Thieschitz

Thieschitz City of Gera Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 14 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	186 m
Residents :	383  (Dec. 31, 2003)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1919
Postal code :	07548
Area code :	0365

The old seal brand until 1919

Together with Milbitz and Rubitz, Thieschitz forms the 5.3 hectare district of Milbitz / Thieschitz / Rubitz of the city of Gera in Thuringia with 656 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).

geography

White Elster near Gera-Thieschitz, winter 2009

Gera-Thieschitz, town view

Thieschitz is located in the northwest of the city of Gera in Thuringia in the Erlbachtal and at the confluence of the Erlbach in the White Elster .

history

The oldest known mention of Thieschitz comes from September 23, 1540. Heinrich von Eichigkt , owner of the manor in Langenberg , notarizes fields and meadows with interest and labor in Teschwitz . The place name allows several interpretations, namely of techa = consolation, pleasure, which indicates the pleasant location of the place, or a derivation from Djasice , place of goblins and dwarfs (→ legendary). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the spellings Tieschitz and Thieschütz were also common. Thieschitz, a church and parish village, was an old Sorbian settlement. A prehistoric settlement with a hill fort is suspected on the Cosse northwest of Thieschitz.

Thieschitz was first mentioned in 1524 as a parish in the deanery district of Gera in connection with the collection of taxes for the bishop of Naumburg. Thieschitz was the church and school center of the three communities Milbitz, Thieschitz and Rubitz. The patronage of the church was until 1857 the St. Johanniskirche in Gera. On January 1, 1919, Thieschitz was incorporated into Gera.

Construction of the school, 1912

Flood June 4th 2013.

Due to the close interweaving of church and school, Thieschitz also developed into a school location for the three villages. According to a visitation report from 1534, the Thieschitzer pastor is "only retained because he promised to get better."

In 1570 an independent schoolhouse is mentioned for the first time, which is replaced by a new building in 1837. The "old school" (today residential building) is next to the rectory, the "new school" in Thieschitzer Strasse was inaugurated in 1912. The last school enrollment took place here in 1977, the school location was given up in 1981 and the local kindergarten moved into the building. After the kindergarten was also closed, the AMSA Academy for Medical and Social Education acquired the building in 1996. This has also been closed since September 2009.

In 1791 three farms and outbuildings were burned down by lightning. The floods of 1953, 1981 and again the floods of 2013 caused severe damage to the town .

Scheffels Gasthof on a postcard from 1914. In 1948 the popular excursion restaurant celebrated its 125th anniversary; It has been vacant since 1990 and is now left to decay.

In addition to the kindergarten, Konsum, the community nurse station, the train station and the post office were also closed after the fall of the Wall . The latter was relocated to a side building of “Scheffels Gasthof” in 1993 in the 1960s and was the first of its kind in Thuringia to be handed over to its destination in the presence of the then Federal Post Minister Kurt Bodewig . The more than 150-year-old "Scheffels Gasthof" (celebrated in the 1950s as the oldest permanently operated inn in the city of Gera) and Konsum were closed in 1990 and 1995 - the post office became as history as the old inn and after a short life of consumption ; the building is falling into disrepair after floods and pipe frost damage.

Thieschitz has been the parish of the three villages Milbitz , Thieschitz and Rubitz since the replacement of the originally Slavic settlers by the pagan faith . As a parochial church, the Protestant church belongs to the parish of St. Marien in Gera- Untermhaus . The Weimar-Geraer Bahn , which has cut through the town since 1875, became usable with the opening of the train station in 1913, which made Thieschitz not only a popular excursion destination with several large restaurants, but also an attractive place to live for the Gerschen in the following years. The Thieschitz stop was removed from the route plan at the end of the 1990s, and the station building is now privately owned.

Say

In the large dwarf cave north of Thieschitz on the road to Bad Köstritz (also known as the Stublacher dwarf cave - the Elster then had a different course than it does today after the regulation) and the so-called small dwarf cave between Milbitz and Untermhaus According to legend, the dwarf king Coryllis lived with his people. In order to get in contact with them, one had to call the name Coryllis three times during the night and throw three magpie pebbles backwards into the cave, because Coryllis and his people were valued as helpers and advisers in some needs. It was said that whoever has dwarfs on the farm is lucky, because the dwarfs tended the cattle and helped with the housework and stable work. They are said to have been particularly favorable to the farmers of Stublach .

The cheeky dwarf people, who are said to have numbered thousands, annoyed the residents of the surrounding villages over time and made some jokes. It was now said of them that they would exchange small children, they became malicious towards people and, above all, they stole bread. So the Thieschitzer farmers decided to resist, they armed themselves with clubs and went to the field against the dwarves - to no avail, because when the angry peasants approached, the dwarves simply put their cloaks on and became invisible.

So they resorted to a ruse and added fennel and caraway seeds to the bread , which the dwarf folk did not get and so they left the inhospitable Elstertal with an unknown destination. Only one fisherman from Langenberg , who took them to the other bank of the Elster in the dark, was rewarded with a princely hat full of so-called dwarf gold.

According to its location, this large dwarf cave may have served as a pagan place of worship. It has been handed down that even in the remains of the cave, which was used as a quarry until the 19th century and finally fell victim to the construction of the road to Bad Köstritz in the 1920s , there was a strange echo , which at the time when the cave had not yet been exploited as a quarry, the magic of this place must have been something downright magical. With the turn to Christianity, this place was probably preserved in popular consciousness and so the legend of the dwarf king Coryllis came about. The theft of the bread was probably of an earthly nature and (in the interests of neighborly peace) was thought to have been imposed on the dwarfs.

To get an idea of ​​the size of this destroyed cave, it should be mentioned that after the great fire in 1780 in Gera, over a thousand people are said to have lived there for quite some time.

