Merkwitz (Taucha)
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Merkwitz
City of Taucha
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 34 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 30" E
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| Height : | 132 m | |
| Residents : | 396 (December 31, 2016) | |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1992 | |
| Postal code : | 04425 | |
| Area code : | 034298 | |
Location of Merkwitz in Saxony |
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Merkwitz is part of the municipality of the Saxon town of Taucha in the northern Saxony district .
geography
Merkwitz is located about 4 km north-northeast of the city center of Taucha. The BMW plant Leipzig, which opened in 2005, is located west of Merkwitz .
The neighboring towns of Merkwitz are Gottscheina in the north, Pönitz in the east, Seegeritz in the south, Plaußig in the south-west and Hohenheida in the north-west.
history
The first documented form of place names dates from 1266 as Merkwiz . Like Hohenheida and Gottscheina, Merkwitz had been one of the three old university villages since 1438 . For almost 400 years, the University of Leipzig received income from the village as the manor. August Schumann mentions Merkwitz in 1819 in the State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony concerning a. a .:
“It has 22 houses, 110 inhabitants, 8 ¼ magazine hooves, a side of Leipzig, and is parish in Hohenheida. Among the houses are 8 goods, 1 inn and a small tavern. "
Merkwitz was until 1856 in the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the Taucha court office and from 1875 to the Leipzig District Administration . In 1973 Seegeritz was incorporated into the then independent municipality of Merkwitz, which had been in the northeast of what was then the Leipzig-Land district in the Leipzig district since 1952 . On July 1, 1992, Merkwitz and Seegeritz were incorporated into Taucha.
Development of the population
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Web links
- Merkwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cf. Merkwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ See Merkwitz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 8th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1821, p. 405.
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
- ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
- ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1992 to December 31, 1992 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 2. (PDF file; 14 kB), accessed on April 18, 2012.
