Lämmerhirt: The fight for the Werra line in April 1945 . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2005. ISBN 3-937135-64-2 . P. 79
  4. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 11/2019 of October 18, 2019, p. 385 ff. , Accessed on December 30, 2019