Zickra (Berga)

Zickra City of Berga / Elster Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 47 " N , 12 ° 7 ′ 51" E
Height :	317 m above sea level NN
Residents :	100
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Incorporated into:	Clodra
Postal code :	07980
Area code :	036623
	Zickra in the countryside

Zickra has been a district of Berga / Elster in the district of Greiz in Thuringia since 1994 , around 100 inhabitants live in the district.

location

Zickra is located in a south-west gradually rising side valley near Berga / Elster, in which the federal highway 175 has been laid. The Elsterknie near Zickra resulted in a level increase in the terrain due to erosion, which then continues up to the hill. The area of the village, measuring around 200 hectares, is located in the Thuringian Slate Mountains .

history

The documentary first mention was made 1307. The gentry Konrad von Bock joke that had income or float in place to Cycorawe, donated as Seelgerät 12 shillings interest. In 1330, Vogt Heinrich IV of Gera also donated interest income of nine schillings to the Cronschwitz monastery . Belonging to the Berga dominion is documented from 1378, the residents were parish off to Clodra . On March 21, 1920, violent fighting raged within sight of the place, known as the "Battle of Zickra", the Reichswehr units involved in the Kapp Putsch surrendered. In the Zickra restaurant there was an exhibition on local history in the GDR era these fighting. Small medieval finds were made during construction work on the site. Today a new housing estate is attached to the rural town center with a stately 200-year-old horse chestnut tree along the road to Weida.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Dittersdorf was incorporated. In 1974 the community was incorporated into Clodra, which in turn moved to Berga / Elster 20 years later .

Culture

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The Kulturhof in Zickra

The ARTigani cultural center is the site of regular events, including the Thuringia Jazz Mile , buttons and jewelry are made in a small factory. The Christmas market also traditionally sells its goods here.

literature

The northern Vogtland around Greiz. A geographical inventory in the area of Greiz, Weida, Berga, Triebes, Hohenleuben, Elsterberg, Mylau and Netzschkau . In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Ed.): Landscapes in Germany . tape 68 . Böhlau Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4 , Zickra with Buchwald, p. 182-183 .
Frank Reinhold: Family book Clodra near Berga / Elster with Dittersdorf and Zickra (district of Greiz), Thuringia, 1610 to 1798. Leipzig: AMF 2016 (= Central German local family books of AMF 97)

Web links

Commons : Zickra - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 324
↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 452, 454, 456 .

↑ www.kulturhof-zickra.de , accessed on March 27, 2012

[1] Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 324

[Gemeinden1994-2] Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 452, 454, 456 .

[3] www.kulturhof-zickra.de , accessed on March 27, 2012