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The Ziegenhierdsche Ländchen was a collection of several Saxon exclaves in the east of the Thuringian states near Gera . From 1554 to 1928 it belonged to the Electorate of Saxony or the Kingdom of Saxony and then to the Free State of Saxony . It was only integrated into the state of Thuringia through an area swap in 1928 .
Geographical location
The ten villages of the Ziegenhierdschen Ländchen are in the east of the Free State of Thuringia, south of Gera and Ronneburg . Hilbersdorf and Rückersdorf are independent municipalities in the district of Greiz , the other places belong to the city of Gera (5 places), to the city of Ronneburg (1 place), to the municipality of Kauern (1 remnant) and to the municipality of Wünschendorf / Elster (1 place). The Ziegenhierdsche Ländchen consisted of a contiguous area with five places and three areas with free float.
history
The Ziegenhierdschen Ländchen originated in the Liebschwitz manor southeast of Gera . Through the Naumburg Treaty , the nobles von Ende were enfeoffed in 1554 with the manor Liebschwitz and the associated villages Liebschwitz, Grobsdorf , Lietzsch , Loitzsch , Niebra , Pösneck and Taubenpreskel as well as the Saxon parts of the villages Hilbersdorf , Lengefeld and Rückersdorf . The places thus became electoral Saxon exclaves through a securitization of the diocese of Naumburg .
The manor with all the outbuildings and ancillary estates later became the property of the Barons von Meusebach, among others . In 1745, the Royal Prussian War and Domain Councilor Johann Georg von Ziegenhierd , who came from Braunschweig, acquired the Liebschwitz estate.
In the Napoleonic Wars , marauding French soldiers were slain at the Liebschwitz manor in 1806, with the result that the French plundered the manor and burned the parsonage and forge. After the Peace of Vienna in 1815 ( Congress of Vienna ), the von Ziegenhierd family successfully intervened against the transfer of their Liebschwitz, Lietzsch and Taubenpreskel estate to Prussia . They remained with the Kingdom of Saxony and were henceforth called the "Ziegenhierdsche Ländchen". The places of the Ziegenhierdschen Ländchen were subordinate to the distant Borna office until 1832 . After that, the places belonged to the Zwickau office . From 1874 the towns were under the administration of the Zwickau administration .
After the end of the First World War and the establishment of the Free States of Saxony (1918) and Thuringia (1920), the places remained as exclaves with Saxony and came to the newly founded Amtshauptmannschaft Werdau . It was only through an exchange of land between the states of Thuringia and Saxony in 1928 that the Saxon exclave of Liebschwitz and the surrounding villages came to Thuringia. The corresponding state treaty was signed on April 1, 1928 in the Liebschwitzer restaurant Apfelweinschänke (at that time "Zum golden Apfel").
Residents
In 1834 the Ziegenhierdsche Ländchen had 880 inhabitants in 54 houses.
Associated places
| place | current location |
|---|---|
| Liebschwitz , Lietzsch , Taubenpreskel , Lengefeld (proportionately) and Niebra | City of Gera |
| Posneck | Community of Wünschendorf / Elster |
| Loitzsch | community Kauern |
| Hilbersdorf (proportionately) | Community Hilbersdorf (Thuringia) |
| Rückersdorf (proportionately) | Community Rückersdorf (Thuringia) |
| Grobsdorf (proportionately) | City of Ronneburg |
traces
Traces of the former exclaves can still be seen in the naming of the "Saxon Railway Line" and "Saxon Railway Station" in Gera , the "Sachsenstrasse" in Taubenpreskel, the "Sachsen Grenz" garden, the former restaurant "Dreiherrnstein" between Zwötzen and Kaimberg and a large number of historical landmarks .
literature
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 . Edition Gumnior, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 .