List of personalities of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg

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The following personalities are connected to the city of Neusalza-Spremberg .

Landlords and manors of the village of Spremberg (since the 13th century) and the city of Neu-Salza (since 1670) until 1945

In Germany, the manorial rule with its large land holdings had a decisive influence on the rural legal, economic and social order from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 19th century. The manor also exercised the jurisdiction and was mostly also the church and school patron in the villages. During the 15th century, which formed as a special economic form of the manorial system, mostly in the east of the Elbe areas Gutsherrschaft out. The dependent peasants were exposed to harsher exploitation, which led to serfdom and hereditary servitude . In the centuries of development of the village of Spremberg and the rural small town of Neu-Salza, which arose in its corridors, the land and manors ultimately proved to be identical. The basic or. In his estate (manor district), the landlord embodied the political authorities in full. The prerogatives and privileges of the landlords and manors were largely curtailed by state reforms in the 19th century - for example the elimination of serfdom in Upper Lusatia by law in 1832 - and were largely brought to a close by the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848/49 . After the end of the First World War (1914–1918) and the November Revolution in Germany in 1918, which ended monarchist conditions, the administration of the manors in Spremberg and Neu-Salza became irrelevant.

Manorial lords of the village of Spremberg from the 13th century to the founding of the city of Neu-Salza (1670)

The time, the lordship and explanations are given.

  • Hertwicus de Sprewemberch († around 1250): The probable locator or settlement master, at the same time the first landlord and village head of the forest hoof village Spremberg, which was established before 1242. Guarantor of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus I (1230–1253)

Thereafter, until 1392 - a period of 150 years - no further Spremberg landlords can be proven.

