Schköna
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Schköna
City of Graefenhainichen
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Height : | 151 m |
| Area : | 29.15 km² |
| Residents : | 744 (Dec. 31, 2009) |
| Population density : | 26 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2011 |
| Postal code : | 06773 |
| Area code : | 034955 |
Schköna is a district of the city of Graefenhainichen in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt . The Hohenlubast district , today also Graefenhainichens district , belonged to Schköna until it was incorporated .
history
Schköna is first recorded as Skogen in the Meißner diocese register from 1346. The place name Skogen is of Slavic origin, but the meaning is unknown. In the Thirty Years War , Schköna was completely destroyed by the Swedes . The church was not rebuilt until 1670.
Hohenlubast and Schköna belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Bitterfeld until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna they came to Prussia and were in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which they belonged to the 1944th
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Hohenlubast was incorporated.
On January 1, 2011, Schköna and Hohenlubast were incorporated into the city of Graefenhainichen.
Attractions
- Two with bowls provided boulders are located in the vicinity of the village in a forest area south of Wittenberg. In local tradition they are called the “Luther” and the “Devil's Stone”. The early historian Otto-Friedrich Gandert identified them as bowl stones in 1927. He published the find ten years later in the article The discovery of two cup stones in the Dübener Heide in issue 6/1937 of the journal Mitteldeutsche Volkheit - booklets for prehistory and folklore . The more interesting of the two is the devil's stone made of biotite granite standing in the open field, which protrudes around 1.5 meters from the ground and is slightly flattened at the top. This platform measures approximately 1.90 × 2 m.
- Church in Hohenlubast
- Castle in Schköna
- Wilhemsgrube , former lignite opencast mine
- Devil stone
- Schköna Cathedral Square
Transport links
The federal highway 107 runs through Schköna .
Web links
- Schköna on graefenhainichen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
- ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011