Meilitz (Wünschendorf)

Meilitz Community of Wünschendorf / Elster Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 1 ″ N , 12 ° 5 ′ 1 ″ E
Height :	204 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	07570
Area code :	036603
	In the town

Meilitz is a district of Wünschendorf / Elster in the Greiz district in Thuringia .

geography

The village of Meilitz is north of Wünschendorf to the right of the Weisse Elster river in the Elstertal. On the other side of the river is the village of Wolfsgefärth . The main road in 1082, also called Gera road leads east past the town and leads to the provincial road 2322. Thus, the residents have access to the environment.

history

Meilitz was first mentioned in a document on October 30, 1279. The village was first called Milici . Mil means dear and dear in Sorbian . The abundance of fish in the Elster is said to have been the reason for the settlement. In 1294 the location Gutsweiler, which belonged to the Cronschwitzer monastery courtyard. In 1830 the manor became a manor . In 1908 the place received a stop on the Weischlitz – Greiz – Gera railway line . It is worth mentioning the frequent flooding of the nearby river.

On July 1, 1950, Meilitz became a district of Wünschendorf. The large agricultural enterprise, once a manor, then a chamber manor , later a public manor with apprenticeship training, was characteristic of the small town . The task of the approximately 500 ha large estate was to supply the city of Gera with fruit and vegetable products. After the reunification, the successor was MEIGO - GmbH vegetable and fruit processing company founded by an entrepreneur from Vorra in Middle Franconia , which however went bankrupt in 2008. The rights to the Hofgut Meilitz brand were then sold to a company in the same branch based in Lübben .

The Meilitz mansion was a large baroque building from 1715 that shaped the landscape and had a double mansard roof and several stucco ceilings . It stood empty since 1990 and was demolished in 2013 against the resistance of the State Office for Monument Preservation.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 178
↑ Hermann Müller: Greizer Heimatbote No. 5 and 6/2001 , accessed on the Internet on January 10, 2012.
↑ ^a ^b Article Herrenhaus in Meilitz survived on label: Entrepreneur defends himself against accusation of the Ostthüringer Zeitung of February 14, 2014, accessed on June 15, 2016.
↑ Extract from the commercial register of AG Jena , accessed on June 15, 2016.
↑ Wolfgang Hirsch: Demolition excavators create definitive solutions. Two mansions disappear from the list of monuments. Thuringian newspaper, February 7, 2014

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 178

[2] Hermann Müller: Greizer Heimatbote No. 5 and 6/2001 , accessed on the Internet on January 10, 2012.

[otz-3] Article Herrenhaus in Meilitz survived on label: Entrepreneur defends himself against accusation of the Ostthüringer Zeitung of February 14, 2014, accessed on June 15, 2016.

[4] Extract from the commercial register of AG Jena , accessed on June 15, 2016.

[5] Wolfgang Hirsch: Demolition excavators create definitive solutions. Two mansions disappear from the list of monuments. Thuringian newspaper, February 7, 2014