Thalschütz

Thalschütz City of Leuna Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 46 "  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 43"  E
Residents :	65  (June 30, 2017)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Kötzschau
Postal code :	06237
Area code :	03462

Thalschütz

Thalschütz , is part of the village of Kötzschau in the city of Leuna in the Saale district (Saxony-Anhalt). Until December 31, 2009 the place belonged to the municipality of Kötzschau. It lies between Halle and Leipzig in the river landscape of the Elsteraue , which is traversed by the Elsterfloßgraben .

history

Thalschütz ("Dalsitz") was first mentioned around 1225. On behalf of the Elector of Saxony, the construction of the Elster raft ditch started around 1579. This was used to raft wood that had to be brought for the saltworks in the neighboring village of Kötzschau. In the course of the Thirty Years War in November 1632, the battle took place at the gates of the city of Lützen , in which the church was completely destroyed. Reiterführer Pappenheim, who was advancing to support Wallenstein's troops, was hit by a falconette bullet in a battle on a field near Thalschütz. Around 1636/37, soldiers from the Electorate of Saxony marched through Thalschütz and the surrounding villages, which subsequently also destroyed the Kötzschau saltworks. Rebuilt around 1696, it remained in operation until 1861. Between 1706 and 1707 the area around Kötzschau fell into Swedish hands. The Swedish King Charles XII. quartered himself in the Altranstadt castle. In 1718 the church was rebuilt from parts of the old tower. A magnificent baroque altar and a sacrament niche in the south-east wall of the choir have been preserved to this day. On January 17, 1762, the school children set fire to the school in Thalschütz, which burned down along with the barn and the cowshed.

Thalschütz Church

Until 1815, Thalschütz belonged to the Merseburg office of Lützen , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the Secondogeniture Principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . During the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813, the places in the vicinity of Thalschütz were hit by troops. By the resolutions of the Vienna Congress Thal contactor came with the western part of the Office Lutzen in 1815 to Prussia and in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated.

In 1855/56 the construction of the Großkorbetha-Leutzsch railway line began. The following year, the coal shaft at Thalschütz was opened. With the construction of the briquette factory in Rampitz, the salt pans have now been converted to coal-fired firing. The lignite mine “God's Help” was closed in 1917.

On July 1, 1950 Thalschütz was incorporated into Kötzschau, with which it came to Leuna on December 31, 2009. Today Thalschütz belongs to the city of Leuna as a district of the village of Kötzschau.

Attractions

One of the sights is the church, the restoration of which began in the 4th quarter of 2003 and was finished in 2005. In the immediate vicinity of the village there is a railway museum in the station building of Kötzschau. Excursion possibilities in the vicinity are the city of Lützen , with the Gustav Adolf memorial, and the city of Bad Dürrenberg with the longest intact graduation tower in Germany.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
3. ↑ Thalschütz on the Leuna website ( memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Thalschütz on gov.genealogy.net