Taucha
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ' N , 12 ° 30' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | North Saxony | |
| Height : | 128 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 33.22 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 15,745 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 474 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 04425 | |
| Area code : | 034298 | |
| License plate : | TDO, DZ, EB, OZ, TG, TO | |
| Community key : | 14 7 30 300 | |
| LOCODE : | DE TUA | |
| City structure: | 9 districts | |
City administration address : |
Schlossstrasse 13 04425 Taucha |
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| Mayor : | Tobias Meier (FDP; electoral alliance made up of the SPD, Die Linke, FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) | |
| Location of the city of Taucha in the district of Northern Saxony | ||
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Taucha is a small town in the district of North Saxony , northeast of Leipzig , and is directly adjacent to the urban area.
geography
Geographical location
Taucha is located in the Leipzig lowland bay . The Parthe flows through the city , the floodplain of which forms an extensive conservation area around the city. Outside the floodplain, the landscape is characterized by glacial terminal moraines ( Saale Ice Age ). In the area there are also remains of former volcanoes that are used as quarries .
City structure
Taucha consists of the city of Taucha itself and the districts of Cradefeld , Dewitz (with Döbitz) , Graßdorf , Merkwitz , Plösitz , Pönitz , Seegeritz and Sehlis .
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Cradefeld | April 1, 1934 | Incorporation to Taucha |
| Dewitz | April 1, 1937 | Incorporation to Taucha |
| Dobitz | January 1, 1929 | Incorporation after Dewitz |
| Graßdorf | April 1, 1934 | Incorporation to Taucha |
| Merkwitz | October 1, 1992 | Incorporation to Taucha |
| Plösitz | April 1, 1937 | Incorporation to Taucha |
| Ponitz | 1st December 1991 | Incorporation to Taucha |
| Seegeritz | April 1, 1973 | Incorporation to Merkwitz |
| Sehlis | 1st October 1973 | Incorporation to Taucha |
history
The place was first mentioned in 974 as urbs Cothung in the chronicle of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg . 1170 market town received cloth by the Archbishop of Magdeburg Wichmann von Seeburg the city charter granted. This was intended to create competition with Leipzig in Meissen . Archbishop Albrecht I had a castle and city wall built in 1220 as a visible expression of urban independence.
In 1282, Dietrich von Landsberg , Margrave of Meißen, besieged the city and had the castle razed after taking it. After the Magdeburg Archbishop Otto finally renounced possession of the city in 1355, Taucha finally came under Meissnian fiefdom . The Leipzig council bought the palace and manor Taucha in 1569.
In 1621 there was a tipper mint in the city , in which interim coins (tipper coins) were struck under the mint masters Matthias von Neuss and David Wölke. These were Kipper- Schreckenberger , cruiser pieces and groschen pieces up to the so-called Kippertaler for 60 groschen.
Several major plague epidemics plagued the place from 1626 to 1680, and there were multiple destruction during the Thirty Years' War from 1631 to 1644. In the years 1819 and 1820 the city wall was torn down. In 1832 Taucha became an independent town again. Until 1856, Taucha was part of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon District Office in Leipzig . From 1856 the city was the seat of the Taucha court office . From 1875, Taucha was part of the Leipzig administration .
In 1935, the Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke , a subsidiary of Auto Union , began building an aircraft engine plant at Graßdorfer Strasse 75. The plant was located in a large wooded area, partly on corridors in the city of Leipzig, for camouflage. Therefore, on April 1, 1939, the land was forced to be evacuated to Taucha. Bomb attacks severely damaged the plant in 1944. From 1946 to 1947 the factory facilities were dismantled and the buildings blown up.
In 1944/1945 there was a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in today's Matthias-Erzberger-Straße for 440 male prisoners who had to do forced labor at Hugo Schneider AG HASAG . Another HASAG satellite camp for 1,200 women, the Taucha concentration camp , was located at Matthias-Erzberger-Strasse 7. The mostly Jewish women also had to work in arms production. Only a few survived a death march when the camps were dissolved in the spring of 1945. In addition to these satellite camps, there were a further twelve forced labor camps and prisoner-of-war camps whose prisoners worked for Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke GmbH ("Mimo") and were housed in front of the Pönitz district.
In 1999, Taucha was reclassified from the district of Leipziger Land to the district of Delitzsch . In the course of the district reform in Saxony , Taucha became part of the Northern Saxony district in 2008 .
politics
City council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 22 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
| Party / list | Seats |
| CDU | 5 |
| SPD | 4th |
| Green | 3 |
| LEFT | 2 |
| FDP | 2 |
| AfD | 1 1 |
| Independent voters Taucha | 2 |
Town twinning
- Chadrac , France
- Espaly-Saint-Marcel , France
Culture and sights
Museums
- Municipal museum in the former brewery
- Manor museum in the manor castle Taucha
Religious communities
In Taucha there is an Evangelical Lutheran Church ( St. Moritz ), a Catholic Church (St. Anna), a New Apostolic Church and a free church in Elim . There are also Evangelical Lutheran churches in the districts of Sehlis (St. Katharina) and Dewitz ( Martin Luther ).
