Wachau (Markkleeberg)

Wachau, church ruins

Wachau has been a district of Markkleeberg south of Leipzig in Saxony since January 1st, 1994 . Previously it was an independent municipality in the east of the large district town of Markkleeberg. The place is on the eastern bank of the Markkleeberger See , a residual hole of the Espenhain open-cast lignite mine .

history

View of Wachau around 1813

Manor house of the former manor in Wachau

The village is of Slavic origin. In 1259 Heyno von Wachau was mentioned once as a witness for Margrave Dietrich von Landsberg . In 1349/1350 various landlords had income in Wachau. In 1377 the Margraves Friedrich , Balthasar and Wilhelm transferred the village of Wochow to the monastery of Buch in the care of Leipzig with both courts, abandoned and sold by Adelheid von Heynitz and her sons out of need, and secured the right of first refusal. In the same year, Nickel von Heynitz confirmed receipt of the purchase money. In 1488/89 errors arose here too, as the Albertine bailiff from Leipzig drove the cattle away from the people of the monastery in Wachau, about which Abbot Simon von Buch lodged a complaint with Hz. Georg von Sachsen. In 1543 it was still listed as a monastery village according to the Buch monastery register of inheritance and interest. An overview of the various owners from 1536 to 1853 can be found in the album of the manors, see also Saxony's church gallery (with a picture of the church).

The manor house of the manor had to be demolished after severe damage in the Second World War . In the associated park, which was laid out according to the English pattern, there is still a monument erected by Johann Gottlob von Quandt (owner of the manor until 1820) for his mother. In 1813, heavy battles of the Battle of Nations took place near the village , which severely affected the village. This made an old and large linden tree in the garden of the manor famous, which was provided with a gallery. This was first used by Napoleon and later by the allies against Napoleon as an opportunity to survey the battlefield. This is why this linden tree was later called Murat or Napoleon linden . The linden tree was later struck by lightning.

Former Murat linden tree in the garden of the manor in Wachau

The New Church in Wachau on its completion in 1867

In the same place in the park of the manor, a linden tree was later planted again. In the village and in its immediate vicinity there are some monuments commemorating the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , such as Apelsteine or two memorial stones from the “Association for the celebration of October 19”. In 1862 the windmill gate of the city of Leipzig was bought by the owner of the manor at the time and was used as the garden gate of the manor park. Until 1856, Wachau was part of the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig II and from 1875 to the administrative authority Leipzig .

Around 1860 the church, which had been damaged during the Battle of the Nations, was dilapidated, and it was decided to demolish it and rebuild it. According to plans by Constantin Lipsius , a neo-Gothic church was built in 1865–1867 , the three bells came from GA Jauck (Leipzig), the organ was built in the Kreutzbach (Borna) workshop . This church was considered to be one of the most beautiful churches in the Leipzig district until the nave collapsed due to aerial mines in World War II . The tower of the church was partially demolished in 1978. In 1995 the remains of the church were secured and repairs to the tower began. Since 1997, services and concerts have occasionally been held in the church. The Wachau Festival Nights are held regularly in summer .

Over time, Wachau developed from a farming village to a workers' residence. The Auenhain settlement , which was built for disabled people in the First World War , has belonged to Wachau since 1922 . The Wiesengrund settlement in Wachau was built in the 1930s and is now called August Bebels .

The Vorwerk Auenhain and some agricultural land fell victim to the Espenhain open-cast lignite mine in the 1970s. Since January 1st, 1994 Wachau has been a district of Markkleeberg.

Culture and sights

Quandt's monument and windmill gate in the manor in Wachau

Church ruin

Southern battlefield of the Battle of Nations near Leipzig with annual reenactments of the fighting

Galgenberg with the Galgenbergdenkmal

Former manor in Wachau with the remains of the park

Church ruin Wachau (until 2006 with the exhibition Lost Places , which had to give way to lignite mining south of Leipzig)

Markkleeberger See and Störmthaler See , which were created by flooding two remaining open-cast mining holes and can be reached from Wachau via bike paths

Born in Wachau

Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1714–1771), writer and publicist
Richard Sachse (1846–1924), philologist and educator
Hans Bertram (1915–1992), politician and Lord Mayor of Cottbus

Associations and associations

SV Oak Wachau e. V. ( soccer , bowling and gymnastics sections )

Markkleeberg-Wachau volunteer fire department
Carnival Association Wachau
Male choir Lyra
Wachau Settlers Association

traffic

Globus shopping center in Wachau

The city is located on the federal highway 186 and is connected to the bus network of the city of Leipzig and the surrounding area.

Wachau has been accessible from the A 38 via the Leipzig-Süd junction since 2006 .

Literature and Sources

FW Weinschenk: Chronicle of Wachau. R. Maeder, Leipzig 1901
Theodor Apel: Guide to the battlefields of Leipzig in October 1813 and their landmarks. Hoffmann, A., Leipzig 1863
C. Peters: The monuments on the battlefield of Leipzig. Hauptmann, P., Leipzig 1848
Cornelius Gurlitt : Wachau. 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. 134.

Footnotes

↑ Susanne Baudisch: Castles and manors in north-west Saxony . Part 2, written sources. Printing and publishing house Katzbach, Regis-Breitingen 1996, ISBN 3-930044-06-4 , p. 217 .
↑ Susanne Baudisch: Castles and manors in north-west Saxony . Part 1, castles and mansions. Printing and publishing house Katzbach, Regis-Breitingen 1996, ISBN 3-930044-05-6 , p. 105-106 .
↑ Original certificate SHStA Dresden: 10001, older documents, No. 4203. Printed by Schöttgen, Codex Diplomaticus Monasterii book, as No. 196.
↑ Original certificate SHStA Dresden: 10001, older documents, No. 4207. Printed by Schöttgen, Codex Diplomaticus Monasterii book, as No. 197.
↑ SHStA Dresden, Loc. 8445, see Thomas Ludwig: Property history of the Cistercian monastery in Buch near Leisnig . Master thesis. Leipzig 1996.
↑ Wachau . In: Gustav Poenicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony . after nature re-recorded by F. Heise ... With historical-statistical edit. Text. Part: 1. Leipziger Kreis , p. 29–31 ( digital.slub-dresden.de - around 1860).

↑ Wachau . In: Hermann Schmidt (Hrsg.): Saxony's church gallery. The Leipzig and Grimma inspections . Ninth volume. Hermann Schmidt, Dresden, p. 44–45 ( digital.slub-dresden.de - around 1840).

^ 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

↑ From the history of the Wachau Church. Ev.-Luth. Parish Probstheida-Störmthal-Wachau, accessed on November 23, 2013 .

↑ Wachau on gov.genealogy.net