Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz

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Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz
Large district town of Pirna
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 42 "  N , 13 ° 53 ′ 17"  E
Residents : 1440  (Dec. 31, 2006)
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Postal code : 01796
Area code : 03501
Gravel pit
View of Pratzschwitz

Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz is a town in the city of Pirna in Saxony , which emerged in 1973 from the merger of the villages of Birkwitz and Pratzschwitz . The place has about 1400 inhabitants.

The village borders in the northwest on the Dresden districts of Pillnitz and Söbrigen .

history

Flint fragments found in the Pratzschwitz corridor indicate early settlement. The first documentary mention took place in 1350 as Birkwicz or Prautschicz . From the 17th century belonged to both places manorial manor Schoenfeld while Birkwitz the parish previously Dohna , Pratzschwitz the cathedral chapter Meissen was or were under the manor Pratzschwitz. After 1856 they belonged to the court office or to Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna. On May 1, 1973, the new community was created through the merger of the previous communities of Birkwitz and Pratzschwitz. On January 1, 1999, Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz was incorporated into the city of Pirna.

Between the two places there is a flooded gravel pit , about 70 hectares in size , which was opened in 1971, but has largely been released from mountain supervision and is used for swimming.

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

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

Commons : Pirna - Birkwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files