Buildings
- Lookout tower (built in 1913 in the city park, 22 m high)
- Station entrance building (exposed brickwork)
- Former brewery (Renaissance; now houses the city museum, city library and restaurant)
- Parthe Fountain
- Town hall (former district court, built 1913)
- Rittergut Taucha ("Castle")
- City Church St. Moritz
- Remains of the city wall
Gate of the manor, in the background the town church
Observation tower
town hall
former brewery
Parthe fountain in front of the diaconate
railway station
Pond with town church
Memorials
An FIR memorial from 1963 at the Kleiner Schöppenteich commemorates 20 Soviet and Polish children of forced laborers and 68 victims of forced labor from nine nations on two plaques .
Sports
The most important sports facilities are the sports and leisure center with athletics and football stadiums as well as several gyms.
Regular events
- "Leipzig reads in Taucha"
- Taucha literature competition
- Potato feast
- Diving shear
- Ancient Trance Festival - Jew's harp and world music festival
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
- One of the 16 branches of the pharmaceutical wholesaler NOWEDA is located in Taucha .
- The company Bieri-Zeltaplan GmbH stitched much of the material Planning for the wrapping of the Reichstag in 1995, the artist Christo and Jeanne-Claude in diving. In 2005 the artist couple realized their project The Gates on the paths of Central Park in New York City . For this, the company from Taucha again sewed a large part of the panels.
traffic
Due to its proximity to Leipzig, Taucha has good transport links. In the south-west, the A 14 with the Leipzig-Nordost junction passes Taucha. The federal highway 87 (Leipzig– Frankfurt (Oder) ) runs through the city, the expansion of which is currently planned.
Taucha station is on the Leipzig – Eilenburg railway line . The city of Taucha has already built the rail-bus junction and put it into operation. In autumn 2017, the redesign of the station began with the construction of the new platforms and a pedestrian tunnel to Schillerstrasse and the replacement of the Portitzer Strasse level crossing with an underpass. The construction work was completed in November 2019.
The city of Taucha is connected to the local transport network by tram line 3 (Taucha – Leipzig Hauptbahnhof – Knautkleeberg, every 20 minutes), the S-Bahn line S4 (every 30 minutes), a two-hour regional express and bus lines . Taucha is part of the Central German Transport Association .
On the outskirts there is a small airfield which is used by small planes and glider pilots. The Leipzig / Halle airport is about 20 km away.
nature
The nature around the city of Taucha is characterized by the floodplain area of the Parthe on whose banks the city is located and the surroundings by the hills of the Taucha terminal moraine landscape. The Ratsholz in the northwest between Graßdorf , Portitz and Plaußig as well as the city park with observation tower in the southeast with the Parthenaue cultural landscape should be mentioned in particular . The area in the northeast of Leipzig is connected to the cultural landscape design of the Green Ring Leipzig (see also the list of natural monuments in Taucha ).
Sons and daughters of the city as well as prominent residents
- Gregor Francke (1585-1651), theologian
- Johann Friedrich Köhler (1756-1820), ev.-luth. Pastor in Taucha and writer
- Christian Weiss (1774–1853), philosopher and educator
- Friedrich Adolf Ebert (1791–1834), librarian and bibliographer
- Emil Deckert (1848–1916), economic geographer
- Gerd Kochendoerfer (1900–1948), Member of Parliament
- Alfred Lemmnitz (1905–1994), economist and politician (SED)
- Rudolf Oelzner (1906–1985), sculptor
- Herbert Thiele (1910–1992), communist, former political prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp
- Harry Merkel (1918–1995), racing driver and designer
- Horst Bittner (1927–2013), GDR diplomat
- Günther Bobach (1930–2012), GDR journalist
- Kessler twins (* 1936), spent their early childhood here and began taking ballet lessons
- Hermann Kuhn (* 1945), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Gerhard Jentzsch (* 1946), geophysicist
- Heinz Zwanziger (* 1947), chemist
- Gert Hof (1951–2012), light art artist and director.
- Andreas Brandolini (* 1951), architect and designer
- Jürgen Krätzer (1959–2019) Germanist and university lecturer, editor of the literary magazine “ Die Horen ”, lived in Taucha
- Sara Kulka (* 1990), model
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Taucha. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 121.
- Peter Sundermann: Taucha. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-147-9 .
- An extensive tradition of the city of Taucha for the period 1565-1956 on imperial, constitutional and community affairs, finances, military and war affairs, health and social affairs, trade, trade, industry, agriculture, order and security police, statistics, elections, School, church, building management, traffic, energy, water management, the communities of Cradefeld, Dewitz, Döben, Graßdorf and Plösitz is in the Saxon State Archives, State Archives Leipzig, inventory 20626 City of Taucha.
Web links
- Website of the city of Taucha
- Tauchauer online city magazine
- Taucha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Website of the Förderverein Schloss Taucha e. V.
- Church history website
- List of natural monuments in Taucha
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
- ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900
- ↑ a b Memorials for the victims of NS II. Ed. By the Federal Agency for Civic Education Bonn, pp. 752f.
- ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
- ↑ City council election 2019 in Taucha - distribution of seats according to the final election results , accessed on July 19, 2019
- ↑ Excursion destinations> Lookout tower on the website of the city of Taucha
- ↑ Articles on the keyword Potato Festival . In: Tauchaer online city magazine. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
- ^ B87 in dialogue. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ MODERNIZATION WORK AT TAUCHA RAILWAY STATION: PORTITZER STRASSE STREET UNDERGROUND OPEN. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
- ^ Vita with honorary citizen Grimma
- ↑ 20626 City of Taucha. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 27, 2020 . (Info text under "Introduction")
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