Gröba (Riesa)

Groeba City of Riesa Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 19 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 35 ″ E
Height :	104 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.64 km²
Incorporation :	October 15, 1923
Postal code :	01591
Area code :	03525
Location of Gröba in Saxony

Gröba in the Saxon district of Meißen is a district of the city of Riesa . The village, mentioned in a document in 1064, was incorporated in 1923 and is thus the oldest district of Riesa.

geography

Riesa harbor , in the background the B-182 bridge between Riesa (left) and Gröba (right)

Gröba is located north-northwest of the city center at the mouth of the Döllnitz into the Elbe, which has been developed into the Riesa harbor basin . The federal highway 182 (B 2 near Wittenberg - Torgau - Riesa) leads through Gröba and via a bridge over the harbor basin to the federal highway 169 into Riesa city center .

Merzdorf is located west-southwest of Gröba , and the Strehla districts of Unterreußen and Forberge are to the northwest . The Zeithain district of Bobersen is located east of Gröba on the left bank of the Elbe .

history

In the 10th century on the banks of the Elbe and Döllnitz at the site of the later Gröbaer Church Slavic hill fort was built, the remains of which are still unclear recognizable today. This medieval castle wall was converted to the Burgward after the German conquest . The first documentary mention of Gröba as Grobe came with the confirmation of King Heinrich IV. Via a donation from Burgwards Gröba to the diocese of Naumburg on July 11, 1064.

Gröba Castle

From the 16th century the village was under secular the Office Oschatz , the basic rule exercised the manor Gröba out. Around 1700, Gröba Castle was built in its current form north of the Döllnitz at its confluence with the Elbe.

church

The baroque Gröba church was built between 1720 and 1734 . The north and south walls of the Romanesque predecessor building mentioned in 1168 were included.

The Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine (GEG) had a soap factory built in Gröba in 1909, which started production in August 1910. In addition, the GEG founded the Riesa consumer pasta factory in Gröba in 1914 .

At the end of December 1909, the Gröba Electricity Association was founded (named after the Gröba manor on which it was based). This postponed the plans to build its own power plant after a power supply contract with the Lauchhammerwerke was concluded. The commissioning of the 55 km long 110 kV Lauchhammer – Riesa line on January 24, 1912 to supply the electricity association and the Riesa and Gröditz steelworks was also the first commissioning of a high voltage line with an operating voltage of over 100 kV in Europe.

On July 1, 1914, Gutsweiler Oberreußen was incorporated into Gröba.

On October 15, 1923, Gröba and Weida, west of Riesa, were incorporated into Riesa, and Merzdorf , located between the two villages, followed on July 1, 1925 .

The Gröba paper mill was attached to the Hainsberg paper mill in 1937 .

In 1999, the Riesa District Court moved to the former administration building of the Riesa steelworks in Lauchhammerstrasse in Gröba.

Personalities

Heinrich Traugott Schindler (* 1764 in Gröba; † 1841), doctor
Maximilian Freiherr Speck von Sternburg (born July 30, 1776 in Gröba, † December 22, 1856 in Leipzig), sheep farmer, wool merchant, patron
Hugo Alexander von Altrock (born October 6, 1851 in Glauschnitz , † November 3, 1927 in Gröba), major general
Wilhelm von Altrock (born August 14, 1887 in Gröba; † February 26, 1952 in Diedersen), Lieutenant General
Georg Haberecht (born July 24, 1907 in Gröba; † December 4, 1971), porcelain painter
Carly Lorenz (born November 27, 1913 in Gröba; † November 25, 1993 in Berlin), cyclist
Wolfgang Oelßner (born October 10, 1920 in Gröba; † April 28, 1983 in Berlin), pharmacologist and rector of the Dresden Medical Academy

literature

Citizens group 950 years of Gröba, Riesa Museum Association (ed.): Gröba - A Chronicle. 950 years of Gröba. 1046-1996 , Riesa 1996

Web links

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

Gröba in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gröba in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
^ Heinz Wiessner (editor): The Diocese of Naumburg. 2. The diocese (= Germania Sacra . New series 35, 2 (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg)). De Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 3-11-015570-2 , p. 746 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[HOV-1] Gröba in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

[Bistum_Naumburg-2] Heinz Wiessner (editor): The Diocese of Naumburg. 2. The diocese (= Germania Sacra . New series 35, 2 (The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg)). De Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 3-11-015570-2 , p. 746 ( limited preview in Google Book search).