Dahlen (Saxony)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ N , 13 ° 0 ′ E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saxony | |
County : | North Saxony | |
Height : | 158 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 71.87 km 2 | |
Residents: | 4245 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 59 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 04774 | |
Area code : | 034361 | |
License plate : | TDO, DZ, EB, OZ, TG, TO | |
Community key : | 14 7 30 060 | |
City structure: | 10 districts or city districts | |
City administration address : |
Markt 4 04774 Dahlen |
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Mayor : | Matthias Löwe (WHD) | |
Location of the city of Dahlen in the northern Saxony district | ||
Dahlen is a town in Saxony in the northern Saxony district . Dahlen is known as a sack-blower town .
Geographical location
The city is the gateway to the Dahlener Heide .
The larger neighboring towns are the municipality of Wermsdorf (11 km) and the cities of Oschatz (12 km), Wurzen (19 km) and Torgau (20 km).
Community structure
district | Residents |
Dahlen | 2,653 |
Großböhla , Kleinböhla , Neuböhla | 431 |
Schmannewitz | 596 |
Ox Hall | 187 |
Börln, Bortewitz , Schwarzer Kater , Radegast | 630 |
Dahlen as a whole | 4,497 |
Population as of January 31, 2012
history
Dahlen is first mentioned in a document in 1188. The place is of Slavic origin, the Old Sorbian word Dol'ane means inhabitant of a lowland, a valley. Dahlen has had town charter since 1228 and was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Naumburg . The city's coat of arms is derived from this diocese.
Witch hunts were carried out in Dahlen from 1601 to 1622 : three people were involved in witch trials , two were executed.
The Prussian King Friedrich II signed the peace treaty of the Hubertusburg Peace on February 21, 1763 in Dahlen Castle after the end of the Seven Years' War .
In 1878 the place of the same name in the Rhine province near Mönchengladbach was renamed Rheindahlen by imperial decree , because the northern German postal district was often confused with the Saxon community.
During the GDR era, a holiday camp was built near Dahlen , which was also used as a GST military camp.
From 1980 the GDR planned to build a nuclear power plant in Schwarzer Kater near Börln, not far from Dahlen . There was no construction work and the plans were discarded after the fall of the Wall in spring 1990.
The municipality of Dahlen has existed in its current form since March 1, 1994.
A planned merger of Dahlen with the municipality of Wermsdorf and the city of Mutzschen from the former Muldental district to form the city of Hubertusburg was rejected in a public survey on November 18, 2007 by 82% of those from Dahlen who took part.
Sackpool town
The exact origin of the term "Sackhupperstadt" has not been finally clarified. A connection to the following legend is possible: One day the Sorbs of the area planned to ambush and kill Emperor Heinrich on an excursion to the Dahlen Heath. A boy from Dahlen overheard this and wanted to warn the emperor, but was discovered by the Sorbs and put in a sack. At night, when his guards were asleep, he managed to escape by jumping to the emperor in a sack. Since 1870, a wagon owner has organized a children's festival every year, which traditionally also included a sack puppet, and finally a sacking statue was erected by the LPG on the market square in Dahlen.
politics
City council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
- Voting community Heidestadt Dahlen (WHD): 7 seats (+ 1)
- Independent citizens' community (UBG): 3 seats + 1)
- Free community of voters (FWG): 2 seats (± 0)
- CDU : 1 seat (± 0)
- SPD : 1 seat (± 0)
- LEFT : 0 seats (- 2)
Twin town
Since 1999 Dahlen has been twinned with Cessy in France.
Memorials
- Graves in the local cemetery for two unknown concentration camp prisoners who were thrown from an evacuation train by SS men in April 1945 and buried here
- Memorial plaque on his home at Oschatzer Straße 5 in memory of the resistance fighter Max Taube , who was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Cenotaph in Max-Hupfer-Strasse for the victims of fascism , of which the plaque has been missing since 1990. The memorial plaque for the resistance fighter Hermann Wiedner was also removed from his home on Oschatzer Strasse 8.
Culture and sights
see also: List of cultural monuments in Dahlen
- Dahlen local history museum
- Schmannewitz Farm Museum
- City Park Dahlen
- The late baroque Dahlen Palace , which the Electoral Saxon State Minister Heinrich Graf von Bünau had built between 1744 and 1751.
- Großböhla Palace with palace gardens , late baroque, temporarily owned by Friedrich von Krosigk
- Village church Ochsensaal from the 12th century ( Romanesque )
- Baroque church Schmannewitz , in the years 1731/32 to plans by George Bähr built
- Börln Castle , built in the late baroque on the remains of a moated castle , next to it the tenant house and the village church.
