Jenalöbnitz

Jenalöbnitz is a municipality in the north of the Saale- wood - country circuit and part of the joint management Dornburg - Camburg.

Geography

Adjacent communities are Golmsdorf the northwest, Löberschütz in the north, Graitschen in the Northeast, the city Biirgel in the east, Großlöbichau in the south and the district-free city of Jena in the West.

Early History

A first settlement of the valley is already assumed in the Stone Age. Excavations at the Old Gleissberg have brought finds from the period around 1500 BC to days that are associated with the Celts. At the same time agricultural property are suspected in the valley. A real village-like settlement probably took place only by the Germans. From the 5th century AD, the ancestors of today's Thuringian settled on the site. Whether on the corridor today Jenalöbnitz however, there were settlements of Thuringia, could not yet be detected. In the immediate vicinity of the town there was water at the cistern hole where an escape cave was present. After the destruction of the Thuringian Empire in the 6th century, there were migrations of living between the rivers Saale and Oder groups, here probably at the same time took place mixing with the immigrant Slavs. This process can be observed especially in the hall area. First ensure Slavic attributable Inhabited are passed down through certificates of imperial monasteries of Fulda and Hersfeld. During this time, the emergence of Jenalöbnitz is suspected. So far, however it is not clear whether the name (today Jenalöbnitz ) was based originally on top Löbnitz or low Löbnitz. In the year 937 it was the first written mention of the castle Kirchberg. Jenalöbnitz was placed safely on a link road between the royal castles Kirchberg and thorn castle, which was over the saddle fitting at the rear Jenzig. Therefore, it is not unlikely that the place was already existed.

First mention

A first mention of the place, however, dates only from the year 1220. W. Kahl reported by the documentary Ersterwähnug of 6 September 1185th In a document dated 9 November 1220 Bruno de Lubenescz appear as a witness. The place itself was first mentioned in a document dated 29 March 1395. The state of archaeological research to bring the works of Gotthard Neumann and Hans -Joachim Stoll precise statements and date the oldest part of the motte in the colonization period. Sell-through the end of the 14th century still existing low Löbnitz came to Brückenhofsstiftung the city of Jena, which asserted itself in the following period the name Jena Löbnitz. In today's district area Jenalöbnitz Löbnitz Upper and Lower Löbnitz was next to the two villages even today lying desolate Raßdorf. Oldest mentions of residents can be found in the local chronicle of Jenalöbnitz.

The Church of St. Catherine dates from the 14th century.