Gerstenberg is a municipality in the district of Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.

Members of the families served the dukes of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg.

After the expropriation in 1951, what was once the largest farm was just a residential property with MTS and a small new farmer.

The infrastructural modernization of the community began in 1880 with the establishment of the local volunteer fire brigade and continued in 1915 with the start of electrification and in 1952 with the construction of the first water pipeline.

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the place was initially occupied by the Americans and handed over to the Red Army in July 1945.