Graditz
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Graditz
City of Torgau
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 40 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 35 ″ E
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| Height : | 84 m |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 04860 |
| Area code : | 03421 |
Graditz is a district of the town of Torgau in the district of North Saxony in Saxony . It is located southeast of the city on the eastern edge of the Elbe meadows in the Elbaue. The federal road 183 leads through the district. The village was best known for the stud of the same name , which is the core of Graditz.
history
The Graditz Vorwerk was first mentioned in a document in 1004. In 1240 the Dobrilugk Monastery acquired Graditz and expanded it into an important monastery courtyard.
After the dissolution of the monastery in 1541 came into the possession of Graditz Wettiner that 1630 Stutterey Graditz , today stud Graditz, founded it in 1686 to the Vorwerk Repitz extended and the breeding of thoroughbreds began.
In 1722 Graditz was raised to the electoral Saxon Stuttgart Graditz by order of Augustus the Strong . In the same year the construction of Graditz Castle and the new construction of all buildings of the court stud according to plans by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann began .
After Saxony's defeat on the side of France during the Wars of Liberation , Graditz was one of the Saxon towns that fell to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . The stud became the Royal Prussian Main Stud . The Graditz brand , which is still in use today, was introduced in 1816. Under the chief stables master Georg Graf von Lehndorff , who was in charge of the stud farm from 1866 to 1906, Graditz developed into a renowned breeding facility exclusively for thoroughbred horses. Graditz horses achieved numerous international successes. Graf von Lehndorff had the Graditz Castle Park designed, the stud farm's farm buildings expanded and residential buildings built for the employees.
The stud suffered heavy losses in the First and Second World Wars . After 1945 most of the breeding horses were brought to the Soviet Union , used as farm horses or even used as food.
The castle was used in 1945 for the celebration of the meeting of the Americans and the Russians on the Elbe near Torgau. Horse breeding in Graditz only started again in 1949.
The Graditz Stud has been owned by the Free State of Saxony since 1992 . Two years later Graditz became a district of the city of Torgau with 250 inhabitants.
Personalities
- Grand Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach died in Graditz Castle in 1828
- Hans Graf von Lehndorff was born in Graditz in 1910
Attractions
Between Graditz and Pülswerda in the Elbe meadows there is a pedunculate oak with a chest height of 7.85 m and a height of 21 m.
Web links
- Graditz bei Torgau (Official website of the Torgau city administration)
- Graditz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oak near Graditz in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