- The Dahlen town hall is a listed building. The building, which is located on the north side of the market square, was built in 1888 in historical forms typical of the time . The brick building adorned with stepped gables has an octagonal roof turret with a lantern.
- Sculpture Sackhupper on the Dahlen market
- Royal Saxon milestone (station stone) from 1859 at the train station
Schmannewitz Church , built according to plans by George Bähr
Sports
The enduro sport event around Dahlen traditionally takes place in March or April . In addition to a regular run for the German Championship, a European and World Championship run took place in Dahlen in 2003 and 2019. The organizer MSC Dahlen eV maintains a motocross training course on the Burgberg.
economy
Two rehabilitation clinics were established in the Schmannewitz district in 1996: The Christiaan Barnard Clinic for cardiovascular diseases, oncological and psychosomatic illnesses was operated by RHM Clinic and Retirement Home , and the Dahlener Heide rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics as well as psychosomatics and psychotherapy was one of them Dengg clinics. Since 2016, both clinics as part Median Center for Rehabilitation Schmannewitz to the group median clinics .
The community continues to rely on tourism, the riding stables and bridle paths are particularly noteworthy.
traffic
Dahlen has had a train station since September 16, 1838 on the Leipzig – Dresden railway line .
The city is located in the network area of the Central German Transport Association and is connected by the Omnibus transport company Heideland and the Schulze travel company with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes.
The federal road 6 runs through the south of the municipality near Neuböhla, further connections exist via three state roads .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Georg Lorenz (1627–1689), educator, born in Schmannewitz
- Christoph Gottlob Heinrich (1748–1810), historian
- Karl Friedrich Böhmert (1797–1882), pastor and classical philologist
- Curt Hoffmann (1898–1959), botanist, algologist
- Joachim Helbig (1915–1985), colonel and squadron commodore in World War II, born in Börln
- Jacob Sisters , formerly "Schmannewitzer Heidelerchen"
- Rainer Lisiewicz (* 1949), football coach
People connected to Dahlen
- George Baehr (1666-1738), builder of the Baroque was the construction of the church Schmannewitz involved
- Heinrich Graf von Bünau (1697–1762), statesman and historian, owner of a manor in Dahlen
- Albert Fraustadt (1808–1883), Protestant pastor and author in Börln
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hauffe (1845–1915), politician, landowner in Dahlen, Member of the State Parliament, Member of the State of Saxony (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Oskar Röder (1862–1954), veterinarian in Dahlen from 1886 to 1888
- Hellmut Körner (1904–1966), NSDAP member of the Reichstag and regional farmers' leader in Saxony, since 1936 hereditary farm owner in Dahlen
- Wilhelm Rühle (1906–1993), master organ builder and carpenter, built the organ in the church in Schmannewitz in 1977
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Dahlen. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 27. Booklet: Oschatz Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1905, p. 77.
- Rico Heyl: Small cities of little gentlemen. Constitution and administration of the cities of Belgern, Dahlen and Penig in the late Middle Ages (1350 - 1520) . In: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 152 (2016), pp. 99–186.
- An extensive tradition of the city of Dahlen for the period 1429-1952 on imperial, constitutional and community matters, finances, military and war matters, citizenship and registry office matters, school, church, health and social affairs, trade, commerce, mining, industry, Ordinary and security police, building management, agriculture, traffic, fire protection, statistics, elections, insurances, guilds and associations are located in the Saxon State Archives, State Archives Leipzig, inventory 20601 City of Dahlen.
Web links
- Dahlen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Literature by and about Dahlen in the Saxon Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ^ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Saxony. All city names and their history , Faber and Faber Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86730-038-4 , p. 52
- ↑ Manfred Wilde: The sorcery and witch trials in Kursachsen , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, p. 554f
- ^ The Peace of Hubertusburg , Friends of Hubertusburg Castle
- ↑ Facebook entry
- ↑ sachsen.de - Elections: Results of the 2019 municipal council elections in Dahlen
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Sachsen II. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1998, p. 173.
- ↑ https://www.median-kliniken.de/de/median-zentrum-fuer-rehabilitation-schmannewitz/ueber-uns/ , accessed on January 30, 2020
- ↑ https://rehanews24.de/20-jahre-median-kliniken-schmannewitz-lachen-schadet-ihrer-krankheit/ , accessed on January 30, 2020
- ↑ 20601 City of Dahlen. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 26, 2020 . (Info text on Dahlen under "Introduction")