Ponitz
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Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ' N , 12 ° 25' E |
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| State : | Thuringia | |
| County : | Altenburger Land | |
| Fulfilling municipality : | Goessnitz | |
| Height : | 223 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 17.13 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 1522 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 89 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 04639 | |
| Primaries : | 034493, 03764 and 03762 | |
| License plate : | ABG, SLN | |
| Community key : | 16 0 77 039 | |
| LOCODE : | DE PNZ | |
| Community structure: | 5 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Gößnitzer Strasse 1 04639 Ponitz |
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| Mayor : | Marcel Greunke ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Ponitz in the Altenburger Land district | ||
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Ponitz is a municipality in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia and is located on the border with the Free State of Saxony . The place is best known for the renaissance castle, as well as for the Friedenskirche with its unchanged organ of Gottfried Silbermann .
geography
Geographical location
Ponitz is located north of the federal highway 4 and the city of Crimmitschau at the transition from the Zeitzer-Schmöllner-Lösshügelland to the foothills of the Thuringian Slate Mountains and the Ore Mountains . The Pleiße flows through the municipality to the north . Large areas of arable land, pastures and little woodland characterize the landscape. The nearest towns are Meerane (2 km southeast), Gößnitz (2 km north), Crimmitschau (3 km south) and Schmölln (4 km north-west).
Neighboring communities
Adjacent communities are the city of Gößnitz, Heyersdorf and the city of Schmölln in the Altenburger Land district and the cities of Crimmitschau and Meerane in the Zwickau district .
Community structure
In addition to Ponitz (with the settlements of Gosel and Schönhain ), the municipality includes the four districts Grünberg since 1973, Guteborn since 1883 and Merlach and Zschöpel since 1950.
The individual districts of the municipality of Ponitz have three different telephone prefixes . Ponitz and Guteborn have the area code of Meerane (03764), the districts of Merlach and Zschöpel the area code of Gößnitz (034493), while the district of Grünberg can be reached via the area code of Crimmitschau (03762).
history
13th to 18th centuries
The place was probably founded by Slavic settlers, which explains the old spelling Ponicz . In 1254, Ponitz Castle was first mentioned as a "castle" and its owner Fridericus de Ponicz , as he is mentioned as a witness in a donation. In 1349 the history books speak of a church and a farm . 1349/50 are in Lehnbuch Frederick the Severe Bohemian Lords of Schönburg - Pirsenstein , Friedrich XIII. (first mentioned 1341, died around 1367) and Albrecht I (first mentioned 1349, died around 1353) as the owner of the castles (called as palaces) Ponitz and Lichtenstein.
In 1524 the Schoenburg bailiff of the Glauchau rulership sued the manor owner Heinrich von Ende auf Ponitz because the latter had unauthorized - thus illegally - had a woman found hanged (suicide?) Removed at night. However, the Glauchau office or the local bailiff were responsible. In 1525 the Lords of Schönburg were also in the possession of the Ponitz rulership, because Ernst II von Schönburg had the sexton Georg Droßdorf arrested here, imprisoned in Glauchau and later cut off both his ears. He had preached in German instead of the pastor.
The manor Ponitz belonged fundamentally glorious to rule Glauchau the Lords of Schoenburg: according to a Glauchauer Office book from 1536 (Bl.22) fall Ponitz, Mosel and tower under "knights fief vnd Erbarmannscha ff t with yrer follow vnd dynste nn in this Mr. Scha ff t vnd Ampth Glaucha (u) belonging ".
After Abraham von Thumbshirn bought the manor in 1568, the medieval moated castle was replaced by a Renaissance building in 1574, which can still be viewed today. The most important owner of the Ponitz Castle was Wolfgang Conrad von Thumbshirn , who, as a diplomat, signed the peace treaty to end the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and was also instrumental in the creation of this treaty. This was also the reason to plant the so-called Peace Linden tree on the Dreierhäuschen in 1650 . His daughter Dorothea Felicitas von Thumbshirn married Volkmar Dietrich von Zehmen in 1675 . He sold the manors Weissbach and Nöbdenitz and moved into Ponitz, where he died in 1713 and is located with a monument. In 1728 the manor fell to the daughters Dorothea Elisabeth von Schönberg and Christiane Sibylle von der Planitz , both born. from Zehmen . Together they donated the Silbermann organ in 1734 for the inauguration of the new village church in Ponitz . Christiane Sibylle von Zehmen married Carl August Edlen von der Planitz on Ponitz in 1700 and had 12 children with him.
