Jonaswalde is a municipality in the
Thuringia
Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area.
Er ...
n district of
Altenburger Land
Altenburger Land is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Greiz (district), Greiz, the Burgenlandkreis (Saxony-Anhalt), and the districts Leipzig (district), Leipzig, Mittelsachsen and Zw ...
. It belongs to the
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Municipal associations (, , ) are statutory corporations or public bodies created by statute in the German federal states of Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, and Schleswig-Holstein. In Baden-Württemberg the term ''stipulated municipal association ...
of
Oberes Sprottental Oberes Sprottental is a ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' ("collective municipality") in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' is in Nöbdenitz, which is part of the town Schmölln.
The ''Verwal ...
.
Geography
Neighboring municipalities
Nearby municipalities are
Heukewalde
Heukewalde is a German municipality in the Thuringian Landkreis of Altenburger Land. It belongs to the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Oberes Sprottental.
Geography
Neighboring Municipalities
Communities near Heukewalde include: Jonaswalde, Poste ...
,
Thonhausen
Thonhausen is a municipality in the district of Altenburger Land in Thuringia, Germany. It belongs to the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Oberes Sprottental.
Geography
Neighboring municipalities
Communities near Thonhausen are Jonaswalde, Heyersd ...
, and
Vollmershain
Vollmershain is a municipality in the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Oberes Sprottental in the Thuringian landkreis of Altenburger Land in Germany.
Geography
The town's site
The village of Vollmershain is located along 4 km of the Sprotte. T ...
in the district of Altenburger Land;
Rückersdorf in the district of
Greiz
Greiz ( ; ) is a town in the state of Thuringia, Germany, and is the capital of the Greiz (district), district of Greiz. Greiz is situated in eastern Thuringia, east of the state capital Erfurt, on the White Elster river.
Greiz has a large park ...
; as well as the city of
Crimmitschau
Crimmitschau () is a town in the district of Zwickau (district), Zwickau in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
Crimmitschau lies on the river Pleiße in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains.
Neighboring municipalities
Adjacent communities includ ...
in the
Saxon
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...
district of
Zwickauer Land
Zwickauer Land is a former Kreis (district) in the south-west of Saxony, Germany. Neighboring districts were (from north-east clockwise) Chemnitzer Land, Stollberg, Aue-Schwarzenberg, Vogtlandkreis, and the districts Greiz and Altenburger Land ...
.
Municipal arrangement
The community is divided into two subdivisions: Jonaswalde and Nischwitz.
History
From 1826 to 1920, Jonaswalde was part of
Saxe-Altenburg
Saxe-Altenburg () was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in present-day Thuringia. It was one of the smallest of the German states with an area of 1323 square kilometers and a population of 207,000 (190 ...
.
References
External links
a private website from JonaswaldeFOSAVIS, a private website from Dirk Salomon, Jonaswalde
Altenburger Land
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