Dölkau

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Dölkau Castle

Today Dölkau is part of the village of Zweimen in the city of Leuna in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt . Before the incorporation of Zweimen into Leuna, it was an independent municipality until December 30, 2009, to which, in addition to Dölkau, the district of Göhren also belonged.

history

Dölkau Castle in the Duncker Collection

Dölkau and Göhren belonged to 1815 to merseburgischen hochstiftlich- Office Schkeuditz that under since 1561 electoral Saxon stood sovereignty and between 1656/57 and 1738 for Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Merseburg belonged. The manor Dölkau, on which the Dölkau Castle was located, was the seat of the Counts of Hohenthal (line Hohenthal-Dölkau). Dölkau was the scene of a witch hunt in 1521 : a farmer was banished from the country for three years for divination in a witch trial, while his wife was burned.

Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Dölkau and Göhren and the western part of the Schkeuditz office were ceded to Prussia in 1815. In the new political order Prussia they were in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated to which they belonged to the 1952nd On July 1, 1950 Dölkau was incorporated with Göhren to Zweimen.

During the district reform in the GDR, Zweimen with its districts Dölkau and Göhren was assigned to the Merseburg district in the Halle district in 1952 , which came to the Merseburg-Querfurt district in 1994 and to the Saale district in 2007 . With the formation of the unified municipality of Leuna on December 31, 2009, Dölkau became a district of Zweimen.

The castle was restored from 1999 to 2007 and can be rented for events. A palace concert takes place every two months.

Web links

Commons : Dölkau  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  2. ↑ Manfred Wilde: The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, p. 568.
  3. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
  4. ^ Dölkau on gov.genealogy.net
  5. ^ Dölkau Castle

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '  N , 12 ° 9'  E