Elsteraue

Elsteraue is a municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district in Saxony-Anhalt, in eastern Germany. It is situated near the White Elster river, about 30 km (20 mi) southwest of Leipzig.

Elsteraue
Municipality
Timber-framed houses in Elsteraue
Coat of arms
Location of Elsteraue within Burgenlandkreis district
Elsteraue
Elsteraue
Coordinates: 51°4′30″N 12°13′5″E
CountryGermany
StateSaxony-Anhalt
DistrictBurgenlandkreis
Government
 • Mayor (2017–24) Andreas Buchheim[1]
Area
 • Total79.91 km2 (30.85 sq mi)
Elevation
145 m (476 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total7,886
 • Density99/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
06712, 06724, 06725, 06729
Dialling codes034424, 03441
Vehicle registrationBLK
Websitewww.gemeinde-elsteraue.de

Districts

It is divided into many municipal districts:

  • Bornitz
  • Draschwitz
  • Göbitz (Göbitz, Maßnitz, Torna)
  • Könderitz (Könderitz, Etzoldshain, Minkwitz, Traupitz)
  • Langendorf (Langendorf, Döbitzschen, Staschwitz)
  • Profen (Profen, Beersdorf, Lützkewitz)
  • Rehmsdorf (Rehmsdorf, Krimmitzschen, Sprossen)
  • Reuden (Reuden, Predel, Ostrau)
  • Spora (Spora, Nißma, Oelsen, Prehlitz-Penkwitz)
  • Tröglitz (Tröglitz, Alt-Tröglitz, Kadischen, Burtschütz, Stocksdorf, Gleina, Techwitz)

History

During World War II, the present-day district of Tröglitz was the location of a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and some 8,600 prisoners, mostly Jews, passed through it.[3] The prisoners were subjected to forced labour, poor food rations, and harassment by the SS, and over 850 died there, while other exhausted prisoners were sent back to Buchenwald, and many were then sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there.[3] Among the prisoners Imre Kertész, Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] In April 1945, the camp was evacuated, with some 3,000 surviving prisoners sent by train towards German-occupied Czechoslovakia, and at least 380 prisoners massacred by the SS and German civilians during the transport, in Reitzenhain on the pre-war Czechoslovak-German border.[3]

References
  1. Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse, Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt, accessed 8 July 2021.
  2. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. Dezember 2022" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
  3. "Tröglitz/Rehmsdorf". aussenlager-buchenwald.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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