Putzkau
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Putzkau
Community of Schmölln-Putzkau
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| Height : | 310-370 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 1980 (Dec 31, 2011) |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 1994 |
| Postal code : | 01877 |
| Area code : | 03594 |
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Putzkau ( Upper Sorbian Póckowy , locally : Putzche ) is a village and former municipality as well as a current part of the municipality of Schmölln-Putzkau in the Saxon district of Bautzen .
geography
Putzkau is a forest hoof village that stretches for six kilometers through the Wesenitztal between Neukirch / Lausitz and Bischofswerda and merges seamlessly into both neighboring towns. It is divided into the districts of Niederputzkau in the west and Oberputzkau in the east. Outside the core town are the settlements of Hübelschänkhäuser , Vogelhäuser and Ziegelberghäuser belonging to Putzkau .
The village belongs to Upper Lusatia . In terms of natural space, the upper Wesenitztal forms part of the northern valley basin of the Lausitzer Bergland , which here separates its first mountain range with the Hohen Hahn north of Putzkau from the second mountain range with the Valtenberg in the south.
Neighboring places
| Bischofswerda | Schmölln / OL | Tröbigau |
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Neukirch / Lausitz | |
| Oberottendorf | Valtenberg |
history
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Putzkaus was first named in 1344 in a court case. The oldest building in the village is the church, which can be traced back to 1386. The minister in charge of Saxony-Poland under August the Strong, Field Marshal Jacob Heinrich von Flemming , was buried here in 1728 . He had bought the estate in 1724; it had previously belonged to the chief chamberlain, Christian August von Haxthausen , among others .
The historical manor had been in the possession of the Electoral Saxon diplomat Count Andreas von Riaucour (1722–1794), a very respected politician and important art collector, who stayed mainly at the Electoral Palatinate court in Mannheim since 1751 . The property remained in the possession of his family, later called Schall-Riaucour , until 1945. On the epitaph of Andreas von Riaucour's son Adam Heinrich Peter (1761–1762) in the Mannheim St. Sebastian Church , Putzkau is the father's property also called.
As part of the construction of the South Lusatian Railway , the Putzkau Viaduct was completed in 1878 after only two years of construction . The viaduct is a 400 meter long, 18 meter high arched bridge over the Wesenitztal.
The municipality of Putzkau was created in 1934 through the merger of Ober- and Niederputzkau and existed until 1994 when it was merged with Schmölln and Tröbigau in the municipality of Schmölln-Putzkau.
Economy and Infrastructure
The Putzkaus economy is characterized by small and medium-sized companies in the processing and service industries. The largest of these are the road construction company Bistra Bau GmbH & Co. KG and Fiedler Maschinenbau und Technikvertrieb GmbH .
traffic
Putzkau has a stop on the Neukirch West – Bischofswerda railway , served by trains on the Dresden – Zittau line. The federal road 98 runs through the entire town .
education
In Putzkau there is a kindergarten and a primary school (Dr.-Alwin-Schade-Schule) , which is named after the botanist, teacher and native Putzkauer Friedrich Alwin Schade (1881-1976).
Additional information
literature
- Niederputzkau. In: Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 168–169.
- Oberputzkau. In: Um Stolpen and Neustadt (= values of our homeland . Volume 17). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Putzkau. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 32nd issue: Bautzen Official Authority (Part II) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1908, p. 233.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33. revised and exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , online at Google Books , p. 1108
- ^ Entry in the Upper Lusatian dictionary
- ^ Website on the history of Putzkau, with mention of the castle owner Andreas von Riaucour
- ^ Putzkau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
