Dahlen (Saxony)

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Coat of arms of the city of Dahlen
Dahlen (Saxony)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 13 ° 0 ′  E

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
Website : www.heidestadt-dahlen.de
Mayor : Matthias Löwe (WHD)
Location of the city of Dahlen in the northern Saxony district
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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

Districts of the city of Dahlen
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.

The sackhorn

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

City council election 2019
Turnout: 61.3% (2014: 49.7%)
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44.9%
24.0%
12.8%
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11.3%
7.0%
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Gains and losses
compared to 2014
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+ 3.3  % p.p.
+ 9.2  % p
-2.8  % p
-12.1  % p
+1.9  % p
+ 0.6  % p
WHD
UBG
Town hall Dahlen on the market square

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

Culture and sights

Church of Our Lady of Dahlen

see also: List of cultural monuments in Dahlen

  • Dahlen local history museum
  • Schmannewitz Farm Museum
  • City Park Dahlen
Dahlen Castle

  • Schmannewitz Church , built according to plans by George Bähr

  • Großböhla Castle

  • Former Patrimonial Court Börln (tenant house)

  • Church in Börln

  • Church in Ochsensaal

  • Church in Großböhla

  • Post mill in Schmannewitz (from 1879)

  • Waldbad Schmannewitz

  • Barrow burial field Ochsensaal

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

Median Rehabilitation Center Schmannewitz, Clinic for Cardiology, Oncology and Behavioral Orthopedics
Median Rehabilitation Center Schmannewitz, Clinic for Orthopedics, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy

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

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

Commons : Dahlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ Manfred Wilde: The sorcery and witch trials in Kursachsen , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, p. 554f
  4. ^ The Peace of Hubertusburg , Friends of Hubertusburg Castle
  5. ↑ Facebook entry
  6. ↑ sachsen.de - Elections: Results of the 2019 municipal council elections in Dahlen
  7. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Sachsen II. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1998, p. 173.
  8. ↑ https://www.median-kliniken.de/de/median-zentrum-fuer-rehabilitation-schmannewitz/ueber-uns/ , accessed on January 30, 2020
  9. ↑ https://rehanews24.de/20-jahre-median-kliniken-schmannewitz-lachen-schadet-ihrer-krankheit/ , accessed on January 30, 2020
  10. ↑ 20601 City of Dahlen. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 26, 2020 . (Info text on Dahlen under "Introduction")