Rattle

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '  N , 14 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Goerlitz
Management Community :	Rattle
Height :	143 m above sea level NHN
Area :	73.19 km 2
Residents:	2529 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	02956
Area code :	035772
License plate :	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Community key :	14 6 26 460
Community structure:	6 districts
Association administration address:	Forsthausweg 2 02956 Rietschen
Website :	www.rietschen-online.de
Mayor :	Ralf Brehmer ( FWV Rietschen)
Location of the municipality of Rietschen in the district of Görlitz

Aerial photo of Rietschen 2019

Church in Rietschen

Rietschen , Upper Sorbian Rěčicy ^{? / i} , is a municipality in the district of Görlitz in the east of the Free State of Saxony . The municipality is the seat of the administrative community Rietschen .

About 2600 inhabitants live in the municipality, 1100 of them in the main town of the same name. The community lies entirely in the Sorbian settlement area of Upper Lusatia , but the majority of the places have been largely Germanized since the middle of the 19th century.

geography

Community structure

The community consists of the districts

• Rietschen ( Upper Sorbian Rěčicy , 1866 inhabitants on December 31, 2009 ),
• Daubitz ( Dubc , 563 inhabitants),
• Teicha ( Hatk , 208 inhabitants)
• Hammerstadt ( Hamoršć , 92 inhabitants),
• Altliebel ( Stary Lubolń , 28 residents) and
• Neuliebel ( Nowy Lubolń , 44 residents).

The district of Rietschen, in turn, is divided into the villages

• Rietschen (1158 inhabitants),
• Neuhammer ( Nowy Hamor , 201 inhabitants),
• Nieder Prauske ( Delnje Brusy , 351 inhabitants) and
• Werda ( Wjerto , 179 inhabitants).

Other settlements within the community are field houses, heather houses, Neu-Daubitz and Walddorf.

The places Berg, Linda , Mocholz , Publick , Tränke , Wunscha , Viereichen and Zweibrücken mostly no longer exist today due to open-cast mining. The name of Altliebel, which was also dredged over, was transferred to the neighboring settlement of Nappatsch.

Geographical location

The municipality of Rietschen is located in the northern part of the district. It is located about 10 km northwest of the town of Niesky on the northern edge of the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area, not far from the Muskauer Heide . The federal road 115 and the Cottbus – Görlitz railway line run through the community. The Weißen Schöps flows through several districts .

The Reichwalde opencast mine connects to the west and the Oberlausitz military training area to the north .

Neighboring communities

Surrounding communities are Weißkeißel in the north, Krauschwitz in the northeast and east, Rothenburg / OL in the southeast, Hähnichen and Niesky in the south, the administrative community of Kreba-Neudorf in the southwest, and Boxberg / OL in the west and northwest.

history

Vessels of a Bronze Age burial ground excavated west of Rietschen in the 19th century prove a prehistoric settlement.

Upper Lusatia , largely deserted after the Great Migration , was not settled by Slavic Sorbs until the 7th century , followed by German settlers as part of the eastward expansion . The first documentary mention of the place, 1362 as Reczicz , indicates an originally Slavic settlement on the river (Sorbian rěka ), the White Schöps .

Already in the late 14th century was in a mansion which for until the beginning of the 17th century manor was. The estate with its fields, meadows, ponds and forests was of immense importance for the estate. The village was already parish in the pre-Reformation period according to Daubitz .

The Kingdom of Saxony had in 1815 when the Congress of Vienna large territorial concessions to the Kingdom of Prussia accept, including a large part of 1635 as part of the Peace of Prague from the Kingdom of Bohemia received Lausitz , so Rietschen 1815 stood for the next 130 years under Prussian administration. As part of an administrative reform, the place came in 1816 to the newly founded district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) In the Prussian province of Silesia .

In the second half of the 19th century, especially after it was connected to the Berlin – Görlitz railway line in 1867, the manor lost its importance and the place developed into an industrial village. The sawmills that existed in 1852 were followed by three glassworks from 1872 to 1900 and the Teicha clay and mining company in 1907.

The school established in Rietschen in 1885 received its own building in 1890. Before that, she attended school in Daubitz until 1847 and then in the new school in Nieder Prauske . Another new school was built in 1913.

Due to the steadily growing population, it was decided in 1911 to build a daughter church, which was built between 1914 and 1916 at the same time as the new Daubitz church was built. As in Daubitz, Joseph Langer took care of the artistic design . After Rietschen the places Werda , Hammerstadt , Linda , Neuliebel and Nieder Prauske were parish.

After the Second World War , Rietschen came back to the state of Saxony with the western part of Prussian Upper Lusatia and was assigned to the Weisswasser district in the Cottbus district in 1952. In 1956 the parish became independent, and in 1961 the school expanded again.

