Pressing (Eilenburg)

Press Large district town of Eilenburg Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 32 ′ 10 ″  E
Height :	131 m
Residents :	216  (Jun 4, 2008)
Incorporation :	October 11, 1965
Incorporated into:	Kospa presses
Postal code :	04838
Area code :	03423
Location Pressens in the Eilenburg area

Pressen is a village west of Eilenburg and is also part of the large district town of Eilenburg.

Lindenplatz

Geography and traffic

The place Pressen lies between the two districts of Eilenburg Behlitz and Zschettgau . The place has almost grown together with Behlitz. Pressen is connected to the Halle – Cottbus railway line with the Kämmereiforst station, which is constantly manned . In addition, Pressen has a connection to the nearby state road 4 (Delitzsch – Eilenburg) and is served by buses to Eilenburg and Delitzsch on weekdays. In addition to the local connections to Behlitz and Zschettgau, there is also one to Naundorf (municipality of Zschepplin ).

history

The press room must have been inhabited at least since the Bronze Age. The place was first mentioned in 1340 . The name, which comes from Sorbian, can be translated as heather or heather. It is said that the village fell victim to a fire around 1632 . The place has the ground plan of a round. Pressen used to be owned by various locks. It belonged to Püchau Castle and later to Zschepplin. The area around Pressen used to be forested, today only the forest section of combing forest is preserved.

To 1815 presses belonged to an exclave in office Eilenburg for office Wurzen the pen Office Wurzen under electoral Saxon or royal-Saxon supremacy. As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the place and its surrounding area became part of Prussia and in 1816 was assigned to the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony , to which it belonged until 1952.

On July 1, 1950, the place Behlitz was incorporated west of Pressen. In the course of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, Pressen was attached to the Eilenburg district in the Leipzig district , which was added to the Delitzsch district in 1994 . On October 11, 1965, Pressen merged with the Kospa community to form the Kospa-Pressen community. Since January 1st 1997, Pressen has been part of the city of Eilenburg.

→ see also: Cultural monuments in Pressen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 88 f.
2. ^ The district of Delitzsch in the municipality register 1900
3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997

Web links

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

• Pressing in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony