Prausitz (Hirschstein)

Prausitz Community Hirschstein Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 32 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 44"  E
Height :	115 m
Area :	3.74 km²
Residents :	789  (1990)
Population density :	211 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Flour turret
Postal code :	01594
Area code :	035266
Location of Prausitz in Saxony

Location of Prausitz on the map of Oberreit (1839)

Prausitz is a district and also the administrative seat of the Saxon community of Hirschstein in the district of Meißen .

location

The place is on the left side of the Elbe about six kilometers southeast of the city of Riesa on the northern edge of the Lommatzscher Pflege . The Keppritzbach, a tributary of the Jahna, flows on the eastern edge of the village .

history

former Dutch windmill Prausitz

Prausitz emerged as a Slavic village complex and was first mentioned in 1206 in connection with a Tammo de Pruz . At that time there was already a manor house in the place, which appears again in the documents in 1272. At that time, "Tammo von Prusic Ritter" sold his goods in Reinersdorf to the Margrave of Meißen . In 1334 there is talk of Pruz magnum (= Gross-Prausitz). Later the place name changed via Prausz , Prauscig , Prautzitz to Prawsitz . It was not until the 19th century that the spelling commonly used today caught on.

The administration was initially incumbent on the Supanie Raußlitz, later the (inheritance) office of Meißen. The rulership originally owned the Riesa monastery. In 1547 the cathedral chapters in Wurzen and Meißen had shares in the village, the remaining part was under the Jahnishausen manor . In the course of the German colonization of the region, Prausitz developed into a street green village with several farmsteads. By the middle of the 14th century at the latest, there was also a church in the village, which for a long time was one of the wealthiest parishes in the Saxon region. In 1792 the first own school was opened. In the course of an administrative reform, Prausitz came to the Riesa court office in 1856 , and in 1875 to the administrative authority of Großenhain .

After the Second World War, a new farmer settlement was built on the road to Gostewitz as part of the land reform , which led to an increase in the number of inhabitants. On March 1, 1951, the neighboring villages of Kobeln and Pahrenz were incorporated. With the formation of new circles and districts after the founding of the GDR, Prausitz was assigned to the new Riesa district in 1952. In 1994 the community first came to the Riesa-Großenhain district and in the same year merged with Mehltheuer . Since 1996 it has belonged to the Hirschstein community, which was formed from several formerly independent towns . Today Prausitz is important as a central place in this community. The municipal administration, the primary school "Franciscus Nagler", a day-care center and various supra-local supply facilities are located here.

Population development

year	Residents
1547/52	18 possessed men , 24 residents , 22 hooves
1764	23 possessed men, 6 cottagers, 21½ hooves 10 bushels each
1834	210
1871	261
1890	304
1910	379
1925	359
1939	319
1946	420
1950	1093
1964	830
1990	789

Economy and Transport

Agriculture is traditionally of economic importance. There was also a Dutch tower windmill in the village , the stump of which is still preserved. The most important company is the milk center "Dorfheimat" Prausitz, which emerged in 1992 from the former LPG. There are also some smaller craft and commercial businesses in the village. There are bus connections to Riesa, Lommatzsch and Zehren .

Since 1877 Prausitz has had a connection to the Riesa – Nossen railway line . The train station is located on Prausitzer Flur, but is away from the village. It was therefore of particular importance for freight transport and the loading of agricultural products. In the 1970s, there was a central beet loading station here, through which between 60,000 and 80,000 tons of sugar beet were loaded onto block trains every year. Passenger traffic on this route was discontinued in 1998 and freight traffic two years later. After the railway line was taken over by the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie in 2014, reactivation is planned for at least freight trains.

Attractions

church

Prausitz Church

The first mentions of a church come from the middle of the 14th century. Originally this belonged to the parish (Sedes) Lommatzsch and was assigned as a branch church to the parish Heyda (Hirschstein) in 1575 . According to legend, the Prausitz Church is said to have been the recipient of a generous donation from two noble ladies from Schleinitz, owners of the Jahnishausen manor during the Thirty Years War , so that Prausitz in the 17th / 18th Century was one of the wealthiest parishes in Saxony. These financial resources made it possible to rebuild the late baroque village church, which has been preserved to this day, in 1775. The foundation stone was laid on August 31, 1775, and the new building was consecrated on Trinity Day 1778. Three years later, the new building with its tower was completed. The Dresden master builder Samuel Locke was in charge of the new church building .

In 1811 it was separated from the Heyda mother church. In 1842 the parish of Prausitz was assigned to the Ephorie Grossenhain. In 1895 the church interior was redesigned again. The furnishings include a larger than life wooden figure of the Savior, carved after a model from Bertel Thorvaldsen . The wooden work on the altar, pulpit and organ as well as the mansion box are by the wood sculptor Joseph Deibel from Dresden. Four colored stained glass windows show the birth, baptism and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the feast of Pentecost. The organ with slide box and mechanical action dates from 1863 and was built by the Dresden organ builder Carl Eduard Jehmlich .

Old school

The building next to the church housed the village's village school from 1792 and is a listed building. The local poet and composer Franciscus Nagler was born in this building in 1873 . The local elementary school is named after him. There is also a small school and local history museum with exhibits on the history of the village.

Web links

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

• Prausitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Prausitz on the website of the Hirschstein community

literature

• Dietrich Zühlke (ed.): To Oschatz and Riesa: results of the local history. Inventory in the areas of Wellerswalde, Riesa, Oschatz and Stauchitz (= values ​​of our homeland, volume 30), Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1977

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Wunderwald: The Riesa - Nossen railway line: a journey through time through the 125 year history of one of the most interesting railway lines in Central Saxony , Wilsdruffer Bahnbücher publishing house, 2004
2. ↑ The Church of Prausitz on the website of the church district of Meißen , accessed on March 18, 2015