Audigast

Audigast City of Groitzsch Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 23 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 17 ″  E
Residents :	278  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1996
Postal code :	04539
Area code :	034296
Location of Audigast in Saxony

Audigast is a district of the city of Groitzsch in Saxony . Since January 1, 1994, Audigast has formed an administrative community together with the neighboring communities of Auligk , Berndorf and Großstolpen and was incorporated into Groitzsch in 1996. The place is on the Mitteldeutsche Strasse der lignite .

Geographical location

Audigast is located in the Leipzig lowland bay north of the small town of Groitzsch. The Schnauder runs to the west of the village and has recently merged with the Schwennigke and flows into the White Elster in the north of Audigast .

The Peres opencast mine, opened in 1963, dredged the area east of Audigast around 1980. After its temporary closure in 1991, the area was renatured.

history

The village north of the small town of Groitzsch not far from the White Elster was first mentioned in 1330 as Vdegoz . 1378 the place to belong castrum Groitzsch that in 1460 with the escort office Pegau for office Pegau were combined. Since then, the place was in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office Pegau until 1856 . Audigast was the seat of a manor, which was later elevated to a manor . In the village there was the upper and lower courtyard. The latter was owned by Fritz von Peres in 1467 . After the Oberhof burned down in 1812, the property of both farms was combined in 1816. From 1856 the place belonged to the judicial office of Pegau and from 1875 to the district administration Borna .

On October 1, 1948, the communities Kobschütz and Schnaudertrebnitz were incorporated into Audigast. Audigast was incorporated into the Borna district in the Leipzig district in 1952, the Borna district in 1990 and the Leipziger Land district in 1994 . Since January 1, 1994, Audigast has formed an administrative community together with the neighboring communities of Auligk , Berndorf and Großstolpen , which was completely incorporated into Groitzsch on January 1, 1996. Since then, Audigast has been part of the city of Groitzsch.

Development of the population

year	1548/51	1764	1834	1871	1890	1910	1925	1939	1946	1950	1964	1990	2011
Residents	a)	b)	281	286	346	378	384	378	498	730 c)	542 c)	716 c)	266
a)20 possessed men , 19 hooves b)21 possessed men, 12 cottagers , 13 hooves c) with Köbschütz and Schnaudertrebnitz

Incorporations

Former parish	date	annotation
Audigast	January 1, 1996	Incorporation to Groitzsch
Kobschütz	October 1, 1948	Incorporation according to Audigast
Schnaudertrebnitz	October 1, 1948	Incorporation according to Audigast

Attractions

St. Martin Church

Audigast Castle

• St. Martin Church : The St. Martin Church in Audigast got its current appearance after a fire in 1685. The oldest part is the Romanesque choir, which opens in the round arch to the nave and the eastern annex like an apse. The east side has a three-sided choir closure, on the north side of the choir bay there is a two-storey half-timbered building with the patron's box . The compact tower with its half-timbered construction was built around 1680. In the years between 1660 and 1685 the church was rebuilt from scratch except for the few surviving older parts. The interior is largely from the Baroque period and consists of an early Baroque pulpit altar and a wooden baptismal font, the lid of which is decorated with acanthus leaves. The late Gothic sacrament niche (15th century) from the previous building is also remarkable. The organ built into a baroque prospect dates from 1826.

• Castle : Today's listed castle was built in 1753 on the foundations of a medieval moated castle, first mentioned in 1330, as a two-storey building with nine axes and a baroque mansard roof. The facade is structured by a central projection, which is closed off by a triangular gable. In the south wing there were once the living and utility rooms of the staff, in the northwest corner there is a round stair tower. The interiors on the first floor are accessed by a double staircase running in opposite directions. On the second floor there is a ballroom that extends through the entire depth of the building. The castle, which was converted for residential purposes after 1945, has been vacant since the mid-1990s and is now owned by a cooperative that has been gradually renovating the building since 2011. In 2013 the castle received a new roof and is thus secured in its existence for the next few years. Of the former farm buildings, only the horse stable and the eastern part of the former barn and part of the cowshed have been preserved due to the effects of the war. The grounds of the palace park suffered from being used as an orchard in the post-war period and from multiple tree felling, but the basic structure is still recognizable from the old trees with a 200-year-old copper beech, several old oaks and robinia and two strong yews. An artifact has been kept in the castle since the beginning of the 19th century, which is related to the legend of the white horse and is supposed to protect the castle from fires. The background is the life story of the then lord of the castle Hyazint de Moisy.

literature

• Richard Steche : Audigast. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 15. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Borna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1891, p. 4.
• Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony's palaces and castles , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH u. Co. KG, Husum 2004, ISBN 3-89876-159-2
• Matthias Donath: Palaces in Leipzig and the surrounding area , Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland mbH 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the Peres opencast mine in a LMBV document
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
3. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
4. ↑ See Audigast in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
5. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Groitzsch, city. (PDF; 0.9 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on February 17, 2015 . 
6. ^ ^{A b} Christian Rietschel, Bernd Langhoff: Village churches in Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, Berlin 1963
7. ↑ St. Martin Church Audigast.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 6, 2012.  
8. ↑ Wasserschloss Audigast im Nebel ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Kathrin Haase, article in the online edition of the Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 21, 2010, accessed on November 30, 2011. 

Web links

Commons : Audigast  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Audigast in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Website of the Audigast moated castle
• Audigast on the website of the city of Groitzsch
• Audigast on www.reitwanderfuehrer.de