Saaleck (Naumburg)

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Saaleck
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 43 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Incorporated into: Bad Kosen
Postal code : 06628
Area code : 034463
View of the village and Saaleck Castle

Saaleck is a district of Bad Kösen , a district of the city of Naumburg (Saale) in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The place Saaleck is about 4 km west (upstream) of Bad Kösen . The village is administered by the town of Naumburg , about 14 km away , and has about 300 inhabitants. Saaleck Castle and Rudelsburg are located above the village . The Saale flows past the village . It also gives the place its name because it cuts a corner in this part of the Saale valley. Saaleck is surrounded by approx. 80 m high stone slopes.

traffic

The Halle – Bebra railway runs through Saaleck, but the town does not have a train station. The closest station is Bad Kösen . At the Saaleck junction, the route to Saalfeld leaves the aforementioned connection.

history

Saaleck was first mentioned in a document on May 13, 1147. Saaleck Castle , built around 1050, was owned by the noble free von Saaleck until 1213 , after which it belonged to the von Saaleck taverns from the house of taverns from Vargula . In 1344 they sold the Saaleck Castle and their property to the Naumburg bishops , who formed the Saaleck office belonging to the Naumburg monastery from the area . This came to the Naumburg Office in 1544 . After the transition from Saaleck Castle and Office with the Vorwerk Stendorf to the Albertine Elector August I of Saxony as administrator in 1564, Saaleck Castle was the residence of an official until 1585 . After he moved into the Vorwerk Stendorf, which belonged to the castle, this was raised to a knighthood , while the ownerless castle fell into disrepair.

The place Saaleck belonged as part of the Office Naumburg between 1656/57 and 1718 to Saxon Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz , then to the Electorate of Saxony and from 1806 to the Kingdom of Saxony . After the decision of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place with the office of Naumburg was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia and assigned to the newly formed district of Naumburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the province of Saxony in 1818.

Around 1850 the Stendorf manor was merged with the community of Saaleck. On July 1, 1950, Saaleck and Stendorf were incorporated into Bad Kösen . With its incorporation into the city of Naumburg on January 1, 2010, Saaleck has been a district of Naumburg since then.

tourism

There are several landing stages for canoeists on the Saale in Saaleck.

Personalities

Paul Schultze-Naumburg lived in Saaleck for years and designed and built the so-called " Saaleck workshops", his house and the Saaleck country house at the beginning of the 20th century. In the cemetery of the village were Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer , the murderers of the German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau , buried after the July 17, 1922 during their arrest on the Saaleck had lost their lives. In connection with the 11th anniversary of their discovery and death, relatives, like-minded people and Nazi leaders inaugurated a grave memorial for the two murderers in the local cemetery in October 1933 after a “solemn service”. Due to the increasing number of pilgrimages by right-wing groups, it was transported away and destroyed in 2000 by the local pastor with the help of the Bundeswehr.

Web links

Commons : Saaleck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 376
  2. ↑ Saaleck in the book Germania Sacra, p. 608f.
  3. ↑ The Hochstift Naumburg in the retro library
  4. ↑ History of Saaleck Castle
  5. ↑ Places of the Naumburg district in the municipality register 1900
  6. ^ Association of the Stendorf Manor with the Saaleck community  in the German Digital Library
  7. ↑ Saaleck on www.genealogy.net
  8. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Stumbling block. In: Spiegel Online. July 24, 2012, accessed December 5, 2014 .