Steinwitz (Altenburg)

Steinwitz City of Altenburg Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 5 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	188–295 m above sea level NN
Residents :	40  (2012)
Incorporation :	August 1, 1936
Incorporated into:	Lossen
Postal code :	04600
Area code :	03447
Location of Steinwitz in the city of Altenburg
Half-timbered house with archway

Steinwitz is a location in the Skat and residential city of Altenburg in East Thuringia , which is managed directly by the latter. The hamlet with around 40 inhabitants is one of the smallest places in the Altenburger Land district .

geography

The hamlet of Steinwitz is located in the valley of the German brook , it borders on farmland of the Altenburg quality. The place is about 3 km west of Altenburg city center and 650 m from the agglomeration of the city, there is the district of Drescha . Other neighboring places are Oberlödla in the north , Kosma in the south and Lossen in the west .

history

On September 24, 1210 the hamlet was first mentioned as Steinewiz . The place name is of Sorbian origin and can be derived from the word ščene with young animal or young dog . In the 13th century, Steinwitz belonged to the knight Andreas von Lysau , whose property was wrested from his liege lords, the Burgraves of Altenburg , and given to the Bergerkloster in Altenburg. Later the place belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which from the 16th century was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of 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, Steinwitz belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. Steinwitz had been in the Altenburg district since 1922 .

The place is dominated by a large four-sided courtyard from the 18th century. In the GDR times, the pig breeding station of LPG Klement Gottwald was housed in this, Klement Gottwald was a Czechoslovak communist. Steinwitz was incorporated into Lossen on August 1, 1936 , which in turn was incorporated into the municipality of Göhren on July 1, 1950 by resolution of the state parliament . On the same day Altenburg lost the status of an independent city . On January 4, 1953 Steinwitz was reclassified to Altenburg. Thus, the place as a district of Altenburg belonged to the Altenburg district in the Leipzig district , which had belonged to Thuringia as the Altenburg district since 1990 and was added to the Altenburger Land district in 1994.

Infrastructure

The district road 551 runs through the hamlet and connects it to the district town of Altenburg and the L 1362 (Altenburg-Gera). From the latter, the L 2171 branches off through Kosma to the B 7 (Altenburg-Erfurt) 4 km away. This then connects with the B 93 (Leipzig-Zwickau) and the B 180 (Zeitz-Waldenburg) on ​​the Altenburg bypass.

Web links

Commons : Steinwitz  - 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. 274
2. ^ History of the Burgraves of Altenburg, p. 59
3. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
4. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
5. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
6. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
7. ↑ Steinwitz on gov.genealogy.net