Thieschitz motorway bridge

Gera-Thieschitz, church

politics

Since 2001 there has been a joint local council (formerly local council) for the localities of Milbitz, Thieschitz and Rubitz. Norbert Geißler has been the district mayor of Milbitz, Thieschitz and Rubitz since September 2013.

District Mayor

2001-2004	2004-2009	2009-2013	2013	2013/2014	2014-2019	2019-
Christine Türpitz	Christine Türpitz	Christine Türpitz	Michael Möbius (office)	Norbert Geissler	Norbert Geissler	Norbert Geissler

Members of the local council

2001-2004	2004-2009	2009-2014	2014-2019	2019-
Bernd Fehse	Bernd Fehse	Bernd Fehse	Bernd Fehse	Bernd Fehse
Joachim Kühl	Joachim Kühl	Norbert Geißler (since May 2012)	Jana Koch	Jana Hutschenreuter
Katrin Lippmann	Katrin Lippmann	Joachim Kühl	Joachim Kühl	Joachim Kühl
Michael Möbius	Monika Loether	Katrin Lippmann (until May 2012)	Monika Loether	Monika Loether
Christian Steinbrenner	Michael Möbius	Monika Loether	Michael Möbius	Michael Möbius
Roland Zschach	Roland Zschach	Michael Möbius	Roland Zschach	Roland Zschach

Development of the population

year	1647	1794	1864	1867	1919	2003
Residents	49	64	115	129	414	383

Buildings

Dorfkirche Thieschitz .– A first church was probably built around 1200 and after the reformation of the community in 1533 it was replaced by a new stone building in 1541. In 1851 the tower was provided with a tail dome and pointed helmet. The church, originally consecrated to St. Nicholas , was given its present form in 1867 through reconstruction and almost complete rebuilding. Christoph Opitz's organ is from the same year.

In 1933 the German Christians put a swastika on the top of the tower, which was only removed again in 1939 by decision of the Nazi Gauleiter Sauckel . In 1967 two of the three galleries were removed and the old high altar was replaced by a simple table altar. Only the crucifix from 1768 remained.

traffic

former Gera-Thieschitz stop (2017)

• The place is located directly on the federal motorway 4 and can be reached via the BAB junction 57 Rüdersdorf ; The Thieschitz viaduct , which was renewed and expanded to six lanes in the 1990s, rises on the outskirts . The L 1070 runs through the village.
• Since 1979 a 55 meter long footbridge has led across the Elster to Stublach and Langenberg.
• Thieschitz can be reached by public transport from Gera-Untermhaus on bus line 20 of the Gera transport and operating company .
• The nearest train stations are in Töppeln , Bad Köstritz and Gera ( main station ).

Former school in Thieschitz, AMSA until 2009, currently unused and for sale.

education

The AMSA Academy for medical and social training , a state-recognized higher vocational school for occupational therapy, existed in Thieschitz until 2009 . It was based in the former school. The closest children's facilities are

• Kinderparadies day care center in Gera-Unterhaus.

The responsible primary school is

• State primary school Otto Dix in Gera-Untermhaus.

The closest regular school is the

• State regular school Otto Dix Gera-Untermhaus.

Thieschitz, "Alte Feuerwehr" clubhouse

Maypole setting June 5, 2010

Club life

The former Thieschitz fire station has been the clubhouse of the Milbitz-Thieschitz-Rubitz eV maypole society since 2005. In addition to numerous other activities, the annual highlight is the maypole setting. A communal youth club is located in the rear of the building.

Personalities

• Friedrich Eduard Mackroth (1807–1866), pastor in Thieschitz and pioneer of Zechstein research in Gera.
• Christoph Gottlieb Steinbeck (1766–1818), publicist.
• Olaf Ludwig (* 1960), former professional cyclist.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gera city administration, FD 1200
2. ^ Rosenkranz, Heinz; Place names of the Gera district, Greiz 1982.
3. ^ Hahn, Ferdinand; History of Gera and its immediate surroundings; Gera 1855; P. 420.
4. ↑ Robert Beck mail: The Thieschitzer problem-inn. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung of February 18, 2012.
5. ^ Norbert Geißler new mayor of the district of Gera Milbitz / Thieschitz / Rubitz. Retrieved October 19, 2013
6. ↑ Gera City Archives
7. ↑ Gera city administration, FD 1200
8. ^ Hans Prolingheuer: Hitler's pious iconoclasts. Church & art under the swastika. Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-920862-33-3 , p. 65.
9. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Marien Untermhaus: The Church of Thieschitz.
10. ↑ Construction management Himsel: BW Thieschitzer Bridge.

literature

• Klaus Brodale, Heidrun Friedemann: That was Gera in the 20th century. Gudensberg 2002.
• Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich: Latest customer from Baden, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Anhalt and the Reussian countries. Weimar 1827.
• Jürgen Geiling: The Elsteraue near Langenberg. Gera 1998.
• Ferdinand Hahn: History of Gera and its immediate surroundings. Gera 1855.
• Johann Christoph Klotz: Description of the rule and city of Gera. Schleiz 1816.
• Siegfried Mues: Gera. A historical walk. Horb 1993.
• Ulla Spörl, Frank Rüdiger: Gera in the golden twenties. Gera 2007.
• Thuringian Pestalozziverein (Hrsg.): Thuringia in words and pictures. Berlin 1900. (Reprint; Augsburg 1997.)
• Carl Winderlich: Germany. Handbook for the customer of the fatherland. Leipzig 1852.
• oA: Court and State Calendar for the Principality of Reuss j. L. Gera 1864.
• Announcements of the history and antiquity research association. Altenburg; div.

Web links

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