Räpitz

Räpitz City of Markranstädt Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 28 "  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 56"  E
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	04420
Area code :	034444
Location of Räpitz in Saxony

Räpitz is a village in the town of Markranstädt in the Leipzig district in Saxony . The districts Räpitz, Meyhen, Schkeitbar and Schkölen belong to the village.

geography

Räpitz is located in the Leipzig lowland bay southwest of Leipzig on the state border with Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Schkölen, Schkeitbar and Räpitz are Slavic foundations that were first mentioned in 993, 1008 and 1282, respectively. Räpitz and its current districts of Meyhen, Schkölen and Schkeitbar belonged to the Hochstift-Merseburg office of Lützen until 1815 , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna , the four cities with the western part of the Office Lutzen were ceded to Prussia in 1815 and 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated. Since then they have been on the border with the Kingdom of Saxony .

On July 1, 1950, Meyhen, Schkölen and Schkeitbar were incorporated into Räpitz and assigned to the Weißenfels district as part of the first district reform in the GDR . With the second district reform in 1952, Räpitz came to the Leipzig-Land district in the Leipzig district , which was added to the Leipzig district in 1994 and in the Leipzig district in 2008. Räpitz was incorporated into Markranstädt on January 1, 1994.

traffic

Räpitz lies between the federal highway 87 in the northwest, the federal highway 186 in the northeast and the federal highway 38 in the south.

Web links

• Räpitz in the Historical Directory of Saxony
• History of the districts of Markranstädt on the city's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
3. ^ Räpitz on gov.genealogy.net