Pethau

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Pethau
City of Zittau
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 4 ″  N , 14 ° 45 ′ 56 ″  E
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
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Location of Pethau in the area of ​​the city of Zittau

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.

Former farm

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

traffic

Zittau-Pethau is on the Zittau – Löbau railway line , but without a stop for the trains.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zittau.eu
  2. Wolfgang Queißer: Biographical Notes. The life of a doctor and internal oncologist. Zuckschwerdt, Munich a. a. 2001.

Web links

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