Brandis
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ N , 12 ° 37 ′ E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Leipzig | |
| Height : | 137 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 34.89 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9624 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 276 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 04821, 04824 (Beucha) |
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| Area code : | 034292 | |
| License plate : | L , BNA, GHA, GRM, MTL, WUR | |
| Community key : | 14 7 29 070 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BDI | |
| City structure: | 4 localities | |
City administration address : |
Market 1–3 04821 Brandis |
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| Mayor : | Arno Jesse ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Brandis in the Leipzig district | ||
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Brandis [ ˈbrandɪs ] is a town in the Saxon district of Leipzig , about 20 km east of Leipzig . It extends to the east of the Leipzig lowland bay and was created from the merger of Beucha and the city of Brandis on January 1, 1999.
geography
The landscape is shaped by the 179 m high coal mountain with its wooded surroundings. The district Waldsteinberg lies in the middle of this wooded, hilly landscape. The municipality of Beucha is characterized by the mountain church that can be seen from afar. There are also several granite porphyry quarries in the urban area . In this, among other things, the stones for the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig were broken.
Districts
- Beucha with Kleinsteinberg and Wolfshain
- Brandis
- Polenz
- Waldsteinberg
history
The city of Brandis was first mentioned in 1121 . The name will probably be a transfer of the name Brandis, an earlier castle near Meran / South Tyrol. In 1150 the settlement got market rights . Stones have been quarried in the area since the 13th century. The mountain church in Beucha is first mentioned in 1280. The city suffered greatly from the Thirty Years' War . Over half of the population lost their lives.
The baroque Brandis Castle, built from 1700 to 1727, was the successor to the castle, which was partially destroyed in the largest city fire in 1696.
In 1938 a military airfield was built in the Polenz district .
In the course of the municipal reform , the new city of Brandis was formed on January 1, 1999 from the city of Brandis and the municipality of Beucha.
Innovation municipality Saxony
In 2014, the city of Brandis was the first municipality to win the “Innovationskommune Sachsen” competition. On the basis of this project, the city administration will implement a large number of administrative modernization projects by the end of 2016 in cooperation with Department 63 from the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior . This includes the introduction of a citizen app, the connection to the authority number 115 as the first small municipality in Saxony, as well as the optimization of the processes in the city administration for employees and citizens through the implementation of consistent process management.
In cooperation with the Design Research Lab of the Berlin University of the Arts , new tools for citizen participation are being tried out as part of the “Join in City”, which are intended to combine online and offline technologies and bring administration and citizens closer together.
As part of the “innovation network”, which was also launched by the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior, project results and findings from the innovation commune are transferred to other Saxon communes. In June 2016, the project took 1st place in the eGovernment competition in the category “Best Cooperation Project 2016”.
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Beucha | January 1, 1999 | Merger, no incorporation |
| Camming (Waldsteinberg) | November 15, 1929 | |
| Kleinsteinberg | April 1, 1938 | Incorporation to Beucha |
| Polenz | June 1, 1992 | |
| Wolfshain | April 1, 1938 | Incorporation to Beucha |
coat of arms
Description : In silver, three red roses with green sepals and golden clusters .
politics
City council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 22 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
| Party / list | Seats |
| Brandis Citizens' Association (BVB) | 6 seats |
| SPD | 4 seats |
| LEFT | 3 seats |
| Free voters | 3 seats |
| AfD | 2 seats |
| B90 / GREEN | 1 seat |
Three AfD seats remained vacant.
mayor
Arno Jesse has been the mayor since August 1st, 2013.
Partner communities
- Hohenhameln in Lower Saxony, contractual partnership since 1990
- Freudental in Baden-Württemberg, loose partnership with the Beucha district since the early 1990s
traffic
Brandis is located in the network area of the Central German Transport Association and is connected by the Leipzig regional bus with two PlusBus and other regional bus routes.
The railway line (Leipzig–) Borsdorf – Döbeln – Coswig (–Dresden) runs through Beucha . In 1898 and 1911 the Beucha – Trebsen railway line, which was closed for passenger traffic in 2006, was opened in two sections .
Brandis is south of the B 6 and north of the A 14 . This can be reached via the Naunhof exit (approx. 4 km). Leipzig is approx. 18 km to the west and the city of Wurzen approx. 15 km to the east of the municipality.
economy
Waldpolenz solar power plant
The solar park was built on a 142 hectare area of the former Soviet military airfield from 2007 to 2009 and was expanded in 2011. At the time of commissioning in August 2009, it was the largest German photovoltaic system and the second largest in the world.
