Obergeißendorf

Obergeißendorf City of Berga / Elster Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 1 ″ N , 12 ° 11 ′ 43 ″ E
Height :	292 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	July 1, 1961
Incorporated into:	Geißendorf
Postal code :	07980
Area code :	036623
	Southern outskirts

Obergeißendorf is a district of the town of Berga / Elster in the Greiz district in Thuringia .

geography

The district of Obergeißendorf is located in an intermediate valley of the south-eastern flat high plateau above the Elsterniederung . The terrain is very hilly . There is forest on the slopes and on the hills. The district is accessible to traffic via Kreisstraße 209.

Landscape around Obergeißendorf. View from the south.

history

On January 9, 1454, Obergeißendorf was first mentioned in a document from Duke Friedrich von Sachsen in a loan letter . The first houses were built along the village stream; Church and school followed. There was also a manor in the village; the oldest building was demolished in the late 1980s. The mill, which was licensed in 1824 , was built in 1564. Mill operations were stopped around 1913.

After the Congress of Vienna , the village became part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1815 . The area has belonged to Thuringia since 1920. After the Second World War the place was in the Soviet zone of occupation , from 1949 in the GDR . On July 1, 1961, Upper and Lower Geissendorf were combined to form the municipality of Geissendorf . 30 years later it was incorporated into Berga / Elster.

economy

Crafts and trades also settled in the originally village community. Agriculture, which used to be the main industry, now only plays a subordinate role compared to the past.

Entrance
Town view from the west
Valley landscape near Obergeißendorf

Web links

Commons : Obergeißendorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 205
↑ ^a ^b Ober- and Untergeißendorf on the website of the city of Berga / Elster. Retrieved on March 24, 2012 ( Memento from December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 205

[Berga-2] Ober- and Untergeißendorf on the website of the city of Berga / Elster. Retrieved on March 24, 2012 ( Memento from December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )