Ockendorf

Ockendorf City of Leuna Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 55 ″  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 7 ″  E
Height :	96 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	06237

Mercy Church

Ockendorf is a district of the city of Leuna in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The district is located about one kilometer northwest of the center of Leuna and two kilometers south of Merseburg. The federal highway 91 forms the western and the Saale the eastern border.

history

Evidence of the settlement of this area already exists around 3600 BC. u. Z. through the Rössener Hügel finds. A Roman influence up to the year 400 is proven by the additions of the princely graves (near the inn "Heiterer Blick") from the 2nd-4th centuries. Century with Roman merchandise and coins. Also known as the Leuna burial ground . Ockendorf was first mentioned in a document in 899 in the Hersfeld tithe directory under "Hachendorf" when it was transferred to the Hersfeld monastery . The Saale was then on the eastern border of the East Franconian Empire . In the 10th – 12th In the 19th century, the imperial palace in Merseburg developed , to which the farmers of Ockendorf and Leuna had to pay taxes.

The villages of Leuna and Ockendorf were united to form a parish in the early Middle Ages . Today's Gnadenkirche is one of the last surviving witnesses of the village of Leuna. In the Thirty Years' War the Swedes devastated all five Saale villages in 1632. In 1806, after the defeat of Jena / Auerstedt , the Prussians moved through Ockendorf. Until 1815, Ockendorf belonged to the Merseburg Office of Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and was part of the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place came in 1815 to Prussia in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated.

With the construction of the ammonia works in Merseburg (today's Leuna works) in 1916, the farmers of Ockendorf and the other Saale villages had to sell their fields. Since they refused, the IV Army Command Merseburg confiscated the same. Ockendorf is the oldest of the five Saale villages that were then merged in 1917 to form the Leuna association . The city of Leuna was created on July 1, 1930 through the merger of the rural communities of Leuna-Ockendorf, Rössen, Göhlitzsch, Daspig and Kröllwitz.

During the Second World War , the five farms still in use for agriculture were destroyed; After the war, four farms were rebuilt and some of them were managed jointly within the LPG founded in 1958 .

Situation in 2010

In 2010 there was no more agriculture in Ockendorf. The courtyards serve residential purposes or are used commercially. Associated arable land is mainly leased. The external image of Ockendorf has developed very positively, especially since 1990, due to the new construction and renovation of residential buildings, the renewal of streets and squares as well as the care and planting of the trees in the adjacent Saale floodplain for the benefit of residents and visitors.

Worth seeing

• The Gnadenkirche in Ockendorf was built by the Merseburg sculptor Christian Trothe between 1710 and 1714 in the Baroque style. The interior fittings such as the horseshoe gallery with verses from the Bible and the wooden pulpit altar date from the early 18th century. The organ was built in 1893 under the hand of the Merseburg organ builder Gerhard.

Web links

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

• Leuna-Ockendorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
3. ↑ Leuna on gov.genealogy.net
4. ↑ leuna-stadt.de ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.