Specialist clinic
The Brandis Specialist Clinic is a rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics, rheumatology, psychosomatics and neurology. A whole-body cold chamber extends the range of therapies.
Attractions
- Brandis baroque castle with approx. 3 hectare park, now residential complex
- Evangelical town church Brandis with baroque furnishings
- Donat organ in the town church from 1703
- Citizens' school, today grammar school (1905–1906, late historicist )
- Parkschlösschen, today Parkschlösschen-Café - formerly a restaurant with a hall
- East and West break on the Kohlenberg
- Coal mountain pond with many water birds
- Beucha mountain church
- Beucha Catholic Church
- Polenz Castle, now a senior citizens' residence
Memorials
- Soviet memorial grove on the old cemetery with group and individual tombs for 147 Soviet prisoners of war , four prisoners of war from Beucha and Borsdorf and 90 women and men who abducted during the Second World War to Germany and victims of forced labor in Wurzen and Zschadraß were
Sports
South of the city of Brandis there are two abandoned quarries on the Kohlenberg, the Ostbruch and the Westbruch. Both have been developed for climbing since the 1920s as a Leipzig climbing school . There are currently 67 climbing routes up to the 7th Saxon difficulty level in the Westbruch and 34 routes up to the 8th Saxon difficulty level in the Ostbruch.
There is also a diving area in Westbruch.
Born in Brandis
- Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Dögel (1855–1891), architect
- Henning von Brandis (* 1870), tax advisor and professor at the FH Erfurt
- Ludwig Stiglbauer (1905–1964), football player
- Karl Bock (1922–2004), doctor in the field of pediatric cardiology
- Anneliese Zänsler (* 1927 in the OT Cämmerei), opera and operetta singer, singing teacher and musicologist
- Andreas Reuter (* 1949), computer scientist
- Stefan Altner (* 1956), musician, musicologist and manager of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig
literature
- City of Brandis: Brandis. History of a small town in Saxony . 136 pages, bibliography pp. 134–136. Beucha 1996, ISBN 3-930076-38-1 .
- City of Brandis (ed.): 875 years of Brandis . Brandis 1996.
- Pedagogical Council of the Brandis Middle School, Council of the City of Brandis, Local Committee of the National Front (ed.): Commemorative publication for the school and local festival in Brandis - June 29 to July 1, 1956 (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Brandis School). 48 pages, A5 format, with 10 black and white photos and numerous advertisements from shops and companies in Brandis. Wurzen 1956
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Brandis. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1897, p. 23.
- Brandis . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 1st volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1814, p. 477 f.
- An extensive tradition of the city of Brandis for the period 1844-1949 on community affairs, finances, military and war affairs, school, church, health and social services, trade, trade, order and security police, building administration, agriculture and registry office matters is in the Saxon State Archives , State Archives Leipzig, inventory 20599 City of Brandis.
Web links
- Internet portal of the city of Brandis
- Internet portal of the parish of Brandis-Polenz
- Documentary Brandis - how a small town experienced the change
- Brandis in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Imprint. In: Stadt-Brandis.de. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
- ^ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Saxony. All city names and their history , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2007, p. 48
- ↑ Brandis is the »Saxon Innovation Commune 2014 - 2016«. (No longer available online.) Saxon State Ministry of the Interior, archived from the original on July 26, 2016 ; Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
- ↑ eGovernment competition | The 2015 winners. In: www.egovernment-wettbewerb.de. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
- ↑ a b c The Saxony Book, Kommunal-Verlag Sachsen KG, Dresden, 1943
- ↑ wahlen.sachsen.de: Results of the municipal council election 2019 - Brandis
- ↑ http://www.stadt-brandis.de/de/stadt-gestalten/politik/buergermeister
- ↑ http://www.stadtkirche-brandis.de/main.php?id=NULL&sub=29
- ^ Pedagogical Council of the Brandis Middle School, Council of the City of Brandis, Local Committee of the National Front (ed.): Festschrift for the school and local festival in Brandis - June 29 to July 1, 1956 (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Brandis School). 48 pages, A5 format, with 10 black and white photos and numerous advertisements from shops and companies in Brandis. Wurzen 1956
- ↑ DAV Felsinfo
- ↑ DAV Felsinfo
- ↑ Westbruch diving area
- ↑ DNB 573336172
- ↑ 20599 City of Brandis. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 26, 2020 . (Info text on Brandis under "Introduction")