Ponitz belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century due to several divisions in the course of its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826).
19th century to the present
When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, Ponitz again became part of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, the place belonged to the Eastern District (until 1900) and to the Ronneburg District Office (from 1900). From 1918 the community belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 she came to the Altenburg district . In addition to the main town, Ponitz consists of the historic districts of Schönhain and Gosel, which today merge seamlessly into the town. Schönhain owned a brewery and is located roughly on today's Meeraner Strasse, while Gosel is on Crimmitschauer Strasse. The district of Crimmitschau, which is also called Gosel , directly adjoins the historic district , once largely belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg just like Ponitz itself. As a result of the exchange of territory between Thuringia and Saxony in 1928, the portion of Waldsachsen belonging to the Ponitz district and part of the former Gosel came to the Glauchau district administration and the Werdau district administration in the Free State of Saxony.
In 1945, under Soviet occupation, the last owner family of the manor (200 ha) and the castle, the Mälzer family, were expropriated and expelled without compensation. During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus, the community Ponitz came with the county Schmölln to the district of Leipzig . With German reunification , Ponitz came back to Thuringia in 1990; beforehand there was a referendum in which the majority of the residents declared their support for Thuringia. With the district of Schmölln, the municipality of Ponitz came to the district of Altenburger Land during the Thuringian district reform in 1994 . After 1990, the main building projects to be mentioned are the development of the Guteborn industrial area, the restoration of the castle, church, municipal administration, school buildings and kindergarten as well as the construction of the fire station in 2003 and the Ponitz-Arcaden in 2012/2013.
On June 30, 1994, the community joined the administrative community of Upper Pleißental . With the dissolution of this on April 21, 1995 Gößnitz became a fulfilling municipality for both Ponitz and Heyersdorf .
Incorporations
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipalities of Merlach and Zschöpel were incorporated. In 1936 Niedergrünberg was combined with Obergrünberg to form the municipality of Grünberg, which was incorporated into Ponitz on November 1, 1973.
Population development
In 1580 there were 145, 1816 276 and 1875 513 inhabitants. After the incorporation of Guteborn, the population increased to 1,341 in 1900 and to 1664 in 1925. In 1939, 1638 inhabitants were counted.
Development of the population (as of December 31st) :
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- Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
religion
26% of the population are Protestant, 3% Catholic.
The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ponitz with the Friedenskirche belongs to the Gößnitz parish in the Altenburger Land parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It covers the entire municipality except Grünberg; the church in Grünberg belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Grünberg- Heyersdorf in the parish of Zwickau of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony .
The Catholics in Ponitz are assigned to the parish Apparition of the Lord in Altenburg , whose next branch church is Mary's Immaculate Conception in Schmölln . The exception here is Grünberg, which belongs to the parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Crimmitschau . Both parishes belong to the diocese of Dresden-Meißen .
politics
On December 31, 2010, the municipality of Ponitz had a per capita debt of 696 euros. The 2011 budget stipulated that it should be reduced to 507 euros through loan repayments.
Municipal council
In the 2009 to 2014 election period, the local council consisted of seven members of the CDU (58.9%), two members of the Left (13.6%) and three members of the SPD (27.6%). The turnout on June 7, 2009 was 54.1%.
Since the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the local council has been composed as follows:
The turnout was 61.7%, with 0.8% of the votes being invalid.
mayor
From 1990 to 1999 the SPD politician Roland Mehlig was mayor of the community, until 2012 this was Gerd Kühn, who was not party to any party but was on the CDU list. In the local elections in 2012, 60.9% of the validly voting voters voted for the CDU politician Marcel Greunke in the first round of two competitors, the turnout was the highest in the district at 68.8%. He was confirmed in office in 2018 with 96.9% of the valid votes and a voter turnout of 60.3% without opposing candidates.
coat of arms
Blazon : Split ; in front five times divided by silver and red and covered with a green, rooted linden tree; in the back, three silver organ pipes tapering from right to left, side by side, in red.
The coat of arms of Ponitz shows the peace linden tree in honor of the peacemaker Thumbshirn and three organ pipes as a symbol for the organ created by Gottfried Silbermann in the village church (today the Friedenskirche ).
Culture and sights
Ponitz is best known for the organ in the Friedenskirche , built between 1734 and 1737 by Gottfried Silbermann as his 40th work . Concerts take place there regularly.
The Ponitz renaissance castle has served as a venue for events since its restoration.
In the list of cultural monuments in Ponitz , all listed buildings in the municipality are listed.
Ponitz Castle
Today's Ponitz Renaissance castle emerged from a medieval moated castle on the same site.
In 1254, Ponitz Castle and its owner Fridericus de Ponicz were first mentioned in a document, as he is mentioned as a witness in a donation. In 1349 the history books speak of a church and a farm . 1349/50 are in Lehnbuch Frederick the Severe Bohemian Lords of Schönburg - Pirsenstein , Friedrich XIII. (first mentioned 1341, died around 1367) and Albrecht I (first mentioned 1349, died around 1353) as the owners of the castles Ponitz and Lichtenstein.
The Lords of Ende owned the knight seat Ponitz as early as 1418 and sold it to Abraham von Thumbshyrn in 1568 (?) . In 1525 the Lords of Schönburg were apparently in possession of the Ponitz rulership (and the castle?), Because Ernst II von Schönburg had the sexton Georg Droßdorf arrested here, imprisoned in Glauchau and later cut off his ears. He had preached in German instead of the pastor.
In 1531 the following places belonged to the Ponitz manor in whole or in part: Ponitz, Hainichen, Schönhain, Kauritz, Runsdorf, Tautenhain, Gieba, Köthel, Gablenz and Waldsachsen. From 1531 to 1533, Ernst II von Schönburg, as landlord, led a lengthy process against the Wettins for the feudal lordship of this manor.
After Abraham von Thumbshirn bought the manor in 1568 , the medieval moated castle was replaced by a renaissance castle building by 1574 (reconstruction), which can still be visited today.
The most important owner of the Ponitz Castle was Wolfgang Conrad von Thumbshirn (born April 28, 1604 in Ponitz; † November 24, 1667 in Altenburg), who, as a diplomat of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg, signed the peace treaty to end the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and was the chief negotiator was involved in the formation of this contract. This was also the reason to plant the so-called Peace Linden tree on the Dreierhäuschen in 1650 . From 1653 Wolfgang Conrad von Thumbshirn was the royal Saxon-Altenburg chancellor .
His daughter Dorothea Felicitas von Thumbshirn married Volkmar Dietrich von Zehmen in 1675 . He sold the manors Weissbach and Nöbdenitz (with the castle) and moved into Ponitz Castle, where he died in 1713 and is located with a monument. In 1728 the manor fell to the daughters Dorothea Elisabeth von Schönberg and Christiane Sibylle von der Planitz , both born. from Zehmen . Together they donated the Silbermann organ in 1734 for the inauguration of the new village church in Ponitz . Christiane Sibylle von Zehmen married Carl August Edlen von der Planitz on Ponitz in 1700 and had 12 children with him.
Other owner families were those of Weißenbach , von Ende , von Göchhausen, von Tümpling , von Uechteritz , von Beust , as well as the middle-class families Stölzel (from Eibenstock) and factory owners Schmieder (from Meerane) and finally until 1945 the Mälzer family (from Frankenhausen).
For centuries, the town, castle and manor Ponitz belonged administratively to the Wettin office of Altenburg in changing Saxon-Thuringian duchies. When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, Ponitz again became part of the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg with the manor and castle. In 1945, under Soviet occupation, the last owner family of the manor (200 ha) and the castle, the Mälzer family, were expropriated and expelled without compensation. The municipality of Ponitz has been the new owner of the manor and castle since 1945.
