Leuben-Schleinitz

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Schleinitz Castle

Leuben-Schleinitz was a municipality in the center of Saxony , in the district of Meißen . It was part of the dissolved Ketzerbachtal administrative community . Leuben and Schleinitz have been districts of Nossen since they were incorporated on January 1, 2014 .

geography

The place is about 13 km west of Meißen and about 5 km south of Lommatzsch am Ketzerbach in the south of the Lommatzscher Pflege . Adjacent communities were the town of Lommatzsch, Käbschützal and Ketzerbachtal in the district of Meißen and Döbeln in the district of central Saxony .

Before its dissolution, the municipality of Leuben-Schleinitz had the following districts:

The average annual precipitation from 1961 to 1990 was 582 mm and, with the exception of the months of August and September, is in the area of ​​the measuring points, which had 15 percent of the lowest amounts of precipitation of all German measuring points. The driest month was February, the most precipitation fell in August.

history

Schleinitz Castle

The place names of the villages that formerly belonged to the municipality of Leuben-Schleinitz mostly have Old Sorbian origins. The first mention of Leuben dates back to 1069. Schleinitz arose in the 13th century around the moated castle that existed at the time and was therefore a manor. Today's community was created on January 1, 1993 through the merger of the two places.

As early as July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Pröda was incorporated into Schleinitz.

On November 6, 2013, the local council decided to abolish the administrative partnership with the Ketzerbachtal community and to incorporate it into the city of Nossen , which took place on January 1, 2014.

Gerhard Doleschal from the FDP won the mayoral elections in 1994 (53.4%), 2001 (92.4%) and 2008 (96.9%) and was the first and only mayor of Leuben-Schleinitz.

Incorporations

On November 1, 1935, Eulitz (1925: 261 inhabitants), Graupzig (1925: 321 inhabitants) and Raßlitz (1925: 60 inhabitants) were incorporated into Leuben. On the same date, Lossen (1925: 181 inhabitants) and Wauden (1925: 81 inhabitants) were incorporated into Schleinitz, those of Badersen (1925: 94 inhabitants), Dobschütz (1925: 16 inhabitants) and Praterschütz (1925: 111 inhabitants). to Pröda as well as those from Mertitz (1925: 85 inhabitants) and Mettelwitz (1925: 92 inhabitants) to Wahnitz. On July 1, 1950, Pröda was incorporated into Schleinitz. On May 1, 1974, Wahnitz was incorporated into Leuben.

Population development

The statistics give 1939 for Leuben 1155, for Schleinitz 512, for Pröda 281 and for Wahnitz 279 inhabitants, which adds up to 2227 inhabitants. While Leuben-Schleinitz still had 1,738 inhabitants in 2000, the population had fallen to 1,411 by December 31, 2010. In 2013 there were 1292 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

The Schleinitz Castle is a late Gothic former moated castle in Renaissance style , which is used for events today. In the Graupzig district there is the Niedermühle, a watermill that is still functional today .

View to the church in Leuben

The relatively large St. Mary's Church is located on a rocky hill in the middle of the Leuben district. In 1069 a Burgward is mentioned in Leuben . In its place stands today, visible from afar, the Gothic St. Mary's Church, which was built at the beginning of the 16th century as the patronage church of the Lords of Schleinitz. Older, already existing parts were partially included in the new Gothic building. The imaginative cell-net vault in the nave and choir is significant, the shape of which can probably be traced back to Arnold von Westfalen's models . In 1738 lightning struck the church tower. To prevent the flames from spreading, the organ, pulpit, inventory, baptismal font and altar had to be torn out.

As a result, a new baroque tower superstructure was built around 1740. In the course of time there were several changes to the church. The choir is decorated with three colored stained glass windows, the middle one with motifs of the risen Christ. In the tower hall there are valuable epitaphs (grave inscriptions) from some church patrons, including those of Rudolf von Rechenberg (died 1555), who worked as a visitor to spread the Lutheran doctrine. The organ built by master organ builder Franz Emil Keller around 1890 was overhauled in 1999. In the tower there is a small exhibition about the secret inhabitants of the church: bats, barn owls and kestrels.

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 14 runs south of the former municipality and can be reached via the connection Nossen-Nord (about 10 km). The S 85 state road runs through the former municipality from Katzenberg on the B 101 via Lommatzsch to Mehltheuer on the B 6 . In 1880 the Riesa – Nossen railway line was opened and a train station was added to Leuben-Schleinitz. It has since been shut down. In addition, the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff-Gärtitz existed from 1911 to 1970 , which connected Lommatzsch with Chub.

Sons and daughters of the place

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Meißen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2014
  3. ↑ Leuben-Schleinitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 26.9 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 17 ″  E