Lenz (Priestewitz)
Lenz
community Priestewitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 5 " N , 13 ° 32 ′ 53" E
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Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 |
Postal code : | 01561 |
Area code : | 035249 |
Lenz is a district of the municipality of Priestewitz in the district of Meißen in Saxony .
Geography and transport links
The place is just under three kilometers east of the center of Priestewitz on the S81 state road . The B 101 runs to the west .
The Hopfenbach , a tributary of the Großer Röder, flows on the northern edge of the village . The Bierlichtbach , a tributary of the Hopfenbach, runs to the west .
history
There are first traces of human settlement in Lenz from the Neolithic Age . Lenz was originally a street green village with a corridor . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1318 as Theodericus de Lenz . The place name is interpreted as a "settlement where flax is grown" . Other forms of the place name were over time: Lentz (1320), Lyncz (1350), Lencz (1378), Lyncz (1378), das dorff den Lenncz (1496) and Lens (1540).
There have been a few changes of ownership over the centuries. In 1378 the place, the size of which was given around 1406 as 18 Hufen, belonged to Hayn Castle , in 1547 to the town of Hayn and probably from around 1551 to the manor in Döbritzchen . Around 1840 the place had 179 inhabitants. At that time, the village included a forge that was only set up in the previous year, an inn with a distillery in the upper village and a hop mill.
Lenz has been part of the Priestewitz community since January 1st, 1999 .
Culture and sights
Several historical monuments and buildings are recorded in the local list of monuments. Under monument is here, among other things, a baroque hall church in the center, whose origin dates back to the years 1700-1710. Inside you can find an altar and a pulpit as well as a sandstone baptism from around 1600. The organ of the church was created in 1856 by the Dresden organ builder Karl Eduard Jehmlich .
In addition, the parsonage built in 1665, the 19th century railway bridge on the Berlin – Dresden railway line , two stable houses from the first half of the 20th century and a historical stone pavement are historical monuments.
The local group of the volunteer fire brigade founded in 1942 is one of the active associations in the village .
literature
- Otto Mörtzsch: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Regional Association of Saxon Homeland Security , Dresden 1935.
- Dietrich Hanspach, Haik Thomas Porada: Grossenhainer care. A regional study of the area around Großenhain and Radeburg . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-09706-6 .
Web links
- Lenz (Priestewitz) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c Otto Mörtzsch: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Dresden 1935, p. 50 .
- ↑ a b c Dietrich Hanspach, Haik Thomas Porada: Grossenhainer care. A regional study of the area around Großenhain and Radeburg . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-09706-6 , p. 211-224 .
- ↑ a b Lenz (Priestewitz) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , accessed on December 13, 2017
- ↑ a b List of Monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on December 11, 2017.
- ↑ The local group of the volunteer fire brigade in Lenz on the homepage of the district of Meißen, accessed on December 11, 2017.
- ↑ List of the Priestewitz associations on the parish homepage, accessed on December 13, 2017.