Mockritz (Elsnig)

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Mockritz
Elsnig municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 79 m above sea level NN
Residents : 184
Incorporation : 1974
Postal code : 04880
Area code : 03421

Mockritz is a district of the municipality Elsnig in the district of North Saxony in Saxony .

Main street in Mockritz

location

Mockritz is located on an elevated plain southeast of Neiden and north of the city of Torgau in the Elbaue on an oxbow lake not far from the river that flows past to the east. In terms of traffic, the district can be reached via connecting roads from Neiden and Döbern .

history

In 1198 a mansion of a single estate was mentioned in a document on the place of Mockritz. The estate was called Tiedoldus de Mocrus ; In 1350 the village was called Mockerwics and in 1529 Mockritz . From 1606 to 1797 the manor was called Kreischa . Either that was the name of the new owner or of another village from where the estate was cultivated. In 1895 the farmers and the estate cultivated 835 hectares of land in their district . 184 people lived here in 1818, 207 in 1964 and 419 in 1949. As early as 1974, the village was incorporated into Elsnig.

literature

Wagner, Jürgen: Peasant ownership consequences in Mockritz Krs. Torgau. Düsseldorf 2000. Series of publications of the AMF Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mitteldeutscher Familienforscher No. 82

Individual evidence

  1. Without author: Mockritz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony. Retrieved from the Internet on November 10, 2012

Web links

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