Graßdorf (Taucha)

Graßdorf City of Taucha Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 16 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  E
Residents :	1584  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	1934
Postal code :	04425
Area code :	034298
Location of Graßdorf in Saxony

Graßdorf is part of the municipality of the Saxon town of Taucha in the northern Saxony district .

geography

Graßdorf on a map from 1906

Graßdorf is about 1 kilometer northwest of the city center of Taucha. The Parthe runs north-west from south to north .

Neighboring towns of Graßdorf are Cradefeld in the northeast, Dewitz / Döbitz in the east, Taucha in the southeast, south and southwest, Portitz in the west and Seegeritz in the northwest.

history

part of the Graßdorf estate

Plastic in Gut Graßdorf

The first documented form of place names dates from 1350 as Grabisdorf or Grabsdorf . In 1445 a knight's seat was named on site, and in 1551 it was named a manor. Today there is a horse farm on the estate.

In 1816 August Schumann mentions Graßdorf in the state, post and newspaper encyclopedia of Saxony concerning a. a .:

“[…], Near Taucha, on the left bank of the Parde. It has 9 magazines. Hufen and also owns the villages of Gradefeld and Portitz. The estate belongs to the Leipzig city council and is parish in Taucha. "

Until 1856, Graßdorf was part of the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the Taucha court office and from 1875 to the Leipzig District Administration . In 1934 Graßdorf was incorporated into Taucha.

Development of the population

year population 1551 10 possessed men , 6 residents 1764 13 possessed men, 5 cottagers , 9 hooves 1834 88

year population 1871 98 1890 110 1910 159

year population 1925 160

Worth seeing

See also : List of cultural monuments in Graßdorf

The Graßdorfer Gut, built in the second half of the 18th century, characterizes the townscape. On the way to Seegeritz there is an elaborately designed transformer house on the corner of Graßdorfer Weg. This technical monument was erected around 1910.

Personalities

• George Werner (1682–1758), architect and builder
• Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch (1810–1876), lawyer and politician

Web links

Commons : Graßdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Graßdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Taucha, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on February 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Cf. Graßdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ Taucha: Manor Graßdorf. In: Sachsens-Schlösser.de. Retrieved October 5, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Horse boarding facility at the Gut Graßdorf riding facility ( memento of the original from July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 17, 2012.  
5. ↑ See Graßdorf (Taucha) . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, p. 403 f.
6. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
7. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900