Lommatzsch
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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ' N , 13 ° 18' E |
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| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Meissen | |
| Height : | 168 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 66.63 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 4848 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 73 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 01623 | |
| Area code : | 035241 | |
| License plate : | MEI, GRH, RG, RIE | |
| Community key : | 14 6 27 130 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SCJ | |
| City structure: | 39 districts | |
City administration address : |
Am Markt 1 01623 Lommatzsch |
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| Mayoress : | Anita Maaß ( FDP ) | |
| Location of the city of Lommatzsch in the district of Meißen | ||
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Lommatzsch is a country town in the district of Meissen in Saxony , Germany .
geography
location
Lommatzsch is located in the middle of the Lommatzscher care , an agricultural area with excellent loess soils between the valleys of the Keppritzbach and the Ketzerbach .
City structure
Districts are:
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Neighboring communities
| Ostrau | Stauchitz | Hirschstein |
| Zschaitz-Ottewig | Diera-Zehren | |
| Chub (Central Saxony) | Nossen | Käbschützal |
history
Place name forms
The name of the city is derived from Glumaci, the Daleminziern , who in turn called themselves Glomaci (pronounced glomatschi) after their holy spring . The following names are documented. The first mentions are indirect mentions of a settlement.
The following forms of name can be documented:
- 1190 (before 1190) Thiemo de Lomacz
- 1206 Heinricus sacerdos de Lomaz
- 1286 Lomats
- 1308 Lomatsch
- 1350 Lamacz, Lowmacz
- 1408 Lommaczsch
- 1500 Lumbatzsch (HOV)
- 1518 Lumbicz
- 1547 Lommatz, Lommitsch, Lummitsch
Development of the city
As a city (civitas seu oppidum) Lommatzsch was first mentioned in 1286 as Lomatz. On August 12, 1330, Landgrave Friedrich gave the Burgrave of Meißen the beer interest at Lommatzsch. This gave the city the right to brew . In 1386 there was a mayor and a council, the council constitution of 1412 provided for a mayor and 9 councilors. 1504 Start of construction of the now still existing Wenceslas Church. Three Gothic spiers were added to the tower from earlier times and a nave was added. The Reformation was introduced in 1539 and Ambrosius Naumann becomes the first Protestant city pastor. Between 1550 and 1555 the town hall was built in its current size. In 1591 the Wenceslas Church got its first church clock. The plague also troubled Lommatzsch, in 1607 and 1611 a total of 1,350 plague deaths occurred. The following years were marked by the Thirty Years War . In 1632 the city was burned and cremated by imperial troops and around 1645 there were renewed fires of houses and barns by the Swedes . In 1722, a Saxon post-distance column was set up on the market , which was there until 1857 and is now in the form of a replica (fragments of the original column in the museum). In 1814 a new organ was inaugurated for the church. Lommatzsch did not remain unaffected by the German Revolution , so in 1849 the first Lommatzscher Anzeiger was launched, a court building was built in 1854 and a trade association was founded in 1857. 1859 Inauguration of the main building of the school and foundation of the volunteer fire brigade in 1865 . In 1873 the church and school were separated, so that from then on there were 2 citizen schools. In 1878 the gymnasium was built at the school. 1877 opening of the railway line to Riesa and 1880 to Nossen . In 1909 the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff-Gärtitz followed to Meißen and in 1911 to Döbeln .
At the end of the Second World War there was a constant change of fronts between German troops and Red Army units : from April 25 to April 28, 1945, Lommatzsch was taken by the Soviet Sodaten and again by German soldiers from April 29 to May 5. During these days, SS men had 36 forced laborers denounced by the civilian population and another innocent sixteen-year-old boy who allegedly stole a typewriter set up at the church and shot them with a gun salvo . When more Soviet troops became available after the Battle of Berlin , the SS fled Lommatzsch and the Red Army marched in.
