Untermaschwitz

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Untermaschwitz is a village in Saxony-Anhalt belonging to the town of Landsberg in the Saale district .

location

The village belongs to the Landsberg town of Oppin and is located northeast of Halle (Saale) . A little further west is Obermaschwitz . The desert of Mittelmaschwitz lies between Ober and Untermaschwitz . The village pond is located in the southern part of the village. The Kruggraben flows through the village .

history

The Maschwitz ministerial family is mentioned as early as 1200 . The von Maschwitz family maintained a saddle yard in the village .

Before the Thirty Years War the place consisted of about 13 houses. In the war, however, there was severe destruction. Untermaschwitz was not affected by a strong outbreak of the plague in the region in 1682. In 1785 the village had 70 inhabitants. There were three farmers, four small kossats and four cottagers . The number of livestock was given as 240 sheep, 44 cattle, 16 pigs and 9 horses.

Untermaschwitz belonged to the Giebichenstein office in the hall circle of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . In 1680 the place came with the Saalkreis to the Duchy of Magdeburg under Brandenburg-Prussian rule. With the Treaty of Tilsit , Untermaschwitz was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. The place belonged to the canton of Neumarkt . After Napoleon's defeat and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Napoleon's allied opponents liberated the Saalkreis in early October 1813. During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place was attached to the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony and assigned to the Saalkreis.

In 1825 the village had 84 inhabitants in 13 houses. By 1865 the number of residents increased significantly to 136. The area was recorded at 924 acres. In 1885 there were 123 inhabitants and 944 acres. For the year 1905 five larger estates were recorded with a property tax revenue of 10,295 marks and 159 inhabitants.

On April 1, 1938, Ober- and Untermaschwitz merged to form the Maschwitz community. On July 1, 1950, Maschwitz was incorporated into Oppin.

Buildings

In the local register of monuments , the town center is entered as the street Dorfstrasse 7, 8, 10-12 as a monument area. Other cultural monuments are the St. Nicolai Church with the cemetery and the houses in Dorfstrasse 7 and Dorfstrasse 10 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mention of the place in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 125
  2. ^ Description of the Saale Department
  3. ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '  N , 12 ° 2'  E