  • In 1272 Spremberg was considered an interest village of the bishops of Meißen and formed an enclave of the diocese far from the monastery area , but was under the jurisdiction of the Margraves Johann and Otto von Brandenburg as the new sovereigns of Upper Lusatia (1253-1319)
  • 1319 The state of Bautzen and with it Spremberg came back to the Kingdom of Bohemia , and the feudal letters for the manors , including Sprembergs, were again issued by the Bohemian kings. Rivalries between the Bohemian kings and the bishops of Meissen ran through the period from the 13th to the 15th centuries
  • In 1347 Charles IV , King of Bohemia, emperor of the HRR since 1355 , traveled through the royal Bohemian vassal village Spremberg on the Upper Spree on his journey to pay homage to the Lusatian estates in Bautzen , the capital of the Bohemian outlying region of Upper Lusatia , where the secular village for him and worshiped spiritual village authorities
  • 1392 Brothers Hans and Heinrich von Raussendorf (Sen.) and Bernhard von Döbschütz (Döbschicz): The country nobles became owners of the village of Spremberg as Bohemian feudal people. King Wenceslaus IV. Sovereign
  • 1408 - around 1429 Heinrich von Raussendorf Jun .: As a Bohemian knight he became the sole owner of Spremberg. Confirmation by King Wenzel IV as sovereign on August 30, 1408 in Zittau
  • 1430 Siegmund von Raussendorf: He was also a Bohemian feudal man and sole landlord of Spremberg as well as brother of the first recorded pastor of Spremberg Friedrich von Raussendorf . Sovereign: King and Emperor Sigismund (1410–1437)
  • 1479 to 1490: Upper Lusatia, including the episcopal Meissnian interest villages Spremberg and Friedersdorf, is under the rule of the Hungarian King Matthias I Corvinus . However, there is no evidence of Hungarian lendings to the Spremberg manors.
  • 1488 Since the bishops of Meissen had been issuing the feudal letters for the Spremberg landlords and not the kings of Bohemia since that year, a completely new political situation in favor of the diocese of Meissen must have arisen at that time. Spremberg had left the area of ​​the Bohemian Upper Lusatia and was incorporated under constitutional law into the diocese of Meißen . The causes were certainly the longstanding military conflicts between the kings of Hungary and Bohemia.
  • 1488 Brothers Hans and Nickel von Raussendorf: The bishop of Meißen Johann VI took their loan from now on . von Saalhausen in Stolpen on November 5, 1488 . Both brothers represented the manor of Spremberg together
  • 1495 From that year two knights' seats , Ober- and Nieder-Spremberg, existed in the village. Spremberg, like other 68 villages, was subordinate to the episcopal Meißnian office of Stolpen , which in turn was administered by an episcopal captain
  • 1515 Nickel von Raussendorf and the sons of the late Hans von Raussendorf, Hans, Caspar, Christoph, Georg and Friedrich: They were enfeoffed with Spremberg by Bishop Johann VI. on June 4, 1515. Hans, Caspar and Georg von Raussendorf died between 1528 and 1551, so that Christoph and Friedrich von Raussendorf remained the sole owners of the village of Spremberg
  • 1559 After the Carlowitz feud, the Episcopal-Meissnian office of Stolpen and with it Spremberg came to the Electorate of Saxony , whereby Spremberg remained as an "official village" with the "Wendish care" of this office in Electoral Saxony . The Saxon electors now lent the respective landlords
  • 1560 Christoph and Friedrich von Raussendorf: Elector August (1553–1586) made their enfeoffment with Spremberg as the new sovereign on February 8, 1560. In the same year Christoph von Raussendorf handed over his Spremberger estate to his sons Hennigke, Bastian and Hans von Raussendorf.
  • 1560–1563 Hennigke, Bastian and Hans von Raussendorf: landlords of Spremberg. The von Raussendorf noble family was the sole owner of the village of Spremberg from 1392 to 1563
  • 1563 Hans von Biela (Byla): He bought the Spremberger estate from Hennigke v. Raussendorf; the purchase was not confirmed by the electoral prince. There were unclear ownership conditions in Spremberg. Since then, members of another noble family, the von Rodewitz, have been documented in Spremberg, according to Christoph and Heinrich von Rodewitz
  • 1564 Heinrich von Rodewitz: After the death of Friedrich von Raussendorf (1564) his son Hans v. Raussendorf the paternal Spremberger estate, but Heinrich von Rodewitz also received an electoral fiefdom for "half of Spremberg"
  • 1586 Peter von Rodewitz: After the death of Heinrich v. Rodewitz (1578) joined his son Peter v. Rodewitz inherited the "half of Spremberg" and received confirmation from the new Elector Christian I (1586–1591). At the same time he enfeoffed Hans and Hennigke von Raussendorf with their Spremberger property again. This resulted in property disputes between the two aristocratic Spremberg manors, but these were contractually ended in 1588. Since then, there have been two manors in Spremberg
  • 1592 Abraham, Christoph, Siegmund and Friedrich v. Raussendorf: After the death of her father Hennigke v. Raussendorf they received from Elector Christian II (1591–1611) on December 12, 1592 the enfeoffment for Spremberg
  • 1596 Esther von Uechtritz : Hans von Raussendorf, the owner of Nieder-Spremberg, died in 1596 without heirs. Therefore his wife Esther received the estate. However, she immediately handed it over to her nephew Abraham v. Raussendorf, Hennigke's son, as Ausgedinge ("old part")
  • 1597 Abraham von Raussendorf: He seemed to have been the owner of the Nieder-Spremberg manor for only a short time, as he and his aunt Esther died during this time
  • 1597 Brothers Christoph, Hans, Siegismund and Friedrich von Raussendorf: Under the tutelage of Hans v. Biela Senior, commander of the Royal Guard in Prague , uncle of the brothers, they were enfeoffed with Spremberg on August 16, 1597 by Elector Christian II
  • 1599 Alexander von Ragenitz: The electoral chief kitchen master acquired Spremberg by buying from Hans von Biela, the guardian of the Raussendorf sons, who was in debt. Alexander v. Ragnitz only owned Spremberg for a few years
  • 1605 Peter von Rodewitz and Christoph von Raussendorf: landlords and landowners in Upper and Lower Spremberg
  • 1608 Adam von Rodewitz: The son of Peter v. Peter who was murdered in the Weichbild (judicial district) Bautzen . Rodewitz now received the electoral fief for Spremberg. After a comparison with those of Raussendorf, he gave the Nieder-Spremberg estate back to Christoph v. Raussendorf and only kept the manor Ober-Spremberg
  • 1617 Hans von Raussendorf: The son of Abraham v. Raussendorf got Spremberg after application of January 3, 1617 as a fief of Elector Johann Georg I (1611-1656)
  • 1618–1648 Thirty Years War
  • 1619 Anna Magdalena von Gersdorf : Hans von Raussendorf prescribed his wife on January 29th. J. “half his estate Spremberg”, so that she became the landowner of Nieder-Spremberg until her husband's death (1632)
  • 1632 Siegismund von Raussendorf: Since Hans v. Raussendorf died in 1632, the son received the Nieder-Spremberg estate as an electoral fief
  • 1639/40 Jakob Gulisch: The former captain of the Bohemian nobleman Wilhelm Graf Kinsky (1574–1634) got the Ober-Spremberg estate as a pledge after the order of Johann Georg I, since Adam v. Rodewitz did not meet his payment obligations
  • 1650 Johann Ludwig von Rodewitz: The son of the deceased Adam v. Rodewitz took over the pledged Ober-Spremberg
  • 1651 Gotthardt von Bündemann: Johann Ludwig v. Rodewitz exchanged the manor with him for his fief Ebersdorf near Friedland , today the Czech Republic . However, the manor Ober-Spremberg burned down in the following time, and the landlord died as an impoverished Bohemian exile in 1658
  • 1652 Wolf Ullrich von Raussendorf: Siegismund von Raussendorf's son-in-law and nephew acquired the Nieder-Spremberg estate through purchase, to which he had been entitled to a fief since 1631
  • 1660 Hans Adolph von Haugwitz : He became the new owner of Nieder-Spremberg through purchase on May 1, 1660 after Wolf Ullrich von Raussendorf with the son of Hans v. Raussendorf, Hans Heinrich v. Raussendorf, scored a comparison
  • 1666 Siegfried von Metzradt : The electoral Saxon chamber councilor and captain of the Hoyerswerda lordship came into the possession of Ober-Spremberg through purchase from the heirs of Gotthardt von Bündemann
  • 1666 Friedrich Adolf von Haugwitz and Hans Adolf von Haugwitz: After the death of their father, the influential nobleman Hans Adolph v. Haugwitz - governor of Upper Lusatia and administrator of the Hoyerswerda rule - they became his inheritance, Nieder-Spremberg. At the same time, Hans Adolf v. Haugwitz came into the possession of Ober-Spremberg, so that both goods and the village remained in one hand for a short time
  • 1668 Christoph Friedrich von Salza († March 31, 1673), as councilor of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II and state elder of the Görlitz district, he bought Hans Adolf von Haugwitz Ober- and Nieder-Spremberg and their subjects on December 4, 1668. In the corridors of Nieder-Spremberg, the influential nobleman and electoral feudal man founded the exile town of Neu-Salza in 1670 .

