Dommitzsch
| coat of arms | Germany map | |
|---|---|---|
|
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ' N , 12 ° 53' E |
|
| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | North Saxony | |
| Management Community : | Dommitzsch | |
| Height : | 83 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 30.44 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2458 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 81 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 04880 | |
| Area code : | 034223 | |
| License plate : | TDO, DZ, EB, OZ, TG, TO | |
| Community key : | 14 7 30 090 | |
| LOCODE : | DE DZS | |
| City structure: | 4 districts | |
City administration address : |
Markt 1 04880 Dommitzsch |
|
| Website : | ||
| Mayoress : | Heike Karau (independent) | |
| Location of the town of Dommitzsch in the northern Saxony district | ||
  |
||
Dommitzsch is a town in the district of North Saxony in Saxony ( Germany ). It is a fulfilling community of the Dommitzsch administrative community .
geography
Geographical location
Dommitzsch, 83 meters above sea level and one kilometer west of the Elbe , is the northernmost town in the district of Northern Saxony and the Free State of Saxony. Dommitzsch is located near the border triangle of Saxony , Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt on a small hill on the left bank of the Elbe. Coming from the Düben Heath to the west, the Grenzbach flows into the Elbe here.
Community structure
In addition to the core town, the city consists of the four districts Mahlitzsch , Greudnitz , Proschwitz and Wörblitz .
history
For a long time Dommitzsch was considered an old border town of the former Mark Meißen . The linguist Ernst Eichler and the onomologist Hans Walther consider it difficult to clarify the origin of the place name. The Old Sorbian name Dmuci could come from the verb duti (for blow, blow) and stand for the windy location on the Elbe on a high bank.
The oldest evidence of settlement is a tool find from the Neolithic Age (around 3000 to 2000 BC). Urn finds also prove an early settlement in the Dommitzsch area at the time of the Lausitz urn field culture (around 1400 BC). There are also traces of settlement from the Iron Age .
During the Great Migration , Slavic tribes also came to the North Saxon region, so that there was continuous Slavic settlement from the 7th century. Dommitzsch developed into a Slavic capital, which was protected by a castle complex (Osterberg). Another Slavic castle was located on the Aueberg near Dommitzsch.
As a result of Heinrich I's campaigns , Dommitzsch came into German possession around 929; it became a German castle gate. Dommitzsch initially belonged to the "Comitatu Brennensis" ( County Brehna ), after 968 to the Margraviate of Meissen .
The city developed in the beginning (10th / 11th centuries) around the castle complex on the Osterberg. The first church (Martinikirche) was also built there. A planned expansion of the city took place in the 12th and 13th. Century in a westerly direction around today's city center. The second church as well as city gates and moat were also built.
In 965 "Dumoz" was mentioned in a document, the authenticity of which is doubted. Another mention can be found in a document from 981 in which Otto I. Dommitzsch donated the castle and neighboring villages to the Memleben monastery. Eleven years later, in 992, the castle and district of Dommitzsch came under imperial rule again. In the year 1004 Dommitzsch was also called "Dumuz" when Heinrich II donated the "honey toe". In the years 1219 and 1223 the province was called "Domitz" (Domuts). Heinrich III., Margrave of Meissen founded the Commandery of the Teutonic Order in Dommitzsch in 1223 . Heinrich I of Brandenburg gave his daughter the castle and town of Dommitzsch as a marriage property in 1298. This was the first documentary mention of Dommitzsch as a city. After the division of Leipzig , the city came to the Ernestine Line in 1485 , and about sixty years later in 1547 after the Battle of Mühlberg to the Albertine Line .
The city was seriously destroyed in the Hussite War (1429/30) and in the Thirty Years' War .
Until the 19th century, Dommitzsch was dominated by agriculture and handicrafts, potters and linen weavers dominated. Significant industrial innovations were the establishment of a clay pipe factory in 1873, the construction of a pottery factory in 1910 and the opening of the margarine factory in 1925.
From 1815 Dommitzsch belonged to the Province of Saxony in Prussia . After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Dommitzsch belonged to the new province of Saxony-Anhalt (since July 1947: State of Saxony-Anhalt) in the Soviet zone of occupation . After the founding of the GDR in 1949, an administrative reform took place in the country in July 1952 , which Dommitzsch added to the Torgau district in the Leipzig district .
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Mahlitzsch was incorporated.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there was considerable development beyond the city limits. After 1958, the biggest development in residential construction up to that point began. In 1985, Dommitzsch was home to eight businesses or branches, three agricultural businesses, two PGHs , 29 private craft businesses, a service company, a rural outpatient clinic , 24 retail stores, eight restaurants and a forest pool with a campsite.
