Seelitz, Missouri

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Seelitz, Perry County, Missouri
Abandoned village
Map of Missouri highlighting Perry County.svg
Location of Perry County, Missouri
Country United States
State Missouri
County Perry
Township Brazeau
Elevation 791 ft (241 [1]  m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)

Seelitz is an abandoned village in Brazeau Township in Perry County, Missouri.

Abandoned village village that has been deserted

An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, famine, war, climate change, environmental destruction, or deliberate clearances.

Brazeau Township, Perry County, Missouri Civil Township in Missouri, United States

Brazeau is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America.

Perry County, Missouri county in Missouri

Perry County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,971. Its county seat is Perryville. The county was officially organized on November 16, 1820 from Ste. Genevieve County and was named after Oliver Hazard Perry, a naval hero of the War of 1812.

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Name

Seelitz was named after Seelitz in Saxony, Germany. [2]

Seelitz Place in Saxony, Germany

Seelitz is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is part of the administrative partnership Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Rochlitz based in the eponymous town.

Saxony State in Germany

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.

Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

History

Seelitz was a short-lived town near Altenburg, Missouri, one of the seven colonies established in 1839 in the Saxon Migration. [2] Pastor Ernst Moritz Bürger was the Lutheran pastor of the village. [3] [4] Seelitz was settled by people from Ernst Moritz Bürger's congregation in Germany and from that of his father. Although only one of the colonists is recorded as coming from the small parish of Seelitz, which is near Rochlitz in the Zwickauer Mulde valley, Bürger may have chosen it out of filial piety and the memory of his own first pastorate, rather than Lunzenau, from which he and most of his people had actually come. Seelitz must have been near Frohna, somewhere to the north of it in the Brazeau Creek bottom, because the "special partition" between them had not yet been agreed upon in November, 1839. Its low-lying situation made it unhealthy and subject to various fevers. By 1841 Bürger's congregation had been reduced to five, and after much dissatisfaction he resigned, and the parish was made a branch of Altenburg. Thereafter the name disappears from the map. It has been impossible to ascertain whether its territory was united with that of Altenburg, or Frohna, or perchance changed its name to Brazeau, a little community which still survives a short distance away on Brazeau Creek, and which is said to have been originally settled by the Saxons in 1839. [2]

Altenburg, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Altenburg is a city in Perry County, Missouri, United States. The population was 352 at the 2010 census.

Rochlitz Place in Saxony, Germany

Rochlitz is a major district town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Rochlitz is the head of the "borough partnership Rochlitz" with its other members being the boroughs of Königsfeld, Seelitz und Zettlitz.

Zwickauer Mulde river in Germany

The Zwickauer Mulde is a river in Saxony, Germany. It is the left tributary of the Mulde and 166 km in length.

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References

  1. ↑ cartographic.info http:// cartographic.info/usa/map.php?id=739094
  2. 1 2 3 State Historical Society of Missouri: Perry County Place Names http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html
  3. ↑ Robert Sidney Douglass (1912). "History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of Its ..., Volume 1".
  4. ↑ Margot Ford McMillen (1994). "Paris, Tightwad, and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names". ISBN   9780826209726.


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