Birkwitz

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Birkwitz
City of Pirna
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 50 ″  N , 13 ° 53 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 118 m above sea level NN
Residents : 834  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation : May 1st 1973
Incorporated into: Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz
Postal code : 01796
Area code : 03501
Birkwitz on the Elbe

Birkwitz is a district of Pirna , the district town of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . Together with Pratzschwitz , it forms the village of Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz .

geography

Birkwitz is located in the Elbe valley , directly on the orographic right bank of the Elbe in the northwest of the city. Neighboring districts are Pratzschwitz in the southeast and Graupa in the northeast. The Dresden districts of Pillnitz and Söbrigen border in the north . On the other side of the Elbe Dresden are Zschieren in the northwest, Heidenau south to the southwest and the likewise Heidenau belonging Mügeln . The gravel and bathing lake Birkwitz is located southeast of the village .

history

Birkwitz on a map from the 19th century

Birkwitz was first mentioned in 1350 as "Birkwicz". Later the spellings “Berkewicz”, “Birckewicz” and “Pirkewitz” were used. The village center is a circular hamlet that has expanded considerably over the centuries . Around him was a corridor which in 1900 had an area of ​​about 269 hectares.

In 1547, the residents of the village were liable to pay taxes to the parish or hospital of Dohna . From the 17th century the owners of practicing manor in Schonfeld , the basic rule out. The administration of the place was incumbent on the Dresden office from the 16th century, in 1856 the Pirna court office was responsible. On the basis of the rural community code of 1838 , Birkwitz gained independence as a rural community. In 1875 it was part of the Pirna Authority ; in the time of the GDR it belonged to the Pirna district . On May 1, 1973 the community merged with its neighboring town to form the new Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz community, which was incorporated into Pirna on January 1, 1999 .

Development of the population

year Residents
1547/54 19 possessed men , 13 residents
1764 17 possessed men, 8 gardeners, 10 cottagers
1834 227
1871 362
1890 398
1910 676
1925 696
1939 755
1946 687
1950 705
1964 592

literature

  • Pirna and its surroundings (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 9). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1966.
  • Förderverein Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz eV: Ortschronik Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz. Pirna 2016
  • Alfred Meiche : Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999