Nickritz

Nickritz Large district town Riesa Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 25 ″  E
Area :	20.9 km²
Residents :	626  (1990)
Population density :	30 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1994
Postal code :	01594
Area code :	03525
Location of Nickritz in Saxony
View of Nickritz

Nickritz is a district of the Saxon town of Riesa in the district of Meißen .

geography

The village is five kilometers southwest of Riesa, west of Nickritz is Oelsitz and to the south are the towns of Böhlen and Gostewitz and southwest Jahnishausen, which can be reached via the K8561 county road. To the northeast of Nickritz are the towns of Mergendorf and Poppitz , to the east are Leutewitz , Göhlis and Schänitz and southeast of Nickritz is Heyda. In the 19th century the place was called a dead end village with a corridor. Nickritz stretches from southwest to northeast on the elevated edge of a floodplain, where Jahna and Keppritzbach unite. The Jahnatal cycle path runs east of Nickritz.

history

A manor was mentioned in Nickritz in 1206, at the same time the first mention of Nickritz in the name of the noble owner Hildebrandus de Nicracis . The name was changed several times, so the place was called in 1334 Nycracz, Nickracz , 1350 Nykras , 1378 Nycras, Nykraz , 1445 Nigraschitz, Nigkras , 1466 Nickericz , 1529 Nickaritz , 1547 Nyckeritz and Nickritz in 1667. The village was in 1334 administered by the Supanie Raußlitz and the Amt Meißen , 1350 sitam in advocacia Myszne . 1378 belongs to the village Castrum Meissen and was administered from 1547 Erbamt Meissen, just as in 1764 and 1816. Originally, Nick Ritz for manor Seerhausen, from 1500 the manor had Jahnishausen manorial rights. The upper and lower courts were in 1350 with the Lords of Eilenburg . In 1547 the higher court was at the Lommatzsch office , later Meißen. The lower court was with the respective lords. In 1548 Kilian Schwartze was a judge, Paul Winkler and Jorge Weisse were Schöppen. In 1688 15 landowners lived in the village, 11 farmers and 4 threshers.

On October 1st, 1206 Hildebrandus de Nicracis appeared as a witness in Dörschnitz , in 1350 Nickritz is a margravial fief, the lords of Eilenburg had the village and all the courts. In 1378 Nickritz paid interest to the margrave and the cathedral chapter in Meißen also had income in the village. 1529 paid Nick Ritz still remember the prebend Pesterwitz cereal interest. In 1450 the village probably came to the von Schleinitz auf Seerhausen family , after 1500 to the von Schleinitz auf Jahnishausen family. Nickritz was parish church in 1547 and 1555 after Pausitz. 1930-2001 Nickritz belonged to the parish Riesa-Pausitz. In 1925, 569 inhabitants of Nickritz were Evangelical Lutheran , 1 inhabitant was Catholic and 24 inhabitants belonged to other denominations. In 1820, some buildings that belonged to the manor were named, such as the manorial hunting lodge, a vineyard house with a press and a community shepherd's house. Four cottages were built on farmland and two on former common land out of a total of sixteen cottages. The Saxon rural community order of 1838 gave the village independence as a rural community . From 1843 Nickritz was administered by the Meißen office, in 1856 by the Riesa court office and from 1875 by the Großenhain office . After the First World War , an economic boom began in Riesa, for which workers were needed, who of course needed living space. So some residents settled in the former vineyard who mainly worked in factories in Riesa. New houses were built in vacant lots on the rural village street, also in vacant lots on the thoroughfare. The new Nickritz extended out toward the Temple Mount. In 1941 the Nickritz volunteer fire brigade was founded, which now functions as one of six district brigades in Riesa.

Federal Archives Nickritz night work threshing

Saxons came after the Second World War in the Soviet zone of occupation and later the GDR . After the territorial reform in 1952 , Nickritz was assigned to the Riesa district in the Dresden district . Rural life in Nickritz was now based on the principle of agriculture in the GDR . Some farmers joined the LPG Nickritz-Ölsitz. LPG Nickritz-Ölsitz also carried out the cam threshing of rapeseed at night. In order to reduce the loss of grain, a piece of canvas was laid out in front of the MTS Nünchritz combine harvester, which had been prepared accordingly (see photo). This served to increase the harvest yield in order to provide the citizens with sufficient bread. In 1958, some farmers founded the LPG Frohe Zukunft , which was initially an LPG type I, which later became type III. The usable area with a size of 172 hectares was cultivated a few years later by the KAP Riesa-Göhlis. Another expansion took place on Riesaer Straße, where a sewage treatment plant was built in 1972.

After the German reunification , Nickritz came to the re-established Free State of Saxony . The following regional reforms in Saxony assigned the district to the Riesa-Großenhain district in 1994 and to the Meißen district in 2008. On March 1, 1994 Nickritz was incorporated into Riesa. Neunickritz had 168 inhabitants in 2009. In the 1990s in particular, single-family houses were built on Straße am Weinberg and Gostewitzer Straße. On December 31, 2007, the Riesa – Nossen railway was officially closed. Since the planned deedication was rejected and the line was taken over by the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie in 2008 , two bridges that have already been demolished have to be rebuilt. Only freight trains are currently running on the route.

Population development

year Residents. 1547 12 possessed men , 1 gardener , 20 residents , 13¾ hooves 1551 12 possessed men , 1 gardener , 20 residents , 13¾ hooves 1764 15 obsessive man, 7 Häusler , 13¾ hooves 10 per bushel 1834 253 1871 286 1890 296 1910 489 1925 594

year Residents 1933 581 1939 639 1946 710 1950 1138 1964 886 1971 849 1990 626 1994 → Riesa

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Nickritz

Buildings

• former station building

The station building at Nickritz station was opened in 1878 and was the station for the Saxon royal family, who owned Jahnishausen Castle for a long time. The station was also owned by the royal family and is of importance in terms of transport and regional history. It consists of two wing buildings with two floors in the Swiss style, in between the lounge open to the platform and open roof truss, some old windows, currently scaffolding, arched windows with sandstone sills and walls, sandstone slabs under the windows, inside: doors inside, floorboards.

• Stable building of a former three-sided farm

The farm is located at Dorfstraße 10 and the stable building has a half-timbered upper floor with clay infills. The stable is an elongated, gable-independent structure built in 1830 in a street-defining location in the old town center, and is of architectural significance. The barn and the house originally also had a half-timbered upper floor, which still existed in 1977. The ground floor consists of quarry stone masonry with sandstone walls. The barn has been demolished and the house is currently not a monument.

• Bridge over the Keppritzbach

The bridge, which was built around 1890, is a sandstone arch bridge that is of architectural importance. It is located behind the property at Dorfstrasse 16. The bridge is used as a road bridge and has a new wall.

societies

There are now several clubs in Nickritz.

• Nickritzer Sport- und Freizeitverein eV

In 2006 the association was founded, which has its seat in the former restaurant. The sports group has its own room here. The association built a volleyball field under 350 hours of voluntary work by the members, for which the club members raised EUR 2,000 themselves, while the city of Riesa gave EUR 900 for posts and nets. The sports facility was inaugurated in May 2009. The village festival and the Halloween and New Year bonfires take place on the square every year.

• Nickritz 1206 eV association

The association was founded in preparation for the 800th anniversary. For example, he now organizes events for Women's Day and looks after the Feuerflöhe, a junior research group for the Nickritzer fire department.

• Nickritz Volunteer Fire Brigade

The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1941, which now functions as one of 6 district brigades in Riesa. It has a room in the former restaurant and today's parish hall. In 2010 a new fire station for the volunteer fire brigade was built to the right of the parish hall. The fire brigade has a TSF ( portable fire pump ) from Mercedes-Benz built in 2011.

literature

• Otto Mörtzsch : Nickritz . In: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Verl. Landesverein Sächs. Heimatschutz, Dresden 1935, p. 62 ( SLUB Dresden [accessed January 5, 2018]).
• About Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 133.
• Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1841. Page 96 ( online. , Accessed on January 5, 2018)

Web links

Commons : Nickritz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Genealogical Directory of Places The database of current and historical site data Nickritz on the website of the Verein für Computergenealogie, accessed on January 5, 2018
• Nickritz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nick Ritz in historical digital gazetteer of Saxony .
2. ^ 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). 
3. ↑ Nickritz. In: To Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 221.
4. ↑ With the incorporation of Nickritz into Riesa on March 1, 1994, only official population figures were collected for the entire community until the census.