Draschwitz (Elsteraue)

Draschwitz Municipality Elsteraue Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 56 ″  E
Height :	150 m
Area :	2.83 km²
Residents :	558
Population density :	197 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 2003
Postal code :	06712

At the church

Draschwitz is a district of the Elsteraue municipality in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is located on Bundesstraße 2 northeast of the city of Zeitz on the left bank of the White Elster . The Leipzig – Zeitz railway runs through the town ; the Reuden train station (near Zeitz) and the Bornitz stop (near Zeitz) are each only about one kilometer from Draschwitz, but both are no longer served by passenger trains. Until the formation of the unified community Elsteraue on July 1, 2003, Draschwitz was an independent community.

Attractions

The Draschwitz church is a single-nave, baroque and polygonal closed hall building from 1745. According to the records of the Draschwitz pastor Hofmann, the church is mentioned as early as 1452 (before there was a small chapel that was subordinate to the Bosau monastery ). When the collapse of the church building, which had also become much too narrow, threatened to collapse in 1742, the square stone tower, octagonal at the top with a hood, began to be rebuilt from scratch, thereby lengthening and widening the church. A comprehensive renovation took place in 1845; In 1889–1899 the building was plastered and painted, the roof re-covered and the bells re-cast. Thanks to a generous donor, electrical lighting could be installed in 1916.

In the interior it is worth mentioning the flat ceiling, galleries , pulpit altar , organ, baptismal stand, baptismal font , crucifix .

The Draschwitzer church can be visited in the summer months by prior arrangement and on the day of the open monument . There is a regular service.

The cemetery, which is characterized by old trees and with several elaborately designed tombstones , was mainly created at the beginning of the 20th century. However, there are also tombs from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Until 1815 part of the place was in the Zeitz office and then came under the Kingdom of Prussia .

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Personalities

• Walter Gabriel (1887–1983), Protestant theologian, member of the Confessing Church and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp, pastor in Draschwitz.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
2. ^ Museum digital
3. ↑ Association of Church Building Associations, page 64 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 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.  
4. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt: List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Burgenland district (II). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-57-1 , pp. 47-51.
5. ↑ Architecture Blicklicht
6. ↑ Note on the depicted memorial stone: Ref. Grooves (portrait?) - Relief and Ranke is a resemblance to Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig Gellert -Denkmal (erected in 1774 on the Schneckenberg close to the university, their indices in today's Schiller Park) and its Sulzer - Gellert -Denkmal of 1781 at Gohlis Palace to recognize