Mölkau

Mölkau ; district of Leipzig
Coordinates	51 ° 19 ′ 51 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 30 ″ E Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 51 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 30 ″ E
surface	5.27 km²
Residents	6010 (December 31, 2018)
Population density	1140 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Jan. 1, 1999
Post Code	04316
prefix	0341
Borough	east
Transport links
railroad	Leipzig – Geithain
bus	72, 73, 79, 172
	Source: statistik.leipzig.de

Mölkau is a district in the east of Leipzig . It includes the districts of Mölkau and Zweinaundorf . On January 1st, 1999 Mölkau was incorporated into Leipzig.

location

Mölkau on a map from 1891

Mölkau borders in the west on the district Anger-Crottendorf , in the north-west on Sellerhausen - Stünz , in the north on Paunsdorf and Engelsdorf , in the east on Baalsdorf and in the south on Holzhausen and Stötteritz .

Located on the small watercourse of the Ostliche Rietzschke , Mölkau gets its landscape character from the flat undulating plain in the east of Leipzig, which extends between Parthe and Pleiße up to the Brandis - Naunhofer forests.

history

The village of Mölkau was first mentioned in a document in 1324. The estate was once a seat of the von Milkau family .

During the Battle of Nations in 1813, the manor house and the manor park were badly damaged. A memorial plaque in the park and the Apelstein No. 39 in the historic mountain cemetery commemorate the battle. Until 1856, Mölkau was part of the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig I and from 1875 to the administrative authority of Leipzig . Mölkau's settlement and infrastructure have been decisively influenced by its proximity to the commercial and industrial city of Leipzig since the turn of the last century. In 1926 the town hall designed by Hans Heinrich Grotjahn was completed.

On January 1, 1934, Zweinaundorf was incorporated into Mölkau and brought in its history. The Zweinaundorf estate (today: Stadtgut Leipzig Mölkau) today cultivates 150 hectares with ecological agriculture. There is a large landscaped park, a kindergarten and an animal health practice on the grounds of the property. On September 12, 1840, after their marriage , Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann spent the afternoon in the Schönefeld Memorial Church in the park of the manor.

The current Leipzig-Mölkau station was opened in 1887 as a stop at Zweinaundorf on the newly built Leipzig-Chemnitz railway line.

The camera and photo museum set up by photographer Peter Langer in a half-timbered house in Gottschalkstrasse 9 until 2013 showed, among other things, its collection of historical photo technology. Meanwhile, which is German Fotomuseum in agra-Park in Markham . Mölkau has been a district of Leipzig since 1999.

Memorials

Grave conditioning and monument at the cemetery at the Engelsdorfer road for 23 men and women from Poland , Belgium , France and the Netherlands , during the Second World War deported to Germany and victims of forced labor were
Relief ensemble in front of the school building in Schulstrasse by the sculptor Günter Schütz in memory of the communist Reichstag deputy Ernst Schneller , who was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944