Lonzig
Lonzig is a district of the community of Gutenborn in the Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt , which is best known for its military training area to the west .
location
The village is located immediately north of the state border with Thuringia , at the transition from the Altenburg-Zeitzer loess area to the Saale-Elster sandstone slab .
history
Lonzig was first mentioned in 976 as Villa Lonisgo in a deed of donation from Emperor Otto II to the Zeitz diocese . Until then independent municipality Lonzig was on July 1, 1950 after Schellbach incorporated, Schellbach on 1 January 2010 after Gutenborn.
Attractions
On the eastern edge of the village there is a two-storey mill system made of quarry stone , clay and half-timbered buildings, built in the 18th and 19th centuries. A war memorial on the main street commemorates the fallen of the First World War. It is based on the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal and has a representative staircase as well as a memorial block surrounded by trees of life .
- See also the list of cultural monuments in Gutenborn
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CDS No. 22
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt: List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Burgenland district (II). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-57-1 , pp. 175-178.
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ' N , 12 ° 5' E