Meuchen
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Meuchen
City of Lützen
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 49 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 31 ″ E
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| Residents : | 260 | |
| Incorporation : | June 1, 1973 | |
| Postal code : | 06686 | |
| Area code : | 034444 | |
Location of Meuchen in Saxony-Anhalt |
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Meuchen is a district of the city of Lützen in the Burgenlandkreis in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
geography
Meuchen is located between Weißenfels and Leipzig , two kilometers south-east of Lützen. The place is located in the Leipzig lowland bay between Elsterfloßgraben in the west and the state border with Saxony in the east.
history
Up until 1815, Meuchen was in the center of the Hochstift-Merseburg district of Lützen , which had been under the sovereignty of the Electorate of Saxony since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/1857 and 1738 . In the Thirty Years' War , after the Battle of Lützen on 6/16. November the dead Swedish King Gustav II Adolf in the Meuchener Church prepared for the transfer to Weißenfels.
The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place with the western part of the Office Lutzen came in 1815 to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated. On July 1, 1950, Meuchen was assigned to the Weißenfels district as part of the first district reform in the GDR . With the second district reform in 1952, Meuchen became part of the Weißenfels district in the Halle district , which in 1990 became the Weißenfels district again and was incorporated into the Burgenland district in 2007.
Meuchens was incorporated into Lützen on June 1, 1973.
traffic
The A 38 runs directly to the south of the village, the A 9 a little further to the northwest . The next driveway is “Lützen” on the A 38. The Leipzig-Plagwitz-Pörsten railway line , on which Meuchen had a train station, has been closed since 1998 (last run on May 23, 1998) and was dismantled in 2005 after the statutory waiting period .
Attractions
The originally Romanesque village church of Meuchen was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century rebuilt in Gothic style. After the battle of Lützen in 1632, the dead Swedish King Gustav II Adolf was laid out in it and prepared for his transfer to Weißenfels. In 1912 it was redesigned as the "Gustav Adolf Memorial Church". Behind the altar is an old wooden table on which his body is said to have been lying during the purge. A colored window and a bronze relief of the Swedish king are further exhibits.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 84 f.
- ^ The Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche on the website of the city of Lützen
- ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
- ^ Meuchen on gov.genealogy.net
