Schwepnitz

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′  N , 13 ° 58 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Bautzen
Height :	147 m above sea level NHN
Area :	56.03 km 2
Residents:	2478 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01936
Area code :	035797
License plate :	BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key :	14 6 25 550
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Dresdner Str. 4 01936 Schwepnitz
Website :	www.schwepnitz.de
Mayoress :	Elke Röthig (independent)
Location of the community of Schwepnitz in the Bautzen district

Schwepnitz ( Upper Sorbian Sepicy ) is a municipality in western Lusatia in the north of Saxony , about 12 kilometers northwest of the city of Kamenz and about 35 kilometers northeast of Dresden . It is located between Königsbrück and Bernsdorf on the Wasserstrich . To the west of Schwepnitz is the Königsbrücker Heide with the former Königsbrück military training area .

Community structure

The municipality of Schwepnitz consists of the following districts:

• Bulleritz ( Bólericy ), 308 inhabitants
• Cosel ( Kózły ), 159 inhabitants
• Grüngräbchen ( Zelena Hrabowka ), 382 inhabitants
• Schwepnitz ( Sepicy ), 1596 inhabitants
• Zeisholz ( Ćisow ), 137 inhabitants

history

Bulleritz, mansion of the former manor

The place name is derived from the Old Sorbian Svepeťnica (from Old Sorbian: svepet "beehive") for a stream that flows through a forest with beehives and probably comes from the second settlement period by the Slavs . The first written evidence, however, comes from 1343.

The secluded heath village initially belonged to the Kamenz rule and from the middle of the 16th century to the royal rule of Königsbrück . Sorbian was spoken in Schwepnitz and preached in the church there until the 17th century, but by the end of the century the language had disappeared from everyday life there.

Since the founding of a glassworks by the Klahn family of glassmakers from Bernsdorf in 1865, the place has developed into an industrial community. With the monastery hut , a second glass factory was built in 1932. In World War II Schwepnitz suffered severe damage. The glass factories in the GDR were expropriated and in 1972 merged into VEB Sachsenglas Schwepnitz . From 1980 to 1990, this was where the "Superfest" drinking glasses for the catering industry were manufactured using a patented ion exchange process. Glass production in Schwepnitz ended in 2000.

politics

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2019 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

City council election 2014

Turnout: 62.0%

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Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• First Free Voters' Association Schwepnitz (EFWV): 9 seats
• Senior Citizens Club Grüngräbchen (SCG): 1 seat
• Friends of the DRK (DRK): 1 seat
• SPD : 1 seat

Mayoress:

In June 2015 Elke Röthig was confirmed in office with 96.2% of the votes.

Culture and sights

church

Rhododendrons from Grüngräbchen (1903)

Castle (1915)

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  Schwepnitz mansion (status 2016)
  In the district of Grüngräbchen there is a rhododendron nursery open to the public, several hectares in size , which is run by the descendants of the Saxon gardening dynasty Seidel . During the flowering period, it is a magnet for visitors because of its size (several thousand rhododendron bushes of various ages) and variety of flower colors.
• Schwepnitz holds an important Christmas market for the region northeast of Dresden .

The cultural monuments are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Schwepnitz .

education

The municipality of Schwepnitz has a primary school and since 2007 a free middle and high school after the state middle school Schwepnitz was closed. In 2017, a vocational high school with the profile health and social affairs was added as an extension.

Town twinning

• Flonheim , Germany
• Kożuchów , Poland

Economy and Infrastructure

In the western part of the municipality there is an industrial area with an area of ​​35 hectares, in which various companies that manufacture chemical products and cardboard operate a production site, including Paul Bauder .

traffic

Schwepnitz is located on the B 97 and approx. 20 km from the motorway junctions of the A4 ( Hermsdorf , Ottendorf-Okrilla ) and the A13 ( Ruhland , Thiendorf ). Dresden , Hoyerswerda and Kamenz can be easily reached by public transport .

Between 1899 and 1998 consisted railway line as a standard gauge , it was shut down in 2001 and dismantled between 2004 and 2005.

