Schnellroda

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Schnellroda
Steigra municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 42 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 204 m
Incorporation : May 1st 1974
Incorporated into: Albersroda
Postal code : 06268
Area code : 034632

Schnellroda is a district of the municipality Steigra in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). The incorporation took place with effect from January 1, 2010 together with the dissolved community of Albersroda , into which Schnellroda was incorporated in 1974.

history

Church in Schnellroda
Water tower in Schnellroda, in operation from 1902 to 1975

Schnellroda is about 700 meters north of Albersroda and was first mentioned in 1142 as Snellendorf (= settlement of a Snello ). The name Snellenrode is attested to the year 1208 . The place originally belonged as Bamberg Afterlehen with the Bamberg ministerial family of the same name " von Schnellroda " to castle divisions. The place and manor Schnellroda belonged to the von Kannewurf from 1497 to 1748 and expanded the now reformed church, which is evidenced by a memorial stone from 1665. Below are the von Rockhausen families on Kirchscheidungen and the Count von der Schulenburg on Burgscheidungen (until 1945). The Hanse family, who owned the manor from 1871, were expropriated by the land reform in 1945 and left the place.

Until 1815 Schnellroda belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place to Prussia came only in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th Schnellroda was incorporated into Albersroda in 1974.

The church has an early Gothic tower with coupled sound openings. A pointed arch opens from the tower to the baroque renovated nave. The former manor's box and the wooden pulpit altar from the beginning of the 18th century are from 1720. Schnellroda has a country inn, a kindergarten and a pyramid-shaped war memorial that was renovated in 2003. As in neighboring Albersroda, a striking water tower rises in the middle of the village. After the land reform in 1945, new farmer positions arose on Hauptstrasse and Müchelstrasse on the eastern edge of the village. The LPG Steigra operating in Schnellroda pigs and breeding as well as bull fattening and breeding horses. In addition, the LPG plant production Abersroda was based in the village.

The club and village life is organized in the "traditional club", the music band and the "tractor club". In addition to the church festivals of Christmas and Easter, the highlights of the village year are the “Whitsun beer” (with an unbroken 287-year tradition), Thanksgiving and the herring dinner on Shrove Tuesday, which is reserved for house owners. Since 2002 the manor has been the seat and venue of the new right Institute for State Policy with its publishing house Antaios , which has been monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution since 2020 .

Personalities

Schnellroda's sons and daughters

Connected to Schnellroda

  • Götz Kubitschek (* 1970), German publisher, publicist and political activist of the New Right.
  • Ellen Kositza (* 1973), German journalist and publicist for the New Right.

literature

  • Louis Naumann : On the history of the parish Schnellroda-Albersroda. 1881.
  • Louis Naumann: Schnellrode-Albersrode: From the local history. H. Sieling's printing press, 1922.
  • Hartmut Augustin: 850 years of Albersroda, Schnellroda, chronicle from 1142 to 1992. Part 1 and 2, published by the Albersroda Community Council, 1989, DNB 945694644 .

Web links

Commons : Schnellroda  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b The area on the lower Unstrut (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 46). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 154.
  2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34 f.
  3. The district of Querfurt in the municipal directory 1900
  4. ^ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution observes "Institute for State Policy" , by Frank Jansen , Der Tagesspiegel April 24, 2020