Mumsdorf

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Mumsdorf
City of Meuselwitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 42 ″  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 175  (174-181)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.11 km²
Residents : 657  (2012)
Population density : 211 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 16, 1993
Postal code : 04610
Area code : 03448
Mumsdorf (Thuringia)
Mumsdorf

Location of Mumsdorf in Thuringia

Mumsdorf village church
Mumsdorf village church

Mumsdorf is a district of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Mumsdorf is on the state road 1063 northwest of Meuselwitz . Two lakes filled with water from open-cast lignite mines , the remaining hole in Zipsendorf and Rusendorfer See, flank the town to the south-west and east. To the west of the town lies the state border with Saxony-Anhalt . Beyond this is the decommissioned Mumsdorf power plant, which is located in the area of ​​the Elsteraue community . The Rainbach flows through the village.

history

From the foundation to the 19th century

State division of the Altenburger Land until 1920

Mumsdorf was first mentioned in a document on January 18, 1413. The place was probably founded around the year 1000, but was only mentioned at the time of the Hussite Wars . At that time Mumsdorf, then called "Mustorf", was an exclave of the Wettin district of Altenburg in the middle of the Zeitz monastery area .

In 1521, the then Altenburg bailiff , Günther von Bünau, bought the Mumsdorf manor from the Haugwitz family, including all jurisdiction. Günther von Bünau, who was a supporter of the Lutheran doctrine, demanded that the Mumsdorfers no longer go to school and church in Langendorf , but to Meuselwitz in Altenburg. On March 23, 1692, a great-grandson of Heinrich von Bünau sold the place to Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff , whose family had also owned the manor and Meuselwitz Castle since 1676/77. Von Seckendorff campaigned for escort , so that the residents of the Mumsdorf exclave did not have to pay escort as a tax for every car.

Due to the affiliation to the Wettin office of Altenburg, Mumsdorf belonged from the 16th century to the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies due to several Wettin inheritance divisions : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). Since the royal Saxon office of Zeitz surrounding Mumsdorf was ceded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , the place has since been surrounded by the Prussian province of Saxony ( Zeitz district ).

When the Ernestine Duchies were reorganized in 1826, Mumsdorf became part of the newly founded Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, Mumsdorf belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). From 1879 the Altenburg District Court and from 1906 the Meuselwitz District Court were responsible for Mumsdorf .

First half of the 20th century

Since the middle of the 19th century, the mining of lignite in the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite district , in the north-west of which was Mumsdorf, gained importance. As a result, the previously rural Mumsdorf turned into an industrial village. To increase new sales markets for coal, the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line opened in 1872 , on which the Saxon-Altenburg Mumsdorf and the Prussian Wuitz received the joint Wuitz-Mumsdorf station. Since 1901 this was also the end point of the Gera-Pforten – Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway . In 1902, the open-cast mine "Schädegrube I" (1902 to 1934) was opened south-east of Mumsdorf . This was followed in the east of Mumsdorf by the " Phönix- Mumsdorf opencast mine " (1905 to 1929). The Mumsdorf briquette factory was inaugurated north of Mumsdorf in 1912. With a running time until 2000, it was the briquette factory in the district with the longest running time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the factory was one of the largest in the German Empire with a daily production volume of 2200 tons of briquette. At the time of opening, it had 1,500 workers, 2,200 between 1919 and 1923 and 900 employees in 1931. The “Phönix-Kolonie” (today: “Phönix-Straße”) was created for the workers between 1907 and 1909.

From 1918 Mumdorf belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 the village became part of the Altenburg district , which means that it remained an exclave in the Prussian Zeitz district. After Mumsdorf had been parish in Meuselwitz for around 400 years, the Mumsdorf village church was consecrated as a separate church in 1927 .

Coal was mined in the east and south of Mumsdorf until 1934. In 1938, mining began in the Zipsendorf-West open-cast mine west of Mumsdorf . Mumsdorf's neighboring Prussian town of Oberhaide fell victim to the open-cast mine, which was operated until 1952 . Mumsdorf was now surrounded on all sides by opencast mines. Only to the north was the road in the direction of the briquette factory. Before 1940, only the smaller opencast mines "Leonhard I" (1909 to 1919) and "Leonhard II" (1918 to 1926) existed south of the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line near the Wuitz-Mumsdorf station. The extensive mining took place between 1948 and 1964 by the " Zipsendorf-Süd opencast mine ". The places Wuitz and Sabissa had to give way to him.

1950 to the present

Mumsdorf power plant

In 1950, with the first district reform in the GDR, the exclave status of Mumsdorf ended. The place, which until 1950 represented a Thuringian exclave in the Prussian district of Zeitz , was reclassified on July 1, 1950 from the district of Altenburg to the district of Zeitz belonging to the state of Saxony-Anhalt . During the second district reform in 1952, Mumsdorf came to the Zeitz district in the Halle district . However, on December 4, 1952, Mumsdorf, like its neighbors Zipsendorf , Brossen , Falkenhain and the Flur von Rusendorf, which had always been part of Zeitz, came to the greatly reduced Altenburg district in the Leipzig district .

To the north of the Mumsdorf briquette factory, the area of ​​which was the boundary between Halle and Leipzig, the Phoenix- Nord open-cast mine was in operation between 1962 and 1968 . It was the last active open-cast lignite mine in the Meuselwitz-Altenburg district. In 1968 the "Mumsdorf power station" opened, which from then on supplied the Mumsdorf briquette factory with steam and energy. In 1970 the Gera-Pforten-Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway was closed.

With the re-establishment of the Free State of Thuringia in 1990, Mumsdorf in the far east of the country belonged to Thuringia again. On October 16, 1993, the village was incorporated into Meuselwitz, with which it came to the Altenburger Land district in 1994.

In 2000 the production of the briquette factory on the Saxony-Anhalt side was discontinued. The power plant and the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line were shut down in 2013; the railway line is currently (as of January 2019) still operated as a station siding.

church

Mumsdorf village church

Economy and Transport

The Wuitz-Mumsdorf station was on the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line and the Gera-Pforten – Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway line .

The Central German brown coal company operating by 2013 in the north of Mumsdorf a lignite power plant to meet the energy needs in the mines but also for feeding into the public grid. The power plant was shut down for economic reasons and completely dismantled by summer 2016.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 186
  2. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
  3. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
  4. The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
  5. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
  6. The Mumsdorf village church at www.schnaudertal.de
  7. Mumsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  8. The briquette Mumsdorf on www.ostkohle.de
  9. The Mumsdorf power plant at www.ostkohle.de
  10. ^ City of Meuselwitz: districts. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012 ; accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  11. ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: Mumsdorf power station goes offline. June 28, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  12. Claudia Petasch: Video: Esse blown up from the former Mumsdorf power station . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . June 22, 2016 ( mz-web.de [accessed April 9, 2017]).

Web links

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