Dieskau

Dieskau Castle

Saint Anne Church

Dieskau is a village in the municipality of Kabelsketal in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt . The districts of Dieskau and Zwintschöna belong to Dieskau.

Location and traffic

The town with about 3,100 inhabitants is located about 8 kilometers east of Halle (Saale) . The village of Zwintschöna also belongs to the district. To the west of the locality is the marshy area of the Reideniederung , to the south the Elsteraue. Dieskau has a stop on the Halle – Leipzig railway line . The B 6 and the federal motorway 14 run not far from the town .

history

Prehistory and early history

Finds from prehistoric times point to a long history of settlement in the area around Dieskau. Numerous objects dated to the Bronze Age were found.

In 1904, a hoard was found with bronze objects weighing 16 kilograms in total, dated between 2000 and 1700 BC. In 1937, another find from the same period with a weight of 45 kilograms was dredged in an open-cast lignite mine. a. Contained 293 axes. From the Bornhöck , an early Bronze Age burial mound of the Aunjetitz culture looted in 1874 , a depository find from the same period of originally 13 gold objects (the so-called Depotfund I from Dieskau) came into the trade. This was the largest gold deposit from the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe. Only five of these objects could be bought by the Berlin State Museums in 1874. These pieces ended up as looted in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow after 1945 . Investigations and re-excavations at the site in 2014/15 suggest the grave of a powerful prince who may have owned the Nebra Sky Disc .

Middle Ages and Modern Times

In the time around 800 Sorbs settled the area, already around 880 they were expelled by Teutons . There was a Sorbian moated castle in the swamps around Dieskau .

Around 1200, the von Dieskau family probably emerged from a fiefdom . The family acquired two saddle farms and turned them into a manor . In 1426 Dieskau burned down in the course of a dispute between the Archbishop of Magdeburg and the city of Halle. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War , Dieskau was destroyed by Croatian troops. By the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Dieskau came from the Duchy of Braunschweig to Prussia . Which is under jurisdiction of noble place belonged since then as by the Office Giebichenstein managed village Zwintschöna to Saalkreis of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . In 1680 this came under Brandenburg-Prussian rule as the Duchy of Magdeburg . Dieskau remained in their possession until the noble family died out in 1744. Oberamtmann Johann Friedrich Alburg acquired the property. It then fell through marriage to the chamber director Carl Christoph von Hoffmann . He had the palace park in Dieskau laid out. The von Bülow family owned the estate from 1853 until it was expropriated in 1945.

With the Peace of Tilsit Dieskau and Zwintschöna were incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. Both places belonged to the canton of Dieskau , whose main town was Dieskau. After Napoleon's defeat and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Napoleon's allied opponents liberated the Saalkreis in early October 1813. During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Dieskau and Zwintschöna were attached to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816 and assigned to the Saalkreis.

In 1937 a substation for the Reichsammelschiene was built in Dieskau . On July 1, 1950, Zwintschöna were incorporated into Dieskau. The community was then incorporated into the unified community Kabelsketal on January 1, 2004.

In the period after the political turnaround in 1989 , the number of residents increased due to the construction of new residential areas. There were also business settlements in newly established business parks. In this respect, the proximity of the place to the neighboring cities of Halle and Leipzig has an impact.

Facilities

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Dieskau. In addition, Dieskau has two hotels and a nursing home. In the mid-1980s, in the immediate vicinity of the school on the B6 , a gravel pit was converted into a motocross and offroad park in Dieskau . The track operator Motorsportverein Dieskau still organizes international enduro and motocross events , such as the team competitions of the World and European Championship of Motocross Classics.

Attractions

Dieskau is known for the renaissance castle Dieskau and the castle park Dieskau. To the north of the castle is the Saint Anne's Church , which dates back to the 18th century . The center of the village and a settlement east of the village are also under monument protection .