Quitzdorf am See

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 14 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Administrative association:	Diehsa
Height :	151 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.34 km 2
Residents:	1240 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02906
Primaries :	035893, 03588 (Kollm)
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 440
Community structure:	5 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 19 02906 Quitzdorf am See
Website :	www.quitzdorf-am-see.de
Mayor :	Günter Holtschke ( CDU )
Location of the community Quitzdorf am See in the district of Görlitz

Quitzdorf am See ( Upper Sorbian Kwětanecy při jězoru ) is a Saxon municipality in the district of Görlitz . The municipality belonging to the Diehsa administrative association was created in 1994 from the merger of two municipalities and was named after the village of Quitzdorf , which had to give way to the Quitzdorf dam .

Geography and traffic

The municipality of Quitzdorf am See is located in the central part of the district and borders the town of Niesky in the east . Quitzdorf am See is connected to the supraregional transport network via federal highway 156 in the west, federal highway 115 in the east and federal highway 4 in the south. The next motorway junctions to the east are Kodersdorf (junction 93; about 20 km away) and Nieder Seifersdorf (92; 12 km), and to the west of Weißenberg (91; 10 km). The railway line Węgliniec – Roßlau with a stop in Petershain runs through the community .

Quitzdorf am See lies between the Upper Lusatian Heide and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve in the north and the Hohen Dubrau in the south and is surrounded by a landscape rich in forests and ponds. The villages of Kollm and Sproitz are located directly on the Quitzdorf dam, in which the Schwarze Schöps is dammed.

Local division

The districts are Horscha ( Sorbian : Hóršow ), Kollm ( Chołm ), Petershain ( Hóznica ), Sproitz ( Sprjojcy ) and Steinölsa ( Kamjentna Wólšinka ). Horscha and Petershain are part of the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs .

history

The district of Kollm was first mentioned in a document as a village of Kollme in 1346. The name is of Slavic origin and should mean place on the hill . A little later, Petershain (1390) and Sproitz (1399; as Sprewicz ) were first mentioned in a document. It was not until more than 100 years later that Steinölsa was first mentioned in 1528 (as Steinöllß ).

In the Horscha quarry, where quartzite was mined until 1984 , graptolites from the Silurian were found in 1956 .

The community came into being on March 1, 1994, when the communities of Kollm and Sproitz (with the district Steinölsa) merged to form the community "Quitzdorf am See". The name was chosen deliberately to remind of the old Quitzdorf. On October 1, 1995, it merged with the Petershain community, to which the Horscha district belonged.

politics

City council election 2019 Turnout: 69.7%  % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 37.5% 51.7% 10.8% CDU WVQ left Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p  14th  12  10    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -10 -8.9  % p + 13.1  % p -4.2  % p CDU WVQ left

Quitzdorf reservoir

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Voters' association Quitzdorf am See (WVQ): 5 seats
• CDU : 4 seats
• LEFT : 1 seat

Attractions

There are various architectural sights from the past centuries in the towns of the municipality. These include the churches from the 13th or 14th centuries in Petershain and Kollm, the associated rectories from 1662 (Kollm) and 1685 (Petershain), an atonement cross from the 15th century and a flour mill from 1625 in Sproitz, an old mill in Horscha and an old castle wall in Steinölsa. The stone age megalithic barrows at Steinölsa are much older .

There are also three monuments and memorials in Sproitz. These are an atonement cross from the 15th century, a memorial for General Karl Freiherr von Wrangel from the time of the First World War and a military cemetery from the Second World War.

There are several stately facilities in the community. These include the manor from 1578 in Petershain, the "New Castle" with park from 1909/11 in Kollm (the "Old Castle" from 1766 was blown up during GDR times), which was built in Art Nouveau style between 1903 and 1905 Castle with its associated park in Petershain and the Horschaer Park with its early romantic park.

Scenic sights in and around the community include the Upper Lusatian Heide and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve and the reservoir, the open pit slate mine at Pansberg in Horscha, the vineyard in Kollm and the Hohe Dubrau ridge with the oldest rock in Germany.

The cultural monuments of the community are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Quitzdorf am See .

Personalities

• Kurt von Gersdorff (1858–1916), administrative officer and district administrator, born in Petershain
• Hans Abich (1918–2003), film producer and radio journalist, program director of ARD , born in Steinölsa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Saxon Sorbs Act , Annex to Section 3 (2)
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 of Germany, see 1995
5. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections

Web links

Commons : Quitzdorf am See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Quitzdorf am See
• Quitzdorf am See in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Upper Lusatia Biosphere Reserve