Merxleben

Merxleben City of Bad Langensalza
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 26 ″  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	178 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.32 km²
Residents :	421  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	51 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	99947
Area code :	03603
Location of Merxleben in Bad Langensalza
Harvest trailer of the LPG (1953)

Merxleben is a district of the town of Bad Langensalza in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .

geography

Merxleben is located 2.5 kilometers northeast of Bad Langensalza in the Thuringian Basin, not far from the Unstrut, in an agricultural arable area. There is no forest in the intensely used, undulating landscape. The climate is mild and there is little precipitation with soils that are mostly close to the groundwater.

history

"Merxleben from the bathing forest";
Cabinet photograph No. 52 from 1891 by Christian Gottfried Bregazzi

The first documentary mention of the place took place in 780–802. The battle of Langensalza took place in the fields around Merxleben in 1866 . A fratricidal war between Prussia and Austria. In 1815 Merxleben and the Electoral Saxon Office Langensalza came to Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna . Merxleben now belonged to the Langensalza district in the province of Saxony from 1816 to 1944 .

On June 8, 1952, the GDR's first agricultural production cooperative with 22 farmers was founded in Merxleben . In 1958 the village was already a fully cooperative . The farmers were thus subject to the development of agriculture in the GDR . After the political change , the LPG was dissolved.

In 1994 the village was incorporated into Bad Langensalza. At the end of 2015 there were 421 citizens living in the village.

District Mayor

The district mayor of Merxleben is Jan Edelhäußer.

Personalities

• Johann Rockenthien († 1739), civil servant in the Sachsen-Weißenfels secondary school, royal Saxon court and district councilor, most recently Privy Councilor as well as Oberamtmann zu Langensalza and heir, liege and court lord in Merxleben
• Johann Paul Rockenthien († 1752), civil servant in the Sachsen-Weißenfels secondary school and in the Electorate of Saxony, electoral Saxon, from 1746 electoral Saxon bailiff in the Sachsenburg department, heir, feudal lord and court lord in Merxleben, died in Merxleben
• Ernst Großmann (1911–1997), farmer, first LPG chairman and SED functionary, lived in Merxleben after the expulsion from Bohemia
• Manfred Jürgen Matschke (* 1943), economist and professor of business administration, most recently at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, did his apprenticeship as a farmer in Merxleben

traffic

The federal highway 84 leads through the village , from which the federal highway 176 branched off until 2009 in the locality . The federal traffic route plan provides for a bypass for Merxleben as part of the OU Bad Langensalza-Ost project .

From 1913 to 1969 there was a stop on the Bad Langensalza – Haussommern railway line .

Web links

Commons : Merxleben  - Collection of Images

• Merxleben on the website of the city of Bad Langensalza

Individual evidence

1. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 1.6 MB) See under: Thuringia, No. 15784 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1992, accessed on November 2, 2019 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Information on the Merxleben district. In: Website of the city of Bad Langensalza. December 31, 2015, accessed March 3, 2019 .  
3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 179.
4. ↑ Barbara Schier: Everyday life in the "socialist" village. Merxleben and its LPG in the field of tension of the SED agricultural policy (1945-1990). Münster u. a. 2001, p. 273.
5. ↑ Dietmar Grosser: The history of LPGs in Thuringia , Thüringer Allgemeine, October 9, 2010, accessed on June 3, 2020
6. ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 , accessed on May 30, 2020