Plößnitz (Landsberg)
Plößnitz is a district of the village Braschwitz in the town of Landsberg im Saalekreis in the state Saxony-Anhalt , Germany .
Geography and geology
Plößnitz is located in the headwaters of the Reide with the neighboring places Braschwitz (in the south), Niemberg (in the northeast) and Maschwitz and Oppin (in the west and northwest). The small town is on average 99 meters above sea level . The place name Plößnitz can be traced back to the Slavic name Plaesovici based on onomastic studies, which means something like "swamp castle". The village is crossed in its center by the district road 2135 and thus divided into an old (east of the district road) and new settlement (west).
history
Early history
From the archives of the State Office of Historic Monuments and Archeology several prehistoric sites is known that a settlement since the Middle Neolithic (middle Neolithic), ie around the 5th millennium BC. Probably do. This includes a trapezoidal earthwork proven by aerial photographs ( Otto Braasch , 1991) located about 1 kilometer east of the village, north of the Halle-Köthen railway line. By comparison with other findings, it is assumed that this earthwork was once a funnel-shaped barrow. It is known that older sources speak of a mountain of blows at this point. This name is a further indication that a hill that can be seen from afar once stood here. Like many other burial mounds, this one will also have fallen victim to the erosion of the fertile earth. Only a few hundred meters southeast is the Ochsenberg, which is probably another former burial mound.
Also proven by aerial photographs (O. Braasch, 1991) is a square, approximately 100 × 100 m large double trench, which, due to the surrounding typical grave pits (also recognizable in the aerial photo), dates back to the Pre-Roman Iron Age (5th-1st century BC) . Chr.) Can be dated. So far, however, no meaningful reading has been found. Hydrogeological maps from the State Office for Geology and Mining of Saxony-Anhalt clearly show that this settlement was built close to the former marshland (along today's Rieda).
Due to the old village complex, Plößnitz is considered a Rundling . During the settlement by the Slavs in the 7th and 8th centuries, the tower of the later village church of St. Catherine was built. It is the only remaining legacy from the Slavic period. But the Odenburg (Old Castle) is said to have been a few hundred meters northwest of the village, bordering the Oppin corridor. The memory of a once Slavic low castle in the area of today's Plößnitz could have been preserved in this name.
First mention of the place up to the present
With the increasing Christianization and the predominance of the Franks , Flemings came to this area. In Plößnitz they created the Katharinakirche by adding a ship to the existing tower to the east. Plößnitz became a place of pilgrimage ; the pilgrims traveled along the ox path that passed in the south to venerate the holy Madonna.
The first documentary mention comes from the year 1271. Plößnitz belonged to the office Giebichenstein in the hall circle of the archbishopric Magdeburg . With its annexation to Prussia, the place belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg from 1680 . The oldest farms in today's old village date from the 18th century, i.e. from the time of Frederick II and Napoleon . In 1750 the tavern known under its current name "Gasthof Mühleneck" was built on the K2135 at the exit to Niemberg. The reconstructed Plößnitz post mill at the Maschwitz-Oppin field lane intersection also dates from this period. It is open to visitors today.
With the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 Plößnitz was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. It belonged to the canton of Halle-Land . After Napoleon's defeat and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Napoleon's allied opponents liberated the Saalkreis in early October 1813. During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place was attached to the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony and assigned to the Saalkreis.
On July 1, 1950, Plößnitz was incorporated into Braschwitz. On April 20, 2010 Braschwitz was incorporated into Landsberg. Since then, Plößnitz has been part of the Braschwitz town of Landsberg.
Facilities and leisure
Right at the entrance to the village (coming from Halle) is the allotment garden “Moorkecker”, which belongs to the allotment garden “Flora”. There is also the “Froschkönig” day-care center, which was built in 2006 and also takes in children from the surrounding villages. In the old village there is also the village pond with adjacent greenery, a sewage pumping station and the Plößnitz youth club, which is maintained by the AWO . Until the beginning of the 1990s, there was a post office and the LPG “Liberated Land” dormitory in the center of Plößnitz .
The cultural monuments of the place are registered in the local monument register.
literature
- Manfred Thon: The great fire of Plößnitz 1811. Verlag Wenzel, Oppin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9806559-3-4 .
swell
- State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt , Dept. Archive, file OA-ID 2160 H / 4/81. archlsa.de
- The hall circle at the turn of the millennium. Verlag Manfred Becker, Berga 1999, p. 31 f.
- State Office for Geology and Mining Saxony-Anhalt: State drilling database. Overview on sachsen-anhalt.de
Web links
- stadt-landsberg.de (districts of the city of Landsberg)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The places Plößnitz, Kütten and Drobitz are named as rounds, square and lane villages of the Slavic settlement period." (PDF).
- ↑ Mention of the place in the book Geography for all estates. P. 126.
- ^ Description of the Saale department (PDF).
- ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900
- ↑ Plößnitz on gov.genealogy.net.
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 3 ′ 41 ″ E