Nünchritz
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ' N , 13 ° 24' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saxony | |
County : | Meissen | |
Management Community : | Nünchritz | |
Height : | 105 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 31.28 km 2 | |
Residents: | 5505 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 176 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 01612 | |
Primaries : | 035265, 035267 (partly Merschwitz) | |
License plate : | MEI, GRH, RG, RIE | |
Community key : | 14 6 27 190 | |
LOCODE : | DE NTZ | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Glaubitzer Strasse 10 01612 Nünchritz |
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Mayor : | Gerd Barthold ( CDU ) | |
Location of the community of Nünchritz in the district of Meißen | ||
Nünchritz is a municipality in the Meißen district in Saxony and the seat of the Nünchritz administrative community , to which the Glaubitz municipality also belongs.
Geography, Economy and Transport
The community is located on the edge of the Großenhainer Pflege on the eastern bank of the Elbe in the Elbaue . The nearest district towns are Großenhain (10 km), Meißen (10 km) and Riesa (8 km). The B 98 and the Leipzig – Riesa – Dresden railway line run through the north of the municipality. The Elsterwerda-Grödel raft canal flows into the Elbe in the Grödel district .
Local division
The following districts belong to the municipality:
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history
History of Nünchritz
Nünchritz was first mentioned in 1312 as Nucharicz . However, the area was already populated in the Stone Age (around 4000 BC), which archaeological finds prove. In historical times there was a wine-growing area and the Elbe also determined the development of the area. In the Middle Ages , the Hohe Straße (Salt Road) ran through the municipality. The Leipzig – Dresden railway line was built from 1839 and since 2003 Nünchritz has had its own stopping point with hourly connections to Riesa, Dresden and Leipzig.
Between 1900 and 1905 a plant of the chemical factory v. Heyden in Radebeul . Even today, the site is the location of a chemical factory in which siloxanes are produced. The plant, which has been part of Wacker Chemie at Friedrich-von-Heyden- Platz since October 1, 1998 , employs around 1,500 people (as of June 30, 2016), making it the largest industrial employer in the Meißen district. An expansion for the production of polysilicon , which was completed in October 2011 , created around 500 additional jobs.
History of Seusslitz
The oldest part of the community is Seusslitz , which was first mentioned in a document in 1205. At that time there was a castle (owner Otto von Suselitz). It was demolished in 1226 and converted into a hunting residence by the Margrave of Meissen Heinrich the Illustrious . 1268 he donated the property with 17 associated villages the Poor Clare nuns convent . After the Reformation in 1546, the Secret Council of Elector Moritz von Sachsen , Simon Pistoris the Younger , bought the monastery and converted it into his residential palace. In 1722 Heinrich von Bünau acquired the property and Seusslitz Castle with the castle park and the castle church was rebuilt in the Baroque style according to designs by George Bähr .
History of the other districts
Diesbar was first mentioned in a document in 1272 as Dievesvere , Grödel in 1324 as Gredil , Zschaiten in 1324 as Zschetin , Roda in 1365 as Rode and Weißig in 1378 as Wizzok . There was a castle / manor house in Grödel.
Incorporations
On July 1, 1973, the communities of Grödel and Zschaiten were incorporated with the Roda district, which was incorporated on July 1, 1950. On January 1, 1994, the municipality of Weißig followed. On January 1, 2003, the municipality of Diesbar-Seusslitz with the districts Diesbar-Seusslitz (created on January 1, 1952 from the merger of the two previously independent municipalities), Goltzscha, Leckwitz , Merschwitz , Naundörfchen (incorporated into Leckwitz on July 1, 1950 ) and Neuseußlitz (attached to Diesbar-Seusslitz on July 1, 1973).
politics
Municipal council
Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 18 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
mayor
A mayoral election took place on September 16, 2007 to determine a successor to Mayor Udo Schmidt ( SPD ). Anett Wendler (SPD) received 36.8% of the vote and Gerd Barthold ( CDU ) 34.3%. Therefore, a by-election took place on September 30th, which Barthold won with 47.8%. The turnout was 56.8% in the first and 52.2% in the second ballot. In October 2014, Barthold was confirmed in office with 98% of the votes.
Local partnerships
Nünchritz maintains a local partnership with the community of Ubstadt-Weiher in Baden-Württemberg .
Culture
- see also: List of cultural monuments in Nünchritz
Attractions
- Canal bridge and canal head of the Elsterwerda-Grödel raft canal built between 1740 and 1748 near Grödel
- Alter Wall-Graben, the remainder of the moated castle in Zschaiten, which was probably built in the 12th century
- Church in Zschaiten (built before 1503)
- Merschwitz Church
- Tower crane Merschwitz (built 1921)
- Baroque castle Seusslitz with castle garden in French and English horticultural style, therein sculptures which symbolize the seasons and the months
- Heinrichsburg, a simple two-storey garden house (built in the years 1725/26 according to plans by George Bähr ) in Seusslitz
- baroque winegrower's house, the Luisenburg in Seusslitz
- Mill in Grödel
Regular events
- Seusslitz marriage market
- It is a more than 500 year old folk festival that takes place every year on Ascension Day. A wedding ceremony for one day is possible at this folk festival. The bridal show of the nuns who became free after the dissolution of the monastery is regarded as the origin of this custom.
memorial
On Riesaer Straße there is a cemetery of honor with a memorial for 17 Soviet soldiers and officers of the 1st Guard Cavalry Corps who died on April 23, 1945 in fighting in Nünchritz. Their names are unknown. The memorial was inaugurated on June 5, 1945.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Heinz Haupt (1924–2010), table tennis player and trainer of the GDR
- Frank Terpe (1929–2013), mathematician, politician (SPD) and former Minister for Research and Technology of the GDR
- Ernst Peschel (1853–1927), elementary school teacher, local history researcher and amateur archaeologist
- Jörg Peter (* 1955), former German long-distance runner
literature
- Elbe valley and Loess hill country near Meissen (= values of our homeland . Volume 32). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 36.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Wacker Chemie production sites: Nünchritz , accessed on December 2, 2012
- ↑ Dr. Helmuth Gröger: Castles and palaces in Saxony, Verlag Heimatwerk Sachsen, Dresden, 1940, article on the Grödel palace / manor house with illustration on page 115
- ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2003
- ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
- ↑ Description on the website of the Nünchritz community (accessed on November 13, 2013)
- ^ Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten Documentation Center Dresden , accessed on August 13, 2013
Web links
- Website of the community of Nünchritz
- Nünchritz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony