Wörblitz
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Wörblitz
City of Dommitzsch
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 42 " N , 12 ° 51 ′ 11" E
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| Height : | 85 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 725 |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 |
| Postal code : | 04880 |
| Area code : | 034223 |
 View of the former mill farm
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Wörblitz is a district of the city of Dommitzsch in the district of North Saxony in Saxony .
location
The district of Wörblitz is located northwest of the city of Dommitzsch in the Elbe lowlands west of the river on federal highway 182 . The district is located in the floodplain on alluvial soil, which is mostly used as meadows and pastures. The areas outside of the floodplain sites are mostly on sandy soils.
history
In 992 the settlement area Wirbilendorf was first mentioned in a document. In 1560 the village was already called Werblitz , which was also called that in 1791. Now the village of Wörblitz is a street village and the farmers cultivated a total of 412 hectares of land in and outside of the dike in 1895 . The population increased from 21 in 1748 to 287 in 1910 and 725 in 1999.
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Greudnitz and Proschwitz were incorporated.
Once the village belonged to the Pretzsch office , then to Wittenberg and later to Torgau . In 2008 the district of Northern Saxony exercised the function of the authority.
Of the old windmill , only the mill farmhouse remains today.