Note : With the modern and childless nobleman who died in an accident on September 17, 2013, Dr. Hermann Freiherr von Salza und Lichtenau (1978-2013), Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John , doctorate in law and agriculture expert , landowner of Drehsa near Weißenberg since 2007, this branch of the Upper Lusatian noble family von Salza and Lichtenau , whose ancestors were once the exile town of Neu , probably went out since 1298 -Salza, see also Salza (noble family) .

Landlords of the city of Neu-Salza from 1670 to 1920

The manors, since the 16th century manors , of Spremberg are now mostly identical to those of Neu-Salza.

  • 1670–1673 Christoph Friedrich von Salza: He became the founder and first landlord and court lord of the town of Neu-Salza, which was built as a planned system in the middle of the Spremberger corridor as a "town within the village"
  • 1673–1678 Job Friedrich von Salza: After the death of Friedrich v. Salza (1673) inherited his underage son Job Spremberg and Neu-Salza and his subjects. Due to financial difficulties, the guardian of Job sold his mother Anna Catherina von Salza, Ober-Spremberg in 1675 to Friedrich Adolf von Haugwitz, so that the manor Ober-Spremberg came back to the previous owner
  • 1678–1682 Anna Catherina v. Salza: The widow of the city's founder, Anna Catharina von Salza, came into the possession of Neu-Salza and the Nieder-Spremberg estate after Job's death (1678). Until 1680 she sold her remaining property in Nieder-Spremberg due to financial difficulties, most recently the Kretscham with brewing rights to the neighboring manor of Haugwitz in Ober-Spremberg, leaving her only in the small town of Neu-Salza
  • 1682–1698 Lucretia Hedwig von Salza: After the death of her mother Anna Catherina von Salza (1682), she came into the sole possession of the city of Neu-Salza as a daughter entitled to inheritance. On December 17, 1698, however, she sold Neu-Salza to Ludwig Gebhardt Freiherr von Hoym, who on April 25, 1680 had already taken over the entire village of Spremberg from Friedrich August v. Haugwitz had acquired.
  • 1680-1711 Ludwig Gebhard of Hoym : The electoral chamber and Mountain Council Director established as the new owner Spremberg and later the city of New Salza the elector the "Canzlei- Schriftsässigkeit " by. In legal terms, this meant the preferential direct subordination of a person or thing to the upper sovereign authority. As a result, Spremberg and Neu-Salza were no longer subordinate to the Stolpen office , but directly to the state government in Dresden
  • 1711–1736 Carl Heinrich Graf von Hoym : After the death of Ludwig Gebhard von Hoym (1711), Carl Heinrich took over the estates of Spremberg and Neu-Salza in his will as the youngest son. For embezzlement in his office as tax president, the former secret cabinet minister August the Strong was imprisoned at Königstein fortress , where he hanged himself in his dungeon. The state government confiscated the Hoym property for five years and administered it from the Dresden court
  • 1741–1768 Karl Gotthelf Graf von Hoym (* 1715): Together with his cousins Julius Gebhard von Hoym (1721–1769) and Gotthelf Adolph von Hoym : landlords of Spremberg and Neu-Salza, Karl Gotthelf von Hoym already died in 1748
  • 1768–1791 Peter August von Schönberg : The Saxon electoral house marshal acquired Spremberg and Neu-Salza from the Count's Hoym family by purchase.
  • 1791–1822 Auguste Charlotte von Schönberg : The daughter of Peter August v. After her marriage to Count August von Lynar (1796), Schönberg inherited Spremberg and Neu-Salza. Her second marriage to Count Ferdinand Hans Ludolf von Kielmannsegge from Holstein (1802) made her known as "Countess Kielmannsegge" and her excessive admiration for Napoleon among contemporaries
  • 1822–1858 Ferdinand von Reiboldt: The Royal Saxon Secret Finance Council - Saxony was elevated to a kingdom from the Electorate in 1806 at Napoleon's instigation - acquired Spremberg and Neu-Salza in 1822 by buying it from Auguste Charlotte v. Schoenberg. During his administration, with the introduction of the general town order on February 7, 1833, the prerogative of the landlord to appoint the mayor of the town of Neu-Salza ceased to exist. During his time, the patrimonial jurisdiction (estate jurisdiction ) of Spremberg was transferred to the state, now to the Kingdom of Saxony , by contract on November 4, 1840 .
  • 1858–1872 Traugott Gustav von Mangoldt : The secret government councilor and son-in-law of Ferdinand v. After his death in 1858, Reiboldt took over the Spremberg and Neu-Salza inheritance. All that remained to him was the collatural rule over the two churches, which later also ceased

Neusalza-Spremberger manors from 1920 to 1945

  • 1872–1926 Friedrich Hans von Criegern: The captain a. D. bought the Spremberg estate in 1872 from Gustav Traugott v. Mangoldt. With him a down-to-earth landlord came to Spremberg again, who took over the estate, which had been leased for 200 years
  • 1926–1945 Marie-Luise and Erika von Criegern: After the death of Hans v. Criegern (1926) passed the inheritance to the two unmarried daughters. They were the last representatives of a manorial or manor of Neusalza-Spremberg. The extensive real estate of the Spremberg manor (226 ha) was expropriated as part of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) in 1945/46 and divided up among new farmers .