Incorporations
The municipality of Messa was incorporated into Lommatzsch as the first municipality in 1904. The municipality of Domselwitz followed in 1905. The municipalities of Altlommatzsch and Jessen were incorporated in 1973. In 1994 the communities Dörschnitz, Neckanitz, Piskowitz, Striegnitz, Wachtnitz and Wuhnitz were incorporated into the city of Lommatzsch.
politics
City Councilor and Mayoress
The result of the local elections on May 26, 2019 is shown in the diagrams opposite.
The historian Anita Maaß (FDP) has been the mayor of Lommatzsch since 2005 .
badges and flags
Blazon : “In silver a growing black-jointed red battlement wall, growing out of it a red building with a cross-lined gable - including three silver arched windows - and two tinned side towers with silver-knotted, blue-clapboard pointed roofs and four silver arched windows each (2/1/1); in the open silver gate under a raised black portcullis a black lion . "
The first proof of the coat of arms is on a seal that was on a document from 1461. Between 1623 and 1627 there was another coat of arms, drawn by Dilich. The current version was created in 1912, but has since been slightly modified by replacing the golden knobs on the towers and the open gate with silver ones.
Description of the flag: "The flag has red and white stripes with a coat of arms in the middle."
Partnerships
Lommatzsch has had a partnership with Weissach im Tal in Baden-Württemberg since 1990 and with the Hungarian city of Kiskunmajsa since 1996
Memorials
- Grave site and memorial at the city church for an unknown number of forced laborers from several countries who were shot by SS men in a massacre on April 29, 1945
- Memorial complex in the cemetery of the Dörschnitz district for 36 unknown concentration camp prisoners who were murdered in Dörschnitz and Klappendorf in April 1945. The facility was inaugurated in 1947 in the presence of Otto Nuschke .
Culture and sights
- Marktplatz : The central building on the market is the town hall, built in 1550/55, which combines elements of Art Nouveau, Baroque and Renaissance styles. In front of the town hall there is a replica of the Kursächsische Postmeile Pillar, the original parts of which were exhibited from 1726 in the Saxon Postmaster's Room in Dresden until 1945 and can now be found in the city museum. The city museum is located in the Am Markt 14 building, the oldest half-timbered building in the city.
- Schaubergkeller area : Lommatzsch's historic town center is criss-crossed by a series of interconnected underground cellars. These have been used as storage rooms since the 14th century. At the same time, the rooms offered protection from war and fire. In the past few decades there have been a number of subsidence (including 1926, 1939, 1970, 1996) that caused damage to streets, squares and house fronts. The exact number and location of the cellars is not known; it is assumed that there are around 85 systems with a corridor of over two kilometers. The underground cellars have been renovated since 1995. Some of the facilities have been open to the public as a showroom cellar area since 2000. The Schaubergkeller area is 122.5 m long, has a floor depth of 4 to 7 m, a passage height of approximately 1.75 m and a cavity volume of 320 m³.
- Wenceslas Church :A church consecrated to St. Wenceslas already existed in Lommatzsch before 1190. The current building was built between 1504 and 1514 as a late Gothic three-tower single-nave church. The builder was Peter Ulrich von Pirna (called Meister Peter ). The baroque altar structure (1714), the pulpit (1619) and a number of grave monuments from the 16th to 18th centuries are worth seeing. In the Wenceslas Church there is the five-child stone , which is reported in the chronicle: “Anno 1688 on June 25th, Fr. Maria Samuel Kühnens citizen and furrier in the Meißnische Gasse married 5 children in about half a day as 3 sons and 2 daughters The world is hoarded. ”The quintuplets from Lommatzsch are one of the first precisely documented cases of a high-grade multiple birth . One child died immediately after birth, two more after two days. The fourth child lived about six days and the last born died at eight weeks of age. This event was so unusual for that time that the Saxon Elector Johann Georg III was informed about it in a letter.
economy
In VEB Apparatebau Lommatzsch , several hundred gliders of the types Baby IIb , Lehrmeister , Libelle and Favorit were manufactured from the mid-1950s to 1964 .
