Roitzsch (Dresden)

Roitzsch District of the state capital Dresden Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 15 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	285 m above sea level NN
Area :	99 ha
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Unkersdorf
Postal code :	01156
Area code :	0351
Location of the Roitzsch district in Dresden

Roitzsch is a district in the west of the Saxon capital Dresden . It is located on the outskirts in the district of the same name and belongs to the village of Gompitz . With around 30 inhabitants, Roitzsch is the most populous district in Dresden.

geography

Building in the village center of Roitzsch

Roitzsch is located 9 km to the west of Dresden city center, the interior of the old town , on the left bank, Meissner highlands called Lösshochfläche . The location is at a height of about 285  m above sea level. NN and clearly exceeds the valley floor of the Elbe . The terrain slopes slowly to the east towards the Elbe valley . The Roitzscher Dorfbach starts in Roitzsch and flows southeast towards Zschoner Grund . The district of Roitzsch has retained its village character, although a motorway is only 200 m west of the village center, which is now called Roitzscher Dorfstrasse . No new houses were built outside of the village center, where several farmsteads have been preserved.

Neighboring districts are the other Dresden districts Unkersdorf in the west and north and Steinbach in the south. In the east it borders Podemus , which already belongs to the village of Mobschatz . Roitzsch belongs to the statistical district Gompitz / Altfranken , within which the district forms the statistical district 996 Roitzsch. The A17 runs along the western edge of the Roitzsch district and meets the A4 just 500 m north of the Roitzsch corridor boundary at the Dresden-West motorway triangle . Roitzsch is connected to Zöllmen and Unkersdorf by Kreisstraße 6240 ; The Roitzscher Landstrasse also leads to Podemus . The only public transport in Roitzsch is the 330 bus , which is operated by Satra Eberhardt .

history

The one with a succeed - and forest horseshoe-like strip corridor equipped Rundling Roitzsch was in 1071 under the name Grodice first mentioned. A certificate from Meißner Bishop Benno confirmed the affiliation to Burgward Woz , who was in Niederwartha . This makes Roitzsch one of the earliest mentioned villages of the then Gaus Nisan and today's Dresden region.

The place name is of Sorbian origin and is derived from * gordъ , the Slavic word for castle , which indicates the earlier existence of a fortification. Other sources, however, tend to connect Grodice with Burgstädtel near Omsewitz ; this dispute is also comparable with the unresolved first mention of Ockerwitz . The names Racschicz and Rocschicz from 1378, which probably go back to the Old Sorbian personal name Rok (-an) , can be assigned to Roitzsch without a doubt . The place name then developed further in the 15th and 16th centuries via Royczicz , Roczsch and Retzsch . The current spelling appears for the first time in 1791; In 1875 the place name had the addition of Wilsdruff to distinguish it from other Saxon places of the same name .

The area was already settled in the Neolithic ; the traces of this early settlement, around 7,000 years old, were assigned to the ceramic band culture . Roitzsch itself was probably created in the 10th century. On 30 September 1408 several members of the Dresdner councilor family were Busmann by the Margrave Wilhelm II. With Roitzsch invested . Documents from 1551, 1696 and 1764 confirm that it belonged to the Scharfenberg manor , whose owners, the Lords of Miltitz , ruled Roitzsch until the 19th century .

Roitzsch and its neighboring villages on a map from 1821

In connection with the Battle of Kesselsdorf there were ongoing battles in Roitzsch in 1745. The staff of the Prussian Army under Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau , who was able to achieve the last and probably greatest victory of his career, was located in the immediate vicinity of the village . But Roitzsch was also affected several times during other wars. In the middle of the 19th century it was given the status of a rural community with a 99 hectare field. The place was parish in the neighboring Unkersdorf and administratively belonged to the administrative authority of Meißen . Over the centuries it probably never had more than 100 inhabitants.

A few years after the Second World War , Roitzsch lost its independence. Already on July 1, 1950 it was incorporated with Steinbach to Unkersdorf. In 1974 it finally came with this to the community of Gompitz . In the 1950s, agriculture was also forcibly collectivized and an LPG was founded, which later merged with other cooperatives. With the dissolution of the Dresden-Land district on January 1, 1996, Roitzsch was incorporated into the Meißen district as part of Gompitz and finally incorporated into Dresden on January 1, 1999 .

Population development

year	Residents
1547/51	4 possessed men , 6 residents
1764	4 obsessive men, 2 gardeners
1834	60
1871	59
1890	55
1910	74
1925	78
1939	56
1946	79
1990	see Gompitz (locality)

Personalities

• Albert Carl Koch (1804–1867), fossil collector

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Roitzsch (Dresden)
• List of streets and squares in Roitzsch (Dresden)

Web links

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

• Roitzsch district
• History of Roitzsch
• Roitzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Roitzsch
• at Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District catalog 2013. (PDF, 26 MB) (No longer available online.) In: dresden.de. Municipal statistics office Dresden, archived from the original on February 19, 2016 ; Retrieved February 19, 2016 . 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.  
2. ↑ dvb.de (PDF)
3. ^ Roitzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
4. ↑ dresden.de
5. ^ Roitzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony