Elsteraue

The community Elsteraue is located on the White Elster in the castle district in the south of Saxony -Anhalt to the east or northeast of the town of Zeitz in the border triangle between Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony- Anhalt.

  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Education
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

History

The municipality was created on 1 July 2003 from the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities Bornitz, Draschwitz, Göbitz, Könderitz, Langendorf, Profen, Rehmsdorf, Reuden, Spora ( with the hamlet Oelsen ) and Tröglitz. The common administrative headquarters is located in Old Tröglitz in the industrial and business park, which emerged from the Altindustriestandort " hydrogenizing Zeitz ".

During the Second World War ( 1944), a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was set up for 4,300 prisoners in what is now the district Gleina and later in Rehmsdorf, which had in the lignite - Benzin AG ( " Brabag " ) Zeitz of forced labor. 33 victims of forced labor were buried in the local cemetery of Gleina.

The community Elsteraue is dominated by medium-sized companies. Furthermore, agriculture play by the " Agricultural Cooperative Agricola Rehmsdorf " a significant role as well as the mining of brown coal of the Central German lignite mbH in the mining field " Schwerzau " of the mine Profen, large parts of the Bornitzer, Draschwitzer, Reudener and Predeler field districts will abbaggern.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal council of the municipality Elsteraue is composed of 20 elected representatives as follows:

  • CDU: 8 seats
  • The Left: 2 seats
  • SPD: 1 seat
  • Groups of voters: 8 seats
  • Single applicants: 1 seat

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Azure, fan-like top made ​​five golden ears, down a golden Bergmannsgezähe, the whole thing flips with 10 siebenstrahligen golden stars, of which one each on either side of the upper canton, put the remaining 8 in the lower half of the shield -board -looking. "

The coat of arms was created by the Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch. The colors of the municipality are: yellow-blue.

Community structure

  • Place Bornitz
  • Place Draschwitz
  • Place Göbitz with the districts Göbitz, Maßnitz and Torna
  • Place Könderitz with the districts Könderitz, Minkwitz and Traupitz and Etzoldshain
  • Village of Langendorf Langendorf with the districts, Döbitzschen and Stasch joke
  • Place Profen with the districts Profen, Lützkewitz and Beerendorf
  • Place Rehmsdorf with the districts Rehmsdorf ( with Rumsdorf ) Krimmitzschen and sprouts
  • Place Reuden with the districts Reuden Predel and Ostrava
  • Place Spora with the districts Spora Prehlitz - Penkwitz, Oelsen and Nißma
  • Place Tröglitz with the districts Tröglitz, Alt- Tröglitz, Kadischen, Burtschütz, Stock village, Gleina and Techwitz

Burtschütz, Church

Göbitz, bicycle stop at Elster bike path and mill

Göbitz, timbered

Langendorf, church and rectory

Attractions

  • Conservation area " Elsteraue " with magpie bike trail and old pollarded willows stocks
  • Profen Church, built in 1495
  • Mining viewpoint " Schwerzau " to the "green highway " open pit Profen
  • Church in Gleina, one of the oldest religious buildings in the castle district
  • Half-timbered houses in Tröglitz group, district Kadischen
  • Slate steeple spire in Predel, visible from the main road out of 2
  • Lavishly designed half-timbered houses in almost all districts
  • Church in Spora, probably built around 1200
  • Game reserve between Profen and Auligk
  • Neo-classical church in Burtschütz of 1836
  • Manor 1750 errichtetem mansion in Rehmsdorf
  • Former Weber House in Krimmitzschen
  • Memorial for the victims of the satellite camp "will" ( 1944-45 ) opposite the station building in Rehmsdorf and in the old cemetery at the church in Gleina
  • Exhibition and documentation center on the sub-camp "will" at the community center Rehmsdorf on Fountain Square

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Education

In the town there are two major schools. In Reuden a comprehensive school was set up, visit the pupils of Year 5-10 classes. In the district Tröglitz the former elementary and secondary school buildings was 1-4 all students of the different places turned into the Square of Peace to the pure elementary school classes so that the school site Tröglitz in the 1950 to 1953 constructed building, which in its intricate design with its main portal at the same time preservation is, is maintained.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gottlob Bachmann (1763-1840), composer and organist, born in Bornitz
  • Otto Rohland (1828-1899), the Reichstag and Landtag, born in Etzoldshain
  • Manfred Riedel (1936-2009), philosopher
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