Pouch
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Pouch
Community Muldestausee
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| Height : | 95 m |
| Area : | 29.7 km² |
| Residents : | 1680 (December 31, 2008) |
| Population density : | 57 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 06774 |
| Area code : | 03493 |
Pouch (pronunciation with Dehnungs -u : [pʰoːx] or Pohch ) is a district and administrative seat of the community Muldestausee in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
Pouch is located between Leipzig and Lutherstadt Wittenberg on a peninsula between the Muldestausee and the Great Goitzschesee .
history
Pouch was first mentioned as Pauc in the year 981 in the chronicle of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg , written at the beginning of the 11th century . The first actual documentary mention followed in 993. Pouch formed with its castle at the trough in the 10th century the center of a castle Wards . Around 1070 the place came to the diocese of Meißen .
In 1332 the Ascanian dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg were enfeoffed in Pouch. In 1537, Count Philipp zu Solms-Lich bought the Sonnewalde estate and the Pouch manor from the dukes of Saxony. It remained in the possession of the Solms family until 1945 and, in connection with the Counts of Solms-Sonnenwalde , often played a role that should not be underestimated within the ducal family policy. As related to the out Anhalt exiled Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau or as a wedding venue between Solmsern and the counts of Pückler Schloss Muskau and Branitz in the Lower Lausitz.
In 1422 all fiefdoms passed to the Wettins . As a result, the place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Bitterfeld until 1815 . In 1528 the Reformation reached Pouch, and the first Protestant service was held. Around 1575 Pouch had 370 inhabitants and had the character of a town typical of that time. Like many communities in the area, Pouch was sacked by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War in 1637. The city's character was lost due to the war.
On October 9, 1813, a few days before the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , Field Marshal Blücher's headquarters were in the town for a few hours. The decisions of the Congress of Vienna Pouch came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which it belonged until the 1944th
Since January 1, 2010, the formerly independent municipality of Pouch has belonged to the unified municipality of Muldestausee. The former municipality belonged to the administrative community Muldestausee-Malerbach .
politics
mayor
The last honorary mayor of the municipality of Pouch was Hans-Peter Fabig and was elected on June 12, 1994.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the Dessau Regional Council on May 9, 2000 and registered in the Magdeburg State Archives under the coat of arms roll number 16/2000.
Blazon : "Three long-stemmed green oak leaves rising in silver from the lower edge of the shield, in front of the middle one - at the same height - a black grooved red city gate with two kneaded, pointed tower attachments, four arched window openings (2: 2) and a round arched doorway."
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Jung .
flag
The Pouch flag is red with a narrow white stripe on each side (1: 1: 8: 1: 1; hoisted flag: stripes running from top to bottom). The coat of arms is placed in the middle of the flag.
Culture and sights
Between 1989 and 2000, a landscape art project was created on the Pouch peninsula on an area of 60 km². The Goitzsche Landscape Park is part of the Garden Dreams Saxony-Anhalt project .
Buildings
The castle, the red tower and the 13th century church built from field stones with a late Gothic four-wing carved high altar, whose altar paintings are attributed to the workshop of the Wittenberg painter and reformer Lucas Cranach, or to the court painter of the Solms-Lich lords of the palace, Hans Döhring, are historical indications that Pouch had connections not only in the history of Anhalt, but also in the Kingdom of Saxony and the Mark Brandenburg. The family resident at Castle Pouch had direct family ties to the Dukes of Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt Dessau, and these can be found in the armies of Saxony-Anhalt's Leopold I , “Der Alte Dessauer”, and Brandenburg's / Prussian Friedrich dem Find great again.
Castle Pouch around 1860
Castle Pouch 2014
Red Tower
church
music
In 2007 and 2008, the hip hop and reggae festival Splash! in Pouch, which in 2007 was still the largest in Europe. The Sputnik Springbreak Festival has also been taking place there since 2008 .
Economy and Infrastructure
The most important and well-known company in Pouch is Poucher Boats GmbH . The company, founded in 1953, is best known as a manufacturer of folding boats . The travel twin RZ 85 , which was popular in the GDR , is still in production today. Since the reunification , four new types have been added to the classic single and double models.
traffic
The federal highways 100 and 183 from Bitterfeld to Wittenberg and Torgau , which are merged here, run through the village . All long-distance traffic in the direction of Wittenberg and Bad Düben and the Dübener Heide runs over the new Mulde bridge, which was completed in 1976.
Web links
literature
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Pouch - a picture of old chivalry , in: Quiet and full of bitter beauty - castles and their gardens in the Dübener Heide , Bad Düben 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020880-5 , p. 47 ff.
- Frank Görlich: 1000 years of Pouch - A contribution to the millennium celebration of the municipality of Pouch (= Bitterfelder Heimatblätter, Issue 1), Bitterfeld District Museum, 1981
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thietmari Chron. Lib. III pp. 117f.
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
- ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010