Chickens

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 14 ° 52 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Management Community :	Rothenburg / Upper Lusatia
Height :	152 m above sea level NHN
Area :	49.77 km 2
Residents:	1247 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02923
Area code :	035894
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 160
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 02929 Rothenburg / Oberlausitz
Mayor :	Werner Queiser ( CDU )
Location of the community of Hähnichen in the district of Görlitz

Hähnichen ( Upper Sorbian Wosečk ) is a Saxon municipality in the northern half of the district of Görlitz . The municipality forms with the neighboring town of Rothenburg / Oberlausitz the administrative community Rothenburg / Oberlausitz , in which the town of Rothenburg acts as a fulfilling municipality.

geography

Neighboring communities

Hähnichen is bounded to the north by the municipality of Rietschen with its districts Teicha and Daubitz , to the east by the city of Rothenburg and its districts of Neusorge and Uhsmannsdorf , and to the southeast by the municipality of Horka . In the south and west the community borders on the city of Niesky and its districts of Stannewisch and Kosel .

Community structure

The municipality of Hähnichen consists of the four districts of Hähnichen, Quolsdorf , Spree and Trebus .

history

Hähnichen was founded around 1200 as part of the German eastern settlement . The village was first mentioned in a document in 1390 in a Görlitz city ​​register in connection with a Nyckil de Rotenburg, habitans in Heynichen . A pastor was mentioned as early as 1466, but the church was only mentioned in the Meißen diocese register in 1495 .

In 1464 the council of Görlitz was able to secure feudal sovereignty over Hähnichen. With the Upper Lusatian Pönfall , Hähnichen was also drafted in 1547 by the Bohemian crown and later reassigned. From a review from that year it is known that 19 possessed men (farmers) lived in the village . The manor, whose existence is documented for the year 1562, from then on exercised feudal sovereignty under various owners.

Quolsdorf was pastured to Hähnichen in 1579, after the Trebus residents were reparried from See to Hähnichen due to dissatisfaction with their pastor in 1521 .

The Saxon state recession from 1777 shows that the population increased, but their social status deteriorated. Three possessed men, 10 garden food owners and 25 cottagers were reported , and two other farms were in desolation.

After the Congress of Vienna , Hähnichen was in the part of Upper Lusatia that the Kingdom of Saxony had to cede to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815. After an administrative reform, the municipality came to the province of Silesia in the newly founded district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) In 1816 . With the construction of the Berlin – Görlitz railway line , Hähnichen received a train station. Together with the local clay deposits, the railway connection had a beneficial effect on local industry, and brickworks and a stoneware factory were established.

Former watermill building (1986)

In the last weeks of the Second World War , Hähnichen became a frontline area. Two days after the Red Army crossed the Neisse on April 16, 1945, the site was captured, around 60% of the houses and six of the seven bridges were destroyed at that time. After the war, the property was expropriated and redistributed as part of the land reform. In 1952 the first agricultural production cooperative (LPG) was founded and the municipality was assigned to the new Niesky district in an administrative reform .

Castle in the Spree district

After German reunification, the communities Hähnichen, Quolsdorf and Trebus merged on January 1, 1994 as part of the Saxon community reform. On January 1, 1998, the Spree was incorporated after the place had belonged to the parish since 1967.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 69.5%

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30th

20th

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25.6%
(-17.9  % p )

18.9%
(-3.0  % p )

19.8%
(-0.5  % p )

10.3%
(-4.0  % p )

18.3%
( n.k. )

7.1%
( n.k. )

CDU

WVS

WVQ

BST

AfD

SPD

2014



2019



Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 10 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• CDU : 3 seats
• Non-member electoral association Spree (WVS): 2 seats
• Quolsdorf voters' association (WVQ): 2 seats
• Citizenship Trebus (BST): 1 seat
• AfD : 2 seats

The honorary mayor Werner Queiser (* 1952; CDU ) has his official seat in Hähnichen. He was re-elected in June 2015.

Attractions

The cultural monuments are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Hahnichen .

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

The economic structure of the community of Hähnichen is determined by agriculture, forestry and pond management as well as trades from various industries. Industrial production has ceased to exist in Hähnichen since the stoneware factory in Hähnichen ceased to exist after the end of the German Democratic Republic .

Transport links

Hähnichen is about 20 km away from the federal motorway 4 via the Kodersdorf junction and then via the 115 federal highway. From the Nieder Seifersdorf exit it is approx. 22 km to the individual districts. On behalf of the Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (ZVON), the municipality of Hähnichen is served by two regional bus routes operated by the Lower Silesian Transport Company (NVG). Hähnichen is located directly on the Berlin – Görlitz (- Zittau ) railway line . With the exception of the night, the station is served almost every hour by the RB65 of the East German Railway (ODEG).

literature

• From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 3-929091-96-8 , p. 308 f .

Web links

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

• Private website about chickens ( Memento of December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Hähnichen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 249 .
4. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1998
5. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections