Spittewitz

Spittewitz Community Klipphausen Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	225 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	01665
Area code :	03521

View of Spittewitz from the Polenz cemetery

Spittewitz on a map from the 19th century

Spittewitz is a district in the municipality of Klipphausen in the district of Meißen , Saxony .

geography

Spittewitz is located south of Meissen in the Meissen highlands . The village is surrounded by the Meißner district Buschbad in the northwest, Bockwen in the northeast, Reichenbach and Batzdorf in the east, Riemsdorf in the south and Polenz in the west. State road 177 runs immediately to the east of the village . A four-sided courtyard in the village is protected as a cultural monument (see list of cultural monuments in Spittewitz ).

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1350 as "Spitewicz", in 1428 it was called "Sputenwitz" and in 1461 it appears for the first time under its current name in a document. The village was administered by the Meissen Hereditary Authority . The lords of Schloss Batzdorf exercised the manorial rule . In 1884, the farmer Weiler had a 56 hectare large block corridor . Originally it formed a community with Reichenbach, but was added to Bockwen on July 1, 1950 and came with this on January 1, 1973 to the Bockwen-Polenz community . On 1 April 1993 Spittewitz was conducted as part of Bockwen-Polenz after Scharfenberg incorporated, in turn, since 1 January 1999 together with the villages of Klipphausen and Gauernitz the community Klipphausen forms.

Population development

year Residents 1547 2 possessed men , 6 residents 1764 2 possessed man 1834 23 1871 16 1890 23 from 1910 see Reichenbach from 1950 see Bockwen

Personalities

• Otto Lyon (born January 10, 1853 in Spittewitz, † July 1, 1912 in Dresden ), German grammar school teacher, Germanist, educational writer and Dresden city school council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spittewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
2. ↑ ^{a b} Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
3. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1999

literature

• Elbe valley and Loess hill country near Meissen (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 32). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 173ff.

Web links

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

• Spittewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony