Meilitz (Kospoda)

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Meilitz
Kospoda municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 46 ″  E
Residents : 68  (2001)
Postal code : 07806
Area code : 036481
Meilitz (Thuringia)
Meilitz

Location of Meilitz in Thuringia

In the town
In the town

Meilitz is a part of the municipality of Kospoda in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

geography

Meilitz is located southwest of Kospoda at the foot of the northern slope of the southeast Thuringian slate mountains south of Neustadt an der Orla . That there docked and peri-urban area of the hall is easily accessible, but traffic excessively hampered. The district has a convenient connection to the federal highway 281 and in Neustadt an der Orla to the Gera – Saalfeld railway line .

history

The hamlet with 68 inhabitants (as of the end of 2001) was first mentioned in a document on February 22, 1320. The estate of the hamlet belonged to the ancestral seat of the Lords of Kospoth alongside the estate in Kospoda . The owners then changed often. In 1417 Heinrich von Hain received the Meilitz estate.

The parishes of Kospoda and Meilitz have always worked together.

Agriculture was also subject to development in the GDR and quickly found new forms of work in the country after reunification .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 178.
  2. Meilitz on the website of the municipality of Kospoda. Queryed on November 10, 2011