Minkwitz (Elsteraue)

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Village square in Minkwitz (2014)

Minkwitz has been part of the village of Könderitz since 1950 , which belongs to the Elsteraue municipality in the Burgenland district of Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

Minkwitz is only a few meters from the state border between Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony , between Groitzsch and Zeitz , not far from the White Elster . The next place in Saxony is Auligk .

Agriculture has been practiced on the fertile soils around Minkwitz for centuries. Very large fields and meadows dominate this area, which is characterized by the flat landscapes that are predominant in the North German Plain . Here the plain gradually changes to the low mountain range threshold, which can be recognized by the slight hills in the area.

The L 193 runs through the town as Minkwitzer Straße.

history

The second syllable of the name of the district -witz contains a Germanized, originally Slavic suffix . It originally had a patronymic function and usually refers to the founder of the place or at least an important person who gave the place its name. In the area around Minkwitz there are other places of Slavic origin such as Wadewitz , Traupitz etc.

Traupitz was subordinate to two gentlemen. Part of the village belonged to the Zeitz office in the former diocese of Naumburg , from which the Naumburg-Zeitz bishopric emerged . In 1657 Minkwitz came to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Zeitz , to which it belonged until its dissolution in 1718. Then it fell back to the Electorate of Saxony , which was converted into a kingdom in 1806. Through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Minkwitz came to the newly formed Duchy of Saxony in the Kingdom of Prussia and was integrated into the administrative district of Merseburg . The Zeitz district was responsible for the local administration .

The previously independent municipality of Minkwitz became a district of the municipality of Könderitz on July 1, 1950 .

Minkwitz was parish like the neighboring Traupitz after Auligk . A part of Minkwitz was also subordinate to the Oberhof Auligk there.

literature

  • Johann Paul Christian Philipp: History of the Naumburg and Zeitz Monastery , 1800, p. 333.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  2. ^ Johann Paul Christian Philipp: History of the Naumburg and Zeitz Abbey , 1800, p. 332

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