Pethau
Pethau
City of Zittau
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 4 ″ N , 14 ° 45 ′ 56 ″ E
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Height : | 248 m above sea level NN |
Area : | 1.52 km² |
Residents : | 531 (March 31, 2016) |
Population density : | 349 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
Postal code : | 02763 |
Area code : | 03583 |
Location of Pethau in the area of the city of Zittau
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Pethau is a district of Zittau in the Görlitz district in south-east Saxony . Until it was incorporated in 1970, the village of Pethau was an independent rural community.
Location and surroundings
The place extends as a row village with forest hoof-like block corridor in east-west direction between Zittau and Hörnitz along the state road 137 (here: main road ). Pethau is limited by the south Mandauaue and north by the students Mountain . The areas in the north, with their slopes facing south and south-west, were the basis for extensive vegetable cultivation.
history
Pethau was first mentioned in a document in 1391 as Petow in the interest registers of the St. Jakob Hospital in Zittau. Other forms of the name were Petaw , Peta and Bethe . Possibly the place name can be derived from the Slavic pjeta / pjata = heel in reference to the location of Pethaus at the foot of a mountain. Pethau is still called "Pate" in dialect today .
While Pethau only had 109 inhabitants in 1834, the number of inhabitants increased sharply due to the increasing industrialization of Zittau at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The resulting residential development ("Neu-Pethau") connects the western suburb of Zittau with the core of the original village.
Personalities
- Walter Wöhle (* 1928), engineer and university professor
- Werner Henninger (* 1929), Rear Admiral of the People's Navy and Deputy Commander of the Officers' College of the People's Navy "Karl Liebknecht" in Stralsund
- Wolfgang Queißer (* 1931), internist, oncologist and editor
- Hannelore Bernhardt (* 1935), mathematician and science historian
- Klaus Günzel (1936–2005), writer and librarian
- Antje Hagen (* 1938), theater and film actress
- Olivier Anders (* 1942), Major General of the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic
- Frank Panse (* 1942), painter and graphic artist
- Monika Nothing (* 1942), writer, radio play author, painter, journalist and family adviser
- Frauke Büchner (* 1943), religious educator
traffic
Zittau-Pethau is on the Zittau – Löbau railway line , but without a stop for the trains.
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 126–128.
- Friedrich Eckarth: Chronica or historical description of the little village of Pethau not far from Zittau . Herwigsdorff 1733 ( digitized at Wikisource). ( Digitized SLUB )
- Carl Gottlob Moráwek : History of Pethau and Zittel as two of the smallest villages belonging to the city of Zittau . Seyfert, Zittau 1852 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtanzeiger No. 281 (April 2016). (PDF; 2.1 MB) (No longer available online.) Zittau city administration, April 10, 2016, archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; Retrieved April 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wolfgang Queißer: Biographical Notes. The life of a doctor and internal oncologist. Zuckschwerdt, Munich a. a. 2001.
Web links
- Web presence of the city of Zittau
- Pethau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony