Sitzenroda
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Sitzenroda
City of Belgern-Schildau
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 3 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Height : | 124 m |
| Residents : | 1100 |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1994 |
| Incorporated into: | Schildau |
| Postal code : | 04889 |
| Area code : | 034221 |
Sitzenroda is a village with about 1100 inhabitants in the northwest of Saxony and belongs to the city of Belgern-Schildau .
According to one story, the name came about when the first settlers cleared a piece of forest ( roda ) and then settled ( sit ) at this point . In fact, the word sitting is derived from Count Sizzo III. von Schwarzburg-Käfernburg , who is said to have founded the settlement.
In Sitzenroda there is the “St. Marien “, an institution of the Christian Social Welfare Office (CSW) for mentally handicapped people and the largest employer in the area. There are also several shops, a car dealership, a bank and two restaurants .
location
Sitzenroda is located approx. 15 km south of Torgau and 20 km north of Oschatz . The Dahlener Heide spreads out in the south and east , in which there is a wooded area with old trees and the area monument "Sieben-Quellen-Tal". Here the Neumühlbach or Dorfbach rises , which flows through the village from south to north. To the west is Leipzig at a distance of 50 kilometers. The S 24 leading through Sitzenroda connects the place with Oschatz and Torgau.
Local division
Sitzenroda has a length of approx. 3.5 km. The place is divided into upper and lower village. In the upper village, the courtyards stretch to the right and left of the street. In the Unterdorf you will find a school, kindergarten, shopping facilities and club house. The paths here run radially in all directions.
history
1225 moved the Cistercian - Convent Marie gate in Sitzenroda. After the Reformation, the ruling house of the Wettins took over the monastery property. In 1560 the elector bought the entire territory and laid out the largest electoral wilderness in Saxony. Since Sitzenroda was in the middle of his hunting area "Obere Heide", the Saxon Elector August I had a stately, three-story hunting lodge built here from 1564 to 1570 under the direction of the master builder Hans Irmisch , which later burned down. Under Electress Anna the palace equipped with 45 guest beds for the court.
The plague raged during the Thirty Years' War , killing around 400 people in 1636. As a result, only 13 people lived in Sitzenroda in 1663.
The last electoral hunt took place in 1763. In memory of this, the electoral coat of arms was carved into the trunk of the "hunting oak". The original of this tree can be seen in the church today. In the meantime, a new hunting oak has been built at the old location in the forest. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Sitzenroda belonged to the Prussian province of Saxony . In the surrounding forest you can find boundary stones that separated the kingdoms of Saxony and Prussia from one another.
After the First World War , 1,031 residents lived in Sitzenroda in 1933, and in 1935 there were 48 known trades, including three mills , and eight associations .
76 Sitzenrodaers died during World War II and 30 were deported to Stalinist camps after the war . In 1947, Sitzenroda had 1,722 inhabitants, and the tuberculosis sanatorium was expanded. Five years later the inauguration of the new school building and the simultaneous establishment of the kindergarten in the old school took place.
In 1960 there were only 1,120 inhabitants. The tuberculosis sanatorium became a child psychiatry in 1967 . The inauguration of the new fire station took place in 1972, at that time 236 students attended the school. Four years later, the Sitzenrodaer carnival club was founded (motto: always funny - always thirsty ). In 1981 a library was built and the kindergarten was expanded. Soon thereafter, a basic overhaul of the community infrastructure took place.
On April 21, 1986 two NVA fighter planes collided over Sitzenroda during exercises to intercept aerial targets in chain formation and crashed on the Sitzenroda corridor. Lieutenant Haßkerl (tactical number 507) was able to catapult himself from the two MiG-21 MF pilots and landed with the parachute between Lausa and Taura. Lieutenant Mario Sachse (tactical number 766) died in the crash.
In 1991, Sitzenroda was selected as a funding village for the Free State of Saxony . It is thanks to numerous initiatives by the citizens and funding from the “ State Office for Rural Reorganization ” that the appearance of the town has changed. Modern residential complexes were built; new roads and natural gas, sewer and telephone lines were built.
In 1993 the church tower was repaired. When the tower ball was opened on September 7th, the documents and coins were removed, and on September 25th, 1993 the tower was re-crowned. In the same year the Sitzenroda hospital was taken over by the Catholic welfare organization Caritas and transformed into a “home for the disabled”. With the Saxon community reform in 1994 , Sitzenroda was incorporated into the Gneisenau town of Schildau on January 1, 1994. In 1997 the Caritas home was expanded, and one year later the celebrations took place on the occasion of the first documentary mention of the place 800 years ago. In 2005 another new building began for the home for the disabled. 120 patients are currently being cared for in the hospital.
Since January 1, 2013 Sitzenroda has been part of the town of Belgern-Schildau.
Culture and sights
Monuments
A memorial to the fallen Sitzenrodaers in the First and Second World Wars was erected on the S 24 . The names of the soldiers are written on several vertical stones arranged side by side.
In the village there is the Johann Friedrich von Schönberg linden tree. This reminds of the author of the Schildbürgergeschichten .
Buildings and special facilities
The kindergarten with the “Quellentalspatzen” after school care center is located in an old red brick building. The school used to be found there, but was later housed in the current school building until it was closed in 2001 and a Montessori school took over. This moved out of the building and grounds in the summer of 2007, which is why the school is currently empty.
In the “Heimatstube”, equipment from earlier village life was collected. NABU set up nesting aids for bats , barn owls and other animals in a former transformer house . An old Dutch mill can be found on the eastern edge of the village . Today it is privately owned.
There is also a sports and festival area, a club house, a gym and several playgrounds (Bockwiese, forest playground).
Church and monastery
The oldest walls in Sitzenroda, the simply designed church, protrudes far beyond the village. It was in the year 1571 / 72 at the urging and with great material support of Elector Augustus I built on the site where already in 1198 the monastery was consecrated. Both played an important role in the history of the village. The first was also a monastery church, the present day a court church of the court of Electoral Saxony when hunting was done in Sitzenroda.
The Marienpforte nunnery developed in the village until around 1225 . The nuns were well known for their healing arts , nursing and poor relief. Anna von Miltitz was the last abbess of the monastery. Her tombstone, on which she can be seen in life size, is now inside the church. Hand-carved figures on the altar and a life-size crucified Christ can also be seen in the church. The font was donated in 1568 by the Torgau sculptor Caspar Reinwalt .
Sitzenroda enjoyed great importance as a result of the settlement of the nunnery. This grew when a hunting lodge was built here after the dissolution . The builder was the elector , who very often pursued his passion for hunting here. These buildings were indispensable for the stays of court society. Even today, its tower can be seen from afar. This is partly because the entire wall was built on top of a mountain. The cemetery was laid out all around . There is another cemetery further south of the church. Today Sitzenroda is Protestant . A pastor from the village is responsible for the parish. At the beginning of 2008, the roof of the nave began to be re-covered, the work was completed in March and ceremoniously finished at Easter.
Events and clubs
Every year at the end of April, the Heimatverein “Die Quellentaler” celebrates the “Bockwiesenfest”, the first festival after the winter season, with residents and guests. Every year in August, the summer festival of the volunteer fire brigade takes place at the forest playground .
The Sitzenrodaer Faschingsclub (SFC) celebrated its 30th birthday in 2007.
Personalities
- Johann Friedrich von Schönberg , the author of the Schildbürgergeschichten , was born in Sitzenroda in 1543 .
- Traugott August Seyffarth , the Lutheran theologian, was born in Sitzenroda.
photos
New school building
“Bockwiesenspielplatz” near the church
Fire station
NABU transformer building
kindergarten
Individual evidence
- ↑ How the place name Sitzenroda came about. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; accessed on March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Hans-Joachim Kadatz: Torgauer Heimatkalender 2008 . Heide-Druck, Bad Düben 2007.
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Province of Saxony, Torgau district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Ulf Podbielski: Much is still in the dark today. In: Torgauer Zeitung . June 24, 2011, accessed March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Stefan Barton: The disabled get a new home in Sitzenroda. The regional council handed over the funding notification to Christliche Sozialwerk gGmbH. In: Regional Council Leipzig. December 14, 2004, archived from the original ; accessed on March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Sitzenroda. In: nabu-sachsen.de. Retrieved March 6, 2015 .
Web links
- Portrait of Sitzenroda at Stadt-Schildau.de
- Aerial photos of Sitzenroda and the surrounding area
- Sitzenroda in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony