Rackwitz
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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ' N , 12 ° 22' E |
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| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | North Saxony | |
| Height : | 129 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 35.85 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 5135 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 143 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 04519 | |
| Primaries : | 034294 and 034202 (in some districts) | |
| License plate : | TDO, DZ, EB, OZ, TG, TO | |
| Community key : | 14 7 30 250 | |
| LOCODE : | DE RKW | |
| Community structure: | 7 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Hauptstrasse 11 04519 Rackwitz |
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| Mayor : | Steffen Schwalbe (independent) | |
| Location of the municipality Rackwitz in the district of northern Saxony | ||
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Rackwitz is a municipality in the northern Saxony district in Saxony .
geography
Geographical location
Rackwitz is located around ten kilometers north of Leipzig city center and around thirteen kilometers south of Delitzsch .
The landscape belongs to the Leipzig lowland bay and is traversed by the Lober . In the vicinity of the village are the Schladitzer See and the Werbeliner See , which were created from flooded open- cast mine holes .
The New Leipzig Trade Fair and Leipzig / Halle Airport are not far from the town.
Community structure
The municipality includes the districts with the following population figures:
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Rackwitz includes the corridors of Schladitz with Kömmlitz , Kattersnaundorf and Werbelin, which were devastated by the Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine .
history
The Rackwitz area was formerly inhabited by Slavs . The place name "Rackwitz" comes from the Sorbian rak for "cancer", which can also be found in the coat of arms. The place Rackwitz emerged from the places Rackwitz and Güntheritz. The current district of Podelwitz is considered to be the oldest part of today's municipality. It is first mentioned around 1250. Since 1349/50 there are documents in which Zschortau and Rackwitz are mentioned. Brodenaundorf has also been mentioned since 1547 .
At the beginning of the 15th century the plague and famine raged in Rackwitz. During the Thirty Years' War, the municipality is badly plundered.
In 1815, as part of the Congress of Vienna, Rackwitz and Güntheritz and other districts that previously belonged to the electoral office of Delitzsch were ceded to Prussia and assigned to the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony . Podelwitz, on the other hand, belonged to the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig , remained with Saxony.
On June 21, 1871, a passenger train and a locomotive collided near Rackwitz . 19 people died and 56 others were injured.
In 1939 the councilors of Rackwitz and Güntheritz decided to found the common community of Rackwitz. In Rackwitz, all crashed aircraft were deposited on the premises of the light metal works during the Second World War and dismantled for replacement parts and for aluminum extraction.
As part of the dissolution of the states on the territory of the GDR , the Podelwitz district was assigned to the Leipzig district in 1952 . Rackwitz, Lemsel and the community of Zschortau were incorporated into the Delitzsch district . Between 1981 and 1992, the former districts of Schladitz with Kömmlitz, Kattersnaundorf and Werbelin were devastated by open- cast lignite mines in Delitzsch-Südwest and Breitenfeld .
On January 1, 1999, the previously independent municipality of Podelwitz, located south of Rackwitz, was incorporated into the municipality of Rackwitz, whereby the place changed from the district of Leipziger Land to the district of Delitzsch . As part of this restructuring, the very profitable industrial area Podelwitz had to be handed over to Leipzig. At that time, the industrial park represented half of the total area of Podelwitz.
The former municipality of Zschortau with the districts of Biesen, Brodenaundorf, Kreuma and Lemsel, as well as the municipality of Rackwitz and Podelwitz merged into one large municipality on March 1, 2004 for economic reasons.
