Kitzen manor
The Kitzen manor in today's Kitzen district of the city of Pegau in the Leipzig district of the Free State of Saxony was the seat of various noble and bourgeois families. The manor house was last used as a town hall.
location
The manor Kitzen is located in the locality of the village of the same name. The Vorwerk Kleinschkorlopp used to be part of it.
history
The Kitzen manor was located in the Merseburg Monastery , which had been incorporated into the Duchy of Saxony-Merseburg formed in 1657 . The noble Haacke family can be traced from the manor since at least 1660 , and they had their seat here until 1719. When the last owner died without male heirs, the manor fell briefly to the upper Saxon noble Rex family , who were also enfeoffed , and they sold the manor to the daughter of the last Haacke owner for a fee.
Due to considerable debts, the manor was publicly auctioned in 1728. Carl von Dieskau († 1747) was the highest bidder and now moved into the estate that his descendants owned until 1789, before it was passed on to the wife of the Pegau rent official, Hänel, born. Auerbach was sold, which Kitzen owned until 1809. The Leipzig merchant and trader Lücke then took over the estate until 1821, which he sold to the wealthy widower Alexander Freiherr von Wylich from Diersfordt near Wesel . This used Kitzen mainly as an investment. In his will, after his death in 1831 it fell to his closest blood relatives, his niece Countess von Dankelman and her brother, his nephew, Baron von Hertefeld. From 1857, several bourgeois owners of the manor followed.
When the land reform was implemented in September 1945 and large landowners over 100 hectares were expropriated, this also applied to the owners of the Kitzen manor. On November 23, 1945, the land was divided among 59 new farmers from Kitzen. From then on, several war refugees and displaced persons from eastern Germany were housed in the building of the manor.
In 1952 the mansion was converted into a cultural center for the municipality of Kitzen, where dance, cinema and theater events were held. In addition, by 1961, the park of the manor was equipped with benches and new trees as part of the national reconstruction work and converted into a public recreation center.
From 1992 the mansion was converted into the town hall of the municipality of Kitzen, which was used as such until it was incorporated in 2012. In 2015 the restoration of the inspector's house began.
literature
- List of all offices, cities, castles, villages and forwerge in the Electorate of Saxony , 1768, p. 109
- Niekammer's goods address book for the province of Saxony , Leipzig 1929, p. 201
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '25.3 " N , 12 ° 13'22.1" E