Burgscheidungen

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Burgscheidungen is a district of the city Laucha in Burgenland district, in Saxony -Anhalt.

Geography

Burgscheidungen is located on the Unstrut between Nebra and Lauchagrund natural preserve Saale -Unstrut Triasland. For the former municipality Burgscheidungen was next to the main town Burgscheidungen on the left bank of the district Unstrut Tröbsdorf on the right bank of the river.

History

The towering over the town of Castle Hill has been inhabited since 3000 BC. In the period of migration here was an important castle, possibly even a residence of the Thuringian, whose empire stretched from the Elbe to the Danube near Regensburg. In the year 531 the Thuringian and their king Herminafried to have been defeated by the Franks in Scithingi after Saxony story of Widukind of Corvey; However, the excavations of archaeologists Halle Berthold Schmidt have provided in the 1960/70er-Jahren no evidence. From this epoch no Thuringian finds have been recorded for Burgscheidungen.

In a resulting 881-899 Directory of tithing of Hersfeld Monastery (castle ) distinctions were documented as requiring a tenth place in the frieze Scidinge field.

1043, Emperor Henry III. it to his wife Agnes of Poitou as a wedding gift. 1069 gave this turn Burgscheidungen the diocese of Bamberg, which as suzerain various noble families continue belehnte from then on until 1803 so. From 1128 to 1667 Burgscheidungen was also the seat of the homonymous Ministerialgeschlecht of Scheidingen.

Since 1371 the place Scheidingen Borkschidingen ( Burgscheidungen ) was called. The same neighbor Scheidingen, located on the other side of the Unstrut was called already from 1294 church ski things ( Kirchscheidungen ).

1612 and 1625 were the brothers of Hoym by Prince Johann Georg and Christian I of Anhalt confirmed its 1598 already conferred entitlement to Burgscheidungen and in 1629 after the extinction of the previous owner of Wiehe actually in common with those of Wuthenau and representatives of the Schilling family with Burgscheidungen fief. After the brothers had agreed with the co-owners of Hoym Wuthenau and Schilling contract on the transfer of those shares, they were invested on 26 January 1630 by Prince Christian of Anhalt -Bernburg with Burgscheidungen.

1699 was the 19 -year-old Brunswick maid of honor Anna Constantia of Brockdorff as a future wife of Adolph Magnus von Hoym after Burgscheidungen. After prolonged bridal registry was in 1703 the marriage instead. The marriage of Adolf Magnus von Hoym with Anna Constantia was not happy. In January 1705 Adolph Magnus was forced to agree to a divorce and so the marriage was dissolved on August 8, 1705. The King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, August " the Strong" or Augustus II (Poland), they chose to mistress and obtained later the Emperor their elevation to the status of an Imperial Countess Cosel as Anna Constantia von Cosel Countess.

After an eventful history and different owners Burgscheidungen went 1722 to the family von der Schulenburg, which then could transform the castle into a baroque palace. From this period dates even the adjoining marvelous terraced castle park, which is bounded by a small canal. In whose possession Burgscheidungen remained until 1945.

As shareholders of Count von der Schulenburg stayed from 1760 to 1761 in Burgscheidungen the Leipzig Hofmeister and later Obersteuereinnehmer, Christian Felix Weisse, who made ​​his name with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Conrad Ekhof and Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener close friend as well as a poet and youth writers had. During his stay on Burgscheidungen the tragedies " Crispus ", " Mustapha and Zeangir " emerged, "Rosamunde"; the comedies " The Housekeeper " " The Suspicious against itself " and the "new women school " and a translation of the Tyrtaeus and the "Amazon Songs" (1760 ).

The Counts von der Schulenburg was expropriated in the fall of 1945 by the land reform and the 1946 fdgb leave the Burgscheidungen castle as a convalescent home. From December 1950, the castle was used as a National School of pioneering leaders and introduced the name " Ernst Thalmann ". Later the castle served as a special school of the Central Council of the FDJ for foreign students. From 1955 to 1990 was in the castle, the central training center of the CDU of the GDR " Otto Nuschke ".

On 1 July 2009, the formerly independent municipality Burgscheidungen was incorporated into the city Laucha.

Attractions

Is the former castle, with its baroque garden, which offers a beautiful view over the Unstruttal over the place. The castle and castle gardens belong to the project Gartenträume Saxony- Anhalt. In the town itself, a late Romanesque local Church is a Gothic Ostanbau. Also Tröbsdorf has a church that has been recently renovated. Also worth seeing are the Unstrut weir with associated lock house and the former manor house.

As the castle CDU training center was was located since 1972 in the courtyard of a created by the sculptor Bruno Cuba plaque for all Christians, had become the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. The bronze plaque was removed after 1990 by the Trust, as well as the traditional rooms devoted to the same theme in the interior of the castle.

In the cemetery of the local part Tröbsdorf is the grave of a particularly well-known Polish prisoners of war, who was assassinated in 1940 by a sentry.

Economy and infrastructure

Burgscheidungen is characterized even today agricultural purposes before everything. There is a wine-growing plant on the surrounding slopes. At present (2005) are reported in place 65 unemployed; larger employers or industrial areas do not exist, especially since some outlying place, neither has a railway connection, yet located on a main road.

Traffic

The neighboring Kirchscheidungen is located on the Unstrut web, which is operated by the Burgenlandbahn GmbH. Trains currently Nebra and Naumburg and Zeitz.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Levin Moritz Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg (1774-1814), royal - Saxon Chamberlain, Heir to the castle and Kirchscheidungen, Owner of the Manor of Branderode and Netzschkau