Schnauderhainichen

Schnauderhainichen City of Meuselwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 20 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	168  (168-181)  m above sea level NN
Residents :	216  (2012)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1922
Postal code :	04610
Area code :	03448
Location of Schnauderhainichen in Thuringia
Straße der Einheit in Schnauderhainichen

Schnauderhainichen is a district of the city of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

The district is located on Landesstraße 2174 and near the federal highway 180 in the Loess Hill country and on the edge of the Leipzig lowland bay northwest of Meuselwitz. The rural area is disturbed by the former mining. The eponymous Schnauder runs south of the village .

history

The village was first mentioned on June 18, 1413. Until 1529 the place was a parish in the Zipsendorf belonging to the diocese Zeitz . At that time the place belonged to a gentleman from Bünau . In 1578 Heinrich von Clausagh bought the village, which changed hands several times in the following years. Schnauderhainichen belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century onwards due to several divisions during its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the Duchy, Schnauderhainichen belonged to the Eastern District (until 1900) and to the Altenburg District Office (from 1900). Judicially, the place was assigned to the Altenburg District Court since 1879 and to the Meuselwitz District Court since 1906 .

In the second half of the 19th century, lignite mining began around Schnauderhainichen in the north of the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining area. With the emerging textile industry in Meuselwitz and the lignite mining, Schnauderhainichen expanded. To the south of the village, the underground excavation “Zum Progress Nr. 1” (1858 to 1949) opened in 1858 . Between 1901 and 1924, the “Heureka” underground mine was in operation in the west of the village. Since 1910, coal has also been mined in open-cast mining around Schnauderhainichen . Initially, these were the smaller opencast mines “Heureka” (1910 to 1924) in the west and “Zum Progress II” (1922 to 1933) in the south.

From 1918 onwards, Schnauderhainichen belonged politically to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which became part of the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 the village became part of the Altenburg district . It was incorporated into Meuselwitz on October 1st of the same year. North of Schnauderhainichen, the " Phönix-Ost opencast mine " was in operation between 1940 and 1963 . In 1959 and 1960, 110 residents of Schnauderhainichen had to be relocated, after which part of the place was demolished. It was planned to resume lignite mining in the 1980s, but this was not carried out. The remaining location of Schnauderhainichen should have given way to the planned “Meuselwitz opencast mine” between Meuselwitz and Rositz.

In 2012, 216 people lived in the district. Since 1998, the place with the "Schnaudertal" stop in the south has been connected to the Meuselwitz – Haselbach – Regis-Breitingen coal railway operated as a museum railway .

Personalities

• Leander Kröber (1902–1980), social democratic miner and communist party functionary, member of the Thuringian state parliament, persecuted by the Nazi regime, prisoner in Nohra concentration camp, Bad Sulza concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp, Thuringian police chief, colonel of the MfS and commander of a border brigade of the GDR border guards

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. 253
2. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
3. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
4. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
5. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
6. ↑ Schnauderhainichen on gov.genealogy.net
7. ↑ The Altenburg / Meuselwitz lignite district, LMBV publication
8. ↑ Schnauderhainichen on the website of the city of Meuselwitz , accessed on July 20, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Schnauderhainichen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schnauderhainichen on the website of the city of Meuselwitz
• Schnauderhainichen at www.schnaudertal.de