Oberloquitz

Oberloquitz Probstzella municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 55 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	315 m
Area :	6.04 km²
Residents :	214
Population density :	35 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 9, 1994
Postal code :	07330
Area code :	036731
In the town

Oberloquitz is a district of Probstzella in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .

geography

The village with 214 inhabitants is located on the federal highway 85 about five kilometers north of Probstzella in a protected location in the valley of the once raftable Loquitz . The district road 160 leads through this valley to Laasen . The place Oberloquitz is 300 meters above sea level and the district to the village occupies a total area of 604.34 hectares. The corridor is laid out like a rain to the west. There is forest on the steep slopes. The Leipzig – Probstzella railway runs through the Loquitz valley .

history

The village was first mentioned on February 20, 1283. Lockwitz is called Wiesenbach in Sorbian . Once there was a feudal aristocratic seat of Conradus de Obern-Lockwitz, which was mentioned in 1284. Later nothing more was heard or seen of this seat. In 1410 the village belonged to the Orlamünde- Lauenstein rule, then in 1440 to the Saxon Reichsmarschall von Pappenheim as a fief. In 1660 the Graefenthal office was responsible. The grinding and cutting mill, built in 1650, is located south of the village. In 1661 the church was built on the Romanesque wall substance of a chapel. The village was prosperous at that time because it had several sources of income. It was the sources: grain cultivation, fruit growing, cattle breeding, beekeeping and the trade in the products produced. In addition, there was slate mining and the ocher pits for color extraction. The school was built in 1747. In 1907 the brewery took over the generation of electrical energy. In 1944 the Todt Organization appeared in Oberloquitz and set up a camp for forced laborers in the Eilhauer restaurant. The half-Jews housed there had to work in the slate pits in the area. After 1952, the Beulwitz cooperation built three stables in the village.

In 1996 a bypass of the federal highway 85 was built.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 207.
2. ↑ Henry Hatt: Code name Steinbock II (Zingel, Newchfisch). Relocation of IG Farben (BASF) to Unterloquitz. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8423-7510-9 .
3. ↑ Information about the location on the website of the municipality of Probstzella ( Memento from May 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )