Poppitz (Riesa)

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Poppitz
Large district town Riesa
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 24 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 21 ″  E
Area : 38.9 km²
Residents : 1036  (1946)
Population density : 27 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1950
Incorporated into: Riesa
Postal code : 01587
Area code : 03525
Poppitz (Saxony)
Poppitz

Location of Poppitz in Saxony

Map from 1840
Map from 1840

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

geography

The place is south of Riesa, east of Mergendorf, west of Leutewitz and Göhlis and north of Heyda . The state road S 87 runs through the town. Poppitz is located on the southern edge of the Aue der Jahna , which flows northeast of the town into the Elbe. The place was originally a lane village with a corridor and around 1900 had a size of 389 hectares. To the east of Poppitz, the Burgberg stretches in a south-easterly direction towards Leutewitz. It consists of Pleistocene gravels and sands with a very thin layer of sand loess over it. The steeper slope drops to the northeast and is covered with forest.

history

Poppitz was first mentioned as Popuwicz in 1214. The name was changed several times, so the place was called Popuwiz in 1234 , 1296 Popewiz , 1311 Babitz , 1334 Popewicz , 1378 Poppewitz , 1445 Poppewitz , 1543 Popitz , 1547 Poppitz , 1791 Poppitz and Poppitz b. Riesa in 1875. The name of the Gassendorf means that the people subordinate to the priest or pastor lived here. Findings suggest that the place was inhabited much earlier. In the old location there was a ball pot from the early German settlement in the 12th / 13th centuries. Century found. This contained a treasure trove of 95 whole and 95 half bracteates and a cake made of silver. The grave find of the early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from the southern edge of the village is significantly older , south of it at the fork in the road west of the height of 107.7 meters there is a cemetery of the Lausitz culture . Numerous finds were made at the eastern exit of the village, which indicated a settlement of the Neolithic band ceramics and the early Iron Age . Finds on the castle hill, popularly known as Burgser or Burgsberg, indicate an intensive settlement during the Bronze Age and the Slavic period.

The earlier division into beds and the occurrence of field names such as the lake or the Laggengraben indicate earlier Flemish influence, possibly the colonists were Flemish.

The village originally belonged to the Riesa monastery. In 1334 it was administered by the Supanie Riesa and from 1378 by the Castrum Meißen, Poppitz pays the margrave. After the Reformation the place became part of the Riesa manor. The dish first belongs to the Riesa monastery, then to the manor.

In 1214, the monastery village paid 1 bushel of grain to the Meißner Probst in December, and on January 26, 1296, Rudegerus de Cytin (Zeithain), Misn. eccl. perpet. vicarius sells 0.5 mark annual interest to the monastery in villa P. 1311 belongs to the Meissen monastery in Poppitz. In 1547 the Lommatzsch office had some monetary interest and grain bullets. In 1233 the place consisted of 27 Hufen Land and a mill, 1547 24 Hufen Land and 21 men, in 1554 21 men give 4 shock money and 48 groschen to Walpurgis, 6 shock 46 groschen to Michaelis and an additional 16 bushels of grain, 19 geese, 48 old ones Chickens, 5 shock 18 eggs. In 1666 there were 47 taxpayers in Poppitz, in 1681 8 hookers had little wealth, a lot of church and other debts, 1 man has 3 hooves of land, 2 men 2.5 hooves, 5 men have two hooves, half-hoofers and court thrashers together 11 men. Two hoofers, 9 half hoofers with a total of 6.5 Hufen Land, gardener and court thrashers 4 men, 3 gardeners and 1 cottage owner together 24.5 Hufen and 65 people. In the year 1721 there were 28 numbers in Poppitz, 1 three-hüfner, 2 two-and-a-half-hüfner, 5 two-huefner, 2 hüfner, 9 half-huefner, 4 gardener, 4 housekeeper (built in 1702, 13, 15, 16) and a desert building site. In 1840 Poppitz consisted of 35 houses with 190 inhabitants.

From 1547 Poppitz was administered by the Meissen Hereditary Authority, also in 1764 and 1816.

The mill was first mentioned in August 1233. In 1586 Andres Seidel sold his mill to his son Paul. In 1601 Balthasar Bendir took over the mill and 0.5 Hufen for 1500 guilders. In 1721 Jan Greuzsch, then Peter Moriz and later Hans George Greuzsch took over the mill and 1 Hufen Land. From the 19th century, the mill was connected to a bakery. Since it was closed in 1968, it has served as a residential building for the Free German Youth , for medical consultations and as a meeting place for veterans.

From 1555 Poppitz was parish in Riesa, this has not changed so far. In 1925, 681 inhabitants of Poppitz were Evangelical Lutheran , 26 inhabitants were Catholic and 43 inhabitants belonged to other denominations. In school the children went to Riesa until 1837, then to Mergendorf , with which a school association was founded in 1837. The Saxon rural community order of 1838 gave the village independence as a rural community.

From 1843 Poppitz was administered by the Meißen office, in 1856 by the Riesa court office and from 1875 by the Großenhain office . After the First World War, the farming village of Poppitz developed into a real residential area with single and multi-family houses from the 1920s. A large part of the villagers worked in the factories and in the administration of the city of Riesa. Saxons came after the Second World War in the Soviet zone of occupation and later the GDR . After the territorial reform in 1952 , Poppitz was assigned to the Riesa district in the Dresden district . On July 1, 1950, the place was incorporated into Riesa .

4 farms and the farmers of one company founded LPG Type III Lilli Wächter on July 7, 1954 . In 1960 it had 280 hectares of land through the connection of further properties and a gardening company. A large stable was built in Poppitz for the livestock. In 1960 the remaining individual farmers joined together to form an LPG TYPE I agreement. On January 1, 1972, the two cooperatives and LPG TYP III Altriesa merged to form LPG TYP III Poppitz. The approximately 90 members looked after around 600 cattle and 1000 pigs. The LPG used old buildings appropriately. Surplus barns were converted into pigsties. In 1973 KAP Riesa-Göhlis took over plant production on 595 hectares. After the German reunification , Poppitz 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

year Residents
1547 21 possessed men , 12 residents , 3 gardeners, 24 hooves
1552 21 possessed men , 12 residents , 3 gardeners, 24 hooves
1764 25 possessed men , 7 cottagers, 25 hooves 24–30 bushels each
1834 207
1871 254
1890 452
year Residents
1910 774
1925 750
1933 821
1939 890
1946 1036
1950 Riesa

Personalities

literature

  • Otto Mörtzsch : Poppitz . In: Historical-topographical description of the administrative authority in Großenhain . Verl. Landesverein Sächs. Heimatschutz, Dresden 1935, p. 10 ( SLUB Dresden [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  • About Oschatz and Riesa (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 30). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 132.
  • Saxony's church gallery. 7th volume. The Grossenhain, Radeberg and Bischofswerda inspections . Dresden 1840. Page 89 ( online. , Accessed December 28, 2017)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Poppitz in digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony .
  2. ^ 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).
  3. With the incorporation of Poppitz into Riesa in 1950, only official population figures were collected for the entire city.