Niemegk (Bitterfeld district)

Niemegk is a lost church village in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Niemegk was located two kilometers east of Bitterfeld an der Leine and stretched for about two kilometers as a street village on the road to the also submerged village of Döbern (Delitzsch district), northeast of the Goitzsche lowland, which today flooded as the Großer Goitzschesee after the end of open- cast lignite mining is.

history

Niemegk was probably founded in 1089 (not documented) by Thimo von Wettin as a Benedictine monastery . At that time there was already a Slavic settlement. Until 1815 the place belonged to the Saxon office of Bitterfeld . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

The village of Niemegk with around 2000 inhabitants was dissolved in 1975 and went under in 1979/1980 due to over-dredging to expand the Goitzsche opencast mine . Today the “Niemegker Straße” and the “Strandbad Niemegker See” in Bitterfeld still remind of the submerged place.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold von Seydewitz (1787–1872), senior Prussian administrative officer
Werner Rauh (1913–2000), botanist
Frank Emmrich (* 1949), physician

Individual evidence

^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
↑ The Goitzsche Level. 12/99 ( Memento from June 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 115 kB) and 13/99 ( Memento from June 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 117 kB)

Web links

Muldestausee community: Knight Hans von Pouch

51,612 12,366Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 43.2 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 57.6" E

[1] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.

[2] The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900

[gp-3] The Goitzsche Level. 12/99 ( Memento from June 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 115 kB) and 13/99 ( Memento from June 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 117 kB)