Very few of the local landlords lived on site. The former manor and residential domicile of the lords in the upper village of Neusalza-Spremberg still reminds of this as today's day-care center.

mayor

From the founding of the city in 1670 to the present day, there are 29 people who were designated for the office of mayor. Two of them did not take office, one resigned and three were removed from office. Of the remaining 23, including a woman, worked as mayor the longest: Zacharias Neitzsch at 36 years old (1715–1751), Carl Gottlob Hohlfeld at 33 years old (1751–1784) and August Adolph Tuchatsch at 29 years old (1856–1885).

The name, the term of office and other comments are given.

City of Neu-Salza (since 1670) and the city of Neusalza-Spremberg (since 1920)

  • Johann Caspar Fiedler († 1676), first mayor of the exile town (term of office 1670–1676), economic administrator of the manor owner of Ober- and Nieder-Spremberg and city founder of Neu-Salza, Christoph Friedrich von Salza.
  • Christoph Tschirner (1676–1685), stately scribe
  • Christian Fiedler (1685–1691), leaseholder in Spremberg
  • Johann Moritz Herrmann (1691–1700), councilor, draper
  • Christoph Rößner (1700–1714), senior elector of the shoemakers' guild
  • Zacharias Neitzsch or Ritzsche (1715–1751), general tax collector. Mayor with the longest period of service (36 years), the town hall and council cellar were built in 1719 during his tenure
  • Carl Gottlob Hohlfeld († June 26, 1784), city judge, later mayor (term of office 1751–1784), second longest term of service (33 years), local clerk. Author of the Hohlfeld Chronicle named after him (1768)
  • Zacharias Ahme (1784–1795)
  • Johann Gottfried Kleinhempel (1795–1807), customs collector
  • Johann Hättasch (1807-1833), General-tax collector, sat during his tenure in 1817, the installation of the new cemetery of the town on the Lindenberg through

With the introduction of the general town order on February 7, 1833, the town councilors, freely elected by the town council, also elected the mayor from among their members.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Wex (1833–1850), confectioner, removal from office
  • Johann Gottfried Otto (1850), cloth merchant, did not take office
  • Eduard Adolph Seele (1850), pharmacist, no official confirmation
  • August Neumeister (1850–1854), postal administrator, impeachment
  • Julius Seubich (1854–1856), lawyer, resigned from office
  • August Adolph Tuchatsch (* May 4, 1822, † August 26, 1890) Councilor, cutlery dealer. Third longest term in office (29 years, from 1856 to 1885). Married to Luise Tuchatsch geb. Wishes (July 8, 1827 - June 16, 1899). Author and editor of the "Tuchatsch Chronicle" (1870/72) named after him . Chairman of the committee for the construction of a railway for southern Upper Lusatia from 1857 to 1885, on whose work the South Lusatian Railway was created and with it the municipalities of Neusalza and Spremberg with the Neusalza-Spremberg station to the Sohland railway section opened on May 1, 1875 / Spree - Ebersbach / Sa. were connected
  • Karl August Scheffler (1886–1910), city councilor, leather dealer. For more details see under the heading honorary citizens
  • Theodor Körner (1910–1922), the "Association Mayor" of Neusalza and Spremberg in 1920
  • Oskar Steinbach (1922–1923), the “ Inflation Mayor”. The emergency money printed specifically for the city in 1923 was popularly called "Steinbach Ruble"
  • Arno Richter (1924–1930), removed from office for embezzlement of municipal finances. During his administration, as a visible sign of the union of the municipalities of Neusalza and Spremberg to form the city of Neusalza-Spremberg, the construction of the large central school "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi", at that time the most modern elementary school in the Löbau district, took place in 1927/28.
  • Martin Richter (1930–1945), no relationship to predecessor

In the Soviet occupation zone and in GDR times

  • Kurt Wünsche (1946–1956), first (acting) mayor after the end of the war
  • Ursula Naumann (1956–1960), so far the city's only female mayor
  • Werner Meltke (1960–1962), then 2nd chairman of the council of the Löbau district
  • Siegfried Rudolph (1962–1983), senior mayor in GDR times (21 years old)
  • Siegfried Pischel (1983–1989), (born August 25, 1940), textile engineer at VEB Lautex Neusalza-Spremberg
  • Günter Hensel (1989–1990), (born September 29, 1950), last GDR mayor of the city

After German reunification

  • Günter Paulik (1990–2008), (born May 2, 1943), first mayor after German reunification, honorary citizen of the city since May 2013, see more under the heading: honorary citizens
  • Matthias Lehmann (since 2008), (* December 12, 1967), authorized signatory at Jokey in Sohland on the Spree

Community councils or heads of the village of Spremberg / OL from 1839 until it was merged with the city of Neu-Salza in 1920

According to the Saxon rural community code of 1838 , an elected community council was introduced as the highest authority of a village community, at the head of which - analogous to the mayor of a city - the community board or head acted. On May 4, 1839, a community meeting took place in Kretscham Spremberg, in which a resolution was passed on the composition of the community council. The first election was then held on June 19, 1839.

