Wachau (Saxony)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '  N , 13 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Bautzen
Height :	223 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.11 km 2
Residents:	4273 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	112 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01454
Primaries :	03528 (District Lomnitz: 035205)
License plate :	BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key :	14 6 25 600
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Teichstrasse 2 01454 Wachau
Website :	gemeinde-wachau.de
Mayor :	Veit Künzelmann ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Wachau in the Bautzen district

Wachau ( Upper Sorbian Wachow ) is a municipality in the southwest of the Bautzen district , Saxony and has been made up of five districts since 1998 (incorporation of Lomnitz ). The districts of the community are Feldschlößchen, Leppersdorf, Lomnitz, Seifersdorf and Wachau. The districts of Feldschlösschen and Wachau are combined to form the locality of Wachau, so that the municipality of Wachau consists of five districts, but only 4 localities, which correspond to the former four independent municipalities. The state capital Dresden is about 25 kilometers away.

Neighboring towns and regions

Ottendorf-Okrilla	Lomnitz	Lichtenberg
Seifersdorf		Leppersdorf
Seifersdorfer Tal , Liegau-Augustusbad	Feldschlößchen , Radeberg	Landwehr

Local division

The districts of the community are Feldschlößchen (but has no regional authority or administrative unit status and no local council ), Leppersdorf , Lomnitz, Seifersdorf and Wachau. According to the Saxon municipal code, the districts have the status of a village with its own local representative (except for Feldschlößchen, which forms a joint locality with Wachau). Leppersdorf and Seifersdorf merged in 1994 with Wachau (including its location Feldschlößchen) to form the rural community of Wachau. In 1994, with a majority decision of the previously independent communities of Leppersdorf, Seifersdorf and Wachau, it was decided that the newly created community and its districts should bear the name Wachau. Lomnitz was incorporated on January 1, 1998.

The municipality of Wachau suggested a municipality merger with Lichtenberg in 2019 . To this end, on 1 September 2019, parallel to the state election in Saxony in 2019 , in both communities referendums been carried out. While the majority of the citizens of Wachau, who were eligible to vote, approved a merger, the citizens of Lichtenberg rejected it. Thus the merger intention initiated by Wachau has failed.

Geography and traffic in the Wachau district

Wachau is a municipality in eastern Saxony, four kilometers north of Radeberg , not far from the Alte Salzstrasse or Glasstrasse, a medieval connecting road that once led from the Bohemian Schluckenau to Leipzig or Halle . Wachau is embedded in a depression between the elevations of the Timmelsberg (259 m), the Orlberg (217 m) and the Steinberg (264 m) on the edge of the Westlausitz landscape protection area .

Transport links to the Wachau district

The village of Wachau am Saugraben , with 942 inhabitants (December 31, 2010, excluding districts) is located directly on the federal motorway 4 , the closest junctions are Ottendorf-Okrilla and Pulsnitz . The district roads K 9253 and K 9254 run through Wachau. The bus route 317 of the Dresden regional transport goes to several stops in Wachau.

History of the Wachau district

In 1218 the place was first mentioned as Wachowe . The old Sorbian name describes the settlement as "Place of a Vach". The spelling of the place name changed several times over the years, spellings such as Wachow (1358), Wacho (1456), Wacha (1459) and Wache (1542) have been handed down. From 1378 the estate was owned by the von Schönfeld family .

Development of the population

Wachau village (with Feldschlößchen)

year	1834	1871	1890	1910	1925	1939	1946	1950	1964	1990
Residents	704	890	955	1358	1558	1824	1914	2109	1510	1323

Rural community of Wachau

year	1994	1998	1999	2000	2001	2006	2007	2009	2010	2012
Residents	3901	4547	4619	4651	4656	4511	4515	4448	4367	4315

