Gostewitz (Riesa)

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Bohlen
Large district town Riesa
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 10 ″  E
Area : 11.7 km²
Residents : 90  (1925)
Population density : 8 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1994
Incorporated into: Riesa
Postal code : 01594
Area code : 03525
Böhlen (Saxony)
Bohlen

Location of Böhlen in Saxony
Lutherlinde in Gostewitz
Lutherlinde in Gostewitz

Gostewitz is a district of the Saxon town of Riesa in the district of Meißen .

geography

Gostewitz stretches from the old town center with its many settlement houses to almost Nickritz and up the slope to the vineyard. The village is east of Böhlen, southeast of Jahnishausen and Nickritz, to the north is Nickritz. Gostewitz is also west of Heyda, northwest of Prausitz and northeast of Mehltheuer. The place is traversed by the Keppritzbach and is located on the left bank and right of the road to Prausitz. The place was described around 1900 as a cul-de-sac village with a strip of land similar to a win and was 117 hectares in size.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1334. The place in the name was subjected to repeated changes, it was 1334 Gostewicz called 1351 Goystuwicz , 1445 Gostewicz , 1500 Güstewitz , 1552 Gostewicz , 1555 Goßwiz , 1594 Gostewitz , 1661 Gostowitz and Gostewitz 1,334 in 1791. The altsorbische name of the place, Gostewicz, means the people of Gost, short form of Gostislav. The village first belonged to the castle count, then belonged to the Meißen district office, and was part of the Jahnishausen manor. In 1334 it belonged to those of Miltitz, administration of the Castrum Meißen and the Supanie Raußlitz. The place was administered by the Meissen Hereditary Authority in 1590, as well as in 1764 and 1816.

On September 22, 1351, Burgrave Meinher von Meißen transferred Gostewitz to the Altzelle monastery, with the exception of guard wheat or guard oats. Fridericus von Maltitz had sold the village for 63 gulden groschen and 15 groschen. The burgrave reserves the third pfennig from the court. 1445 1 Censit takes place under the former court of the castle counts. On September 30, 1500, Duke Georg pledged goods to Gostewitz in the Meißen district to the Altzelle monastery. In 1594 Gostewitz came to the Jahnishausen manor. In 1790, Heerstraße ran through the corridor from Großenhain to Leipzig. The judge Andreas Weyhmann and the community asked for the extraordinary road construction money to be waived , they want to do the services themselves. In 1661 there were 10 taxpayers with 11 properties in Gostewitz. In 1668 there was 1 man with 2 1/8 hooves, 2 men with 1 3/4 hooves, 2 men with 1/2 hooves each, 1 man with 1/4 hooves and 2 gardeners with 8 hooves, 7 7/8 living in the village Hufen, 1705 9 men. In 1790 3 horse drawn farmers, quarter hoofers and gardeners lived in the village. The Saxon rural community order of 1838 gave the village independence as a rural community . From 1843 Böhlen was administered by the Meißen office, in 1856 by the Riesa court office and from 1875 by the Großenhain office . Ecclesiastically Gostewitz was parish in 1539 after Pausitz. In 1925, 71 residents of Nickritz were Evangelical Lutheran , 4 residents were Catholic , 1 resident was Reformed and 14 residents belonged to other denominations. In 1938 Gostewitz was incorporated into Jahnishausen. From 1930 Gostewitz belonged to the Riesa-Pausitz parish. The school was and is for the Gostewitz children in Pausitz. After the Second World War, Saxony was in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR . After the territorial reform in 1952 , Gostewitz was assigned to the Riesa district in the Dresden district . After the German reunification , Gostewitz belonged to the re-established Free State of Saxony . The following regional reforms in Saxony assigned the district to the Riesa-Großenhain district in 1994 and to the Meißen district in 2008. On March 1, 1994 Gostewitz was incorporated into Riesa together with the rest of the Jahnishausen community.

Population development

Böhlen signpost to Gostewitz
year Residents
1552 7 possessed men , 4 residents
1764 9 possessed men, 3 cottagers, 7 1/8 hooves 10 bushels each
1834 65
1871 65
1890 66
1910 91
1925 90
1938 → on April 1st after Jahnishausen eingemeindet
1994 → Riesa

Culture and sights

The old town center in Gostewitz is worth seeing. Its preserved four-sided courtyards are of architectural and economic importance. Also worth seeing is the road bridge over the Keppritzbach, a three-arch bridge made of granite ashlar masonry with a sandstone cover. It is important in terms of building history. The Luther linden tree in the Gostewitz district was planted in 1846 on the 300th anniversary of Luther's death and is protected as a natural monument.

literature

  • Otto Mörtzsch : Gostewitz . In: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Verl. Landesverein Sächs. Heimatschutz, Dresden 1935, p. 26 ( SLUB Dresden [accessed on January 13, 2018]).
  • About Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 137.
  • Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1841. Page 96 ( online. , Accessed on January 13, 2018)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gostewitz (Riesa) in historical digital gazetteer of Saxony .
  2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Grossenhain district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  3. ↑ Bohlen. In: To Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 219.
  4. ↑ after the incorporation of the community Jahnishausen into Riesa, only official population figures were collected for the entire large district town until the census.