Copitz

Copitz Large district town of Pirna Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 10 ″ N , 13 ° 55 ′ 58 ″ E
Residents :	9756 (Dec. 31, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1923
Postal code :	01796
Area code :	03501

Former town hall Copitz

Seal of the municipality of Copitz

Copitz has been a district of Pirna on the right Elbe since 1923 in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

history

The place on the Wesenitz , first mentioned in a document in 1417, is probably of Sorbian origin like the place name . During excavations in the area of Copitz-West one found Bronze Age artefacts (e.g. bronze fishhooks). The Brückmühle ( 1304 ) is one of the earliest mentioned mills in the region .

The folk festival- like bird shooting , which the Pirnaer Schützengilde organized in front of the ship gate since the 16th century, took place in Copitz since 1901.

Personalities

Siegfried Rädel (1893–1943), KPD member and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
Gerhard Creutz (1911–1993), ornithologist
Job von Witzleben (1916-1999), Wehrmacht officer and colonel in the NVA

Buildings

From the “Schöne Höhe” lookout point, you have a delightful view of the city of Pirna and Sonnenstein Castle .

literature

Pirna and its surroundings (= values of the German homeland . Volume 9). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1966.
Boris Bohm: Copitz. Portrait of a diverse district of Pirna. Pirnaer Miniatures Heft 7, Pirna 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818762-0-8
Alfred Meiche: Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927. ( digitized version )
Oskar Speck: Copitz's relationship with Pirna in the past . In: Oskar Speck (ed.): Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Pirna . Book 5, Pirna 1920, pp. 23-44
Copitz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 78.

Web links

Commons : Copitz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Copitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony