Nerchau

Nerchau City of Grimma
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 15 "  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 22"  E
Height :	140 m above sea level NN
Area :	39.94 km²
Residents :	3860  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density :	97 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2011
Postal code :	04668
Area code :	034382

Nerchau, aerial photo (2017)

Nerchau Church (June 2018)

The city of Nerchau is now part of the large district town of Grimma in the Saxon district of Leipzig .

geography

location

Nerchau is located in the valley of the United Mulde between Grimma and Wurzen in the Leipzig district in Saxony .

Districts

Goose market

Railway embankment on the Mulde

Districts of Nerchau were:

• Stretchers
• Cannewitz
• Deditz
• Thought joke
• Fremdiswalde
• Gaudichsroda
• Golzern
• Gornewitz
• Grottewitz
• Löbschütz
• Schmorditz
• Serka
• Thümmlitz
• Würschwitz

history

It was first mentioned by Thietmar von Merseburg in 974 as Nirichua , which King Otto II left to the Merseburg Monastery.

In 1232 the Burgward Nerechowe is sold by the Archbishopric of Magdeburg to the Hochstift Naumburg. Thus, when the Merseburg diocese was dissolved in the meantime, Nerchau went to the archbishopric in 981 and was not removed again when the Merseburg diocese was restored, which Thietmar laments in his chronicle.

On January 1, 1952, the previously independent community of Gornewitz was incorporated.

On January 1, 2011, the merger with Grimma was completed.

Regular events

• Mulde regatta (August)
• Muldental half marathon Wurzen – Grimma (April)
• Goose Festival (November)
• Air adventure days (September / October)

Economy and Transport

The Autobahn 14 runs south of the village , the closest junctions are Grimma and Mutzschen . Nerchau had a train station on the Glauchau – Wurzen (Muldentalbahn) railway line, which has now been closed . The district of Gornewitz had a stop at the Mügeln – Neichen narrow-gauge railway, which is now also closed .

Nerchau is best known for the paint factory founded by the Hessel brothers in 1834, which today belongs to the British Daler-Rowney group and was previously one of the main employers in the region as VEB Kali-Chemie paint factory Nerchau.

In addition, the Nerchauer Brauhaus brewery has been active in Nerchau since 2011 . In addition to other varieties, the regional specialty Nerchauer Pumpernickel, known since the 16th century, is brewed here.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural monuments in Nerchau

• the early Gothic choir tower church Nerchau

Sons and Daughters of Nerchau

Advertisement for the municipal civil service school (1906)

• Johann Winckler (1642–1705), German Lutheran theologian, chief pastor of the main church Sankt Michaelis (Hamburg)
• Christian Gottlieb Kluge the Elder (1699–1759), Protestant theologian
• Theodor Kösser (1854–1929), architect
• Paul Eduard Freygang (1863–1924), architect and municipal building officer
• Curt Grottewitz (1866–1905), natural scientist, writer and Germanist; Founder of the labor movement
• Hugo Koch (1883–1964), architect, author of works on garden art
• Friedhelm Döhler (1908–1968), horn player
• Bruno Pfütze (1912–1945), SS leader in Auschwitz
• Werner Arnold (1920–2000), mining engineer and university professor
• Kessler twins : Alice and Ellen Kessler (born August 20, 1936 in Nerchau, bourgeois Kaessler), dancers and actresses; Honorary citizen of Nerchau
• Ekkehard Göpelt (* 1945), pop singer and presenter
• Rosmarie Poldrack (* 1953), doctor and environmentalist

Varia

• Nerchau and the Nerchau Church are a stop on the Muldental Cycle Path and the Muldental Railway Cycle Path.

literature

• Report on the status and the administration of the community affairs of the city of Nerchau . Nerchau 1890ff. ( Digitized version )
• Karlheinz Blaschke : On the history of the city of Nerchau up to the middle of the 19th century . In: Der Rundblick 22, 1975, pp. 21-29. Reprinted in: Peter Johanek (Ed.) With the assistance of Uwe John: Stadtgrundriß und Stadtentwicklung. Research into the development of central European cities. Selected essays by Karlheinz Blaschke (= urban research: series A, representations vol. 44). Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 1997, pp. 245–256. ISBN 3-412-06897-7 . 2nd, unchanged edition, ibid. 2001. ISBN 3-412-02601-8 .
• Cornelius Gurlitt : Nerchau. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 20. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (2nd half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1898, p. 190.
• An extensive tradition of the city of Nerchau for the period 1718-1951 on imperial, constitutional and community affairs, finances, military and war affairs, health and social affairs, trade, commerce, industry, agriculture, order and security police, fire protection, statistics, Elections, schools, churches, building management, associations and the registry office are located in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives, stock 20616 City of Nerchau.

Web links

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

• Nerchau website
• Nerchau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thietmar von Merseburg: Chronicle . Ed .: Robert Holtzmann. Hall 2007, p. 50 .
2. ↑ Hans Patze and Josef Dolle: Document book of the Hochstift Naumburg . Ed .: Hans K. Schulze. tape 2 . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2000, pp. 137 .
3. ↑ Grimma: Nerchau for incorporation. Accessed on September 16, 2017 (German). 
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
5. ^ VEB Kali-Chemie Farbenfabrik Nerchau at archiv.sachsen.de, accessed on March 6, 2015.
6. ↑ Muldental-Radweg United Mulde. Retrieved September 16, 2017 . 
7. ↑ 20616 City of Nerchau. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .  (Info text under "Introduction")