After the fall of the Wall and reunification , the majority of the population decided in 1990 to belong to the newly founded Free State of Saxony . In the Saxon district reform in 1994 of the county continues to exist after 1990 was district Torgau with the district Oschatz and parts of the county Eilenburg to Torgau-Oschatz together. Dommitzsch was the smallest of the seven cities in the new district.
On January 1, 1999, the municipality of Wörblitz was incorporated into Dommitzsch with the places Greudnitz and Proschwitz incorporated on July 1, 1950.
The municipalities of Dommitzsch, Elsnig and Trossin formed an administrative community on January 1, 2000 to deal with some administrative tasks together. On August 1, 2008, as part of the 2008 district reform, the district of North Saxony was created from the neighboring districts of Torgau-Oschatz and Delitzsch with twelve cities, of which Dommitzsch is the smallest with 2458 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).
politics
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:
- AfD : 4 seats
- CDU : 4 seats
- SPD : 3 seats
- Free voter community Torgau-Oschatz (FWG): 2 seats
- LEFT : 1 seat
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The city gained a high level of awareness through the Tonwerk. Their products included stoneware, stoneware pipes, cattle and feed troughs, highly refractory fireclay normal and shaped bricks, fireclay mortar, clinker, square pipes, drainage pipes, cable bricks and synthetic wall panels. It was originally founded in 1873 by Messrs. Granger & Hyan in Dommitzsch. Later the company was transferred to the AG for water heating and water pipes, formerly Granger & Hyan .
On July 29, 1882, AG Splauer Tonwerke , a facing brick factory in Splau near Bad Schmiedeberg, took over the Dommitzsch company. It was initially operated as a separate plant under the Dommitzscher Tonrohrwerke AG company, but in June 1883 it was merged with the Splauer Tonwerk under the United Splauer and Dommitzscher Tonwerke AG company. According to the resolution of the general meeting on June 29, 1905, the company was changed to Dommitzscher Tonwerke AG . The clay works were demolished in 1997 and the area was designated as an industrial area. The area is still partially unused. The model of the Tonwerke is one of the attractions in the local history museum on Torgauer Straße in Dommitzsch.
traffic
The town of Dommitzsch is located on the federal highway 182 from Wittenberg to Torgau . The Pratau – Torgau railway has a stop in the Wörblitz district and a train station in the town of Dommitzsch. However, this railway line between Pretzsch and Torgau has been closed and the stop and the train station are no longer served. A ferry connects Dommitzsch with the town of Prettin on the other, eastern bank of the Elbe (Saxony-Anhalt); The Lichtenburg concentration camp was located in Prettin .
Attractions
Personalities
- Ernst Pfundt (1806–1871), theater musician, timpanist
- Arwed von Fischer (1825–1897), infantry general
- Hermann Oscar Rohleder (1866–1934), physician
- Johannes Warneck (1867–1944), Protestant theologian, preacher and missionary
- Erich Köchermann (1904–1964), long jumper, Olympic participant
literature
- Christian Friedrich Roeder: Historical news from the old Meißnische Grentz-Stadt Dommitzsch Subtitles According to its origin, age, location, constitution and annual stories, as well as from the nature of the Comthurey and other merchandise, Wobey at the same time some life circumstances of the famous Mr. Caspar Schneider be given thoroughly . Torgau 1750 ( digitized version )
- An extensive tradition of the city of Dommitzsch for the period 1580–1944 on imperial and constitutional matters, general city administration, finances, military and war matters, school, church, health and social services, trade, trade, industry, police, agriculture, transport, energy - and water supply as well as fire protection is in the Saxon State Archives, State Archives Leipzig, inventory 20604 City of Dommitzsch.
Web links
- City of Dommitzsch
- Dommitzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
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. 54
- ↑ MGH DD Otto II. 196. Digital copy: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00000443/images/index.html?id=00000443&no=1&seite=226
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ^ Regional register Saxony , administrative community Dommitzsch
- ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
- ^ A share in Dommitzscher Tonwerke AG from 1928 on "effektenwelt"; Retrieved on March 13, 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 20604 City of Dommitzsch. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 26, 2020 . (Info text on Dommitzsch under "Introduction")
Arzberg | Bad Düben | Beilrode | Belgern-Schildau | Cavertitz | Dahlen | Delitzsch | Doberschütz | Dommitzsch | Dreiheide | Eilenburg | Elsnig | Jesewitz | Krostitz | Lousy | Liebschützberg | Löbnitz | Mockrehna | Mucking | Naundorf | Oschatz | Rackwitz | Schkeuditz | Schönwölkau | Taucha | Torgau | Trossin | Wermsdorf | Wiedemar | Zschepplin