Kleinbockedra

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Kleinbockedra is a municipality in the north of the Saale- wood - country circuit and part of the joint management hills / valleys. It is equipped with 35 inhabitants, the smallest municipality in Thuringia and Eastern Germany.

Location

The place is located above the Saale in a wooded area about 10 km south-east of the Jena city center. Kleinbockedra can only be reached via a small, east of the immediately adjacent Großbockedra inbound road; Großbockedra serves the village as a parish. Kleinbockedra situated on a hill, from which the surrounding areas with Jena, Kahla and Hermsdorf is clearly visible.

History

Kleinbockedra was first mentioned in 1395 as Wynczigen Bugkedrow; at that time the place was the seat of the Knights of Bockedra who worked as a robber baron in 1400. The name is of Slavic origin and means Bockedra "Book Peeler ," a colonization of the anellipse by Sorbs already in the early Middle Ages can therefore be adopted. First the Mark Zeitz belonging, the place came later to the Electorate of Saxony and was after the division of the state in the 15th century, possession of the Ernestine House of Wettin. Ecclesiastical parish was the Großbockedra, is one of the Kleinbockedra, assumed the bishopric of Naumburg. 1539 held here the Reformation feeder. As part of the Ernestine divisions of the place came to the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, within which it was administered by the West district. Since 1920 Kleinbockedra part of the state of Thuringia. Kleinbockedra remained consistent despite the proximity to Jena the character of a quiet rural community. 1910, the population was 78

Policy

Kleinbockedra has a six-member council. At the mayoral election in 2004, 29 of the 39 voters participating; was elected the non-party Monika Mehlhorn with 65 % of the valid votes.

Attractions

Kleinbockedra not have its own church, churchgoers attend church 1km east of the situated Großbockedra. Kleinbockedra has the anger -like village square a community building. Then there are some half-timbered buildings.