Moritzburg (Saxony)

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Coat of arms of the Moritzburg community
Moritzburg (Saxony)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Moritzburg highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '  N , 13 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Meissen
Height : 166 m above sea level NHN
Area : 46.49 km 2
Residents: 8326 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 179 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 01466-01468
Primaries : 035207, 0351, 035243 (Steinbach)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : MEI, GRH, RG, RIE
Community key : 14 6 27 150
Community structure: 6 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Schloßallee 22
01468 Moritzburg
Website : www.moritzburg.de
Mayor : Jörg Hänisch (non-party)
Location of the municipality of Moritzburg in the district of Meißen
Coswig (Sachsen) Diera-Zehren Ebersbach (bei Großenhain) Glaubitz Gröditz Großenhain Hirschstein Käbschütztal Klipphausen Lampertswalde Lommatzsch Meißen Moritzburg Gröditz Niederau Nossen Nünchritz Priestewitz Radebeul Radeburg Riesa Röderaue Schönfeld Stauchitz Strehla Thiendorf Weinböhla Wülknitz Zeithain Sachsen Dresden Landkreis Bautzen Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Landkreis Mittelsachsen Landkreis Nordsachsen Brandenburgmap
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Moritzburg is a municipality in Saxony that was named Eisenberg-Moritzburg until 1934 . The place is best known for the hunting and baroque castle and as the place where Käthe Kollwitz died .

geography

location

Moritzburg is located in the middle of Saxony and is about 13 kilometers to the northwest from the city center of the state capital Dresden . The place is located in the district of Meißen and forms a municipality with the surrounding villages. Moritzburg is located in the middle of the Friedewald nature reserve and Moritzburg pond area . This area includes 22 Moritzburg ponds with around 418 hectares of water. In terms of natural space, the place is assigned to the West Lusatian hills and mountains . The hill country is between 124 m and 312 m above sea level. It belongs to the Lausitzer Platte and the Meissen Syenite - Granite - Massif. A moderately dry climate prevails.

Neighboring communities

Niederau Ebersbach Radeburg
Weinböhla Neighboring communities Radeburg
Coswig Radebeul Dresden

Community structure

The following table shows the districts of the Moritzburg community with their population as of December 31, 2010:

District Residents
Except 0199
Boxing village 2050
Friedewald with Buchholz and Dippelsdorf 1087
Moritzburg with Eisenberg 2552
Reichenberg 1414
Steinbach 0927

history

Moritzburg Castle with Eisenberg on a map from the 19th century

The municipality of Moritzburg emerged from the rural municipality of Eisenberg , which also included a district called Moritzburg. This involved Moritzburg Castle, the buildings in its immediate vicinity and the associated manor district, i.e. lands and forests from the Pheasant Castle to the Auer district . Even before 1900 the community received the double name Eisenberg-Moritzburg. In 1934 the parish in Moritzburg was renamed after the castle.

During the GDR era, Moritzburg became known through a training aid for socialist Vietnam . The GDR offered the Vietnamese to have a number of children trained here. In July 1955, this training program began for 149 Vietnamese children between the ages of nine and fifteen. A total of around 350 children and young people were trained in Dresden and Moritzburg and graduated as a skilled worker and university . These Vietnamese “Moritzburgers” went back to their country and have maintained a traditional cultural association to this day.

From 1945 to 1996 the so-called “ Saxon treasure ” was hidden in the forest near Moritzburg .

The Moritzburg community expanded to include Steinbach on January 1, 1996 and Reichenberg on January 1, 1999 , which also brought in the Friedewald and Boxdorf districts incorporated on January 1, 1994 .

politics

Mayor and City Council

City council election 2019
Turnout: 72.7%
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30th
20th
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28.1
25.3
22.6
9.8
7.5
6.7
n. k.
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FWM d
Pro S f
FUW h
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 30th
 25th
 20th
 15th
 10
   5
   0
  -5
-10
-15
-12.3
+25.3
-0.9
-1.6
-1.9
+0.5
-6.3
-2.8
FWM d
Pro S f
FUW h
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Remarks:
d Free voters Moritzburg
f Pro Steinbach
h FORUM INDEPENDENT VOTERS

The Moritzburg municipal council consists of 19 members, including the mayor , who is the chairman.

The last mayoral election took place on March 15, 2020. Jörg Hänisch was re-elected mayor after 2013 with 78.6%.

In the municipal council election on May 26, 2019, the following composition of the municipal council resulted:

Party / list Mayor (Chairman) CDU AfD SPD FWM left Pro Steinbach total
Seats 1 seat 5 seats (8) 5 seats (0) 4 seats (5) 2 seats (2) 1 seat (1) 1 seat (1) 19 seats

Seats 2014 in brackets also 2014: 1 seat for the FDP

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Pheasant castle
Moritzburg Castle
Evangelical Lutheran Moritzburg Church

Buildings

The most famous sight of Moritzburg is the Moritzburg Hunting Lodge . Other attractions are

Events

There are a number of regularly recurring events.

  • Wedding fair
  • Stallion Parade
  • Moritzburg Festival
  • Moritzburg fish and forest festival (fishing of the castle pond at the end of October)
  • Moritzburg Castle Triathlon
  • Carnevals Club Moritzburg e. V.

Cultural landscape Moritzburg GmbH

Kulturlandschaft Moritzburg GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of the Moritzburg community. The tasks of the Moritzburg cultural landscape are divided into several areas:

  1. Operation of the holiday park & ​​camping site Bad Sonnenland, with bungalows, tent and caravan sites,
  2. Operation of the Moritzburg Tourist Information Office,
  3. Operation of the parking lots in and around Moritzburg,
  4. Organization and logistical support of major events in Moritzburg as well
  5. tourist marketing of the Moritzburg community

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

MORITZBURG is on state roads with Dresden (with access to the motorway 4 ), Radeburg (with access to the motorway 13 ) and Meißen connected. The narrow-gauge Lößnitzgrundbahn connects Moritzburg with Radebeul and Radeburg. The beginning of the dam-like castle driveway is flanked by two historically interesting, partly still original Saxon postal distance columns from 1730, which were otherwise only set up in front of the town gates or on the town square, with distance information in one hour (1 hour = 4.531 km) to towns, post stations, but also then Saxon castles and palaces.

economy

The local economy is largely shaped by tourism. The Moritzburg Stud, a business enterprise of the Free State of Saxony, is located in Moritzburg. The origins of the stud go back to the passion for hunting August the Strong (1670–1733) and the conversion of the castle into a hunting lodge that he initiated. With the horse-breeding was begun in the now royal hunting stables. 1828

Transport links

  • Motorways: Federal Motorway 13 and Federal Motorway 4
  • Connection to supra-regional transport networks via the S 80, S 81 and S 179
  • Bus to Dresden, Coswig, Radeburg, Großenhain
  • Narrow gauge railway Radebeul Ost – Radeburg with connection to S-Bahn 1 to Dresden

education

The Evangelical University of Applied Sciences for Religious Education and Community Diaconia is located in Moritzburg .

Personalities

Sons of the place

Personalities associated with the place

literature

Web links

Commons : Moritzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Moritzburg  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ districts. In: moritzburg.de. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Freytag, Mirjam: The "Moritzburger" in Vietnam. Life paths after a school and training stay in the GDR - mediation in intercultural relationships. IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1998
  4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
  5. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
  8. ↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/wahlverbindungen-2020-nach-gemeinden-7494.html
  9. ↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/Erresult_GR19.php?landkreis=14627&gemeinde=14627150
  10. ↑ Homepage. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The year of birth on the family tombstone (Moritzburg cemetery) is incorrectly stated as 1874.
  2. ↑ Contrary to many publications and sources, the correct first name is not Gertrude, but Gertrud (see Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Dresden, file 11384, no. 4524)