Lützelsachsen

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Lützelsachsen
City of Weinheim
Former coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 145 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.8 km²
Residents : 5417  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 797 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 69469
Area code : 06201
The former town hall at Sommergasse 65
The former town hall at Sommergasse 65

Lützelsachsen ( listen ? / I ) is a district of Weinheim an der Bergstrasse and is located on the Mühlbach. The place has a Kerweverein and a large assembly hall, called Winzerhalle, as well as a primary school. The population is 5,417 (as of December 31, 2016). Audio file / audio sample

history

Oldest half-timbered house, built in 1580
Protestant church

Until the 18th century

The place is mentioned for the first time as Sahsenheim minor in the year 877 , at that time it was owned by the Lorsch Monastery . The founding of the place goes back - as explained further below - presumably to a name "Sahst" or "Sachso" which was very widespread at the time and probably has nothing to do with Saxony in the sense of a geographical name. The German name Luzzelnsassinheim was first mentioned in 1284 . The later known owners were the noble families von Erlickheim , Landschad von Steinach and von Hundheim . The central sovereignty lay with the Electoral Palatinate .

During the Thirty Years' War the place was sacked by the French soldiers. The destruction caused by General Mélac's units is considered particularly bad . At the end of the 18th century, the Hölzerlips gang was active in the region around Lützelsachsen .

19th and 20th centuries

In 1803 Lützelsachsen came to Baden as part of the Napoleonic reorganization . Towards the end of the Weimar Republic , the Reichstag elections experienced a strong radicalization. In 1933 the NSDAP achieved 52 percent and the KPD 21.4 percent of the votes in Lützelsachsen. In 1939 the place became part of the Mannheim district . It was incorporated into Weinheim on January 1, 1973.

Population development of Lützelsachsen
year 1577 1777 1818 1852 1905 1939 1950 1967 2005 2009 2014 2016
Residents 365 633 864 1068 1201 1598 2254 3116 4465 4594 4867 5417

Surname

Lützelsachsen belonged to the group of settlements known as Sachsenheim. The name "Sachsenheim" originally comes from a noble gentleman named "Sahst" or "Sachso" who settled in the Hohensachsen area. "Sahsenheim" is also mentioned in many older documents. The three Saxon towns of Hohensachsen , Lützelsachsen and Großsachsen are distinguished by name for the first time from the year 877 onwards: In Sahsenheim minor (Lützelsachsen), Sahsenheim superior (Hohensachsen) and Sahsenheim major (Großsachsen).

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In a shield split by black and silver, in front a red armored and red crowned golden lion, behind a blue grape on green vine with two leaves. The coat of arms goes back to a court seal from 1738. The lion comes from the coat of arms of the Electoral Palatinate. The grape symbolizes viticulture, which has been practiced since the early Middle Ages.

Attractions

Among the attractions of the district include the completed in 1772 Protestant Church and some half-timbered houses , the oldest of which was built in the 1580th The former town hall dates from the 17th century. Since the incorporation, it has housed the Lützelsachsen administration office with the seat of the mayor. In Lützelsachsen is the Geiersberg, Lützelsach's local mountain, from where you have a view of the Palatinate Forest , Vosges , Taunus with the Großer Feldberg and Hunsrück from a height of 332 meters .

traffic

The Weinheim-Lützelsachsen stop on the Main-Neckar Railway

The Weinheim-Lützelsachsen stop is on the Main-Neckar Railway and is served by regional trains. The breakpoint was put into operation on December 1, 1910 under the name Lützelsachsen .

The Lützelsachsen OEG station of the Upper Rhine Railway Company, which has been dismantled to the stop, is also located in Lützelsachsen . The number 5 trains to Heidelberg , Weinheim , Viernheim and Mannheim stop here .

politics

The Lützelsachsen local council has 9 members. There are 2 representatives of the CDU, one representative of the SPD, 4 representatives of the Free Voters, one representative of the Weinheim list and one representative of the FDP. The head of the village is currently Doris Falter.

partnership

Since 1974 there has been a community partnership between Lützelsachsen and the small community of Varces-Allières-et-Risset in the French Alps, after friendly contacts had already existed when the place was still an independent community.

Personalities

  • Marie Therese Hug , Princess of Prussia (* May 2, 1911 in Berlin, † January 3, 2005 in Weinheim-Lützelsachsen)
  • Peter Nickel, honorary citizen, breeder of the Lützelsachsen early plum
  • Konrad Wernicke (lawyer) (1905–2002)
  • Georg Peter Weygoldt (1844–1907), educator, member of the Baden state parliament

literature

  • Josef Fresin: The history of Lützelsachsen. Edited by the community of Lützelsachsen. Lützelsachsen 1965.
  • Heinz Keller: Lützelsachsen. A post-war story in words and pictures. From 1945 to the turn of the millennium . Diesbach Medien, Weinheim 2002.

Web links

Commons : Lützelsachsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Lützelsachsen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Remarks

  1. ^ According to the German Railway Atlas . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 . : Lützelsachsen .

Individual evidence

  1. Weinheim - data, figures, facts , accessed on March 12, 2017
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 477 .
  3. Weinheim has a population of more than 44,000 Rhein Neckar Zeitung, accessed on December 20, 2015
  4. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of November 19, 1910, No. 52. Announcement No. 813, p. 457.
  5. Lützelsachsen local council on the website of the city of Weinheim, accessed on December 20, 2015