On the Erlichthof , formerly the Mocholz homestead No. 31, are the first buildings of the Erlichthof settlement that has now been created

During the fall of the Wall , industrial production collapsed in Rietschen as well as in other industrial locations. From 1991, that originated in Rietschen on Erlichtteich Erlichthofsiedlung from 200 to 300 years old log houses that from the run-up to the pit Reichwalde were implemented villages.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1938, there were a large number of incorporations in the Rothenburg district (Ob. Laus.) , Within the framework of which Neuliebel was incorporated into Altliebel , Nieder Prauske and Werda to Rietschen and Mocholz to Viereichen .

After Neuhammer came to Rietschen on July 1, 1950 and Tränke on October 1, 1962 and the communities Altliebel and Hammerstadt were incorporated into Viereichen on January 1, 1973, the number of communities in today's Rietschen area had fallen to four.

The remaining four communities Daubitz , Rietschen, Teicha and Viereichen merged on March 15, 1992 to form the current community of Rietschen.

politics

City council election 2019

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Municipal council

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• We for Rietschen (WiR): 9 seats
• CDU : 5 seats

The Free Voters Rietschen, who were elected the strongest party in the local council with 59.2% in the local council election on May 25, 2014 , were not allowed to participate in the 2019 election.

mayor

Eberhardt Meier had been the mayor of Rietschen from 1990 until he left office due to illness in 2010. Ralf Brehmer, long-time building authority manager in Rietschen, was elected as his successor on November 14, 2010 with 63% of the vote. For the election in 2017, Brehmer was the only candidate, he received 92% of the valid votes. The remaining voters made use of the right to propose no person or only one candidate on the ballot paper.

Environmental and energy policy

The municipality of Rietschen has made energetic renovations possible with a local funding program, including a photovoltaic system with an output of 20.4 kW installed in the wastewater treatment plant. For this, the municipality was instantly Saxony champion in the 2017 gold audit of the European Energy Award .

Local partnerships

Rietschen maintains partnerships with the municipality of Feldkirchen (near Munich) and the Polish city of Iłowa (German: Halbau ).

Personalities

People from the community

• Karl David Schuchardt (* 1717 in Linda; † 1781), Protestant theologian
• Kurt Stache (* 1903 in Rietschen; † in the 20th century), communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Joachim Nowotny (* 1933 in Rietschen; † 2014), writer
• Sascha Juritz (* 1939 in Rietschen; † 2003 in Frankfurt am Main), painter, graphic artist, sculptor and publisher
• Erich Schulze (* 1949 in Daubitz), district administrator
• Lothar Bienst (* 1956 in Teicha), 2009 to 2019 member of the Saxon state parliament (CDU)

People who worked in the church

• Christoph Gabriel Fabricius (1684–1757) had been pastor in Daubitz since 1740. Several church writings come from him in German and Sorbian.
• The Daubitz pastor Henner-Jürgen Havenstein (1931–2001) co-founded the New Forum in the Cottbus district in 1989 . In 1996 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
• The Daubitzer landowner Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Roeder was the first district of the county Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) .

Culture and sights

→ see also: List of cultural monuments in Rietschen

The forester's house Altliebel No. 37 and the farmstead Mocholz No. 31 (Erlichthof) are now in the Erlichthofsiedlung

• Erlichthof (museum village)
• Wolf exhibition in the Erlichthof
• Daubitz School Museum
• Forest Village Ranch with bison enclosure in Daubitz-Walddorf

Buildings

• Daubitz Castle with park
• Churches in Daubitz and Rietschen

Educational institutions

• Daubitz primary school
• Free school Rietschen

Regular events

• St. George's Festival in Daubitz on the last weekend in April
• Children's and street festival in Werda on the first weekend in July every year
• Country festival in Daubitz on the last weekend in June every year
• Autumn festival in September / October: 2017 the 24th nature and fishing festival at the Erlichthof and Erlichtteich
• Gnome festival on the 1st of Advent
• Carnival events of the Rietschener Karnevals Club eV in February and November
• Oktoberfest in September / October

traffic

The Rietschen stop is on the Berlin – Görlitz railway line . Trains on the RB65 line on the Cottbus – Görlitz – Zittau route, operated by the East German Railway , stop .

literature

• From the Muskauer Heide to the Rotstein. Home book of the Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia District . Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-929091-96-0 , p. 245 f .
• Robert Pohl: Heimatbuch des Kreis Rothenburg O.-L. for school and home . Buchdruckerei Emil Hampel, Weißwasser O.-L. 1924.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Rietschen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
4. ↑ Christian Köhler: Free voters Rietschen are not allowed to vote in the council. In: lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau , April 10, 2019, accessed on July 4, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Mayoral election 2010 - Rietschen municipality. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , accessed on November 19, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Mayoral election 2017 - Rietschen municipality. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on November 27, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Regina Weiß: Honor - Rietschen is recognized for saving energy. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Weißwasser edition, November 7, 2017; accessed on October 7, 2017.
8. ↑ (red / dh): Archery at the fishing festival . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Weißwasser edition, September 22, 2017, accessed on September 22, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Rietschen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rietschen community
• Rietschen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony