Meuselwitz

Meuselwitz is after Altenburg and Schmolln, the third biggest metropolis within the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land and the third largest municipality of the district in phrases of area. The small city lies inside the border triangle with Saxony and Saxony Anhalt on the southern edge of the Leipzig lowland bay among Altenburg inside the southeast and Zeitz in the northwest and Gera within the southwest and Leipzig in the northeast. Was the vicinity since the 17th century, to begin with characterized by using the work of the noble family of Seckendorff, Meuselwitz changed from 1860 to the industrial metropolis of lignite? From both times numerous buildings are really worth seeing, the primary consists of the Orangerie and the park and the city church in Baroque fashion and the latter the neo Gothic town hall from 1874.

Since that year Meuselwitz additionally has the city rights. Today's Meuselwitz became first referred to as a manor Mizleboze in 1139. Beginning of the 15th century, the estate became owned by way of the Lords of Bunau, from 1578 the emigrant Cramer own family of Clauspruch.