At the end of the GDR era, the castle was in a deplorable structural condition, it rained through several floors. The ballroom had to be closed by the building authorities in 1987. The castle has been restored since the 1990s, and the ballroom was re-inaugurated in 2000. At times there was a library in the castle. Ponitz Castle is known today for its painted coffered ceilings from the 16th century in the ballroom. The castle now serves as a venue for events. The sponsoring association "Renaissance Castle Ponitz eV" tries to use and maintain the castle.
Detail on the castle: the "twisting" main front (right), a specialty of the Ponitz castle
View over the courtyard of the former manor / farm to the castle
Wolfgang Conrad von Thumbshirn on Ponitz , copper engraving from 1649, probably reprinted in 1717
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Ponitz has a stop on the Leipzig – Hof railway line , which is served by the Central German S-Bahn . The community is part of the Central German Transport Association and can also be reached via the 354 Thonhausen – Heyersdorf – Crimmitschau / Gößnitz – Schmölln bus. The town can also be reached via the Meerane junction on Autobahn 4, which is 3 km away . The federal highway 93 runs through the municipality and can be reached via the Guteborn and Merlach junctions.
Established businesses
Agriculture is economically dominant, with the Agrargenossenschaft Ponitz e. G. Another large company is the Netto logistics center on the B 93 in Guteborn. Numerous service companies are based in the community.
education
In Ponitz there is the Geschwister-Scholl-Elementary School as well as a community kindergarten.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Wolfgang Conrad von Thumbshirn (1604–1667), Saxony-Altenburg Chancellor and co-signer of the Peace of Westphalia
- Johannes Hugo Helbig (* 1845; † in the 20th century), classical philologist, high school teacher and author
- Eva von Bredow (1904–1979), track and field athlete
Web links
literature
- Christiane Nienhold: ... and in the afternoon we went sailing to Nöbdenitz! Manors in Altenburger Land and their gardens - Part I. Catalog for the exhibition Museum Burg Posterstein 2007, Pöge Druck Leipzig, Posterstein 2007; Pp. 43–45, 104, extensive description of the Ponitz manor
- P. Feldhege: History of the parish Ponitz, Meerane 1886
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ^ Website of the Ponitz Castle
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Röber : Chapter "(Castle) Lichtenstein", In: The Schönburger, Economy, Politics, Culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, p. 24, owner of Burg Ponitz
- ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau, editor: Enno Bünz, Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, comments on the Ponitz manor, p. 98
- ↑ Steffen Winkler : "Der Fall des Küster von Ponitz", In: "Schriftenreihe Sonderheft" (Legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, p. 10
- ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau, editor: Enno Bünz, Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, comments on the Ponitz manor, p. 87
- ^ Hanns-Moritz von Zehmen: Genealogical news about the Meißnian nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906, pp. 62, 63 + 66.
- ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
- ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
- ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
- ^ The district office of Ronneburg in the municipality register 1900
- ^ Map with the exchange areas between Saxony and Thuringia in 1928
- ^ Digital historical place directory of Saxony - Grünberg. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore, accessed on October 19, 2012 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Altenburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ census database
- ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia - municipality of Ponitz. Thuringian State Office for Statistics (TLS), accessed on January 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Ponitz. Organ from 1737. Gottfried Silbermann Society, accessed on August 3, 2017 .
- ^ Website of the Friends of the Renaissance Castle Ponitz e. V.
- ^ Website of the Ponitz Castle
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Röber : Chapter (Castle) Lichtenstein . In: The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, p. 24, owner of Burg Ponitz
- ↑ Steffen Winkler: Special edition series (legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, p. 31 No. 5
- ↑ Steffen Winkler: The case of the sexton from Ponitz . In: Special edition series (legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, p. 10
- ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau , editor: Enno Bünz, Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, comments on the Ponitz manor in the Glauchau rule, p. 87
- ^ Hanns-Moritz von Zehmen: Genealogical news about the Meißnian nobility of Zehmen, 1206 to 1906. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1906, pp. 62, 63 + 66.
- ^ Website of the Friends of the Renaissance Castle Ponitz e. V., on the history of the castle
- ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
- ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p. 83
- ^ Website of the Friends of the Renaissance Castle Ponitz e. V.
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