Dobitschen

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '  N , 12 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Altenburger Land
Fulfilling municipality :	Schmoelln
Height :	255 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.55 km 2
Residents:	439 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	04626
Area code :	034495
License plate :	ABG, SLN
Community key :	16 0 77 003
Community structure:	Main town, 3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Street of the unit 8b 04626 Dobitschen
Website :	www.dobitschen.de
Mayor :	Bernd Franke (independent)
Location of the municipality Dobitschen in the Altenburger Land district

Dobitschen is a municipality in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia . It lies between the cities of Altenburg in the northeast and Gera in the southwest

geography

The districts of Dobitschen and its hamlets are located on the edge of the Ronneburger-Schmöllner Ackerebene in the transition to the Leipzig lowland bay in the Altenburger-Zeitz loess hill country . The Kleine Gerstenbach , a source river of the Gerstenbach, flows through the village .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Starkenberg , Mehna , Göllnitz and the town of Schmölln in the Altenburger Land district.

Community structure

Districts are Dobitschen, Meucha , Pontewitz and Rolika .

history

The place Dobitschen is a Slavic local foundation, the name goes back to the Sorbian word dobry (good). In older documents, the place name is still given with Doberschen , Dobrezhen and similar, the r is not used until the end of the 14th century . The manor can be traced for the first time in 1204, when Heinrich von Dobitschen had a church built in the village. A Hans von Dobczehn was mayor of Altenburg in 1390 . In 1696 Meucha, Nasselwitz (today a desert between Meucha and Dobitschen), Pontewitz and Prehna were parished to Dobitschen. After the manor had changed hands several times after the von Dobitschen family died out at the end of the 16th century, it was owned by the Bachoff von Echt family from 1697 to 1945 . The manor house was used to fire on 7 April 2004 as a boarding an agricultural cooperative. The manor complex is still completely preserved in its form, from the baroque moated castle to the manor. The current church was built in 1702. A school is first recorded in 1737.

Dobitschen belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century due to several divisions in the course of its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, Dobitschen belonged to the Eastern District (until 1900) and to the Altenburg District Office (from 1900). From 1879 the Altenburg District Court and since 1906 the Meuselwitz District Court were legally responsible for the place. From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 it came to the district of Altenburg .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Pontewitz and Rolika were incorporated.

During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus, the community came Dobitzschen with the county Schmölln to the district of Leipzig , since 1990 as a county belonged to Schmölln Thuringia and opened in 1994 Altenburger in the district of the country. From January 1, 1992 to December 31, 2018, the Dobitschen community was part of the Altenburger Land administrative community . This was dissolved and so Dobitschen commissioned the city of Schmölln as a fulfilling municipality.

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  Historical town view

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  Moated castle in Dobitschen (north side)

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  Dobitschen moated castle (south side)

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

1880: 645 1994: 664 1995: 660 1996: 644 1997: 641 1998: 650

1999: 646 2000: 633 2001: 624 2002: 599 2003: 589 2004: 574

2005: 558 2006: 555 2007: 539 2008: 536 2009: 528 2010: 505

2011: 487 2012: 478 2013: 486 2014: 465 2015: 471 2016: 480

2017: 471 2018: 447 2019: 439

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Incorporations

Former parish	date	annotation
Meucha	January 1, 1957	July 1, 1950 incorporated into Prehna , on January 1, 1957 reclassified to Dobitschen
Pontewitz	July 1, 1950
Rolika	July 1, 1950

politics

Since the run-off election on June 19, 2016, the mayor has been Bernd Franke, who was elected with a majority of 64.1% and a turnout of 46.8%. He already applied for the 2010 election, but was defeated by Olaf Heinke, who had been in office since 1999. Before that, Rainer Fiedler had been mayor of the community since 1990.

Since the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the local council has been composed as follows:

• SV Eintracht Dobitschen eV - 4 seats (58.3%)
• Dobitschen volunteer fire department - 2 seats (41.7%)

The turnout was 60.0% (+ 2.2% p).

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Dobitschen

Dobitschen owns two important baroque buildings. On the one hand the moated castle built in 1696 and the church built in 1702 .

Economy and Infrastructure

education

Dobitschen is the seat of a state regular school . There is a day-care center in Rolika.

traffic

Former Dobitschen station, reception building

State road 1362 runs through the municipality . The THÜSAC operated Dobitschen and districts by bus lines 351, 352, 356 and 408th

Dobitschen is on the Meuselwitz – Ronneburg railway line , on which passenger services were carried out between 1887 and 1972. The station, which was closed in 1972, and the settlement developed around the station are located one kilometer northwest of Dobitschen. Since 1974, the remaining section of the route has only been used for freight traffic.

Personalities

• Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774), musician, composer and music writer
• Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff (1878–1963), German poet

Web links

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

• Church in Dobitschen
• Dobitschen community
• Dobitschen fire department

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. Wartberg Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 17
3. ↑ Christiane Nienhold, Gustav Wolf, Klaus Hofmann: ... and in the afternoon we went sailing to Nöbdenitz! Manors in Altenburger Land and their gardens. Museum Burg Posterstein 2007
4. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book Geography for all Stands , from p. 201
5. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
6. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
7. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
8. ^ Thuringian Regional Returning Officer - Mayoral Election. Accessed June 26, 2016
9. ^ Thuringian regional returning officer - municipal council election. Accessed on August 3, 2014
10. ^ The Rolika daycare center on the VG Altenburger Land website
11. ^ The Dobitschen train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
12. ^ The Dobitschen station settlement on the Dobitschen community website