Waltersdorf (Meuselwitz)

Waltersdorf City of Meuselwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 26 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 53"  E
Height :	180 m above sea level NN
Residents :	243
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Incorporated into:	Winter village
Postal code :	04610
Area code :	034498
Location of Waltersdorf in Thuringia
Wintersdorfer Straße with the old school on the right edge of the picture

Waltersdorf is a district of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

Waltersdorf is located southeast of Wintersdorf on the edge of the fertile Leipzig lowland bay and in the transition to the Zeitz-Altenburger loess hill country .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document between 1181 and 1214. This date was also given for Wintersdorf, Gröba , Heukendorf and Lehma in the tithe register of the Bosau monastery . A Walter was probably the first settler on the site. Waltersdorf belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century 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, it belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). Legally, the place was subordinate to the Altenburg District Court since 1879 and to the Meuselwitz District Court since 1906 .

In 1880 there were 43 houses, two farmers and 22 handicrafts with a population of 243. In 1888 a school was built. Coal mining and work in the briquette factories began around 1905 . In Waltersdorf, which belongs to the Meuselwitz-Altenburger lignite district, the coal was initially mined south of the place in civil engineering (Altenburger coal works No. 19, 20, 22 (1865-1958)). In the beginning of the 20th century, the open-cast mines "Marie I (Waltersdorf)" (1908-1935) and "Neubraunshain" (1908-1910) devastated the west, north and east around the town to the limit of development.

From 1918 Waltersdorf belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was incorporated into the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 it came to the district of Altenburg . On July 1, 1950, Neubraunshain was incorporated. During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus the place came with the new tailored county Altenburg to the district of Leipzig . On January 1, 1973 Waltersdorf was incorporated with Neubraunshain after Wintersdorf. In the 1980s, the resumption of lignite mining was planned, but this was not carried out. A part of Waltersdorf and the Neubraunshain location should have given way to the planned “Meuselwitz opencast mine” between Meuselwitz and Rositz. In 1990 Waltersdorf came back to Thuringia. The village belonged to the district of Altenburg until 1994, since then to the district of Altenburger Land. With the incorporation of Wintersdorf to Meuselwitz, Waltersdorf has been a part of the Wintersdorf district of the city of Meuselwitz since 2007.

After the fall of the Wall , the village renewal program began from 2000 to 2004. At the end of the village in the direction of Neubraunshain, the Kriebitzscher Agrargenossenschaft operates a pig fattening facility . There is a farmer and a part-time business again. A wind farm was also built.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 303
2. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
3. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
4. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
5. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
6. ↑ The Altenburg / Meuselwitz lignite district, LMBV publication
7. ↑ Waltersdorf on the official website of the city of Meuselwitz.Retrieved on July 19, 2012

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