Wintersdorf

51.05472222222212.356388888889184Koordinaten: 51 ° 3 ' 17 " N, 12 ° 21' 23" E

Winter village since December 1, 2007 with about 2200 inhabitants, the largest district of the city Meuselwitz in the Thuringian district Altenburger Land. Historically, the community flourished particularly in the 19th century by lignite mining. Another important industry was the production of tobacco.

  • 2.1 Nazi dictatorship
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 3.2 toponym and community partnership
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities of the former municipality of winter village (each in a clockwise direction in the south starting ): Rositz, Kriebitzsch, Haselbach, Treben and Gerstenberg, and the towns of Altenburg, Meuselwitz and Lucka in the district Altenburger Land and the city of Wyke Regis in the Saxon district of Leipzig.

Structure

The former municipality winter village with an area of ​​30.87 km ² belong to the following districts:

  • The fused with the main town places Heukendorf, compulsory village, Gröba (all three 1923) and Bosengröba (1957, has previously served on Ruppersdorf )
  • Ruppersdorf, dredged from the circle Borna, 1957 incorporated by lignite mining
  • Walter village and the district Neubraunshain that were amalgamated in 1973
  • Lehma with the district Trebanz which were incorporated on January 1, 1996 and reclassified as at 30 December 2008 after Treben were
  • The chamber forest with an area of ​​km ² 12:43

History

In 1181 winter village was first mentioned in documents in the ancient tithe directory of the monastery Bosau near Zeitz. The place was then a dead end village. The village church is first mentioned in 1619, the rectory was built in 1663.

In the 19th century, several lignite mining operations incurred. In the years 1920 to 1923, the mining camp was built. The winter villages landmark is the 1914/1915 built water tower.

Nazi dictatorship

Since 1942, there were four slave labor camps, with a total of 382 people who had to work for the mines progress and Marie.

Population Development

Development of the population (as of December 31):

  • 2004: 2984
  • 2005: 2934
  • 2006: 2873

In March 2007, the inclusion in the neighboring town Meuselwitz was adopted at a special council meeting.

Policy

Coat of arms

How many coats of arms of cities and municipalities in the Altenburger Land the winter villages coat of arms according to the laws of auxiliary historical science Heraldry ( heraldry ) was created here. After one of the Weimar State Archives with the State Office for Monument Care and Homeland Security correspondence exchanged the municipality winter village took in 1937 on the crest. In the upper part of the emblem is in hammer and chisel, how to recognize that winter village was not only a farming village with farming, sheep farming and wool combing, but was coined since the mid 19th century, more and more from the brown coal mining. The redesign of the official seal, which in 1950 the Altenburger artist Paulik took in order according to the statement of Altlehrers and local chroniclers A. Jung Hanns is, undoubtedly takes place after the presentation of the old coat of arms. In ancient times, as in winter village still dominated the cigar industry, many people wished that if winter village once city be, even the cigar in the coat of arms appears.

Place name and community partnership

Winter village comes in Germany four times before, each as districts of municipalities. Thus, a community partnership is maintained with two of these cities since 1990, namely to Fuerth / Franken and Rastatt / Baden.

Culture and sights

  • The Walburgha's Church from 1907 is built in Art Nouveau style, is located in the historic center. It was built by Alfred H. Wanckel from Altenburg. The equipment is for the most part from the building time.
  • The Alfred Ahner - House, which is the birthplace of the painter, exhibits the life and work of the artist and can be seen by appointment at the Lindenau Museum.
  • At the edge of the village extends Haselbacher lake. His winter Ufer is accessible from the town center on the road towards Gröbaer Ramsdorf. Leaving the village, the road leads down into the Schnaudertal and then into the chamber forestry in with signposted cycling and hiking trails.
  • Right-hand side is the oil sealed ( dialect Erlcht, so alder ) - a natural monument area along the brook Schnauder on the northern edge of the forest. Even before the locked old Schnauderbrücke after Ruppersdorf is on the right side of the entrance to the nature reserve over a ravine possible. In early May bloom there arum and other rare and protected wild plants. On the left side are the remains of the peasant village Ruppersdorf, which was dredged in 1956 for the mining of brown coal.
  • Toward Ramsdorf the Wild Hainer Schnauderwiesen be up to the eastern edge of the oil Tschs be surveyed out after leaving the forest on the left. A narrow driveway in the district Gröba ( mentioned in 1181 ) leads right into the Schnauderwiesen. At the Schnauderbrücke the mouse is reached, the district Bosengröba ( mentioned in 1277 ), in which up to the 1950s, a water mill was operated.
  • Right-hand side of the road is Waldschlösschenbrücke, a district near the Schnauder, named after a former garden - restaurant, with Linde garden. In addition, the place has a stop at the coal train and a horse farm.
  • Large events are, for example, the dragon boat race, the village festival or the biker's meeting.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Ernst Daube (1869-1956), writer and poet
  • Alfred Ahner (1890-1973), painter and draftsman
  • Alfred Schmidt (1891-1985), communist politician and trade unionist
  • Siegfried Fischer (* 1934), Diplomat in Japan during GDR times
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