Möllern

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Möllern
Lanitz-Hassel-Tal municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 24 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 195 m
Area : 12.45 km²
Residents : 351  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 2009
Postal code : 06628
Area code : 034463

Möllern was a municipality in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt that existed until June 30, 2009 . It went up on July 1, 2009 in the newly formed community Lanitz-Hassel-Tal .

geography

The districts of the former municipality Möllern - the parish village of Niedermöllern, the parish village of Obermöllern and the parish village of Pomnitz - are located between Apolda and Naumburg (Saale) on the ridge of the Finns .

climate

Climatically, the region belongs to the central German dry area with 536 mm of precipitation (mean of the last 25 years) and an average annual temperature of 9.6 degrees Celsius.

history

The local area was already settled before the turn of the ages, which is particularly indicated by prehistoric finds near Obermöllern. The first documentary mentions of the districts of the former municipality come from the year 1144. Obermöllern, Niedermöllern and Pomnitz belonged to the Pforta monastery . After the secularization of the Pforta Monastery, they belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Pforta from 1543 to 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the three places in 1815 came to Prussia and were in 1816 the district Naumburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated to which they belonged to the 1944th

The municipality of Möllern was created on July 1, 1950 through the merger of the previous municipalities of Obermöllern and Niedermöllern (with Pomnitz ). The place Punschrau , which was incorporated on the same day, moved to Hassenhausen on January 1, 1959 . Until June 30th, 2009 Möllern was an independent municipality in which 351 inhabitants lived on 12.45 km² (December 31st, 2007) . The last mayor was Barbara Röwer. Since then, Taugwitz and Möllern have formed the community of Lanitz-Hassel-Tal .

Municipal council

In the local elections on June 13, 2004, a group of voters won all eight seats in the last local council .

Attractions

Church in Niedermöllern

The St. Nikolaus Chapel, a neo-Romanesque building with a west tower , was built in 1856 in Obermöllern . The church has an organ by Emil Heerwagen , Klosterhäseler from 1883. The St. Georgs Church in Niedermöllern - dedicated to the dragon slayer and martyr St. Georg - has a choir tower and dates from the Romanesque building era. Another sacred building is in Pomnitz: the chapel-like St. John's Church, built in 1719 and renovated in 1897.

traffic

The federal road 87 , which leads from Eckartsberga to Naumburg (Saale) , runs three kilometers south of the village .

References

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  • Emil Heerwagen: Report , Dietsch & Brückner, Weimar 1897

Web link

Commons : Niedermöllern  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
  2. Small stories on Saxon-Thuringian history, Volume 2, pp. 148f.
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34f.
  4. ^ Locations of the Prussian district of Naumburg in the municipal directory 1900
  5. ^ Möllern on genealogy.net