Moritz (Zeithain)

Moritz Zeithain parish Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 45 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 30 ″  E
Area :	1.37 km²
Residents :	112  (December 31, 2014)
Population density :	82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1970
Incorporated into:	Röderau
Postal code :	01619
Area code :	03525
Location of Moritz in Saxony
Village street

Moritz is a right side of the Elbe situated district of the Saxon community Zeithain in the district of Meissen . The place was first mentioned in 1186 as Mordiz .

geography

The place is located directly on the Elbe between the places Grödel and Promnitz on the Elbe Cycle Path . To the west of Moritz lies the former Gut Göhlis and Poppitz on the other side of the Elbe, and to the northwest lies the town of Riesa . The Elsterwerda-Grödel raft canal flows into the Elbe south of the village . Moritz was created on a flood island and lies in a former alluvial cone of the Elbe. An old Elbarm, which has now been drained, branches off north of Moritz and flows back into the Elbe behind Kreinitz. This old river bed makes Moritz vulnerable to flooding. Around 1900 the place was described as a farming hamlet and was surrounded by a strip of land similar to that of a winch .

history

Moritz was first mentioned in 1186 as a manor. The place belonged to the possession of the diocese of Naumburg . The place name was changed several times, so Moritz was called Mordiz in 1160 , 1234 Morditz , 1324 Mordicz , 1477 Mordiczs and Mortiz in 1540. It was not until 1552 that the current spelling of the place name prevailed.

There was a ferry early on, which the Naumburg feudal bearer Rudengerus von Muskowitz sold together with the village to the Riesa monastery in 1222 . Moritz remained in its possession until its secularization. After that, the possessions were continued for a few years as the Riesa monastery office. The place originally parish to Riesa was parish to Röderau as early as 1540 .

Moritz was not spared from the plague either. In 1633 twelve residents died of this epidemic. In the years 1631 (61 dead), 1632 (117 dead) and 1634 (12 dead) the plague raged in the parish Zeithain, to which Moritz belonged at that time.

In January 1651 Moritz was badly hit by a flood of the Elbe : It was January 9 before noon at 9 o'clock when the flood came into the village. Although now the people in the villages near the Elbe, such as Moritz, Promnitz, Lessa, Gohlis, Zschepa, Lorenzkirch ufm. all lived in great need and danger, no one perished. In Moritz all the sheep and almost all the cattle drowned, the seeds in the fields were washed away.

In 1696 the Riesa manor exercised the manorial rule and the place was part of the Meißen office . During the pleasure camp of Zeithain , a splendid troop show by August the Strong in June 1730, slaughterhouses and bakeries were located in Moritz. a. 160 bakers were employed. Grandstands were erected on the right bank of the Elbe in order to be able to admire the fireworks on the left side of the Elbe, which took place on June 24, 1730. In Moritz, on June 25, 1730, a huge stollen was baked at great expense , which was transported to the headquarters in Radewitz and distributed to the Saxon troops on June 26, 1730. The cake, several meters long (13 or 18 cubits long depending on the source ) had to be transported to the camp in a cart pulled by eight horses.

In February 1784 Moritz was again inundated by floods during an ice trip . Again the cattle drowned. Around 1840 Moritz consisted of three estates and five hoppers. The inhabitants were mostly farmers and boatmen. In 1847 the newly built dam between Grödel and Moritz broke due to a strong flood. Between 1856 and 1875 Moritz belonged to the Riesa court office , then to the administrative authority of Großenhain . In 1925, 132 inhabitants of Moritz were Evangelical Lutheran and eleven were Catholic . In 1931 the tenant Arnold leased the ferry, who also ran the inn.

Saxons came after the Second World War in the Soviet zone of occupation and later the GDR. The 1952 territorial reform assigned Moritz to the Riesa district in the Dresden district . In the same year the ferry service was stopped. The rural life in the place was based on the principle of agriculture in the GDR . In 1970 LPG Immertreu Moritz joined the LPG Type III unit in Röderau . The place lost its independence and was incorporated into Röderau in 1970.

Tower Dutch mill Moritz 1972

After the German reunification , Moritz came to the re-established Free State of Saxony. The following regional reforms in Saxony assigned the place to the Riesa-Großenhain district in 1996 and to the Meißen district in 2008 . On January 1, 1994, the Röderau municipality merged with Bobersen to form the Röderau-Bobersen municipality . On July 1, 2002, the community Röderau-Bobersen, to which Moritz belonged, was incorporated into Zeithain. In recent history, Moritz was badly hit by the flood of the century in 2002 and the flood in 2013 . On June 6, 2013 the Elbe dam broke near Moritz after it had already been overflowed due to the high water level, the place and the B 169 were flooded. The water flowed along the old Elbarm. Great damage was caused to the houses in the village, which is gradually being repaired.

Population development

The population has increased steadily since the Middle Ages and had reached its maximum in 1946. Since then, the population has been falling again.

Population development

year	Residents	year	Residents
1552	4 possessed men , 14 residents	1933	144
1764	4 possessed men, 2 cottagers , 10 hooves 24–30 bushels each	1939	208
1834	46	1946	276
1871	86	1950	240
1890	144	1964	209
1910	153
1925	143		→ Röderau

Personalities

Max Hoelz (born October 14, 1889 in Moritz, † September 15, 1933 near Gorki , USSR ) was a German communist .

literature

• Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1841. Page 57 ( online ), accessed on January 8, 2014

Web links

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

Moritz (Zeithain) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ferry Göhlis Gut - Moritz km 104.534. In: Ferries and shipping on the Upper Elbe in Saxony and Bohemia. Klaus Stein, accessed January 8, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Johannes Thomas: Three centuries of life in the old Patrochy Zeithain 1567–1862 . In: Our home Riesa. Leaves for the care of the homeland love of local research and homeland security . tape 3 , 1930, p. 8-9 . , Riesa.
3. ↑ So the "Kurtze message from the in whole Europe famous, d. June 25, 1730 to Moritz bey Risa in Saxony happily baked, 13 ells long butter stollen ", quoted by Hans Beschorner: Descriptions and illustrations of the Zeithainer camp from 1730. In: Hubert Ermisch (Hrsg.): Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte and antiquity . Vol. 27, Baensch, Dresden 1906, p. 109 and p. 139 ( online ); as well as an engraving by Elias Baeck , quoted in. ibid. p. 139
4. ↑ Saxon Official Gazette p. 747 of July 4, 2002. Area changes from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002 (PDF; 12 kB) at www.statistik.sachsen.de
5. ↑ of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture u. Geology, June 2013 (PDF; 4.5 MB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Moritz (Zeithain) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Grossenhain district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ With the incorporation of Moritz into Röderau in 1970, only official population figures were collected for the entire community.