Gatzen (Groitzsch)

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Gatzen
City of Groitzsch
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 26 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  E
Residents : 200  (2016)
Incorporation : September 1, 1948
Incorporated into: Auligk
Postal code : 04539
Area code : 034296
Gatzen (Saxony)
Gatzen

Location of Gatzen in Saxony
Church in Gatzen

Gatzen is a district of the city of Groitzsch in the district of Leipzig (Free State of Saxony ). The place was incorporated into Auligk in 1948 and with this into the town of Groitzsch in 1996.

geography

Gatzen is located in the Leipzig lowland bay five kilometers southwest of Groitzsch. The Schwennigke flows directly to the west of the village, while the White Elster and the state border with Saxony-Anhalt run parallel to the river to the west . Neighboring towns are the districts of Saasdorf in the north and Löbnitz-Bennewitz in the south , which also belong to Groitzsch .

history

In 1090 Gatzen was mentioned as "pagus Gutsin" or "Gautsin". The name of the place, which probably goes back to a Slavic foundation, means "village". Originally, Gatzen was a cul-de-sac-like Rundling from the local area . Gatzen was around 1378 in the area of ​​the County of Groitzsch (castrum Groitzsch), which in 1460 was united with the Pegau escort office to form the Pegau office . Since then, the place was in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office Pegau until 1856 . The jurisdiction over Gatzen lay with the Löbnitz manor . From 1856 the place belonged to the judicial office of Pegau and from 1875 to the district administration Borna .

On September 1, 1948, it was incorporated into Auligk , with which the place came to the Borna district in the Leipzig district in 1952, to the Borna district of Saxony in 1990 and to the Leipziger Land district in 1994 . When Auligk was incorporated into Groitzsch on January 1, 1996, Gatzen became a part of the town of Groitzsch.

Attractions

Former Transformer house
Gatzen Church

After the 12th century Romanesque church was destroyed in 1638 during the Thirty Years' War , the Gatzener church was rebuilt as early as 1639. In the course of the expansion of the late Gothic building, it was designed in the Baroque style in 1698/99 . The organ of the church comes from the hand of Urban Kreutzbach and was consecrated in 1850. The church has boxes belonging to the patron saints residing in neighboring Löbnitz. The Senfft von Pilsach family , who owned the Löbnitz manor with their villages between 1693 and the 18th century, had their hereditary burial site in the church of Gatzen.

Elster cycle path

Between the Weißen Elster in the west and the Schwennigke in the east, the Elster cycle path leads past Gatzen.

Gatzen game reserve

The "Wildgatter Gatzen" is located northwest of Gatzen between the Weißer Elster and the Elster cycle path, directly on the state border with Saxony-Anhalt. There you can feed and stroke fallow deer, roe deer and stags.

7 lakes hike

In Gatzen there is a checkpoint for the 7-lake hike through the Leipziger Neuseenland .

Personalities

  • Ulrike von Levetzow (1804–1899), Goethe's last love, was born in the neighboring village of Löbnitz and baptized in the Gatzener church.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gatzen on www.reitwanderfuehrer.de
  2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
  3. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
  4. ^ Gatzen on gov.genealogy.net
  5. ↑ Auligk on gov.genealogy.net
  6. ↑ The church of Gatzen on www.reitwanderfuehrer.de
  7. ^ Entry on Löbnitz mansion in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ The Gatzen game reserve at www.leipziger-tieflandsbucht.de ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipziger-tieflandsbucht.de
  9. ↑ Website of the 7 Lakes Hike