The name, the term of office and other comments are given.

  • Carl Traugott Wünsche (1839–1845), mill owner
  • Traugott Leberecht Zische (1845–1848), canvas negociant (merchant)
  • Gottlob Wendler (1848–1863), landowner
  • Gottlieb Freund (1863–1866), landowner
  • Gottlieb Brettschneider (1866–1899), gardener. Longest term of office as the Spremberg municipality board (33 years)
  • Karl Wünsche (1899–1901), landowner
  • Traugott Fiedler (1901–1911)
  • Gustav Grunewald (1912–1914)
  • Bruno Seidel (1915–1918), under him introduction of a new local seal (seal) for the community in 1917
  • Richard Neudel (1919–1920) played a key role in the unification of Spremberg and Neusalza

After the unification of the city of Neu-Salza with the village community of Spremberg to form the city of Neusalza-Spremberg on February 15, 1920, Spremberg's municipal council and board ceased to exist.

Pastor of Neusalza and Spremberg

From the Reformation in Spremberg (1555) to the unification with the Neusalza parish in 1937, there are 24 pastors, plus the 12 ministers from 1937 to today (2016), including two women, i.e. 36. If you count the 17 pastors in Neusalza at the time from 1673 to 1937, there are 53 clerical office holders, whereby the clergy from the pre-Reformation (Catholic) period are incomplete due to a lack of uncertain sources, so that only seven appear. Thus, in the local and church history of Neusalza-Spremberg, 60 spiritual office holders of both denominations can be proven by name. The Magister Karl David Schuchardt and Christian Wilhelm Jänichen worked the longest with 34 years of service from 1747–1781 and 1809–1843, respectively, followed by Franz Ferdinand Rietzsch at 31 years of age (1904–1935) and Philipp Stumpf at 30 years of age (1668–1698) . As noted, a total of 17 pastors can be identified for the parish of the small town of Neusalza. Johann Kleych , the initiator of the tower construction, served the longest with 46 years of service (1752–1798), followed by Paul Friedrich Grunewald at 39 years (1876–1915) and Magister Wenzeslaus Niederwerffer at 31 years (1701–1732).

This is followed by the list of pastors of the parishes Dorf Spremberg (15th century) and the city of Neu-Salza (since 1670), later the city of Neusalza-Spremberg (since 1920).

The name, the term of office and other comments are given.

Pastor Sprembergs in Catholic times

  • Friedrich von Raussendorf (* around 1380; † around 1430), evidently the first Catholic pastor of Spremberg (around 1425 - around 1430), member of the Silesian-Upper Lusatian noble family von Raussendorff, who were opponents of the Hussites and made pacts with Bohemian robber knights. Term of office around 1420 - around 1430
  • Melchior heart (around 1489)
  • Johann Unger (around 1520), previously an informator (private tutor) for Emperor Charles V (1500–1558)
  • David (around 1535), previously an informer at Hennig (ke) von Raussendorf, church patron of Spremberg
  • Wolfgang Steinkirchner (around 1540)
  • Stephan Buff (around 1545)
  • Jacob Mörbitz (around 1550), from Schluckenau / Northern Bohemia

Pastor Sprembergs after the Reformation (until 1937)

The parish only became Protestant on May 1, 1555.

  • David Styrius (around 1500 - 1559), Protestant theologian and professor (episcopal administrator), from Wittenberg , first Protestant pastor in Spremberg after the Reformation, term of office 1555–1559
  • Andreas Bergnerus (1559–1561), ev.-luth. Theologian and master's degree from Neustadt in Saxony
  • Caspar Neander (Neumann) (1561–1568), from Zittau
  • Jacob Merwitz (1568), from Dresden , 1570 first evangelical pastor from Ebersbach / Sa.
  • Philipp Stumpf (1568–1598), from Magdeburg , third longest term of office (30 years)
  • Matthäus Voigt (1599–1617), from Meißen
  • Balthasar Steinkirchner Sen. (1618–1628), from Schirgiswalde
  • Johann Schwach (1628–1633), from Großpostwitz
  • Balthasar Steinkirchner Jun. (1633–1650), from Schirgiswalde
  • Andreas Meyer (1650–1679), from Glauchau
  • Christoph Schultze (1680–1685), Master's degree, previously pastor in Steinigtwolmsdorf / OL
  • Zacharias Steinel (March 2, 1657 - September 6, 1710), from Schneeberg / Erzgebirge, term of office 1685–1710, promoter of Protestantism in the neighboring Bohemian-Catholic community of Fugau 1696.
  • Gottlob Praetorius (1711–1716), from Neustadt in Saxony
  • Israel Traugott Garmann (1684–1746), Protestant theologian and master's degree, from Chemnitz , term of office: 1716 to 1746
  • Karl David Schuchardt (April 4, 1717 - December 23, 1781), from Linda / Oberlausitz, ev. Theologian and Magister, term of office: 1747 to 1781. Because of his enormous knowledge, he was recognized at the time as “the world wisdom Magister”. Longest term (34 years)
  • Johann Konrad Tietze (1782–1809), from Löbau
  • Christian Wilhelm Jänichen (1809–1843), pastor and master's degree, from Bischofswerda , longest term of office (34 years)
  • Eduard Herrmann Volkmar Ficker (1843–1861), b. in Wilsdruff west of Dresden, pastor and master, from Briesnitz , today part of Dresden, from 1830 to 1843 pastor of the city of Neusalza
  • Karl Christian Thieme (1862–1873), previously pastor in Neusalza (1859–1862)
  • Karl Heinrich Ullrich (1873–1880), from Kemnitz / Oberlausitz
  • Paul Johannes Casper (1880–1887), from Neukirch / Lausitz
  • Hugo Weigel (1888–1904), from Eibenstock / Westerzgebirge, during his tenure, the large Spremberg village church was rebuilt and rebuilt in 1901/02
  • Franz Ferdinand Rietzsch (1904–1935), from Dresden , second longest term of office (31 years)
  • Franz Rietzsch (1935–1938), son of Franz Ferdinand Rietzsch, missionary in Africa

