Pörsten
Pörsten is a part of the Rippach district of the city of Lützen in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
Pörsten is located southwest of Lützen between Leipzig and Weißenfels . The village is surrounded by extensive agricultural land. The Rippach flows through the village, to the east the main town of Rippach connects.
The A 9 passes directly to the west of Pörsten .
The Großkorbetha – Deuben railway ran via Pörsten . It has been without passenger traffic since 1999 and is still used for coal transports from the Profen lignite mining area from Wählitz to Korbetha for the Schkopau power plant .
The Leipzig-Plagwitz – Pörsten railway via Lützen has been closed since 1998 and was dismantled in 2005.
history
Together with Rippach, Pörsten was an exclave of the Electoral Saxon Office of Pegau until 1815 . As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Pörsten and Rippach came to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 were assigned to the district of Weißenfels in the administrative district of Merseburg of the province of Saxony .
On July 1, 1950, Rippach, Groß-, Kleingöhren and Pörsten merged to form the municipality of Rippach. During the second district reform in the GDR, the place came to the Weißenfels district in the Halle district on July 25, 1952 , which became the enlarged Weißenfels district in 1994 and the Burgenland district in 2007 .
On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Rippach, Muschwitz , Poserna , Großgörschen and Starsiedel merged with the city of Lützen to form the new city of Lützen.
Attractions
- Romanesque church with choir tower
- Tower at the train station
Personalities
- Hans Tielecke (1909–1979), biologist, worked for some time in the Central Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry in Pörsten.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62f.
- ↑ Locations of the Prussian district of Weißenfels in the municipality register 1900
- ↑ Rippach on gov.genealogy.net
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ' N , 12 ° 3' E