Milbitz (Gera)

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Milbitz
City of Gera
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 7 ″  N , 12 ° 3 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 190 m above sea level NN
Residents : 157  (2003)
Incorporation : January 1, 1919
Postal code : 07548
Area code : 0365
Place view
Place view

Milbitz together with Thieschitz and Rubitz the 5.3 hectares large district Milbitz / Thieschitz / Rubitz the city of Gera in Thuringia with 753 inhabitants (December 31, 2013).

geography

Milbitz is located in the northwest of the city of Gera on the White Elster .

geology

Rock formation on Schiefergasse
Former excursion restaurant Lunapark around 1915
Main building of the former Milbitzer sanatorium

Above the railway line is the so-called Schiefergasse , which, with its huge, clearly visible layers of rock, is a geological attraction around the world. It is one of the most important geological outcrops from the Permian 255 million years ago, when the region formed the edge of the Zechstein Sea on the undivided supercontinent of Pangea . The Schiefergasse is a profile from Rotliegendem over Zechstein conglomerate and copper slate to the product bank. The first descriptions come from the Thieschitzer pastor Eduard Mackrodt from 1840 .

The small dwarf cave is located in the same formation , clearly visible from the road in the direction of Gera.

history

There are two explanations for the name of the place: the first assumes the origin of Mel (rubble, garbage) in the sense of the sediment deposits on the Elsterufer, the second the patronymic origin of a Sorbian town founder Mil in question - therefore Milvice is a clan of Mil .

Milwicz was first mentioned in a document on November 12, 1322: The bailiffs of Gera confirmed the purchase of fields in the district to the Cronschwitz monastery . In 1506 Boniface von Schaurodt acquired the village for 400 Rhenish guilders . Later the village Milbitz went to the rule Reuss over, was with his then seven farmsteads the Kammergut in Ernsee subject to forced labor and was not the country jurisdiction, unlike the surrounding villages, but directly the Reuss jurisdiction. From 1659 the horse estates in Milbitz were obliged to provide carriage services for the Russians. The responsible parish and school location was the neighboring Thieschitz .

The old French bridge over the White Elster

In 1918 an open-air theater ( Reussisches Waldtheater Heldendank ) with 1,500 seats was inaugurated above the road from Milbitz to Untermhaus . Its income initially went to the war blind. It had to be closed in 1934 for financial reasons, the wooden superstructures fell into disrepair. Located in the forest above the village, the Milbitzer Heilanstalten , a foundation of the Gera entrepreneurial family Louis Schlutter, was handed over to its destination on November 11, 1899 . Expanded in 1927, the hospital served as a military hospital during World War II and, after 1945, as the on-site hospital for the Soviet armed forces in Gera. Today the buildings are unused and left to decay.

Regarding the district name Am Weinberg : In earlier times, the vineyards of the Reussian rule were located here, but their cultivation has been discontinued over the years - probably for good reason: Ferdinand Hahn indicates the quality of the local wine in his story of Gera and the surrounding area on: Wine grows well there, who likes to drink vinegar!

Milbitz was incorporated into the city of Gera on January 1, 1919.

The floods of 1954, 1981 and again the floods of 2013 caused severe damage to the town .

politics

Since 2001 there has been a joint local council (formerly local council) for the localities of Milbitz, Thieschitz and Rubitz. Norbert Geißler has been the district mayor of Milbitz, Thieschitz and Rubitz since September 2013.

District Mayor

2001-2004 2004-2009 2009-2013 2013 2013/2014 since 2014
Christine Türpitz Christine Türpitz Christine Türpitz Michael Möbius (office) Norbert Geissler Norbert Geissler

Members of the local council

2001-2004 2004-2009 2009-2014 since 2014
Bernd Fehse
Joachim Kühl
Michael Möbius
Roland Zschach
Monika Loether
Katrin Lippmann Katrin Lippmann Katrin Lippmann (until May 2012)
Christian Steinbrenner Norbert Geißler (since May 2012) Jana Koch

Development of the population

year 1647 1794 1864 1867 1919 2003
Residents 31 47 77 81 349 157

traffic

  • The White Elster spans the Franzosenbrücke in Milbitz : Probably at this point soldiers had already crossed the White Elster during the Napoleonic Wars ; However, its name is based on the fact that the first wooden bridge was built by French prisoners of war housed in Tinz Castle on the other side of the Elster during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.

From 1926 to 2011 the bridge was a graceful steel construction. This - originally built as a railway bridge at Zwötzen at the end of the 19th century - was dismantled in 1926, as the increasing traffic there required a larger bridge and implemented as a replacement for the dilapidated predecessor building for the Elsterquerung near Milbitz. It was no longer capable of renovation and was demolished in autumn 2011; An upgrading was carried out on the old foundations. This third French bridge was opened to traffic on October 2, 2012.

International riding stadium Gera-Milbitz, Summer Meeting 2009
Animal shelter of the city of Gera

Infrastructure and sport

The Gera-Milbitz riding stadium is one of the outstanding sports facilities in the city of Gera . Opened in 1974, the grandstands were completely renewed in 2000 and an additional riding hall was added. In the past few years, the international equestrian elite have shone here at CHIO tournaments, world cup competitions and the German championships in show jumping and dressage.

The municipal animal shelter of the city of Gera is also located in Milbitz .

societies

  • The center of life in the village is the maypole society Milbitz-Thieschitz-Rubitz eV In addition to numerous other activities, the annual highlight is the maypole setting. Your clubhouse is located in the former fire station in Thieschitz.

The Milbitz is also based in

  • Dog sports field of the Association for German Shepherds, Section Gera and the
  • Friends of the Tierheim Gera eV

education

There are no children's facilities and no general education schools in the village. The closest children's facilities are

  • Kinderparadies day care center in Gera-Untermhaus.

The responsible primary school is

  • State primary school Otto Dix in Gera-Untermhaus.

The closest regular school is the

  • State regular school Otto Dix Gera-Untermhaus.

literature

  • Brodale, Klaus and Heidrun Friedemann: That was Gera in the 20th century. Gudensberg 2002.
  • Cannabich, Johann Günther Friedrich: Latest news from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt and the Reussian countries. Weimar 1827.
  • Geiling, Jürgen; The Elsteraue near Langenberg; Gera 1998
  • Hahn, Ferdinand: History of Gera and its immediate surroundings. Gera 1855.
  • Kretzschmer, Ernst Paul: Chronicle of Thränitz, Grobsdorf, Zschippern, Kaimberg. Gera 1935.
  • Klotz, Johann Christoph: Description of the rule and city of Gera. Schleiz 1816.
  • Mues, Siegfried: Gera. A historical walk. Horb 1993.
  • Spörl, Ulla and Frank Rüdiger: Gera in the Roaring Twenties. Gera 2007.
  • Thuringian Pestalozziverein (Hrsg.): Thuringia in words and pictures. Berlin 1900. (Reprint; Augsburg 1997.)
  • oA: Court and State Calendar for the Principality of Reuss j. L. Gera 1864.
  • Announcements of the history and antiquity research association. Altenburg, div.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reussisches Waldtheater Heldendank
  2. ^ Norbert Geißler new mayor of the district of Gera Milbitz / Thieschitz / Rubitz. Retrieved October 19, 2013
  3. ↑ Gera City Archives
  4. ↑ Gera city administration, FD 1200
  5. ↑ The Franzosenbrücke in Milbitz is open to traffic. OTZ of October 3, 2012.