Schortau

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Schortau is a district of Braunsbedra in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

Schortau Church

Geographical location

Schortau is located on the edge of the Geiseltal , southwest of Braunsbedra.

history

In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery , which was created between 881 and 899, Schortau is first mentioned in a document as the place Zirduuua im Friesenfeld, which is subject to a tithing obligation . Until 1815 the place belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

Row grave of German and Italian flak soldiers April 1945

At the end of the 16th century the church was built in the form of a hall. The west tower with onion dome dates from 1709. The interior of the church had a wooden barrel as a vault and a baroque interior with a pulpit altar. In 1903 the church was completely restored.

During air raids on the place on July 20, 1944 and April 5, 1945, the church was badly damaged and the rectory was destroyed. Since 1948 restoration work has been carried out on the church. The baroque furnishings come from the Naundorf church, which was demolished as a result of lignite mining.

On July 1, 1950, Schortau was incorporated into Braunsbedra.

In the cemetery there are graves of German and two Italian flak soldiers who were on duty in the Schortau flak position. 26 of them died in a British night bomb attack on May 4th / 5th. April 1945. A memorial stone placed by the Republic of Italy next to the graves bears the inscription: "Italian soldiers rest here".

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  1. ^ Reg. Thur. No. 287
  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. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '  N , 11 ° 52'  E