Königswartha

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Königswartha
Königswartha
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 14 ° 20 ′  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Bautzen
Height : 141 m above sea level NHN
Area : 47.17 km 2
Residents: 3458 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 02699
Primaries : 035931, 035726 (Wartha)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key : 14 6 25 280
LOCODE : DE KWA
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bahnhofstrasse 9
02699 Königswartha
Website : koenigswartha.net
Mayor : Swen Nowotny ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Königswartha in the Bautzen district
Tschechien Dresden Landkreis Görlitz Landkreis Meißen Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Arnsdorf Bautzen Bernsdorf Bischofswerda Burkau Crostwitz Cunewalde Demitz-Thumitz Doberschau-Gaußig Elsterheide Elstra Frankenthal (Sachsen) Göda Großdubrau Großharthau Großnaundorf Großpostwitz Großröhrsdorf Malschwitz Haselbachtal Hochkirch Hoyerswerda Kamenz Königsbrück Königswartha Kubschütz Laußnitz Lauta Lichtenberg (Lausitz) Lohsa Malschwitz Nebelschütz Neschwitz Neukirch (bei Königsbrück) Neukirch/Lausitz Obergurig Ohorn Oßling Ottendorf-Okrilla Panschwitz-Kuckau Pulsnitz Puschwitz Radeberg Radibor Räckelwitz Ralbitz-Rosenthal Rammenau Schirgiswalde-Kirschau Schmölln-Putzkau Schwepnitz Sohland an der Spree Spreetal Steina (Sachsen) Steinigtwolmsdorf Wachau (Sachsen) Weißenberg Wilthen Wittichenau Brandenburg Polenmap
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Evangelical Luth. Church in the center of the village
Aerial view
Restored boundary stones on the market square
Königswartha Castle

Königswartha , Rakecy in Upper Sorbian ? / i , is a village and the associated municipality in Upper Lusatia in the center of the Bautzen district . It is about halfway between the two cities of Bautzen (20 km) and Hoyerswerda on the federal highway 96 . Königswartha is one of the few places whose German place name is not derived from Sorbian. “Rakecy” means “people of cancer” and probably refers to the area's abundance of water. Audio file / audio sample

Although Königswartha is located in the Sorbian settlement area, the proportion of the Sorbian-speaking population in the more Protestant community of Königswartha is today much lower than in the neighboring communities to the south and west of the Catholic community (e.g. Ralbitz-Rosenthal ). In 1884, 87% of the population were Sorbs .

geography

The Schwarzwasser , a tributary of the Black Elster, flows through Königswartha . The surrounding landscape is mainly flat wooded heathland. The majority of over 80 ponds are still used today for fish farming (especially carp).

Community structure

Districts (with Sorbian names) are:

history

Königswartha was first mentioned in a document in 1350 as Conigswarte and designated as a "little town" with market rights . The German name derives from a waiting from the Bohemian king, the old road from Bautzen to here Hoyerswerda secured.

At Königswartha, during the Wars of Liberation, at the same time as the battle at Weißig on May 19, 1813, a Russian-Prussian corps under Barclay de Tolly defeated an Italian division.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Upper Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 1119 inhabitants in the 1880s; 969 of them were Sorbs (87%) and 150 Germans. By 1956 the Sorbian-speaking share had fallen to 30.3% due to assimilation and immigration.

Incorporations

In the course of various municipal reforms in 1936, the municipalities of Caminau, Johnsdorf, Neudorf and Niesendorf, Eutrich on July 1, 1950, Commerau in 1957 (with troops and duck tavern) and Oppitz in 1994 were incorporated. On January 1, 2005, the Wartha part of the municipality was incorporated into the dissolved municipality of Knappensee ( Kamenz district ).

politics

coat of arms

Description : In blue three golden grain stalks on which Andreas crossed a golden rake to the left and a gold- handled silver scythe to the other side and are tied with a red ribbon.

Municipal council

City council election 2014
Turnout: 56.8% (2009: 54.3%)
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30th
20th
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50.6%
26.7%
14.2%
8.4%
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PFW
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
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  -4
  -6
+ 0.2  % p
-5.9  % p
+ 4.7  % p.p.
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PFW

The previous elections resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:

Parties and constituencies 2009 2004
% Seats % Seats
Free Voter Association (FWV) 50.4 9 41.4 7th
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) 32.6 5 42.1 7th
Party-Free Voters (PFW) 9.5 1 8.7 1
The Left (2004: PDS) 6.1 1 7.7 1
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1.3 0 - 0
total 100.0 16 100.0 16
voter turnout 54.3% 50.5%

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • Free Electoral Association Königswartha (FWV): 9 seats
  • CDU : 4 seats
  • Non-party voters (PFW): 2 seats
  • LEFT : 1 seat

mayor

In April 2015, Swen Nowotny was elected as the new mayor.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

The municipality of Königswartha has the “ Bjarnat Krawc ” elementary school and a high school.

traffic

The regional bus Oberlausitz GmbH operates during the day over about two hours bus (line 103) to Bautzen and Hoyerswerda, they are from Association purpose traffic group Upper-Silesia tuned. Since November 2015, long-distance buses from MFB MeinFernbus have been running three to four times a day between Bautzen and Berlin with a stop in Königswartha if required.

The Königswartha station, which opened in 1890 and closed in 1999, was a transfer point between the Bautzen – Hoyerswerda line and the Königswartha – Weißkollm line . There are connections to the trunk road network through Bundesstraße 96 , which is called Königswarthas Hauptstraße in the center .

Attractions

Königswartha Palace and Park

Königswartha Castle
Former Königswartha manor

The Koenigswartha castle was in its present baroque shape in 1780 under the Imperial Count Johann Carl Friedrich von Dallwitz built (1742-1796). A total of ten sandstone figures, which show unmistakably Baroque origins, are located at Königswartha Castle. The figures show their age, but not their odyssey, which at least the 6 figures on the entrance front (north side) have covered. According to current knowledge, these originally come from the electoral chamber estate in Crostau near Schirgiswalde. From there they probably came to the so-called Prenzel Garden in Bautzen, which was located between Töpfergasse and Steingasse, before 1750. The pedestals on which the figures rest can be seen on a crack from 1825. By the 1840s at the latest, these and two other figures, who probably also belonged to this group, were detectable in front of the manor house in Luga north of Bautzen. While two figures were brought to Kalbsrieth in Thuringia as early as 1930, six figures came to Königswartha after the war. Due to stylistic comparisons, they can be assigned to the Zwingerhütte for the period around 1710/1720. Whether the famous master Permoser himself worked by hand, or whether his students can no longer be clarified without a doubt today, but much suggests it. Four of the six figures in front of the main entrance embody the four seasons, plus a Bacchus and an Apollo figure. A fishing school has been housed in the castle since 1949. Today it belongs to the Saxon State Agency for Agriculture, which maintains its competence center for fishing on the grounds of the castle park. In addition to education and training, this includes sovereign tasks as a fisheries authority for the Free State of Saxony and applied research in the field of fisheries. In addition to the castle, the State Agency for Agriculture also uses the former orangery, other former farm buildings of the manor and a new boarding school built in 1979. The orangery is a rectangular, simple building with a hilted gable roof. Its large hall, which is open to the park, is delimited by a glass facade structured with eight wooden pillars.

The Dallwitz family crypt in the cemetery

The small, landscaped park is characterized by a central pond in which the castle is picturesquely reflected. The garden of Count von Dallwitz represents a park that corresponds to his social rank as well as the geographical and topographical location, the basic structure of which has been largely preserved. The park with the castle only takes up part of the area of ​​the former manor. Due to its structure, which has only slightly changed in its basic form and appearance, not only the castle and park area, but the entire area of ​​the former manor characterizes the site.

Landmarks on the market square

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the state border between the kingdoms of Saxony and Prussia ran through what is now the municipality of Königswartha, just north of the town. To commemorate this, two restored boundary stones were set up on the market square of Königswartha in September 2008.

Personalities

literature

  • Falk Lorenz: A small park at the fishing school. Königswartha Castle Park. In: Ernst Panse (ed.): Park guide through Upper Lusatia. Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 1999, ISBN 3-929091-56-9 , pp. 105-108.
  • Saxon State Agency for Agriculture: 50 years in the service of fishing. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the fishing school and the fishing research institute in Königswartha. Saxon State Agency for Agriculture, Dresden 1999, 32 pages.
  • Herwyn Ehlers: Königswartha Castle Park. History, current inventory, monument value and future prospects. Diploma thesis TU Dresden, Faculty of Architecture / Landscape Architecture, Dresden 1995; 139 pages.
  • Western Upper Lusatia between Kamenz and Königswartha (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 51). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-000708-7 .
  • Königswartha . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, pp. 13–15.
  • Otto Moser: Königswartha. In: Markgrafenthum Oberlausitz , expedition of the album Sächsischer Rittergüter and Schlösser, Leipzig 1859. P. 22–23 (Gustav Adolf Poenicke: Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 3. Digital copy of the SLUB Dresden , full text on Wikisource )
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Königswartha. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 31. Booklet: Bautzen Official Authority (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 129.

Web links

Commons : Königswartha  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Königswartha  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Königswartha parish
  3. ^ Information from the Königswartha municipal administration; As of December 31, 2016.
  4. ^ Jan Meschgang: The place names of Upper Lusatia. Domowina Verlag, Bautzen 1973, p. 77.
  5. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 55 .
  6. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 245 .
  7. ↑ Königswartha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  8. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
  9. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
  10. ↑ http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/neuer-buergermeister-in-koenigswartha-3080058.html