Podelwitz (Colditz)

Podelwitz City of Colditz Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 6 ″  N , 12 ° 50 ′ 3 ″  E
Residents :	205
Incorporation :	January 1, 1952
Incorporated into:	Tanndorf
Postal code :	04680
Area code :	034381
Location of Podelwitz in Saxony

Podelwitz has been a district of the Saxon city ​​of Colditz in the Leipzig district since 2011 , previously the place was a district of Zschadraß .

geography

Podelwitz is located south of the Freiberg Mulde . In the village, two district roads cross each other, making the connection to the surrounding villages. There is a bus stop in Podelwitz. The town limits in the north on Erlln , Maaschwitz and Tanndorf , in the east and south-east on Skoplau and in the south on Commichau . In the west, the district of the place Collmen joins. All surrounding places are part of the city of Colditz.

history

Moated Castle Podelwitz

In 1217 a Wernherus de Podeluz was first mentioned in a document, who had his seat in the water castle Podelwitz . The place belonged from the 16th century to the office Colditz. The manorial rule exercised the Podelwitz manor . With the Saxon rural community order of 1838 , the village got the status of a rural community , whose affiliation is indicated from 1875 with the district administration Grimma .

In 1900 the local boundary had a size of 216 hectares , which mainly consisted of manor blocks. Here the villagers went about farming . The houses in the estate were loosely arranged. Of the 248 inhabitants in 1925, 230 were Evangelical Lutheran , seven Catholic and eleven others of other religions. Podelwitz was parish in the neighboring Collmen and today belongs to the parish of Collmen-Zschadraß.

After the Second World War , Podelwitz became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR , in whose district reform in 1952 Podelwitz was added to the Grimma district. On January 1st of the same year the community lost its independence and was incorporated into Tanndorf . In addition, the moated castle was transferred to the community.

After reunification and reunification , Podelwitz came to the newly founded Free State of Saxony and remained in the Grimma district . In the first Saxon district reform , the Tanndorf community and its districts moved to the Muldental district . There it was incorporated into Zschadraß on January 1, 1996 , which has belonged to the city of Colditz since January 1, 2011.

Development of the population

year Residents 1551 8 gardeners , 19 residents 1764 9 gardeners, 31 cottagers 1834 224 1871 244 1890 240

year Residents 1910 233 1925 248 1939 238 1946 294

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Podelwitz. 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. 210.

Web links

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

• Podelwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Podelwitz on the website of the city of Colditz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Podelwitz on the website of the city of Colditz ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
2. ↑ http://www.fremdenverkehrsamt-colditz.de/index.php?class=Calimero_Webpage&id=12698
3. ↑ ^{a b} Podelwitz in the digital historical directory of Saxony