Altenburger Land is a district in Thuringia , Germany . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Greiz , the Burgenlandkreis ( Saxony-Anhalt ), and the districts Leipzig , Mittelsachsen and Zwickau in Saxony . The district is a member of the Central German Metropolitan Region .
6-775: Gößnitz ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡœsnɪt͡s] ) is a town in the Altenburger Land district, in Thuringia , Germany . It is situated on the river Pleiße , 12 km south of Altenburg , and 20 km northwest of Zwickau . Gößnitz received its town charter in 1718. It is known for the railroad junction of the Leipzig-Hof railway connection and the Central-Germany connection (Dresden - Chemnitz - Gößnitz - Gera - Erfurt) and its station prides itself having Europe's longest platform, as well as
12-495: The Gößnitz Open-Air . The town's greatest prosperity was at the time of industrialization; Hence Viktor Grimm's representative malt factory from 1889 still characterizes the cityscape. This Altenburger Land location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Altenburger Land Altenburger Land is the easternmost district of Thuringia. It is largely agricultural with three quarters of
18-540: The 10th century, it became an imperial seat. In the following centuries German settlers from other parts moved in. It was part of the Margravate of Meissen in the 14th century. At this time most of the forests were cleared. The town of Altenburg and the surrounding lands were the tiny Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826 to 1918; afterwards it was a state within the Weimar Republic for a short time, before it
24-763: The northernmost foothills of the Ore Mountains slopes gently away to the plains of eastern Saxony-Anhalt. The region on the Pleiße River was part of a huge forest, where the Thuringii formed the Thuringian Kingdom. After this, the Kingdom was in 531 taken over by the Franks , Slavic people were also moving in. Thuringians reestablished independent rule. The castle of Altenburg already existed in
30-517: The total area being used for agriculture. In contrast, forests make up only around 10% of the area, especially in the south of the district there are only few forests. This can be explained by a high soil fertility with a Loess -layer of up to 3.5 meters. The main river is the Pleiße , a tributary of the White Elster , crossing the district from south to north. The hilly Osterland constituting
36-514: Was dissolved in 1922 in order to join the Free State of Thuringia . The district in its present borders was established in 1922 under the name "Altenburg". In 1952 there was an administrative reform splitting the districts into two smaller units, called "Altenburg" and "Schmölln". They were merged again in 1994 under the name Altenburger Land . Source: from 1994 Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik – values from 31st December The 46 seats in
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