Markkleeberg

Markkleeberg is a large district city inside the district of Leipzig in Saxony. The city of Markkleeberg changed into based in 1934 as a merger of the locations Oetzsch Markkleeberg and Gautzsch. Since the name of the a lot large community Gautzsch due to its Slavic starting place become not desirable to the National Socialists and also the artificial concept Auenwalde couldn't be successful, they selected as the call of the brand new town of the smallest original municipality Markkleeberg.

All Slavic names of the districts were eliminated, from Gautzsch Markkleeberg West, from Oetzsch with the included Raschwitz Markkleeberg middle and - as a logical, but nonsensical effect - from the without a doubt German call Markkleeberg East. Despite the renaming all through the Nazi duration, the antique region names are known and familiar to at the moment. The incorporation of Markkleeberg to Leipzig on January 1, 1999, which had already been passed by means of the Saxon Landtag, was not completed by a a hit lawsuit filed via Markkleeberg on the Saxon Constitutional Court in 1999.