Runstedt (Frankleben)

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Runstedt is a modern desert in today's Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The village was the first to fall victim to lignite mining in the Geiseltal .

Geographical location

Runstedt was northeast of Braunsbedra on the Leiha, a tributary of the Geisel . Neighboring towns were Frankleben in the north and Großkayna in the south. The former town hall is now in the northwest of the Runstedter lake of the same name .

history

Runstedt was first mentioned in a document around 1085. The place belonged to the Hochstift-Merseburgischen Amt Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place in 1815 came to Prussia and was Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated.

As the first place in the region, Runstedt fell victim to the ongoing lignite mining in the Geiseltal in the early 1930s. The 300 residents were relocated to Frankleben in 1929. On July 1, 1930, Runstedt was incorporated into Frankleben. In 1931 the site was demolished ( devastated ). The Austrian writer and journalist Joseph Roth reported on this in his travelogue called Der Merseburger Spell , which appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung on December 14, 1930 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with the missing places in the Geiseltal
  2. ↑ Runstedt on the Geiseltalseen homepage ( memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geiseltalseen.jimdo.com
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  4. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
  5. ↑ Runstedt on the Geiseltalseen homepage ( memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geiseltalseen.jimdo.com
  6. ^ Runstedt on www.genealogy.net
  7. ↑ The location on www.devastiert.de ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.devastiert.de
  8. ^ Karlheinz Rossbacher: "The Merseburg Magic". Joseph Roth's apocalyptic fantasy. In: Chambers / 1991, pp. 78-106.

literature

  • Joseph Roth : The Merseburg Magic Spell. In: Ders .: The journalistic work. Edited by Fritz Hackert, Klaus Westermann. Volume 3: The Journalistic Work 1929–1939. Cologne et al. 1991, pp. 275-281.
  • Hermann Grössler : The common scope of the Gaue Friesenfeld and Hassegau . cit. 1873, p. 94.

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '11 "  N , 11 ° 55' 33.9"  E