Frosta , the manufacturer of frozen foods , operates a production site for vegetables in Lommatzsch with 150 employees.
traffic
The urban area leads the federal highway B6. The federal highways B169 and B101 are near the city area. The S 85 provides a good connection to the A 4 and A 14 motorways and thus to Dresden (approx. 50 min) and Leipzig (approx. 60 min). Since 1998 there has been no train traffic on the Riesa – Nossen railway line through Lommatzsch , whereby the city can no longer be reached by rail. In addition, between 1909/11 and 1970/72 there was a connection in Lommatzsch to the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff-Gärtitz .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Robert Volkmann (1815–1883), composer born in Lommatzsch
- Carl Menzel (1844–1923), entrepreneur, founded the "Carlswerk" glass factory in Lommatzsch
- Gerhard Menzel (1911–1997), entrepreneur, promoted his hometown
- Terence Hill (* 1939), Italian-American actor , lived in Lommatzsch from 1943 to 1945
- Rudolf Martick , worked for more than five decades as a piano player and composer in the Robert Volkmann Choir in Lommatzsch
- Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), politician and statesman, was the first Chancellor of the German Empire , the establishment of which he played a major role.
- Konrad Schwänke (* 1941), worked for 27 years as a city councilor (non-party with CDU mandate) and deputy mayor for Lommatzsch
sons and daughters of the town
- Simon Sten (1540–1619) educator, ethnologist, philologist, historian and literary scholar
- Augustin Prescher (1593–1675), pastor, host of the negotiations on the armistice of Kötzschenbroda
- Hermann Rentzsch (1832–1917), member of the Reichstag and Landtag from Daubnitz
- Otto Sohre (1853–1926), architect and builder
- Hans Fährmann (1860–1940), composer and organist
- Carl Schümichen (1863–1933), architect and builder
- Gerd Berendt (* 1915), writer
- Reiner Frieske (* 1940), handball goalkeeper
- Horst Frank (1942–1962), killed on the Berlin Wall
- Dagmar Schmidt (* 1963), artist and curator
- Franko Hölzig (* 1965), national volleyball player
- Jens Kürbis (* 1965), handball player and journalist
literature
- o. A .: Lommatzsch through the ages. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1995, ISBN 3-89570-098-3 .
- Karlheinz Blaschke : Lommatzsch and Lausick. Two “church towns” in Saxony . In: Peter Johanek (Ed.) With the collaboration of Uwe John: Stadtgrundriß und Stadtentwicklung. Research into the development of central European cities. Selected essays by Karlheinz Blaschke (= urban research: series A, representations vol. 44). Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 1997, pp. 342–351. ISBN 3-412-06897-7 , 2nd, unchanged edition, ibid. 2001. ISBN 3-412-02601-8 .
- Siegfried Börtitz, Herbert Grund: The medieval cellars in the urban area of Lommatzsch . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter Heft 3/1972, pp. 105–110.
- R. Naumann: Lommatzsch in the past and present. in: Mitteilungen des Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz, Volume XXI, Issue 1–3 / 1932, pp. 75–82.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Lommatzsch. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 41. Issue: Administrative Authority Meißen-Land . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1923, p. 268.
Web links
- City homepage
- Lommatzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Homepage Lommatzscher care
- Homepage Lommatzsch.net - The city network
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b Das Sachsenbuch, Kommunal-Verlag Sachsen KG, Dresden, 1943
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
- ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2019
- ↑ official and Miiteilungsblatt the city Lommatzsch
- ^ Flag of the city of Lommatzsch
- ↑ PDF at www.dr-gmeier.de
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fritz Löffler: The city churches in Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1988, p. 222
- ^ FRoSTA AG: Elbe Valley. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Jürgen Müller: Is Bismarck an honorary citizen of Lommatzsch? In: Sächsische Zeitung, edition: Riesaer Zeitung . February 16, 2013, p. 19 .
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