Source of the data from 1994-2001 / 2012: www.gemeinde-wachau.de

Sights in the community of Wachau

• The baroque castle Wachau is located on an artificially created island in the middle of the village. The palace was built between 1730 and 1754 on behalf of the widowed Countess Magdalena Sophie von Schönfeld , née. Countess von Werthern (1692–1757), built for her son Johann Georg Graf von Schönfeld (1718–1770). After his death, it changed hands more often and in 1883 came to the Kühne family from Leipzig, who owned it until 1945. In 2019 Schloss Wachau was sold.
• The Wachau Church is decorated with church paintings by Erhard Ludewig Winterstein , painter and teacher at the Royal Art Academy and School of Applied Arts in Leipzig.
• The Seifersdorfer Tal is known nationwide above all for the landscape garden from the 18th century and was designed by the Seifersdorfer Countess Christina von Brühl from 1781 .
• The Seifersdorf castle was built around 1530 by the family von Haugwitz and in the 19th century by Carl von Brühl as a neo-Gothic building, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel remodeled. There were three large families in Seifersdorf. The von Haugwitz family, the von Grünrodt family (builders of the Seifersdorfer Church in 1604) and from 1747 the von Brühl family until 1945.
• The Steinberg is a 264 meter high elevation on the old Bohemian salt road in Seifersdorf (Wachau) .
• The Fünfhufenteich is a designated area natural monument and lies between Seifersdorf and Lomnitz.
• The Seifersdorfer Tal, the Schlosspark Seifersdorf and the Schlosspark Wachau as well as the forest area Landwehr were damaged by the so-called tornado on Whit Monday in 2010 .

The cultural monuments of the community are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Wachau .

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  Baroque castle Wachau

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  Seifersdorfer Castle

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  Interior of the Wachau church (Saxony) with church paintings by Erhard Ludewig Winterstein

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  Evangelical Parish Church Wachau (Saxony)

politics

Municipal council of the municipality of Wachau

The municipal elections in Saxony in 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats in the Wachau municipal council:

• CDU : six seats
• Open list of citizens: eight seats

mayor

Veit Künzelmann was confirmed in office in June 2015 with 90.4% of the votes.

coat of arms

Description : The coat of arms is divided into a silver shield base with three blue wavy bars and split twice at the top with black thread.

1. In the first field in silver on a green mountain a white house with a red roof, a flag waving to the right, black windows and an entrance;
2. In the second field in silver a black crane on a sharp green background and
3. In the third field in silver on a curved green shield base a green plant with five blue five-petalled flowers.

education

The municipality of Wachau has two primary schools in Wachau and Leppersdorf. There are day-care centers in Lomnitz, Leppersdorf, Seifersdorf and Wachau .

Economy in the Wachau district

The “Hausbrauerei Schiller Wachau” opened in 2005 and was one of the smallest breweries in Saxony. Among other things, the varieties “Wachauer Landbier” and “Schwarzer Rauch” were brewed. There are also several craft and service companies in the village.

Clubs and events in the Wachau district

Life in Wachau is shaped by various associations, such as the sponsoring association of the Wachau volunteer fire brigade, a local history association, the church building association that strives to preserve the village church, the farm and adventure riding center "Wunder Land eV" and the sports club TSV Wachau.

Every year in autumn, the “Wachau fishing procession” takes place, during which the farmed carp from the village pond are fished and sold to the public. Other regular events in Wachau are the harvest festival and the bank festival of the Heimatverein, the club festival of the riding stable and the Christmas market in the elementary school.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the village of Wachau

• Carl August Richter (1770–1848), draftsman, etcher and engraver, father of the painter Ludwig Richter .
• Anne Dorn (1925–2017), writer
• Joachim Pietzsch (* 1947), handball player and coach

Connected to the Wachau

• Heinrich August Blochmann (1787–1851), farmer, author and agricultural reformer
• Werner Juza (* 1924), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• Erhard Ludewig Winterstein (1841–1919), painter, teacher at the Royal Art Academy and School of Applied Arts in Leipzig
• Heinrich Carl Richter , chamberlain to Johann Georg Graf von Schönfeld at Schloss Wachau, later copper engraver, father of Carl August Richter, grandfather of the painter Ludwig Richter

literature

• Dresdner Heide, Pillnitz, Radeberger Land (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 27). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976, p. 54.
• Wachau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 12th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1825, pp. 324–326.

Web links

• Wachau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ The districts of the municipality of Wachau. Official homepage of the municipality of Wachau
3. ↑ Wachau number pictures. Main and building office of the municipality of Wachau, 2011. Online .
4. ^ Ernst Eichler : Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume II: M-Z. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 541.
5. ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_neu/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14625600
6. ↑ Jens Wagner: Beer in small cans. Beer brewers and their own small brands in Saxony and Brandenburg. In: Country report. Deutschlandradio Kultur , March 18, 2009.
7. ^ Associations of the community of Wachau. Wachau municipal administration, accessed on August 21, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Wachau  - Collection of Images

• www.gemeinde-wachau.de
• Wachau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony