Würchwitz

Würchwitz City of Zeitz Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 3 ″  N , 12 ° 13 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	195 m above sea level NN
Area :	14.17 km²
Residents :	641  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density :	45 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 2009
Postal code :	06712
Area code :	034426
Location of Würchwitz in Zeitz

Würchwitz has been part of the city of Zeitz in the Saxony-Anhalt Burgenland district since July 1, 2009 . The Würchwitz districts include Würchwitz, Bockwitz, Lobas, Loitsch, Suxdorf and Stockhausen.

geography

The area of ​​the village of Würchwitz is located about seven kilometers east of the core town of Zeitz in the southeastern tip of the Burgenland district. The corridor of the former northernmost district of Sabissa borders in a narrow area on the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land , which separates the neighboring municipality of Elsteraue into two areas. The Lindenberger Schnauder flows through the village . In the north of the village on the corridor of the devastated place Sabissa is the remaining hole Zipsendorf , which arose from the flooded open pit remaining hole of the opencast mine Zipsendorf-Süd .

Structure of the locality

Incorporations

The following places and corridors belong to the Zeitz locality of Würchwitz:

Former parish	date	annotation
Bockwitz	before 1950	Incorporation to Würchwitz
Lobas	before 1950	Incorporation to Würchwitz
Loitsch	07/01/1950	Incorporation to Würchwitz
Sabissa	07/01/1950 1955/56	Incorporation to Würchwitz devastated by Zipsendorf-Süd opencast mine
Stockhausen	before 1950	Incorporation to Würchwitz
Suxdorf	before 1950	Incorporation to Würchwitz
Würchwitz	07/01/2009	Incorporation according to Zeitz

Location of the districts within the village

The main town Würchwitz is centrally located in the village. The districts are in the following direction with regard to Würchwitz:

Bockwitz, Stockhausen	Loitsch	Sabissa corridor
Suxdorf
	Podebuls, Lobas

history

Würchwitz was first mentioned in 1147 as Wirwiza . Loitsch was mentioned in 1069, Bockwitz in 1290. The church of Lobas already existed around 1320. Würchwitz and its neighboring towns of Bockwitz, Lobas, Loitsch, Podebuls, Sabissa and Stockhausen were in the Zeitz office until 1815 , which was part of the Naumburg monastery -Zeitz since 1561 under electoral Saxon stood sovereignty and between 1656/57 and 1718 for Sekundogenitur -Fürstentum Saxe-Zeitz belonged.

Suxdorf was a peculiarity. It was located in the middle of the Zeitz office, but until 1815 it was an exclave that belonged to the Borna administrative office .

As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the seven places Würchwitz, Podebuls, Bockwitz, Lobas, Loitsch, Sabissa and Stockhausen with the Zeitz office and the Suxdorf exclave, which had previously belonged to the Borna office, came to Prussia in 1815 . They were in 1816 the county Zeitz in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated. In the second half of the 19th century, the Würchwitz manor was combined with the communities of Würchwitz and Podebuls to form the community of Würchwitz-Podebuls. Before 1950 the places Bockwitz, Lobas, Stockhausen and Suxdorf were incorporated. Loitsch and Sabissa followed on July 1, 1950 . The latter had to give way to the Zipsendorf-Süd opencast mine between 1955 and 1956 .

In the course of the second district reform of the GDR, Würchwitz came to the Zeitz district in the Halle district in 1952 . The Zeitz district became part of the Burgenland district in 1994 . Together with Döbris , Geußnitz , Kayna and Nonnewitz , Würchwitz was incorporated into the city of Zeitz on July 1, 2009. The last mayor of the former municipality was Klaus Rübestahl.

Population development

Development of the population (from 1995 December 31st) :

1990-766 1995-759 2000-719 2001 - 715

2002 - 683 2003 - 658 2007-641 2008 - 631

Data source: State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt

Culture and sights

museum

• Mite cheese museum Würchwitz

Buildings

• Bockwitz windmill

The Bockwitz tower windmill owned by the Oertel family (also called Würchwitzer or Suxdorfer windmill from time to time) dates from 1836. In the meantime, it has been raised and equipped with blades based on the Bilauschen principle of the Ventikanten revolving stern. Unfortunately, it lost its mill technology in a fire, but it is still a popular destination in the Zeitz region.

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  Bockwitz windmill

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  Mill in summer 2015

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  Rod cross

film studio

The place is also known for the Würchwitz film studio . The amateur film studio calls itself the smallest film studio in the world. The amateur filmmakers are known for their films with local amateur actors about the Danish Olsen Gang , about which a total of six productions were made. In 2015, the MDR dedicated the four-part docu-soap Die Olsenbande von Würchwitz to the work of the film studio .

Regular events

Every year in June , the Würchwitz clover festival takes place in memory of Johann Christian Schubart from Würchwitz , an important supporter of agriculture .

Culinary specialties

Cheese mite monument in Würchwitz

Vinothek in Würchwitz

In Würchwitz, a mite cheese that ripens through the excretions of mites is made. The cheese mite was even erected in the village. See also under Saxony-Anhalt cuisine .

The vinotheque is one of the vineyards in the Elstertal that are connected to one another by the “Weisse Elster” wine route .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 180 runs north of Würchwitz . The closest train station is in Zeitz.

Personalities

• Johann Christian Schubart , Edler von Kleefeld (1734–1787), landowner in Würchwitz and agricultural reformer (a memorial in Würchwitz has commemorated him since 1851)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article about the 945th anniversary of Loitsch in 2014
2. ^ History of Bockwitz
3. ↑ The Romanesque church of Lobas in the Schnaudertalboten
4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 86 f.
5. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 62 f.
6. ^ The Zeitz district in the municipal directory 1900
7. ↑ Formation of the Würchwitz-Podebuls community in the German Digital Library
8. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
9. ↑ Mite cheese and Olsen gang. LR Online, December 7, 2017, accessed December 4, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Würchwitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the mite cheese museum Würchwitz
• Watch the homepage of the Würchwitz film studio, Würchwitzer Olsenbande online