Kühren-Burkartshain

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Kühren - Burkartshain was the name of a local authority in the Saxon Muldentalkreis. The kreisangehorige community in the center of the circle was formed on 1 January 1994 from the merger of the previously independent municipalities Burkartshain and Kühren. With effect from 1 October 2006 it was incorporated into the city Wurzen.

Geography and transport

Kühren - Burkartshain was about 10 km southeast of Wurzen and about 18 km north-east of Grimsby at an altitude of 145 meters. The territory stretched from the eastern shore of the trough to the western edge of the Wermsdorfer forest. The mill stream there Springing by the former rural community. West of it the B runs 107 The B 6 and the railway line Leipzig - Riesa- Dresden run through the district Kühren. The south of the municipality extending A14 can be reached via the Grimsby connection (approx. 15 km).

The municipality included the following 12 districts:

  • Birkenhof
  • Burkartshain
  • Grain grove
  • Kühren
  • Millstream
  • Nitzschka
  • Oelschütz
  • Pyrna
  • Saxony village
  • Streuben
  • Trebelshain
  • Wäldgen

History

With the settlement of Treaty of 1154 Gerung Bishop of Meissen settled in the village Coryn, today Kühren to Flemish peasants with great privileges. 16 peasant families received 17 hooves country, hoofs the church. In this document, a Vogt ( Sifridus ) was called. This had to stop here three times a year thing. The district Kühren the community Kühren - Burkartshain, is thus the oldest first-mentioned place in the municipal area. The districts Burkartshain and Saxony village are first mentioned in a document in a border certificate in 1284. The area is populated but already proven since the Paleolithic. Testify finds at Sonnenmühlwall at Oelschütz.

Last mayor prior to the incorporation was Jörg Grundig.

Attractions

  • The church Burkartshain with pure style preserved magnificent decoration in the so-called Peasant Baroque was already around 1529 one of the first Protestant parish churches of Saxony. You will be renovated with the support of a family foundation.
  • Evangelical Church Kühren with frescoes from the Middle Ages
  • Lutheran Church of Saxony village
  • The forest area Wermsdorfer Forestry
  • Natural Monument Oelschützer Loreley, a rocky slope at the bowl shore

The Kührener Elephant

1888 was organized in which about ten kilometers away Wurzen a balloon flight show. A balloon in the shape of an elephant came here off course and had to make an emergency landing on a field near Kühren. Several dozen farmers working in this field at harvest. Since the farmers have seen in their entire life neither a balloon elephant, they went with scythes and pitchforks on the "monster " going on. What the Kührener initially experienced ridicule, they later made their trademark. In the 1980s, a citizens' initiative in the center of Kühren built to commemorate this event, a fountain in elephant shape. The frail after 31 years Elephant 2008 received a new successor.

A Kührener inn and school wear the elephant in her name, and in the arms of Kühren - Burkhartshain the elephant was also seen.

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