Although the political unification of the two municipalities took place in 1920, the ecclesiastical merger did not take place until 1937, so that since then the parish of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg has been headed by a pastor.

Pastor of the city of Neu-Salza from 1670 to 1937

Sermons were held in the Bohemian (Czech) language until around 1800.

  • Stephan Pilarick Sen. (1615–1693), Hungarian theologian and philosopher , exile , first pastor of the newly founded city, who headed the cross-border parish from 1674 to 1693 and preached in three languages. During his tenure, the church "Zur Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit" was built between 1675 and 1678.
  • Stephan Pilarick Jun. (Around 1640 - around 1710), son of St. Pilarick Sen., temporarily preacher from Neu-Salza (1693/94), later pastor in Röhrsdorf near Pirna
  • Nikolaus Künzel (1694–1700), from Gebhardsdorf near Lauban , today in Polish Giebułtów
  • Wenzeslaus Niederwerffer (* 1667 † November 22, 1732), theologian, master's degree and local chronicler, who led the parish from 1701 to 1732, son of Bohemian parents, third-longest term (31 years)
  • Christoph Gottlob Richter (1733–1751), from Gebhardsdorf near Lauban
  • (1751–1752) vacancy ( vacant pastorate)
  • Johann Kleych (born November 14, 1723; † April 17, 1801), from Zittau , pastor with the longest term of office from 1752 to 1798 (46 years), initiator of the massive tower construction of the Neusalza exile church from 1768 to 1770.
  • Johann August Knaut (1798–1800), acting as substitute, last preacher in the Bohemian language
  • Johann Gottfried Müller (born November 28, 1763; † March 12, 1830), from Pulsnitz , first (only) German preacher of the cross-border parish from 1801 to 1830. His imposing tomb is still to this day in the Lindenberg mountain cemetery (Neusalza-Spremberg) . The inscription is badly weathered and difficult to read.
  • Eduard Herrmann Volkmar Ficker (* 1801 † 1861), b. in Wilsdruff , theologian and master's degree , from Briesnitz , today part of Dresden , ninth pastor of the city of Neusalza, who led the parish from 1830 to 1843.
  • Adolph Köhler (1844–1847), from Mahlis near Oschatz
  • Gottlieb Temper (1847–1852), from Werdau
  • Friedrich Eduard Stange (1853–1857), from Weißig , previously vicar of the Hofkirche in Dresden
  • Karl Christian Thieme (1857–1862), from Dresden
  • August Richard Haan (1862–1864), from Dörschnitz near Lommatzsch
  • Ernst Theodor Flössel (1864–1876), from Zittau
  • Paul Friedrich Grunewald (1876–1915), from Reichenbach / OL , second longest term of office (39 years)
  • Ernst Emil Gräfe (1916–1935), from Elstra . He was the last of the 17 pastors in the Neusalza parish.

Pastor of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg from 1937 until today

  • Ludwig Karl Wolfgang Arnold (1937–1950), from Frankfurt am Main . With his assumption of office and the removal of Niederfriedersdorf in 1937, Neusalza-Spremberg was finally merged 17 years after the political unification.
  • Willibald Ripp (September 18, 1912 - November 27, 1984), acting as representative (1946–1949), from Rattendorf / Moravia , today Radkov in the Czech Republic. Buried in the Lindenberg mountain cemetery
  • (1949-1951) vacancy
  • Johannes Mäthger (1951–1964), from Dresden
  • Albert Göhler (1964–1974), from Dresden
  • Rolf Büttner (1974–1980), from Dresden
  • (1980-1982) Vacancy
  • Christoph Wünsche (1982–1986), from Zschopau / Erzgebirge
  • (1986-1989) Vacancy
  • Frank del Chin (1989-2000), from Sebnitz
  • Susanne Berkenhoff (2000–2003), pastor, deaconess from Berlin , first church minister in Neusalza-Spremberg
  • (2003-2006) vacancy
  • Andreas Blumenstein (2006–2010), from Uhyst am Taucher , west of Bautzen
  • (2010–2012) vacancy
  • Jan Schober (2012–2015), from Neugersdorf (Saxony), new pastor in Chemnitz
  • Matthias Mory (April to September 2015), pastor of the sister parishes Oppach / Taubenheim , acting as a substitute
  • Constance Šimonovská (since October 1, 2015), pastor, resident in Rumburk , Czech Republic, (formerly pastor there), twelfth clerical incumbent and second female gender of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Neusalza-Spremberg / Friedersdorf

Honorary citizen

During the time of the Soviet occupation zone (1945-1949) and the GDR (1949-1990) this municipal award was not given in the city of Neusalza-Spremberg. No data are available for the period of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the Nazi period (1933–1945).