Personalities

• Johann Gottlieb von Wolff (1756–1817), Elector Saxon lieutenant and chamberlain , district administrator and landowner in Livonia . Bought the Grüngräbchen manor in 1802 , had a manor house built and lived there permanently from 1804.
• Gerhard Heinrich Jacobjan Stöckhardt (1772–1830), Lutheran clergyman, philologist
• Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905), painter, from 1875 as owner of the Schwepnitz glassworks also manufacturer
• Emil Weber (1859–1928), regional geologist, chemist, brick factory owner, developed patents for the glass and clay industry
• TJ Rudolf Seidel (1861–1918), gardener a. Plant breeder, founder of the world-renowned horticultural company TJ Rud. Seidel in Grüngräbchen
• Richard Tischer (1870–1940), headmaster and senior teacher of the elementary school with advanced training school as well as cantor and organist of the parish in Schwepnitz, local historian
• Erich Stange (1888–1972), Protestant theologian, Reichswart of the Evangelical Young Men’s Association and one of the founders of telephone pastoral care in Germany
• Harald Karas (1927–2015), German journalist, 1952–1991 news anchor and radio and television presenter in West Berlin
• Dietmar Hommel (* 1936), painter, philosopher
• Rainer Frenzel (* 1941), doctor, local researcher
• Jutta Fiedler (* 1943), German politician of the Left Party

literature

• Heinrich Jakobus Karl Fröhlich The Schwepnitz Parish . In: New Saxon Church Gallery: Dioceses of Bautzen and Kamenz , Arwed Strauch, Leipzig approx. 1905, [Part II: The Diocese of Kamenz], Sp. 329-348
• Cornelius Gurlitt : Schwepnitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 321.
• Richard Tischer, From the history of Schwepnitz. In: 1877-1927 Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the gymnastics club from 1877 Schwepnitz eVDT , published by the press committee in 1927, pages 6-15
• Richard Tischer, from the ancient history of Schwepnitz . In: Our home: Contributions to their history and research (Kamenz) Vol. 7 (1930) pages 36-39
• 650th anniversary of the community Schwepnitz i. Sa. 1343 - 1993 , ed. on the occasion of the festival week May 27 - June 1, 1993, Schwepnitz municipal administration

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ As of December 15, 2012; Information from the residents' registration office in Königsbrück
3. ^ Ernst Eichler (Ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume II: M-Z. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 396
4. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Pollack: Church - Language - Nation. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2018, p. 190
5. ↑ http://www.vdg-ev.org/fileadmin/media/vdgn/2013/superfest-04-2013.pdf
6. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
7. ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_neu/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14625550
8. ^ Emil Bernhard Weber, Studies on Black Forest Gneiss , Inaugural Dissertation University of Leipzig, 1883; published as a book: A. Hölder, Vienna 1883; Reprint: Forgotten Books, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-391-05981-5
9. ^ Rainer Frenzel, The regional geologist and chemist Dr. Emil Weber , Contributions to local history of West Lusatia , issue 4/1992, pp. 35–41
10. ↑ Process from plastic clays by adding soda, caustic soda, ammonia, potash, water glass, molasses, soap, etc. To produce a similar castable mass , German patent no. DE159193, addition to patent no. DE158496, Imperial Patent Office Berlin, filed July 12, 1903, issued March 10, 1905.
11. ↑ Handbook of School Statistics for the Kingdom of Saxony , Volume NF 19 (1903) page 581 and Volume NF 22 (1913) page 537, Rammingsche Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Dresden; see also: 650 years Schwepnitz i. Sat, Festival Week 1993 , Schwepnitz Municipal Administration, 1993, page 19
12. ↑ R. Tischer (reporter), survey by the NSLB Sachsen on attitudes, customs and usages in the population with regard to marriage, birth, death, superstition / ghosts, fortune telling, discussions, etc. , Schwepnitz approx. 1933, handwritten completed original questionnaire in: Archive Dr. R. Frenzel, Pulsnitz; R. Tischer u. a., Customs around birth and baptism in the district of Kamenz 1934 , spring customs in the district of Kamenz 1935 , Christmas customs in the district of Kamenz 1936 , unpublished surveys as part of the national folklore survey, e.g. Partly with later addenda, State Office for Folk Research and Cultivation of Folk Culture in Saxony, available and available for loan: Sorbian Central Library, Bautzen; see also: Rainer Frenzel, ... so that death does not come to the village . In: Oberlausitzer Hausbuch 2001 , Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2000, pages 165–166
13. ↑ Dietmar Hommel, Schwepnitz: watercolors, pastels; Exhibition in the Kreiskulturhaus Bischofswerda from January 15. - 28.2.1978 , exhibition catalog, Bischofswerda 1978. Anne Kaiser / Gert Claussnitzer Dietmar Hommel, Jahreszeiten: wax pastels and drawings 1980-1982; Exhibition in the Zittau City and District Museum , April-May 1983 , exhibition catalog, Zittau City Museum 1983
14. ↑ Martin Schmidt The painter Dietmar Hommel , Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz 2008. Sören Fischer Dietmar Hommel - Kulturkreise: exhibition catalog, at the same time inventory of the works of Dietmar Hommel in the municipal collections of Kamenz , Kamenz 2016 (= small writings of the municipal collections of Kamenz; vol . 5)

Web links

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

Wikisource: Schwepnitz  - Sources and full texts

• official homepage
• Homepage of the district Bulleritz
• Schwepnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony