Gautzsch
Gautzsch is a district of the city of Markkleeberg in the district of Leipzig , bordering the city of Leipzig to the south . After the town of Markkleeberg was founded in 1934, the place was usually only referred to as Markkleeberg-West.
history
Gautzsch was first mentioned around 961. The name suggests an Old Sorbian origin. Closely related is the existence of the neighboring village of Oetzsch , which today also belongs to Markkleeberg . Gautzsch had several owners, the most powerful being those of Pflugk, Gehofen and Dieskau. In 1713 the property was bought by the Leipzig merchant and councilor Wolfgang Jöcher. He had the manor house, village and church largely rebuilt.
Until 1856, Gautzsch was part of the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig II and from 1875 to the administrative authority Leipzig . In 1861 Gut Gautzsch was acquired by the Kees family from Zöbigker, who redesigned it in the neo-baroque style. The Kees'sche Park next to the Martin Luther Church, in which the Adlertor is also located, dates from this time . At the turn of the century, larger industrial companies emerged in Gautzsch, including a. the Riquet chocolate factory, and a villa colony . A new city center was planned on the Eulenberg. In the 19th century, Gut Lauer and the Cospuden settlement also belonged to Gautzsch . Gut Lauer came to Knauthain in 1920 and with this in 1936 to the city of Leipzig.
On January 1, 1934, the larger Gautzsch was combined with Oetzsch-Markkleeberg to form the town of Markkleeberg. Due to the Slavic origin of the name of the two places, preference was given to the much smaller Markkleeberg. In the course of this, Gautzsch became “Markkleeberg-West”. With Gautzsch, the settlement of Cospuden belonging to the place was also incorporated into Markkleeberg. Gut Lauer and Cospuden were dredged over by the Cospuden opencast mine in the 1970s / 80s as a result of the lignite mining in the region , the resulting Cospudener See and the former gravel pit Waldsee Lauer keep their names.
Attractions
- Martin Luther Church (this name only since 1934), built in 1717 by the Saxon master builder David Schatz on behalf of the Leipzig merchant and councilor Wolfgang Jöcher. There are numerous valuable epitaphs from the 16th to 18th centuries on the outside wall as well as inside. The interior was designed in the Baroque style and houses a pulpit altar from this period. 1903 partially redesigned in neo-baroque style. The tower was also rebuilt in 1903 by Julius Zeißig.
- Old cantor's council, next to the church, half-timbered house
- Kees'scher Park, on the site of a former moated castle , with extensive green spaces and historical buildings.
- Adlertor, entrance gate to Kees'schen Park, in neo-baroque style
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The final stop of bus line 70 Markkleeberg-West is in Gautzsch at Theodor-Körner-Platz. The tram line 9 ran here until 2015, but its operation was discontinued. The Koburger Strasse connects Gautzsch as a regional traffic route with the B 2 and thus the Leipzig district Connewitz and the center of Leipzig. Also on the B 2, the A 38 can be reached in a few kilometers via the Leipzig-Süd junction . This means that the Leipziger Neuseenland with its recultivation landscape is only a short drive away.
education
There are several schools in Gautzsch , from elementary school to high school to grammar school . For adults since 2002 own office which provides adult education center Leipziger Land.
hospice
The Bärenherz children's hospice is located on the grounds of the Kees'schen Park.
Others
Immediately adjacent is the touristically attractive Cospudener See with the Leipzig beach, also known as the north beach. Fine sand was piled up here and a circular path leads along the shore. Many stalls are open during the season. The Markkleeberger See can be easily reached from Gautzsch via bike paths. Both were created by flooding two opencast mines.
To the north of Lake Cospuden is the Cospuden Landscape Park with the Lauer Forest Lake and the Floßgraben , which connects Lake Cospuden with the Leipzig rivers, as well as the Leipzig Wildlife Park , a popular recreational area for Leipzig and the surrounding area.
Personalities
- Albertine Zehme (1857–1946) actress and diseuse, formerly resident in Gautzsch
- Walter Kopp (1875 - after 1937 ...?), Art and landscape painter (Munich School), mainly Leipzig lowland bay
- Martin Kießig (1907–1994), educator, Germanist, literary critic, author and journalist
- Wilhelm Franz (1909–1933), businessman and KPD functionary
- Alfred Heuss (1909–1995), ancient historian
- Fritz Funke (1920–2018), book scholar, writer and graphic artist
- Hans Moritz (1926–2017), theologian, university professor for the sociology of religion
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Gautzsch. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 19.
Web links
- Gautzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Information from the city of Markkleeberg on Gautzsch
- Information from the town of Markkleeberg on Gut Gautzsch
- News u. History (including historical recordings) about Kees'schen Park
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
- ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
- ↑ Albertine Zehme at leipzig.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ' N , 12 ° 21' E