Neusalza-Spremberg has the following honorary citizens:

  • Carl Gottlob Richter († December 4, 1870 in Neusalza), cantor and teacher in Neusalza and Spremberg, term of office: 1834 to 1867, conferred honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 25th anniversary in office in 1859 by the mayor of Neusalza, August Adolph Tuchatsch.
  • Privy Councilor Hermann Freiherr von Salza und Lichtenau (* October 22, 1829, † April 14, 1915), descendant of the city's founder Christoph Friedrich von Salza (around 1605–1673), member of the Lusatian Estates Assembly, member of the Saxon state parliament, 1862 governor of Bautzen, 1883 to 1895 District Chief of Bautzen, member of the Reichstag North German Confederation (since 1867). Awarded honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1899 by the mayor of Neusalza, Karl August Scheffler.
  • Paul Ernst Grunewald, pastor of the city of Neusalza. Second longest term of office (39 years): 1876 to 1915. Awarded honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 25th anniversary in 1901 by the mayor of Neusalza, Karl August Scheffler
  • Karl August Scheffler, Mayor from 1886 to 1910. The award of the "honorary citizenship in recognition of the services he has earned for the welfare of the town of Neusaltza during his 24 years as mayor" was granted by the town council of Neusalza, i. V. Hermann Otto, City Councilor, on June 30, 1910. He was the recipient of the Knight of the Kgl. Saxon. Albrechts-Order II class
  • Hermann Otto, City Councilor of Neusalza and member of the savings bank committee.
  • Traugott Leberecht Hünlich (1814–1882), weaver, later entrepreneur, founder of the oldest textile company in the city of Neusalza from 1835.
  • Julius Hermann Hünlich (1841–1922), son of TL Hünlich and successor. Sole owner since 1896, City Councilor of Neusalza.
  • Edmund Ulbricht († 1945), entrepreneur, founder of the button factory of the same name in Spremberg in 1874.
  • Karl Voigt (born December 16, 1911, † November 11, 1999), master shoemaker, folk artist, winner of the Upper Lusatian Art Prize in 1987, honorary member of Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Neusalza-Spremberg e. V., award of honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 85th birthday on December 16, 1996 by Mayor Günter Paulik.
  • Heinrich Moritz Hahn (born February 8, 1907 in Kohren , † September 5, 2000 in Ebersbach / Sa. ), City inspector, chief accountant, "gymnastics father of Neusalza-Spremberg", honorary member of the Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Neusalza-Spremberg e. V., award of honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 90th birthday on February 8, 1997 by Mayor Günter Paulik.
  • Renate Hofmann (* July 28, 1923, † March 24, 2013), subject teacher and class leader of the elementary, middle and polytechnic high school "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi" Neusalza-Spremberg. Term of office: 1945 to 1983. Co-founder of the regionally known Karas group , its dramaturge and treasurer. Awarded honorary citizenship on the occasion of the New Year's reception by the mayor of Neusalza-Spremberg Günter Paulik on January 5, 2001.
  • Hartmut Hofmann (born January 13, 1927, † April 16, 2014), subject teacher and class leader at the same educational institution, term of office: 1946 to 1991. Founder of the regionally known Karasek amateur theater troupe and its long-time director. Awarded honorary citizenship on the occasion of the New Year's reception by the mayor of Neusalza-Spremberg Günter Paulik on January 5, 2001.
  • Günter Paulik (born May 2, 1943), teacher, lecturer, member of the Dresden Kreuzchor at a young age . Chairman of the Saxon City and Municipal Council, Mayor of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg from 1990 to 2008. Honorary citizenship was conferred by Mayor Matthias Lehmann on May 2, 2013 on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
  • Michael Voigt (born May 28, 1945), offset retoucher, head of the children's painting and drawing circle in Neusalza-Spremberg, member of the painting / graphics funding group, freelance printer from 1990 to 2008, member of the Oberlausitzer Kunstverein eV, member of the Schützengesellschaft Neusalza-Spremberg 1714 / 1865 eV The award of honorary citizenship took place on the occasion of his 70th birthday and the opening of the Rathausgalerie 2015 by Mayor Matthias Lehmann on June 4th, 2015 in the town hall of Neusalza-Spremberg.