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Tucks | July 1, 1950 | Incorporation to Zschortau |
| Brodenaundorf | July 1, 1950 | Incorporation to Zschortau |
| Güntheritz | between 1925 and 1939 | Incorporation to Rackwitz |
| Kattersnaundorf | 1981 | Devastated in 1981 by the open-cast lignite mine Delitzsch-Südwest, thereby incorporation into Zschortau |
| Kommlitz | April 1, 1936 | Incorporation to Schladitz, devastated from 1986–89 by the Breitenfeld open-cast lignite mine, thereby incorporation to Rackwitz |
| Kreuma | May 1st 1974 | Incorporation to Zschortau |
| Lemsel | March 1, 1994 | Incorporation to Zschortau |
| Podelwitz | 1999 | Incorporation to Rackwitz |
| Schladitz | 1989 | 1986–89 devastated by the Breitenfeld open-cast lignite mine, thereby incorporating it into Rackwitz |
| Werbelin | January 1, 1957 | Incorporation to Kattersnaundorf, through devastation of Kattersnaundorf 1981 incorporation to Zschortau, devastated in 1992 by open-cast lignite mining in Delitzsch-Südwest |
| Zschortau | March 1, 2004 | Incorporation to Rackwitz |
Population development
| year | 1818 | 1880 | 1895 | 1910 | 1925 | 1939 | 1946 | 1950 | 1964 | 1990 | 2000 | 2013 | 2015 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 76 | 96 | 113 | 124 | 192 | 1,055 | 1,375 | 1,329 | 1,786 | 3,228 | 3,388 | 4,916 | 4,855 | 4,962 |
 Population development of Rackwitz
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politics
Municipal council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 17 seats (2014: 18) of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
- CDU : 5 seats (± 0)
- AfD : 3 seats (+ 3)
- SPD : 2 seats (± 0)
- Left : 2 seats (- 2)
- Green : 1 seat (+ 1)
- Independent electoral association Rackwitz (UWR): 4 seats (+ 1)
- Alternative list sport (ALS): 0 seats (- 2)
- The Rackwitz Citizenship (DRB): 0 seats (- 2)
mayor
On June 28, 2015, Steffen Schwalbe (independent) was elected in the second ballot to succeed Manfred Freilang.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In green, divided by a silver wave bar, above a golden sword, below a growing golden crab."
The sword symbolizes Podelwitz with his former manor. The cancer has its origin in the place name Rackwitz, which used to be Rakovica . This means something like "place where crabs live". The wavy bar refers to the Lober brook, which connects the two districts.
Culture and sights
→ see also: List of cultural monuments in Rackwitz
Buildings
- The church in Podelwitz was given to the Teutonic Order on Christmas Eve in 1250 by the Wettin Heinrich the Illustrious .
- In the church in Zschortau there is the only surviving disc organ that was removed by Johann Sebastian Bach .
- Only the tower of the church in Kreuma stands.
- Castle in the Zschortauer Park (so-called Obergut), which is used today as an international educational facility.
- Manor of the Güntheritz manor
Religious communities
The churches in Podelwitz, Zschortau and Kreuma are Protestant.
The Catholic Chapel of St. Raphael in Rackwitz was set up in a former bicycle workshop in 1957 and named after the Archangel Raphael . The chapel, which last belonged to the Delitzsch community network, was profaned on March 29, 2009 due to the reduced number of church visitors and the building was sold to private customers.
Memorials
The graves of 16 prisoners of war as well as women and men who were deported to Germany during the Second World War and were victims of forced labor are located in the Rackwitz cemetery .
Sports
Sport is very important in the municipality of Rackwitz. In 2006, according to census, about 19% of the total population of the municipality was organized in the local sports clubs. In the same year Rackwitz was honored for his work in the field of sport with the title Sport- friendly Commune 2006 . In addition to the three large sports clubs TSV Rackwitz, SG Podelwitz and SG Zschortau, there is also the Rackwitz motorsport club and the Zschortau dog sports club.
Regular events
In addition to the annual street festival in the Zschortau district, fire brigade festivals, sports festivals, Easter and autumn bonfires are also held in the districts. There are also small Christmas markets. In addition, a Trabant meeting takes place in Podelwitz in May and a Barkas meeting in September .
Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
As early as 1925, a light metal factory owned by the entrepreneur Bernhard Berghaus was located in Rackwitz . Even after the political change in 1989/1990 , metal construction and metal processing companies can be found in the town. In the Rackwitz light metal works , the only aluminum processing plant in the GDR, the GDR coins delivered by the branches of the GDR State Bank were melted down after the monetary, economic and social union . The plant has belonged to Norsk Hydro since 1998 .
With the Agrar-Umwelt-AG, which is a subsidiary of Südzucker-Mannheim, there is an important agricultural company that also operates a larger biogas plant. Otherwise there are rather small craft businesses, recycling yards, haulage companies and machine builders.
Road traffic
Located between Leipzig and Delitzsch, Bundesstrasse 2 and Bundesstrasse 184 pass the town. The Leipzig-Mitte junction of the A 14 is not far from Rackwitz . Several bus routes connect Rackwitz with surrounding communities.
