Pausitz (Bennewitz)

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Pausitz
Municipality Bennewitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 24 ″  N , 12 ° 44 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 124 m
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 04828
Area code : 034383

Pausitz is a district of the Saxon community of Bennewitz . The village is three kilometers south of the city of Wurzen on the left bank of the Mulde . Pausitz has been a church village since the Middle Ages.

Pausitz village church

history

Pausitz is a Slavic foundation. It came to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in 985 through exchange for Nerchau .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Bach, Rothersdorf and Walzig were incorporated.

During the floods in 2002, the place was seriously affected.

War memorial

The Nuremberg sculptor Johannes Seiler created the war memorial for those who fell in the First World War.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Pausitz. 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. 208.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dressler's Art Handbook , Volume 2, page 946

Web links

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