Other personalities associated with the city

  • Valentinus Eichhorn (1542–1624), custos ( sexton ), verifiably first teacher in Spremberg (1578–1624)
  • Siegfried of Metzradt (1 January 1600 - 1668), landowner of Upper Spremberg, Electoral Saxon land Kammerrat and Amtshauptmann the rule Hoyerswerda . Its epitaph is on the apse (outside) of the Spremberg village church
  • Leonhardus Weise (1645 - December 16, 1694), schoolmaster and organist of the Spremberg community (1678–1694), teacher of the later well-known Saxon geometer, cartographer, engraver and publisher Johann George Schreiber (1676–1750)
  • Matthias Knöchel († 1706), first teacher and organist in the young city of exile Neu-Salza (1679–1683), exile , companion and religious brother of Stephan Pilarick (1615–1693)
  • Annelies Schulz : (born April 16, 1934 in Oppach). Writer , screenwriter . Winner of the GDR Children's Radio Play Prize, 3rd place (1985). Works: The story of the lazy cloud dwarf (1964), Anne (1967), Katzenmilchjahre (1979), The Childhood House (2005, 2008, 2015), Farewell to the Childhood House (2012), Homecoming (Stories, 2014).
  • Gustav Hermann Schulze (1833–1901), lawyer , counselor , local history researcher in Upper Lusatia. Author of the local historical work From Neusalza's Prehistory and the Second Secular Celebration (1873)
  • Carl Adalbert Förster (1853–1925), textile manufacturer, member of the German Reichstag (1898–1903) and the Saxon Landtag (1905–1908), co-owner of the CC Förster textile company , mechanical colored weaving, cotton spinning, Turkish red and blue dyeing, finishing and bleaching , Spremberg near Neusalza (1874–1925), today the city of Neusalza-Spremberg
  • Marion Estelle Edison-Oeser (* February 18, 1873; † April 16, 1965), daughter of the American inventor and industrialist Thomas Alva Edison , temporarily resident of the city of Neusalza, adult baptism in the local church on September 9, 1894, married to Lieutenant, last Colonel, Oscar Oeser, son of the renowned Neusalza printing and publishing house owner Herrmann Oeser († August 26, 1911)
  • Walter Heinich (born June 8, 1876 in Gersdorf bei Roßwein , died December 16, 1940 in Rähnitz -Hellerau), senior postal assistant, local writer, local historian, journalist, city councilor of Neusalza-Spremberg, member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz (1927 –1935), author of the standard local history work Spremberg. Attempt of a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia (1918).
  • Alfred Förster (born July 7, 1893 Ebersbach / Sa. , Died 1978 in Celle ), elementary school teacher , local chronicle , chairman of Heimatfreunde, dialect curator. On September 13, 1997, the Alfred Förster Bank was inaugurated in his honor on the Hänscheberg
  • Gunther Leupolt (born May 10, 1922; died February 27, 2017 in Bautzen ), teacher, long-time director of the Polytechnic High School (POS) "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi" Neusalza-Spremberg (1950–1970), teacher, local writer and journalist
  • Egon Siegfried Seifert (born July 1, 1925 in Dresden , died April 11, 2018 in Görlitz , burial on April 20 in Lawalde ), catechist - deacon , long-time cantor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Neusalza-Spremberg (1952–1993), Archive curator of the church district Löbau in Saxony, member of the IG "local history" Neusalza-Spremberg. Editor and editor of the Hohlfeld Chronicle of the city of Neu-Salza from 1768, with additions until 1777 . Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2000. The cantor i. R. and trombonist should not be confused with the theologian and church historian Siegfried Seifert (1936–2013)
  • Erdmann Scheibner (1891–1959), pharmacist, 1934 owner (after 1945 tenant, 1955 state manager) of Marien-Apotheke Neusalza-Spremberg; 1940 Appointment as honorary alderman, deputy to the mayor 1940–1945. District pharmacist at the Löbau District Council 1954–1959.

Sons and daughters of the city and its district Friedersdorf

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  • Walter Heinich : Spremberg - attempt at a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia. Spremberg u. Schirgiswalde 1918.
  • Gunther Leupolt / Seifert, Siegfried / Wagner, Horst: Neusalza-Spremberg - Historical milestones for the unification of Neusalza and Spremberg 80 years ago. Publisher: Council of the City of Neusalza-Spremberg. Neusalza-Spremberg, M. Voigt 2000.
  • Lutz Mohr: Index of important objects of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg in the history, part II: Relevant buildings. In: Official Gazette of the administrative community for the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with the district Friedersdorf and the communities Dürrhennersdorf and Schönbach, No. 10 (October) 2011, pp. 7–8.
  • Lutz Mohr: NEUSALZA-SPREMBERG - A small town in Upper Lusatia. Highlights from history and legend . Edition: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg. Special edition No. 1, Greifswald, Neusalza-Spremberg, Dresden 2012.
  • Lutz Mohr : Neusalza-Spremberg - A journey through time 1242 - 2017 . Anniversary edition. Author and publishing service Frank Nürnberger ( Oberlausitzer Verlag ), Spitzkunnersdorf 2017.
  • Gustav Hermann Schulze : From Neusalza's past and the second secular celebration. Ebersbach: RO Gnauck 1917. Photomechanical reprint. Neusalza-Spremberg, M. Voigt 1998.
  • August Adolph Tuchatsch (ed.): Historical news about the city of Neu-Salza on the basis of historical documents and traditions. Ceremony for the 200th anniversary of the city of Neusalza. Neusalza, Reinhold Oeser 1870. Photomechanical reprint. Neusalza-Spremberg, M. Voigt 2000.
  • Gunther Leupolt: Honorary Citizen of the City of Neusalza-Spremberg , in: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg's past and present, Volume 2, Neusalza-Spremberg, M. Voigt 2004, pp. 6-7

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Wikisource: The flax preparation institute of Mr. Adolph Tuchatsch in Neusalza  - sources and full texts