Hainspitz

Hainspitz is a town in the Saale- Holzland district in the northeast of Thuringia. It is part of fulfilling community Eisenberg.

Geography

Hainspitz located in the eastern Saale- Holzland about 5 km west of the county town of Eisenberg. The place is divided into the districts Kirchdorf, Seedorf and North Village / commercial area. North of the district border clips the Federal Highway 7 the district and leads to Eisenberg to the highway and the direction of Jena.

History

Hainspitz first mentioned on September 8, 1259, but probably dates already from the sorbent time to 900 during the Thirty Years' War, the town was almost completely burnt down in 1636 by the Swedes. Only built in the 12th century church and a dwelling house were spared. On the ruins of the old water castle, a manor, which was expropriated after the war ended in 1945 and divided among the new settlers and the natives arose. After the fall of 1990, the expropriated areas of the administration of the Trust were assumed.

→ See also the village church Hainspitz

Economy and infrastructure

Hainspitz is an agricultural center with village settlement structures. Hainspitz has facilities for the elderly, a day center for the elderly, a poultry slaughterhouse, an offshoot of a special machine builder's international as well as smaller companies in the service industry and craft shops. There are also two guest houses, a bakery and an ice cream parlor.

In 1905 the extension Eisenberg Porstendorf the railway line Crossen an der Elster - Porstendorf was opened. Hainspitz thus received a railway station, but this was abandoned in the late 1960s with the track closure.

Attractions

• Spitzer grove lake with Research Centre of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Church
• Gutspark

Sons and daughters of the town

• Rolf Martin (1922-1999), General of the National People's Army