Reschwitz

This article describes the location in Thuringia. For the desert of the same name in the Czech Republic see Radošov (Hradiště) .

Reschwitz City of Saalfeld / Saale Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 53 ″  E
Height :	220 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	January 1, 1997
Incorporated into:	Saalfelder Höhe
Postal code :	07318
Area code :	03671
Location of Reschwitz in Thuringia

Village church (1953/1954)

Reschwitz is a district of the city of Saalfeld / Saale in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia .

geography

Reschwitz is the lowest part of the municipality, because it is located directly west of the Saale and south of Saalfeld in an elongated valley. Via the county road 153 there is a detour to get to the village. This was also true for farmers and farm workers of the good that had mostly uphill to the fields. Later, the situation changed with the changed production conditions of the large LPG .

history

On October 17, 1263 a Heinrich von Reschitz is mentioned in a document, which is believed to be the first mention of Reschwitz. On January 28, 1292, a Hermann von Rodeswiz is mentioned in the document book of the Paulinzella Monastery , whose name Reschwitz can be assigned with greater certainty.

Reschwitz was hit by witch persecution in 1691 . Andreas Kühn got into a witch trial after the pastor's opinion was negative and was burned.

Until 1735 the Reschwitzer Edelhof was the seat of the von Lengefeld, the lords of Reschwitz and Pippelsdorf . Then the gentlemen von Schönfeld had it. In 1836, Carl Friedrich Engelhardt zu Saalfeld bought the Reschwitz estate. Until 1918, the place was in the Leutenberg area of ​​the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

The church , which was consecrated on November 1, 1903, replaced the previous building from 1736 that had burned down.

Before 1945 the estate belonged to the owner of the Mauxion chocolate factory . After 1945 it became a state-owned property . The industry also gained a foothold in the village with the Reschwitzer Saugbagger Produktions-GmbH.

From 1994 to 1996 Reschwitz belonged to the administrative community Saalfelder Höhe . With the conversion of this into the unified municipality of Saalfelder Höhe on January 1, 1997, it became a district of this. Saalfelder Höhe was incorporated into Saalfeld / Saale on July 6, 2018.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Carl Christoph von Lengefeld (1715–1775), forester from the royal Black Burg, father-in-law of Friedrich Schiller.
• Karl Wagner (1854–1930), local geologist, fossil collector and botanist

Web links

Commons : Reschwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reschwitz on thueringen-tourismus.de
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 233.
3. ↑ Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , p. 255, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
4. ↑ Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt Kiesewetter files No. 21 Signature (5-99-1700 021).
5. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics
6. ↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018
7. ^ Roland Beyer: Carl-Christoph von Lengefeld (1715–1775), forester and visionary of the 18th century. Time travel and role play. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014 (2015), pp. 305-314 (with contributions by Pier Pernutz and Günter Linke).
8. ^ Peter Lange: Personalities from science and technology: District of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt . District of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Culture Service, Saalfeld 2001, p. 120 .