Pochra

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Pochra
Large district town Riesa
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 6 ″  E
Area : 20.8 km²
Residents : 458  (1950)
Population density : 22 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1962
Incorporated into: Canitz
Postal code : 01591
Area code : 03525
Pochra (Saxony)
Pochra

Location of Pochra in Saxony
Pochra village pond
Pochra village pond

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

geography

The place is located northwest about 5 km from Riesa city center on the northern edge of the Döllnitz floodplain , a tributary of the Elbe . Canitz is southwest of Pochra and Neupochra and Schwarzroda to the west along Pochraer Strasse . To the north-west of the village is Zausswitz, to the north is Großrügeln and then Strehla . To the northeast lies Unterreußen and to the east Merzdorf . Pochra is a square village with garret and manor block corridor or an anger village.

history

The first mention of Pochra dates back to 1221, when there was a manor house in Bochere, the forerunner of the later Vorwerk. The place name means people of the Slavs Bochor . The place name was changed several times, so the place was called in 1221 (Conradus de) Bochere , 1389 Bocher , 1445 Bochir , 1447 Bochir, Bocher , 1486 Pocher , 1516 Bocher , 1521 Pacher and Pochra in 1609.

The place was originally a Slavic settlement and later a German farm and village . The location was also inhabited earlier. At the south-eastern exit of the village, in the area of ​​the gravel pit, remains of a Germanic settlement from the imperial era and a settlement of the Slavs have been found. In 1445 Merzdorf belonged to the Oschatz Care , later from 1551 to the Oschatz Office . In 1445 the manor Merzdorf and the Vorwerk Pochra provided two knight horses in the Oschatzer care, in 1516 the Vorwerk Pochra served with a knight's horse , in 1609 seven men served for defenses , five men with common spears , one with a feather spear and one with a halberd . In 1552 the upper court was with the Oschatz office and the lower court with the respective liege lord, sometimes also with the office.

The place was compulsory according to Reussen. In 1445 Barsid von Bochir served in the care of Oschatz, in 1516 part of Pochra belonged to Nickel von Nitzschwitz on Gröba . In 1551 Pochra belongs partly to the manor Gröba, a portion to the manor Bornitz and a portion is Amtsdorf. In 1552, six residents belonged to the Oschatz district and two to Gröba; on July 3, 1556, the elector temporarily gave six men to the Merzdorf manor to plow on Strehla . In 1591 a share belonged to the Bornitz manor , in 1609 Caspar von Nitzschwitz on Pochra, in 1622 two men belonged to Haubold von Starschedel on Merzdorf. In 1696 one part belonged to the Bornitz manor , the rest to the Merzdorf manor and in 1764 one part belonged to the Bornitz manor and the rest to the Merzdorf manor. In 1791 Pochra consisted of four parts, Amt Oschatz, Rittergut Merzdorf, Rittergut Bornitz and the Strehla council .

On April 4, 1742, the Vorwerg Pochra together with the manor Merzdorf was written. In 1875 Pochra was again a manor. The last large landowner was Mr. Poppendieker, who left Pochra in 1945 shortly before the end of the war. In the years 1764, 1816 and 1843 Pochra continued to be administered by the Oschatz Office until the administration was transferred to the Riesa court office in 1856 and to the Großenhain office in 1875 . The Saxon rural community order of 1838 gave the village independence as a rural community . In 1840 141 people lived in Pochra, who found their income mainly in agriculture. A linen weaver, a tailor, a shoemaker, two carpenters and a few day laborers also lived there.

After 1900 the district of Neupochra was built along Pochraer Straße. At the end of the street there is house number 23 with the inscription "Naumann". It goes back to a builder who built the houses in Neupochra. After the war, the Soviet military headquarters was temporarily quartered in this house .

In earlier times Pochra had a conversion school, in 1709 Johann Gottfried Delitzsch was named as the teacher there and as the last teacher of the conversion school from 1806 to the end of 1836 Johann Gottlob Hermann from Gorden near Elsterwerda . Since the beginning of 1837 the children from Pocha started school in the nearby village of Canitz. Compared with the former imposing inn with grocery store , a new school was built in 1890-1891 and in 1891 inaugurated the Pocharer children. At the beginning of 1960 there was still two-stage teaching in a classroom. Today there is a modern home across from the inn.

From 1539 Pochra was parish to Gröba, also in 1551. From 1930 the place belonged to the parish Riesa-West. In 1925, 278 residents of Pochra were Evangelical Lutheran , one resident was Reformed, five residents were Catholic and 41 residents belonged to other denominations.

Saxons came after the Second World War in the Soviet zone of occupation and later the GDR . After the land reform , the manor was quickly distributed to new farmers and several houses were built. After the territorial reform in 1952 , Pochra was assigned to the Riesa district in the Dresden district . From June 1, 1962, Pochra became part of the municipality of Canitz and from 1973 was incorporated into Riesa together with the municipality of Canitz. As early as July 25, 1952, nine farmers founded the LPG " Clara Zetkin " Pochra, which from then on used the former manor house. The agricultural area increased through the merger with LPG "Rosengarten" Canitz 1966, LPG Altweida 1967 and LPG Mühlenweg Gröba 1968 to over 900 hectares. In 1974 the Pochra farmers united with the LPG Ernst Thälmann in Oppitzsch, so that their 309 members had to work 1837 hectares. The proximity of Döllnitz and Elbe made it possible to irrigate grassland if necessary. In addition to grain and root crops , tobacco was grown on 30 hectares , as well as strawberries .

After German reunification , Pochra 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.

Population development

Population development
year Residents year Residents
1551 11 possessed men , 18 residents 1925 325
1764 12 possessed men, 5 cottagers , 7 5/8 hooves 42 to 48 bushels each 1933 364
1834 137 1939 365
1871 275 1946 435
1890 296 1962 → Canitz
1910 350 1974 → Riesa

literature

  • Otto Mörtzsch : Pochra . In: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Verl. Landesverein Sächs. Heimatschutz, Dresden 1935, p. 56–57 ( SLUB Dresden [accessed March 31, 2018]).
  • About Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 52.
  • Saxony's church gallery. 3rd volume. The Oschatz inspection . Dresden 1840. Page 129 ff ( online. , Accessed on March 31, 2018)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pochra in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ^ Otto Mörtzsch: Pochra. In: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain. Verl. Landesverein Sächs. Heimatschutz, 1935, p. 8 , accessed on February 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Pochra in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. ^ 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).