Rail transport
Rackwitz has had a rail connection since 1857. In 1859 the first train passed through Zschortau. In 1902 the last 37 km long Delitzsch Kleinbahn opened . It connected numerous places in what was then the Prussian district of Delitzsch that were outside the city. The route also ran through parts of the large lignite mining area between Delitzsch and Leipzig. Passenger traffic ended in 1972. A year later, the last remaining freight traffic was finally stopped and the line was closed. A short time later the tracks were completely dismantled.
The Rackwitz (b Leipzig) and Zschortau train stations are located on the double-track electrified main line Leipzig - Bitterfeld - Dessau / Wittenberg . Both stations belong to the network area of the Central German Transport Association (MDV) , Rackwitz station is in tariff zone 164, Zschortau in zone 165.
The following lines stop at both stations:
| line | route | Tact |
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| S 2 | Leipzig-Stötteritz - Leipzig Central Station (deep) - Delitzsch - Bitterfeld - Dessau / Rosslau - Magdeburg | Every two hours |
| S 2 | Leipzig-Stötteritz - Leipzig Central Station (deep) - Delitzsch - Bitterfeld - Lutherstadt Wittenberg | Every two hours |
| S 2 | Leipzig-Stötteritz - Leipzig Central Station (deep) - Delitzsch (- Bitterfeld) | Repeater trains every hour |
With the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel on December 15, 2013, the stations were integrated into the network of the Central German S-Bahn and the range of connections expanded.
Since December 2017, the S2 has been running every hour from Leipzig-Stötteritz via Bitterfeld to Dessau or Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Thanks to additional repeater trains, there is an almost 30-minute cycle between Leipzig-Stötteritz and Bitterfeld, Monday to Friday from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. At the weekend, the 30-minute cycle begins at 6:00 a.m. the reinforcement trains then begin / end in Delitzsch unt. Bf.
In addition, new night connections were created on weekends, which are connected to Leipzig's local transport in Leipzig Hbf (deep) in the cycle node.
education
There are two elementary schools in the municipality: the Rackwitz elementary school, where 92 students study, and the Zschortau elementary school, which has 105 students. To attend a secondary school, the students have to go to Krostitz or Delitzsch . The international educational institute AIZ of the German Society for International Cooperation is located in the district of Zschortau .
Recreation
Rackwitz is not far from two flooded open-cast mine residual holes - the Schladitzer See and the Werbeliner See . Swimming has been possible at Lake Schladitz for several years. In addition, various courses are offered on and in the water. A bike path leads around the lake. In summer there are regular events on the beach of the lake.
The Werbeliner See emerged from the “Delitzsch-Südwest” open-cast mine. A cycle and hiking path enables the lake to be reached directly from Lake Schladitzer and from Delitzsch. Today it is a bird sanctuary and has a rich nature and landscape. There is a nature trail on the adjacent Grabschützer See.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Clara Fechner (1809–1900), Zschortau, writer
- Detlev Gröger (1929–2010), Zschortau, chemist and biologist
- Immo Rittmeyer (* 1936), Kreuma, cyclist
literature
- Dorothea and Timotheus Arndt: The church at Podelwitz. Spröda: Pietsch, ed.AKANTHUS, 2000, ISBN 3-00-006314-5 .
- Reinhard Wilke: Podelwitz - From the history of a church and farming village in the north of Leipzig. Beucha: Sax-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-002-9 .
Web links
- Rackwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Citizen brochure of the municipality of Rackwitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 56 f.
- ^ Martin Weltner: Railway disasters. Serious train accidents and their causes. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7654-7096-7 , p. 14.
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
- ↑ Data and facts. (No longer available online.) Rackwitz community, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Current population figures by municipalities in 2016 (population figures based on the 2011 census)
- ↑ sachsen.de - Elections: Results of the municipal council election 2019 in Rackwitz
- ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm_a?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14730250
- ↑ When the church leaves the village. In: tdh-online.de , accessed on March 29, 2016
- ↑ Rackwitz community - culture, leisure, sport. (No longer available online.) In: gemeinde-rackwitz.de. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hydro Aluminum Foundry Rackwitz GmbH. Archived from the original on January 26, 2019 ; accessed on January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Rackwitz community - schools. (No longer available online.) In: gemeinde-rackwitz.de. Archived from the original on May 29, 2015 ; accessed on May 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Leipzig-Zschortau. (No longer available online.) In: giz.de. August 24, 2013, archived from the original on May 29, 2015 ; accessed on May 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See profile of the Werbeliner See ( memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nature trail on Lake Grabsuetz ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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