Uichteritz

Uichteritz City of Weißenfels Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 26 "  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 25"  E
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.55 km²
Residents :	978  (Nov. 7, 2017)
Population density :	114 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	06667
Area code :	03443
Location of Uichteritz in Weißenfels

Old school

church

Uichteritz [ ˈʏçtəʁɪts ] is a village and part of the city of Weißenfels in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Uichteritz is located between Goseck and Weißenfels northwest of the Saale in the Saale valley, approx. 3.5 km west of Weißenfels. On the district Uichteritz There is also the district Lobitzsch .

Uichteritz belongs to a type of settlement called Haufendorf . In the entire locality there are predominantly one to two-story houses that were apparently built without any specific planning. Medium-sized courtyards, well-preserved adobe and half-timbered buildings as well as newly built one and two-family houses characterize the townscape.

history

Lobitzsch with stork's nest

Uichteritz was probably created during the migration of peoples in the 6th and 7th centuries. It was mainly Sorbs who settled here what archaeological finds (Slavic castles on the Gröbitzberg in Uichteritz) and local names ending -itz , -werben or -is evidence. During excavations on the Red Mountain and the Siebenhügeln in Uichteritz, graves from the Neolithic period were found that point to a much earlier settlement. An exact information about the origin of the place is not verifiable, but a first mention was found in the interest register of the Klarenkloster in Weißenfels founded in 1285. In 1292 and 1304, Gebehardus de Uchteritz ( Vchteritz, Uechtritz ) appeared in the copy book of the Weissenfels monastery , the first representative of the noble family "von Uichteritz" ( von Uechtritz ). Another mention can be found in writings about the sale of the place Markröhlitz by the monastery to the knight Rudolph von Bünau zu Teuchern , in which the witness Heinrich von Uichteritz is mentioned (original in the cathedral monastery of Merseburg ).

In the year 1349/50 one finds again a reference to Uichteritz. It is called in the loan book of Friedrich III. (Friedrich der Strenge) that Konrad and Otto von Uichteritz received fiefs. Likewise, Taunus von Haldegke was given fiefs in Großkayna , Reichhardtswerbe , Kriechau and income from Borau , Lesau and Weißenfels. It is also mentioned that the margravine widow Katharina sold all of her land in Uichteritz to Mrs. Haldegke in order to acquire the churchyard at the Marienkirche in Weißenfels.

Around 1300 the area was under the rule of the Margrave of Meißen after the Thuringian landgrave family died out in 1247 with Heinrich Raspe and his grandson, Heinrich III. von Meissen (Heinrich the Illustrious), Thuringia . Around this time, the construction of the church of Uichteritz, the oldest still existing building in the place, fell. It was built in the 13th century as a fortified church in Romanesque style, in which monks from the Benedictine monastery Goseck performed services. Later Uichteritz got their own pastor. At the back of the church there are sandstone pillars in which there are long grooves, so-called sword grooves. In these the knights consecrated their swords before going into battle when they went to church for the last time.

At the end of the 9th century, records were first made of places that were subject to certain taxes ( tithe ). In the " Hersfeld Tenth Directory ", among other things, market advertising , tag advertising and Goseck are mentioned. Since some of the documents can no longer be evaluated, one can only assume that Uichteritz can be found among the places mentioned. In the middle of the 14th century Uichteritz was annexed to Saxony and has been settled continuously since then.

In an eventful history, the citizens of the small village experienced the reprisals, looting and destruction of the great wars ( Thirty Years War , Seven Years War , Liberation Wars 1813). Added to this were famines, crop failures and floods. In old writings it is written that the Saale stepped mightily out of its river bed in 1784 and 44 houses, barns and stables collapsed in Uichteritz alone.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Lobitsch was incorporated.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent community of Uichteritz was incorporated into the town of Weißenfels together with the communities of Markwerben and Langendorf . The Lobitzsch district belonged to the former community.

politics

The municipality of Uichteritz, which was independent until its incorporation in 2010, is now a district and a locality of the city of Weißenfels within the meaning of § 86 GO LSA . It thus has a local council and a local mayor.

Local council

The local council consists of 11 elected local councils. The local mayor belongs to the local council ex officio and is chairman.

Local mayor

Local mayor is Andreas Korch after the local elections on May 26, 2019.

coat of arms

The municipality had no legally awarded coat of arms.

Uichteritz's unofficial coat of arms corresponds to that of the von Uechtritz family

Personalities

• Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1756), hymn poet and theologian in Hamburg .

literature

• August Nebe : Uichtritz, On the history of a small village in the time of the Thirty Years War, in: New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research, 1874, p. 314ff

Web links

Commons : Uichteritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bibliography in the Wildenfels Castle Archives
• Uichteritz on weissenfels.de
• Official local website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main statute of the city of Weißenfels in the version of the announcement of January 27, 2015 (WSF-OJ No. 2/2015, p. 3), amended by the statutes of November 26, 2016 (WSF-OJ 11/2016, p. 3 ) . ( weissenfels.de [PDF; 275 kB ; accessed on October 20, 2017]).
2. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010