Moritzburg (Saxony)
coat of arms | Germany map | |
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ' N , 13 ° 41' E |
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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) | |
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 |
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Website : | ||
Mayor : | Jörg Hänisch (non-party) | |
Location of the municipality of Moritzburg in the district of Meißen | ||
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 | 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 |
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Except | 199 |
Boxing village | 2050 |
Friedewald with Buchholz and Dippelsdorf | 1087 |
Moritzburg with Eisenberg | 2552 |
Reichenberg | 1414 |
Steinbach | 927 |
history
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
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 |
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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
Buildings
The most famous sight of Moritzburg is the Moritzburg Hunting Lodge . Other attractions are
- Pheasant castle
- House of the horse
- Käthe Kollwitz House Moritzburg
- Evangelical Luth. Moritzburg Church
- Lighthouse at the Fasanenschlösschen
- Red House, Dippelsdorf
- Moritzburg State Stud
- Loessnitzgrundbahn
- Moritzburg game reserve
- Windmill in Boxdorf
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:
- Operation of the holiday park & camping site Bad Sonnenland, with bungalows, tent and caravan sites,
- Operation of the Moritzburg Tourist Information Office,
- Operation of the parking lots in and around Moritzburg,
- Organization and logistical support of major events in Moritzburg as well
- 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
- Samuel Locke (1710-1793), architect
- Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen (1738–1822), art patron
- Carl Ludwig Alfred Fiedler (1835–1921), physician
- Bruno Adam (1846–1918), architect
- Fritz Krause (1881–1963), ethnologist and university professor
- Curt Trepte (1902–1990), actor, theater director
- Wilhelm Rühle (1906–1993), organ builder
Personalities associated with the place
- Moritz of Saxony (1521–1553), elector
- Janko Peranski († 1689), commander of the Croatian horsemen of Johann Georg II and local governor
- August the Strong (1670–1733), Elector of Saxony
- Friedrich August I (1750–1827), first king of Saxony
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), sculptor and graphic artist
- Theodor Meentzen (1875–1963), writer, publicist
- Ernst Heinrich of Saxony (1896–1971), Wettiner
- Gertrude Seltmann-Meentzen (1901–1985), entrepreneur, pioneer in the manufacture and use of natural cosmetics
- Charlotte Meentzen (1904–1940), entrepreneur, pioneer in the manufacture and use of natural cosmetics
- Erik Mailick (1907–1990), painter
- Walter Henn (1912–2006), architect and university professor
- Karlheinz Blaschke , Prof. Dr. phil. (* 1924) German and Saxon archivist and historian
- Hans Georg Anniès (1930–2006), printmaker and sculptor
- Roland Adolph (1946–1997), Protestant pastor
- Michael Muster (* 1946), lawyer and politician ( The blue party previously AfD )
- Kirsten Muster (* 1960), lawyer and politician ( The blue party previously AfD )
- Jan Vogler (* 1964), cellist and artistic director of the Moritzburg Festival
- Martin Dulig (* 1974), Saxon State Minister for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister
literature
- Dresden History Association (Ed.): The Moritzburg cultural landscape . Dresdner Hefte, No. 42.Dresden 1995
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Moritzburg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Moritzburg cultural landscape
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ districts. In: moritzburg.de. Retrieved October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ 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
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
- ↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/wahlverbindungen-2020-nach-gemeinden-7494.html
- ↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/Erresult_GR19.php?landkreis=14627&gemeinde=14627150
- ↑ Homepage. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .
Remarks
- ↑ The year of birth on the family tombstone (Moritzburg cemetery) is incorrectly stated as 1874.
- ↑ Contrary to many publications and sources, the correct first name is not Gertrude, but Gertrud (see Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Dresden, file 11384, no. 4524)